Nicholas A. Christakis
The Nature Conservancy(US)Yale University(US)Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(JP)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Health disparities and outcomes, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Most-Cited Works
- → The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years(2007)5,011 cited
- → Computational Social Science(2009)3,227 cited
- → The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network(2008)2,377 cited
- → Response rates to mail surveys published in medical journals(1997)2,118 cited
- → Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study(2008)1,963 cited
- → Social Networks and Health(2008)1,633 cited
- → Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study Commentary: Why do doctors overestimate? Commentary: Prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition