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Engineering and Technology
Hungary
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
70
Citations
24168
World Ranking
1018
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

János Kertész is affiliated with the Central European University in Hungary. The scientist's research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Physics and Astronomy as well as Social Sciences. Within these fields, Kertész specializes in several subfields including Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Computer Networks and Communications, and Economics and Econometrics.

The research topics covered by Kertész include Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Wikis in Education and Collaboration, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Social Capital and Networks, and Social Media and Politics.

Kertész has a significant number of publications in several venues. Notably, the scientist has published extensively in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS ONE
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Selected recent papers by János Kertész include:

  • "Inequality is rising where social network segregation interacts with urban topology" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Complex systems in the spotlight: next steps after the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics" (2023), published in Journal of Physics Complexity
  • "Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment" (2021), published in CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
  • "Quantifying firm-level economic systemic risk from nation-wide supply networks" (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Opinion dynamics in social networks: From models to data" (2022), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Kertész frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Kimmo Kaski
  • Gerardo Íñiguez
  • Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási
  • Chiara Boldrini
  • Andrea Passarella

Best Publications

  • Detecting the overlapping and hierarchical community structure in complex networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato;János Kertész

  • Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks

    J.-P. Onnela;J. Saramäki;J. Hyvönen;G. Szabó

  • Detecting the overlapping and hierarchical community structure of complex networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato;Janos Kertesz

  • Intensity and coherence of motifs in weighted complex networks

    Jukka Pekka Onnela;Jari Saramäki;János Kertész;János Kertész;Kimmo Kaski

  • Dynamics of market correlations: taxonomy and portfolio analysis.

    Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Anirban Chakraborti;Kimmo Kaski;Janos Kertesz;Janos Kertesz

  • Generalizations of the clustering coefficient to weighted complex networks

    Jari Saramäki;Mikko Kivelä;Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Kimmo Kaski

  • Small but slow world: how network topology and burstiness slow down spreading

    Márton Karsai;Mikko Kivelä;Raj Kumar Pan;Kimmo Kaski

  • Analysis of a large-scale weighted network of one-to-one human communication

    Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Jari Saramäki;Jörkki Hyvönen;Gábor Szabó;Gábor Szabó

  • Manifesto of computational social science

    R. Conte;N. Gilbert;G. Bonelli;C. Cioffi-Revilla

  • Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data

    Márton Mestyán;Taha Yasseri;Taha Yasseri;Taha Yasseri;János Kertész;János Kertész;János Kertész

  • Clustering and information in correlation based financial networks

    Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Kimmo Kaski;Janos Kertész;Janos Kertész

  • Dynamic asset trees and Black Monday

    Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Anirban Chakraborti;Kimmo Kaski;Janos Kertesz;Janos Kertesz

  • Fluctuation scaling in complex systems: Taylor's law and beyond

    Zoltán Eisler;Imre Bartos;János Kertész

  • Universal features of correlated bursty behaviour

    Márton Karsai;Kimmo Kaski;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási;János Kertész;János Kertész

  • Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia.

    Taha Yasseri;Robert Sumi;András Rung;András Kornai;András Kornai

  • Temporal motifs in time-dependent networks

    Lauri Kovanen;Márton Karsai;Kimmo Kaski;János Kertész

  • Emergence of communities in weighted networks.

    Jussi M Kumpula;Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Jari Saramäki;Kimmo Kaski

  • Election results and the Sznajd model on Barabasi network

    A.T. Bernardes;D. Stauffer;J. Kertész

  • Circadian pattern and burstiness in mobile phone communication

    Hang-Hyun Jo;Márton Karsai;János Kertész;Kimmo Kaski

  • Asset Trees and Asset Graphs in Financial Markets

    Jukka-Pekka Onnela;Anirban Chakraborti;Kimmo Kaski;Janos Kertesz

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimmo Kaski
Kimmo Kaski Aalto University
Jari Saramäki
Jari Saramäki Aalto University
Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Jukka-Pekka Onnela Harvard University
Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási Northeastern University
Tamás Vicsek
Tamás Vicsek Eötvös Loránd University
Rosario N. Mantegna
Rosario N. Mantegna University of Palermo
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University
Anna Rotkirch
Anna Rotkirch Väestöliitto
Wei-Xing Zhou
Wei-Xing Zhou East China University of Science and Technology
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University

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