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2026 and preprints
- Giovanni Astante, Roberta Sinatra, Vedran Sekara, It Takes So Little to Change So Much: Investigating the Robustness of a Danish Voting Advice Algorithm, arxiv.org/abs/2603.03532 (2026)
- Large-scale randomized trials show no evidence of gender bias in evaluating scientific abstracts,
S. Sousa, L.M. Aiello, Z. Chen, J.A. Evans, R. Sinatra,
Under review in Nature Communications (2026) - The impact of COVID-19 on scientific productivity and collaboration, R. Sinatra, S. Sousa, Y. Xing, M. Szell, Under review (2026).
2025
- Academic mentees succeed in big groups, but thrive in small groups, Yanmeng Xing, Ying Fan, Yifang Fa, Roberta Sinatra*, An Zeng*, Nature Human Behavior (2025), Supplementary Information, arXiv:2208.05304, *corresponding authors.
Featured in: Nature news, SAMF news, Djøfbladet. - Quantifying the hierarchical scales of scientists’ mobility,
Yurui Huang, Langtian Ma, Chaolin Tian, Xunyi Jiang, Roberta Sinatra, Yifang Ma
arXiv:2401.06794, Under review (2025).
2024
- Was the Nobel prize for physics? Yes – not that it matters, Michael Szell, Yifang Ma, Roberta Sinatra,
Nature 634, 782 (2024). Longer uncut version on Zenodo - Failing Our Youngest: On the Biases, Pitfalls, and Risks in a Decision Support Algorithm Used for Child Protection,
Therese Moreau Hansen, Roberta Sinatra*, Vedran Sekara*,
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 290-300 (2024). *corresponding authors - The Early Career Wins and Tournament Prestige Characterize Tennis Players’ Trajectories,
Chiara Zappalà, Sandro Sousa, Tiago Cunha, Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Roberta Sinatra,
arXiv:2401.06479, EPJ Data Science 13, 32 (2024).
2022
- Growing Urban Bicycle Networks,
M. Szell, S. Mimar, T. Perlman, G. Ghoshal, & R. Sinatra,
Scientific Reports, 12, 6765 (2022), ArXiv:2107.02185,
Explore the data and growth visualization here: Project page.
2020
- New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity,
M. Fontana, M. Iori, F. Montobbio, & R. Sinatra,
Research Policy, 49 (7) (2020), 104063. - Success and luck in creative careers
M. Janosov, F. Battiston, & R. Sinatra,
EPJ Data Science, 9, (2020), arXiv:1909.07956. Supplementary materials.
Featured in: NewScientist, 10Daily. - Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines
J. Huang, A. J. Gates, R. Sinatra, & A.-L. Barabási,
PNAS, 117(9) (2020), arXiv:1907.04103.
Supplementary Materials. Featured in: Nature Index, Inside Higher Education, Diverse – Issues in higher education, Chemical&Engineering News.
2019
- Analysis of visitors’ mobility patterns through random walk in the Louvre museum Y. Yoshimura, R. Sinatra, A. Krebs, & C. Ratti,
Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (AIHC), 1-16 (2019) arXiv:1811.02918. - Taking census of physics,
F. Battiston, F. Musciotto, D. Wang, A.-L. Barabási, M. Szell & R. Sinatra
Nature Reviews Physics 1, 89-97 (2019).
2018
- The Chaperone Effect in Scientific Publishing,
V. Sekara, P. Deville, S.E. Ahnert, A.-L. Barabási, R. Sinatra* and S. Lehmann*.
PNAS 115(50) 12603-12607 (2018).
* These authors lead the research and contributed equally.
Featured in Science careers. - Quantifying reputation and success in art,
S.P. Fraiberger, R. Sinatra, M. Resch, C. Riedl, A.-L. Barabási,
Science, 362 825-829 (2018). - A Nobel Opportunity for Interdisciplinarity,
M. Szell, Y. Ma and R. Sinatra,
Nature Physics, 14 1075-1078 (2018).
