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Overview

Vittorio Loreto is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research contributions span a range of topics situated primarily within the social sciences, with a strong interdisciplinary approach integrating elements of physics, economics, and computational methods.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

More specific subfields addressed in their work are:

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Transportation
  • Computer Science Applications

Research topics consistently explored by Loreto comprise:

  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Frequent co-authors with whom Loreto collaborates include:

  • Pietro Gravino
  • Matteo Bruno
  • Hygor P. M. Melo
  • Bernardo Monechi
  • Stefan Thurner

Loreto's publication record includes papers in notable venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Journal of Physics Complexity
  • Physical Review Research

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Loreto include:

  • Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities, 2024, Nature Cities
  • Interacting Discovery Processes on Complex Networks, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Emergence and evolution of social networks through exploration of the Adjacent Possible space, 2021, Communications Physics

Best Publications

  • Statistical physics of social dynamics

    Claudio Castellano;Santo Fortunato;Vittorio Loreto

  • Defining and identifying communities in networks.

    Filippo Radicchi;Claudio Castellano;Federico Cecconi;Vittorio Loreto

  • Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions.

    Nils Haug;Lukas Geyrhofer;Alessandro Londei;Elma Dervic

  • Language trees and zipping.

    Dario Benedetto;Emanuele Caglioti;Vittorio Loreto

  • Manifesto of computational social science

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

  • Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems

    Andrea Baronchelli;Maddalena Felici;Vittorio Loreto;Emanuele Caglioti

  • Semiotic dynamics and collaborative tagging

    Ciro Cattuto;Vittorio Loreto;Luciano Pietronero

  • Network properties of folksonomies

    Ciro Cattuto_aff n;Christoph Schmitz;Andrea Baldassarri;Vito D. P. Servedio_aff n

  • Observing brownian motion in vibration-fluidized granular matter

    G. D'Anna;P. Mayor;A. Barrat;V. Loreto

  • Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems

    A. Baronchelli;M. Felici;E. Caglioti;V. Loreto

  • Nonequilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks

    Luca Dall'Asta;Andrea Baronchelli;Alain Barrat;Vittorio Loreto

  • Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories

    Andrea Puglisi;Andrea Baronchelli;Vittorio Loreto

  • Edwards measures for powders and glasses

    Alain Barrat;Jorge Kurchan;Vittorio Loreto;Mauro Sellitto

  • Clustering and Non-Gaussian Behavior in Granular Matter

    A. Puglisi;V. Loreto;U. Marini Bettolo Marconi;U. Marini Bettolo Marconi;A. Petri

  • Opinion Dynamics: Models, Extensions and External Effects

    Alina Sîrbu;Vittorio Loreto;Vittorio Loreto;Vito Domenico Pietro Servedio;Francesca Tria

  • The dynamics of correlated novelties.

    Francesca Tria;Vittorio Loreto;Vito Domenico Pietro Servedio;Steven H. Strogatz

  • A "Tetris-Like" Model for the Compaction of Dry Granular Media

    Emanuele Caglioti;Vittorio Loreto;Vittorio Loreto;Hans J. Herrmann;Mario Nicodemi

  • Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns.

    Andrea Baronchelli;Tao Gong;Andrea Puglisi;Vittorio Loreto

  • Social Dynamics: Emergence of Language

    Vittorio Loreto;Vittorio Loreto;Luc Steels

  • Kinetic approach to granular gases.

    A. Puglisi;V. Loreto;V. Loreto;V. Loreto;U. Marini Bettolo Marconi;U. Marini Bettolo Marconi;A. Vulpiani

  • Comparison of voter and Glauber ordering dynamics on networks.

    Claudio Castellano;Vittorio Loreto;Alain Barrat;Federico Cecconi

  • Collective dynamics of social annotation

    Ciro Cattuto;Alain Barrat;Andrea Baldassarri;Gregory Schehr

  • Folksonomies, the semantic web, and movie recommendation

    Martin Szomszor;Ciro Cattuto;Harith Alani;Kieron O’Hara

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli City, University of London
Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
Hans J. Herrmann
Hans J. Herrmann ESPCI Paris
Ciro Cattuto
Ciro Cattuto University of Turin
Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Luc Steels
Luc Steels Spanish National Research Council
Stéphane Roux
Stéphane Roux École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Andreas Hotho
Andreas Hotho University of Würzburg
Stefan Thurner
Stefan Thurner Medical University of Vienna
Falko Dressler
Falko Dressler Technical University of Berlin

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