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2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
61
Citations
15689
World Ranking
512
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2019 - SIAM Fellow For outstanding contributions to mathematical chemistry and network science.
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ernesto Estrada is a researcher affiliated with the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Their work spans primarily the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science, with a focus on interdisciplinary topics that incorporate statistical and nonlinear physics, computational theory and mathematics, geometry and topology, molecular biology, and computer networks and communications.

Their main research areas include complex network analysis techniques, graph theory and applications, opinion dynamics and social influence, topological and geometric data analysis, neural dynamics and brain function, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and computational drug discovery methods.

Estrada's frequent co-authors include Manuel Miranda, Paolo Bartesaghi, Fernando Diaz-Diaz, Mattia Frasca, and Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes.

They have published extensively in prominent venues. The most frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Mathematics, Research Square, and Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.

Selected recent papers by Ernesto Estrada include:

  • COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. Modeling the present, looking at the future, 2020, Physics Reports
  • Topological analysis of SARS CoV-2 main protease, 2020, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • What is a Complex System, After All?, 2023, Foundations of Science
  • The world-wide waste web, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The many facets of the Estrada indices of graphs and networks, 2021, SeMA Journal

Ernesto Estrada has been recognized by awards such as being named a SIAM Fellow in 2019 for contributions to mathematical chemistry and network science, as well as membership in the Academia Europaea achieved in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Subgraph centrality in complex networks.

    Ernesto Estrada;Juan A. Rodríguez-Velázquez

  • AN ATOM-BOND CONNECTIVITY INDEX : MODELLING THE ENTHALPY OF FORMATION OF ALKANES

    Ernesto Estrada;Luis Torres;Lissette Rodriguez;Ivan Gutman

  • Communicability in complex networks

    Ernesto Estrada;Naomichi Hatano

  • Characterization of 3D molecular structure

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Recent advances on the role of topological indices in drug discovery research.

    Ernesto Estrada;Eugenio Uriarte

  • Network Properties Revealed through Matrix Functions

    Ernesto Estrada;Desmond J. Higham

  • Subgraph centrality and clustering in complex hyper-networks

    Ernesto Estrada;Juan A. Rodríguez-Velázquez

  • The physics of communicability in complex networks

    Ernesto Estrada;Naomichi Hatano;Michele Benzi

  • Spectral measures of bipartivity in complex networks

    Ernesto Estrada;Juan A. Rodríguez-Velázquez

  • Spectral Moments of the Edge Adjacency Matrix in Molecular Graphs. 1. Definition and Applications to the Prediction of Physical Properties of Alkanes

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Characterization of the folding degree of proteins

    Ernesto Estrada

  • EDGE ADJACENCY RELATIONSHIPS AND A NOVEL TOPOLOGICAL INDEX RELATED TO MOLECULAR VOLUME

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Communicability across evolving networks

    Peter Grindrod;Mark C. Parsons;Desmond J. Higham;Ernesto Estrada

  • Statistical-mechanical approach to subgraph centrality in complex networks

    Ernesto Estrada;Naomichi Hatano

  • COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. Modeling the present, looking at the future

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Spectral Moments of the Edge-Adjacency Matrix of Molecular Graphs. 2. Molecules Containing Heteroatoms and QSAR Applications

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Quantifying network heterogeneity.

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Network robustness to targeted attacks. The interplay of expansibility and degree distribution

    E. Estrada

  • Characterization of topological keystone species: Local, global and “meso-scale” centralities in food webs

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Ranking hubs and authorities using matrix functions

    Michele Benzi;Ernesto Estrada;Christine Klymko

  • Chemical Graph Theory

    Ernesto Estrada;Danail Bonchev

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugenio Uriarte
Eugenio Uriarte University of Santiago de Compostela
Michele Benzi
Michele Benzi Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Desmond J. Higham
Desmond J. Higham University of Edinburgh
Ivan Gutman
Ivan Gutman University of Kragujevac
Mattia Frasca
Mattia Frasca University of Catania
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes University of Zaragoza
Lourdes Santana
Lourdes Santana University of Santiago de Compostela
Alex Arenas
Alex Arenas Rovira i Virgili University
Maria Fox
Maria Fox British Antarctic Survey
Massimiliano Zanin
Massimiliano Zanin University of the Balearic Islands

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