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Nicholas A. Christakis

Yale University · US
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Area of research
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics · Health
Research interest
Research interests include Health disparities and outcomes, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.
h-index
97
citations
52,286
works
413
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy
Science 2026cited by 10position: middledoi
On the optimal integration of intelligent agents into network systems to steer cooperation.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Social networks and international migration in Honduran villages.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Modeling roles and trade-offs in multiplex networks.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks.
2025cited by 34position: contributordoi
Realism Drives Interpersonal Reciprocity but Yields to AI-Assisted Egocentrism in a Coordination Experiment
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Metagenomic polymorphic toxin effector and immunity profiling predicts microbiome development and disease-related dysbiosis
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks
Nature 2024cited by 40position: lastdoi
Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages.
2024cited by 24position: contributordoi
Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages.
2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Simple autonomous agents can enhance creative semantic discovery by human groups.
2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
The structure and function of antagonistic ties in village social networks.
2024cited by 1position: contributordoi
Antidepressant use in spatial social networks.
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Maternal and child health intervention to promote behaviour change: a population-level cluster-randomised controlled trial in Honduras.
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide
Nature Communications 2023cited by 55position: middledoi
Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide.
2023cited by 30position: contributordoi
Status invisibility alleviates the economic gradient in happiness in social network experiments
Nature Mental Health 2023cited by 7position: contributordoi
Emergence and collapse of reciprocity in semiautomatic driving coordination experiments with humans.
2023cited by 3position: contributordoi
Approaching disease transmission with network science
Nature Reviews Bioengineering 2023cited by 3position: contributordoi
Detailed Social Network Interactions and Gut Microbiome Strain-Sharing Within Isolated Honduras Villages
2023cited by 2position: contributordoi
Emergency communications after earthquake reveal social network backbone of important ties.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Mass gatherings for political expression had no discernible association with the local course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA in 2020 and 2021.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Health Factors Associated with Gut Microbiome Species and Strains in Isolated Honduras Villages
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India.
2022cited by 6position: contributordoi
Characterizing super-spreaders using population-level weighted social networks in rural communities.
2022cited by 4position: contributordoi
Triadic embeddedness structure in family networks predicts mobile communication response to a sudden natural disaster.
2021cited by 4position: contributordoi
Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China
Nature 2020cited by 906position: lastdoi
Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China.
2020cited by 417position: contributordoi

Grants

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Impact of Geography and Social Ties on Health and Well-being
NSF2001777$3,6972020–2021PIRePORTER
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Health Behaviors and Social Networks
NSF0824568$6,7582008–2010PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 29 papers (2019–2026)Shivkumar Vishnempet Shridhar · Yale University5 papers (2022–2025)Francesco Beghini · University of New Haven5 papers (2023–2025)Marcus Alexander · Brown University4 papers (2019–2024)Marcus Alexander · Brown University4 papers (2022–2024)Laura Forastiere · Jimma University4 papers (2022–2025)Fan Yang · Peking University3 papers (2019–2020)Laura Forastiere · University of Connecticut3 papers (2019–2020)Weiming Tang · Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention3 papers (2019–2020)Joseph D. Tucker · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill3 papers (2019–2020) · 3 papers (2019–2020)Katherine Li · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill3 papers (2019–2020)Ilana Brito · Elsevier, Inc.3 papers (2023–2025)Hirokazu Shirado · Carnegie Mellon University3 papers (2019–2025)Ligang Yang · Taiwan Centers for Disease Control2 papers (2019–2020)Manuel Cebrián · Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas2 papers (2014–2019)Bin Yang · Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine2 papers (2019–2020)Guodong Mi · Huazhong Agricultural University2 papers (2019–2020) · 2 papers (2019–2020)Tiange P. Zhang · Loyola University Chicago2 papers (2019–2020)
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