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Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette

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Economics and Finance
Switzerland
2026
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Social Sciences and Humanities
Switzerland
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
102
Citations
41118
World Ranking
95
National Ranking
4

Didier Sornette publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Didier Sornette sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 647 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Didier Sornette D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Didier Sornette sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 102 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Didier Sornette is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a research footprint spanning economics, econometrics, finance, geophysics, artificial intelligence, and statistical and nonlinear physics. Their work encompasses 172 publications across these primary fields, focusing notably on complex systems and time series analysis, financial markets and investment strategies, earthquake and tectonic studies, and aspects of seismology.

Their recent papers cover a range of topics, with notable publications including:

  • Generalized logistic growth modeling of the COVID-19 outbreak: comparing the dynamics in the 29 provinces in China and in the rest of the world (2020), published in Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Generalized logistic growth modeling of the COVID-19 outbreak in 29 provinces in China and in the rest of the world (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Quantitative earthquake-like statistical properties of the flow of soft materials below yield stress (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Interpreting, analysing and modelling COVID-19 mortality data (2020), published in Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Government support for SMEs in response to COVID-19: theoretical model using Wang transform (2021), published in China Finance Review International

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Sandra Andraszewicz, Ryan O. Murphy, Philipp Rindler, Dorsa Sanadgol, and Ke Wu, with collaboration counts ranging from 64 to 80 joint works.

The most utilized publication venues in their academic output include Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), The European Physical Journal Special Topics, and Quantitative Finance.

Within their research domains, the main topics address:

  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Housing Market and Economics

Didier Sornette has been recognized by the academic community through membership in Academia Europaea since 2020 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools

    Didier Sornette

  • Why Stock Markets Crash

    Didier Sornette

  • Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences

    Didier Sornette

  • Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

    Didier Sornette

  • Economic Networks: The New Challenges

    Frank Schweitzer;Giorgio Fagiolo;Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette;Fernando Vega-Redondo;Fernando Vega-Redondo

  • Stretched exponential distributions in nature and economy: ``fat tails'' with characteristic scales

    Jean Laherrere;Didier Sornette

  • Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system.

    Riley Crane;Didier Sornette

  • Discrete scale invariance and complex dimensions

    Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette

  • An observational test of the critical earthquake concept

    D. D. Bowman;G. Ouillon;C. G. Sammis;A. Sornette

  • Discrete hierarchical organization of social group sizes

    W.-X. Zhou;D. Sornette;R. A. Hill;R. I. M. Dunbar

  • Stock Market Crashes, Precursors and Replicas

    Didier Sornette;Anders Johansen;Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

  • Complex Critical Exponents from Renormalization Group Theory of Earthquakes: Implications for Earthquake Predictions

    Didier Sornette;Charles G. Sammis

  • CRASHES AS CRITICAL POINTS

    Anders Johansen;Olivier Ledoit;Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette

  • Self-Organized Criticality and Earthquakes

    A. Sornette;D. Sornette

  • Critical Market Crashes

    D. Sornette

  • Extreme Financial Risks: From Dependence to Risk Management

    Yannick Malevergne;Didier Sornette

  • Exponential Sampling Method for Light Scattering Polydispersity Analysis

    Nicole Ostrowsky;D. Sornette;Pat Parker;E.R. Pike

  • Predictability of catastrophic events: material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes and human birth

    Didier Sornette

  • Testing the Gaussian copula hypothesis for financial assets dependences

    Yannick Malevergne;Didier Sornette

  • Subcritical and supercritical regimes in epidemic models of earthquake aftershocks

    Agnès Helmstetter;Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette

Frequent Co-Authors

Wei-Xing Zhou
Wei-Xing Zhou East China University of Science and Technology
Agnès Helmstetter
Agnès Helmstetter Grenoble Alpes University
Maximilian J. Werner
Maximilian J. Werner University of Bristol
Jean-Robert Grasso
Jean-Robert Grasso Institut des Sciences de la Terre
Hubert Saleur
Hubert Saleur CEA Saclay
Stefan Wiemer
Stefan Wiemer Swiss Seismological Service
Martin Funk
Martin Funk ETH Zurich
Leon Knopoff
Leon Knopoff University of California, Los Angeles
Charles G. Sammis
Charles G. Sammis University of Southern California
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex

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