Interactive Visualization. - Hot streaks in artistic, cultural, and scientific careers,
L. Liu, Y. Wang, R. Sinatra, C. Lee Giles, C. Song, D. Wang,
Nature, 559 396–399 (2018), arXiv:1712.01804.
Data, code and media - Science of Science,
Santo Fortunato, Carl T. Bergstrom, Katy Boerner, James A. Evans, Dirk Helbing, Stasa Milojevic, Alexander M. Petersen, Filippo Radicchi, Roberta Sinatra, Brian Uzzi, Alessandro Vespignani, Ludo Waltman, Dashun Wang, A.-L. Barabási,
Science, 359, eaao0185 (2018).
2017
2016
- Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact,
R. Sinatra, D. Wang, P. Deville, C. Song, and A.-L. Barabási,
Science, 354 6312 (2016).
Supplementary Materials, Supplementary Data.
Explore the results on the Interactive Visualization Website
Watch the Story on the Nature Youtube channel
Also featured in: Science News, Nature News, New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, The Scientist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes, Huffington Post, Big Think, Inside High Red, Flowing Data, The Australian, NY magazine, PhysOrg, ACS,Chemistry World, Northeastern News, CEU News, Kellog Insight, Science Alert, Science Top Stories, FastCoDesign, Scholarly Kitchen, University World News, Yahoo News, Herald Tribune, University Herald, ORF Science, Spiegel Online, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Internazionale, Panorama, Adnkronos, Padova News, Science Blog, Interesting Engineering, La Vanguardia, ABC.es, Semana, Sciencia.nl, El Digital de Asturias, AgenciaSinc, Improbable, 3 Quarks Daily, Librarius, Museum.
2015
- Research funding goes to rich clubs,
M. Szell and R. Sinatra,
PNAS, 112 48, 14749-14750 (2015).
Commentary (not comment!) on Anatomy of funded research in science, PNAS, October (2015).
- A century of Physics,
R. Sinatra, P. Deville, M. Szell, D. Wang, and A.-L. Barabási,
Nature Physics, 11 791 (2015), Also on Nat Physics Cover. - Social Diffusion and Global Drift on Networks,
H. Sayama and R. Sinatra,
Physical Review E, 91 032809 (2015), arXiv:1410.3506.
2014
- Evolutionary dynamics of time-resolved social interactions,
A. Cardillo, G. Petri, V. Nicosia, R. Sinatra, J. Gomez-Gardenes, and V. Latora,
Physical Review E 90, 052825 (2014), arXiv:1302.0558. - An analysis of visitors’ sequential movement in the Louvre Museum: A study using Bluetooth data,
Y. Yoshimura, S. Sobolevsky, R. Sinatra, F. Girardin, J. P. Carrascal, J. Blat, and C. Ratti,
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 41, 1113-1131 (2014).
Dynamic visualization and infographics: Art Traffic at Louvre - Career on the Move: Geography, Stratification, and Scientific Impact,
P. Deville, D. Wang, R. Sinatra, C. Song, V. Blondel, and A.-L. Barabási,
Scientific Reports 4:4770 (2014), Nature open access.
Featured in the Economist and in the iNSolution research blog! - Entropy and the Predictability of Online Life,
R. Sinatra and M. Szell,
Entropy 16(1), 543-556 (2014), arXiv:1312.0169.
2013
2012
- Understanding mobility in a social petri dish,
M. Szell, R. Sinatra, G. Petri, S. Thurner, and V. Latora.
Scientific Reports, 2: 457 (2012), Nature open access, arXiv:1112.1220.
Featured in the Santa Fe Institute newsletter! - Emergence of good conduct, scaling and Zipf laws in human behavioral sequences in an online world,
S. Thurner, M. Szell, and R. Sinatra.
PLoS one 7(1): e29796 (2012), arXiv:1107.0392.
