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Ciro Cattuto

Ciro Cattuto

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Computer Science
Italy
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
54
Citations
14519
World Ranking
4493
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Ciro Cattuto is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and specializes in research within the social sciences, focusing on areas that intersect epidemiology, modeling, and data-driven analyses. Their work predominantly explores topics related to human mobility, public health, and complex network techniques, with an emphasis on COVID-19 epidemiological studies and digital contact tracing.

Their research subjects include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Main fields of study in Cattuto's work comprise social sciences with subfields featuring modeling and simulation, transportation, information systems, epidemiology, and statistical and nonlinear physics. The scientist has contributed significantly to understanding mobility patterns and their implications in public health contexts, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Cattuto include:

  • Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, 2020, Science Advances
  • COVID-19 outbreak response, a dataset to assess mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Gender gaps in urban mobility, 2020, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
  • COVID-19 outbreak response: a first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Michele Tizzoni, Laëtitia Gauvin, Daniela Paolotti, Laura Ozella, and Lorenzo Dall'Amico. The collaboration with these researchers spans multiple publications and areas related to mobility and epidemiology.

Cattuto's research has appeared extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and arXiv (Cornell University), each hosting eight of their publications. Other frequent venues contributing to their scholarship include Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Nature Communications, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Comparative genomics: the bacterial pan-genome.

    Hervé Tettelin;David Riley;Ciro Cattuto;Duccio Medini

  • What's in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks

    Lorenzo Isella;Juliette Stehlé;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto

  • Dynamics of person-to-person interactions from distributed RFID sensor networks.

    Ciro Cattuto;Wouter Van den Broeck;Alain Barrat;Vittoria Colizza

  • Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle.

    Nuria Oliver;Bruno Lepri;Harald Sterly;Renaud Lambiotte;Renaud Lambiotte

  • Friendship prediction and homophily in social media

    Luca Maria Aiello;Alain Barrat;Rossano Schifanella;Ciro Cattuto

  • Dynamical classes of collective attention in twitter

    Janette Lehmann;Bruno Gonçalves;José J. Ramasco;Ciro Cattuto

  • Semiotic dynamics and collaborative tagging

    Ciro Cattuto;Vittorio Loreto;Luciano Pietronero

  • Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees

    Juliette Stehlé;Nicolas Voirin;Alain Barrat;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto

  • Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors

    Philippe Vanhems;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto;Jean-François Pinton

  • Evaluating similarity measures for emergent semantics of social tagging

    Benjamin Markines;Ciro Cattuto;Filippo Menczer;Dominik Benz

  • COVID-19 outbreak response, a dataset to assess mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown.

    Emanuele Pepe;Paolo Bajardi;Laetitia Gauvin;Filippo Privitera

  • Network properties of folksonomies

    Ciro Cattuto_aff n;Christoph Schmitz;Andrea Baldassarri;Vito D. P. Servedio_aff n

  • Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems

    Ciro Cattuto;Dominik Benz;Andreas Hotho;Gerd Stumme

  • Detecting the Community Structure and Activity Patterns of Temporal Networks: A Non-Negative Tensor Factorization Approach

    Laetitia Gauvin;André Panisson;Ciro Cattuto

  • Close encounters in a pediatric ward: measuring face-to-face proximity and mixing patterns with wearable sensors.

    Lorenzo Isella;Mariateresa Romano;Alain Barrat;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto

  • Social spam detection

    Benjamin Markines;Ciro Cattuto;Filippo Menczer

  • Folks in Folksonomies: social link prediction from shared metadata

    Rossano Schifanella;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto;Benjamin Markines

  • Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

    Carmela Troncoso;Mathias Payer;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Marcel Salathé

  • Gender gaps in urban mobility

    Laetitia Gauvin;Michele Tizzoni;Simone Piaggesi;Simone Piaggesi;Andrew Young

  • Collective dynamics of social annotation

    Ciro Cattuto;Alain Barrat;Andrea Baldassarri;Gregory Schehr

  • Folksonomies, the semantic web, and movie recommendation

    Martin Szomszor;Ciro Cattuto;Harith Alani;Kieron O’Hara

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
Fabio Marchesoni
Fabio Marchesoni Tongji University
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Harith Alani
Harith Alani The Open University
Vittorio Loreto
Vittorio Loreto Sapienza University of Rome
Jean-François Pinton
Jean-François Pinton École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
A. Brillet
A. Brillet Université Côte d'Azur
A. Giazotto
A. Giazotto National Institute for Nuclear Physics
H. Heitmann
H. Heitmann Artemis Intelligent Power (United Kingdom)
M. Davier
M. Davier University of Paris-Saclay

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