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H. Eugene Stanley

H. Eugene Stanley

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2025
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Physics
USA
2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1998 - David Turnbull Lectureship, Materials Research Society "For his insights into the statistical aspects of materials phenomena including phase transitions, pattern formation, and disordered, granular, and soft materials, and for his outstanding lecturing and writing on these topics." 
  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

H. Eugene Stanley is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to multiple scientific fields, primarily physics and astronomy, and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research spans a number of subfields including statistical and nonlinear physics, economics and econometrics, transportation, sociology and political science, and computer networks and communications.

Their recent scholarly output includes significant papers such as:

  • Network resilience, 2022, published in Physics Reports
  • Optimal resilience of modular interacting networks, 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Multilayer information spillover networks: measuring interconnectedness of financial institutions, 2020, published in Quantitative Finance
  • Multilayer financial networks and systemic importance: Evidence from China, 2021, published in International Review of Financial Analysis
  • Multiple metastable network states in urban traffic, 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The main topics covered in their research include complex network analysis techniques, opinion dynamics and social influence, complex systems and time series analysis, human mobility and location-based analysis, theoretical and computational physics, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, and sustainability and ecological systems analysis.

Frequent collaborators in their work consist of André L. M. Vilela, Chao Wang, Jianxi Gao, Gaogao Dong, and Ruijin Du. Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, arXiv (Cornell University), and Chaos Solitons & Fractals.

Beyond articles, H. Eugene Stanley has contributed to book literature, with titles including The Rise and Fall of Business Firms: A Stochastic Framework on Innovation, Creative Destruction and Growth published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 2020.

Recognition for their work includes election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, the David Turnbull Lectureship from the Materials Research Society in 1998, awarded for insights into statistical aspects of materials phenomena and lecturing, and being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

    H. Eugene Stanley;Guenter Ahlers

  • Mosaic organization of DNA nucleotides

    C.-K. Peng;C.-K. Peng;C.-K. Peng;S. V. Buldyrev;S. V. Buldyrev;S. V. Buldyrev;S. Havlin;S. Havlin;S. Havlin;M. Simons;M. Simons;M. Simons

  • Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and Complexity in Finance

    Rosario N. Mantegna;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Quantification of scaling exponents and crossover phenomena in nonstationary heartbeat time series

    C.‐K. Peng;Shlomo Havlin;H. Eugene Stanley;Ary L. Goldberger

  • Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Nonstationary Time Series

    Jan W. Kantelhardt;Jan W. Kantelhardt;Stephan A. Zschiegner;Eva Koscielny-Bunde;Eva Koscielny-Bunde;Shlomo Havlin;Shlomo Havlin

  • Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks

    Maksim Kitsak;Maksim Kitsak;Lazaros K. Gallos;Shlomo Havlin;Fredrik Liljeros

  • Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis of nonstationary time series

    Jan W. Kantelhardt;Stephan A. Zschiegner;Eva Koscielny-Bunde;Armin Bunde

  • Statistical physics of macromolecules

    Alexander Yu. Grosberg;Alexei R. Khokhlov;H. Eugene Stanley;A. John Mallinckrodt

  • Scaling behaviour in the dynamics of an economic index

    Rosario N. Mantegna;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Multifractality in human heartbeat dynamics

    Plamen Ch. Ivanov;Plamen Ch. Ivanov;Luís A. Nunes Amaral;Luís A. Nunes Amaral;Ary L. Goldberger;Shlomo Havlin

  • Optimizing the success of random searches

    G. M. Viswanathan;G. M. Viswanathan;G. M. Viswanathan;Sergey V. Buldyrev;Shlomo Havlin;Shlomo Havlin;M. G. E. da Luz;M. G. E. da Luz

  • Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses

    G. M. Viswanathan;V. Afanasyev;S. V. Buldyrev;E. J. Murphy

  • Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis : A New Method for Analyzing Two Nonstationary Time Series

    Boris Podobnik;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Effect of trends on detrended fluctuation analysis.

    Kun Hu;Plamen Ch. Ivanov;Plamen Ch. Ivanov;Zhi Chen;Pedro Carpena

  • Networks formed from interdependent networks

    Jianxi Gao;Jianxi Gao;Sergey V. Buldyrev;H. Eugene Stanley;Shlomo Havlin

  • Long-range anticorrelations and non-Gaussian behavior of the heartbeat

    C.-K. Peng;C.-K. Peng;C.-K. Peng;J. Mietus;J. Mietus;J. Mietus;J. M. Hausdorff;J. M. Hausdorff;J. M. Hausdorff;S. Havlin;S. Havlin;S. Havlin

  • Universal and Nonuniversal Properties of Cross Correlations in Financial Time Series

    Vasiliki Plerou;Vasiliki Plerou;Parameswaran Gopikrishnan;Bernd Rosenow;Luís A. Nunes Amaral

  • Random matrix approach to cross correlations in financial data.

    Vasiliki Plerou;Vasiliki Plerou;Parameswaran Gopikrishnan;Bernd Rosenow;Bernd Rosenow;Luís A. Nunes Amaral

  • Scaling, Universality, and Renormalization: Three Pillars of Modern Critical Phenomena

    H. Eugene Stanley

  • Multifractality in Human Heartbeat Dynamics

    Luís Amaral;Plamen Ch. Ivanov;Ary Goldberger;Michael G. Rosenblum

Frequent Co-Authors

Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Francesco Sciortino
Francesco Sciortino Sapienza University of Rome
Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Pennsylvania State University
Fabio Pammolli
Fabio Pammolli Polytechnic University of Milan
Francis W. Starr
Francis W. Starr Wesleyan University
Massimo Riccaboni
Massimo Riccaboni IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Rosario N. Mantegna
Rosario N. Mantegna University of Palermo
Wei-Xing Zhou
Wei-Xing Zhou East China University of Science and Technology
Ary L. Goldberger
Ary L. Goldberger Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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