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Overview

Marc Barthelemy is a researcher affiliated with L'Institut de physique théorique in France specializing in interdisciplinary studies bridging social sciences and physics. Their work primarily addresses urban systems, human mobility, and spatial economic dynamics.

The scientist has contributed notably to the field of social sciences, with a significant focus on transportation, economics and econometrics, and statistical and nonlinear physics. Their research also encompasses building and construction as well as global and planetary change.

The range of main topics covered by Barthelemy's publications includes:

  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Barthelemy has published extensively in well-regarded venues, with a concentration in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review E
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Cities
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent publications highlight various aspects of urban science and city population dynamics. These include:

  • The growth equation of cities (2020, Nature)
  • The role of complexity for digital twins of cities (2023, Nature Computational Science)
  • Spatial structure of city population growth (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Defining a city - delineating urban areas using cell-phone data (2024, Nature Cities)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barthelemy include Vincent Verbavatz, Erwan Taillanter, Olivier Thomine, Samuel Alizon, and Mircea T. Sofonea, each having multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The architecture of complex weighted networks

    Alain Barrat;Marc Barthelemy;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Classes of small-world networks

    L. A. N. Amaral;A. Scala;M. Barthélémy;H. E. Stanley

  • Multilayer Networks

    Mikko Kivelä;Alexandre Arenas;Marc Barthelemy;James P. Gleeson

  • Resolution limit in community detection

    Santo Fortunato;Marc Barthélemy

  • Spatial Networks

    Marc Barthelemy

  • The Architecture of Complex Weighted Networks: Measurements and Models

    Alain Barrat;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Vespignani

  • The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics

    Vittoria Colizza;Alain Barrat;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Human mobility: Models and applications

    Hugo Barbosa;Marc Barthelemy;Gourab Ghoshal;Charlotte R. James

  • Weighted Evolving Networks: Coupling Topology and Weight Dynamics

    Alain Barrat;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Scale-Free Networks

    Marc Barthélemy;Alain Barrat;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Betweenness centrality in large complex networks

    M. Barthélemy

  • Dynamical patterns of epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks.

    Marc Barthélemy;Alain Barrat;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani;Alessandro Vespignani

  • From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities

    Thomas Louail;Maxime Lenormand;Oliva G. Cantu Ros;Miguel Picornell

  • Structure of Urban Movements: Polycentric Activity and Entangled Hierarchical Flows

    Camille Roth;Soong Moon Kang;Michael Batty;Marc Barthélemy;Marc Barthélemy

  • Characterization and modeling of weighted networks

    Marc Barthélemy;Alain Barrat;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Modeling the evolution of weighted networks.

    Alain Barrat;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Vespignani;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Small-World Networks: Evidence for a Crossover Picture

    Marc Barthélémy;Luís A. Nunes Amaral

  • The Structure of Interurban Traffic: A Weighted Network Analysis:

    Andrea De Montis;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Chessa;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Elementary processes governing the evolution of road networks

    Emanuele Strano;Vincenzo Nicosia;Vito Latora;Sergio Porta

  • Modeling Urban Street Patterns

    Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Flammini

  • Growing Multiplex Networks

    Vincenzo Nicosia;Ginestra Bianconi;Vito Latora;Vito Latora;Marc Barthelemy

  • Resolution limit in community detection

    Marc Barthelemy;Santo Fortunato

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
José J. Ramasco
José J. Ramasco Spanish National Research Council
Enrique Frias-Martinez
Enrique Frias-Martinez Telefónica (Spain)
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Vito Latora
Vito Latora Queen Mary University of London
Michael Batty
Michael Batty University College London
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University

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