Featured in Technology Review, Physorg, Die Presse, Krone, and on the Santa Fe Institute website.
2011
- Flow graphs: interweaving dynamics on structure,
R. Lambiotte, R. Sinatra, M. Barahona, J.-C. Delvenne, T.S. Evans, and V. Latora.
Physical Review E 84, 017102 (2011), arXiv:1012.1211.
- Maximal-entropy random walks in complex networks with limited information,
R. Sinatra, J. Gomez-Gardenes, R. Lambiotte, V. Nicosia, and V. Latora.
Physical Review E 83, 030103(R) (2011), arXiv:1007.4936.
2010
- Ecological Clustering Reveals Topological Structures of Complex Networks,
R. Sinatra.
HPC-Europa2 Final Report 2010. - Defecting or Not Defecting: How to “Read” Human Behavior during Cooperative Games by EEG Measurements,
F. De Vico Fallani, V. Nicosia, R. Sinatra, L. Astolfi, F. Cincotti, D. Mattia, C. Wilke, A. Doud, V. Latora, B. He and F. Babiloni.
PloS One 5, 12:e14187 (2010). - Networks of motifs from sequences of symbols,
R. Sinatra, D. Condorelli, V. Latora.
Physical Review Letters, 105, 178702 (2010),
arXiv:1002.0668.
Supplementary material is available for this paper.
Featured in Physorg, Tendencia21 and Physicscentral! - Evolutionary dynamics of fitness driven walkers on a graph,
R. Sinatra, C. Gokhale, E. Fille Legara,
Proceeding paper for the Complex Systems Summer School 2010, Santa Fe Institue (USA).
2009
- The Ultimatum Game in Complex Networks,
R. Sinatra, J. Iranzo, J. Gomez-Gardenes, M. Floria, V. Latora, Y. Moreno, Journal of Statistical Mechanics – Theory and Experiments, P09012 (2009), arXiv:0807.0750v3. - Cluster structure of functional networks estimated from high-resolution EEG data,
R. Sinatra, F. De Vico Fallani, V. Latora, L. Astolfi, D. Mattia, F. Cincotti, and F. Babiloni, Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 19, 665-676 (2009), arXiv:0806.2840v1. - Structural and dynamical properties of cellular and regulatory networks,
R. Sinatra, J.Gomez-Gardenes, Y. Moreno, D. Condorelli, L. M. Floria, V. Latora, in Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Systems and Processes, edited by M. H. Zaman, Cambridge University Press (2009).
2008
- Community structure of cortical networks in spinal cord injured patients,
F. De Vico Fallani, R. Sinatra, L. Astolfi, D. Mattia, F. Cincotti, V. Latora, S. Salinari, M.G. Marciani, A. Colosimo, and F. Babiloni, Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 2008 , 3995-8 (2008).
Theses
- “Evolutionary Games on Graphs: the Ultimatum Game”, Thesis discussed for Diploma di Secondo Livello (second level Diploma degree) of Scuola Superiore di Catania
Supervisors: Prof. Vito Latora, Prof. Yamir Moreno Vega, Dott. Jesus Gomez Gardenes
- “Analisi statistica del proteoma mediante studio di motivi significativi” (in Italian), Thesis discussed for Laurea Specialistica in Fisica Teorica (equivalent to MSc in Theoretical Physics), Università di Catania
Supervisors: Prof. Vito Latora, Prof. Daniele Condorelli
- “Distanza Filogenetica basata sulla Coespressione di Motivi Aminoacidici Statisticamente significativi” (in Italian), Thesis discussed for Diploma di Primo Livello (first level Diploma degree) of Scuola Superiore di Catania
Supervisors: Prof. Vito Latora, Prof. Daniele Condorelli
- “Analisi statistica del proteoma e filogenesi” (in Italian), Thesis discussed for Laurea Triennale in Fisica (equivalent to BSc in Physics), Università di Catania
Supervisor: Prof. Vito Latora
