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D-Index
61
Citations
49051
World Ranking
1977
National Ranking
629

Santo Fortunato publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Santo Fortunato sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 134 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Santo Fortunato D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Santo Fortunato sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Santo Fortunato is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Their work spans multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Molecular Biology, and Information Systems.

Fortunato's scientific output addresses various topics, notably Complex Network Analysis Techniques, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Philosophy and History of Science.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "20 years of network community detection" (2022) in Nature Physics
  • "Scientific elite revisited: patterns of productivity, collaboration, authorship and impact" (2020) in Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • "Multiscale community detection in Cytoscape" (2020) in PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Community detection in networks using graph embeddings" (2021) in Physical review. E
  • "Detecting Climate Teleconnections With Granger Causality" (2021) in Geophysical Research Letters

Fortunato frequently collaborates with several researchers including Filippo Radicchi, Filippo Menczer, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Filipi N. Silva.

Their contributions have been published in multiple venues, with significant numbers in arXiv (Cornell University), Physical review. E, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, and Quantitative Science Studies.

As an author, Fortunato has also contributed to academic literature through book publication, notably "A First Course in Network Science" released by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Community detection in graphs

    Santo Fortunato

  • Statistical physics of social dynamics

    Claudio Castellano;Santo Fortunato;Vittorio Loreto

  • Benchmark graphs for testing community detection algorithms

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato;Filippo Radicchi

  • Resolution limit in community detection

    Santo Fortunato;Marc Barthélemy

  • Community detection algorithms: a comparative analysis.

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato

  • Detecting the overlapping and hierarchical community structure in complex networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato;János Kertész

  • Community detection in networks: A user guide

    Santo Fortunato;Santo Fortunato;Darko Hric

  • Detecting the overlapping and hierarchical community structure of complex networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato;Janos Kertesz

  • Science of science

    Santo Fortunato;Carl T. Bergstrom;Katy Börner;James A. Evans

  • Benchmarks for testing community detection algorithms on directed and weighted graphs with overlapping communities.

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato

  • Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Filippo Radicchi;José J. Ramasco;Santo Fortunato

  • Consensus clustering in complex networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato;Santo Fortunato

  • Limits of modularity maximization in community detection

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Santo Fortunato

  • Method to find community structures based on information centrality.

    Santo Fortunato;Vito Latora;Massimo Marchiori

  • World citation and collaboration networks: uncovering the role of geography in science

    Raj Kumar Pan;Kimmo Kaski;Santo Fortunato

  • Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of online popularity.

    Jacob Ratkiewicz;Santo Fortunato;Alessandro Flammini;Filippo Menczer

  • Characterizing the Community Structure of Complex Networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Mikko Kivelä;Jari Saramäki;Santo Fortunato

  • Community Structure in Graphs

    Santo Fortunato;Claudio Castellano

  • Community detection in networks: Structural communities versus ground truth

    Darko Hric;Richard K. Darst;Santo Fortunato

  • Triadic closure as a basic generating mechanism of communities in complex networks.

    Ginestra Bianconi;Richard K. Darst;Jacopo Iacovacci;Santo Fortunato

  • Community detection algorithms: a comparative analysis: invited presentation, extended abstract

    Santo Fortunato;Andrea Lancichinetti

  • Resolution limit in community detection

    Marc Barthelemy;Santo Fortunato

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Flammini
Alessandro Flammini Indiana University
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi Indiana University
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Kimmo Kaski
Kimmo Kaski Aalto University
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns Indiana University
Fabio Pammolli
Fabio Pammolli Polytechnic University of Milan
Alex Arenas
Alex Arenas Rovira i Virgili University
Marián Boguñá
Marián Boguñá University of Barcelona
José J. Ramasco
José J. Ramasco Spanish National Research Council

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