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  1. From Pirate Radios to Social Media Giants: HowNetwork Architecture Shapes Market Power andSocial Structure

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  2. LawVerse: The Legal Framework for Clinical Metaverse Content

    Article • Journal of Medical Extended Reality, January 2025, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Antonio Scala

  3. Inoperability Propagation in Networks with Coupled Logistic Dynamics

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  4. Understanding How Social Networks Grow: New Insights on Network Value and User Groups

    Article • Chaos Solitons & Fractals, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  5. Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time

    Article • Nature, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  6. The Black Box of Advertising Investments: Assessing the role of risk assessment

    Article • November 2023, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Antonio Scala

  7. Navigating the Herd Immunity Surface: A Novel Framework for Optimising Epidemic Response Strategies

    Article • November 2023, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Antonio Scala

  8. How to Measure Vaccine Efficacy during an Ongoing Epidemics

    Article • PLOS One, September 2023, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  9. Characterizing engagement dynamics across topics on Facebook

    Article • PLOS One, June 2023, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  10. Evaluating the COVID-19 impact in Italian regions via multi criteria analysis

    Article • PLOS One, May 2023, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  11. Measuring the efficacy of a vaccine during an epidemic

    Article • April 2023, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Antonio Scala

  12. The Networked Revolution: Decoding the Explosive Growth of Online Platforms

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  13. Keeping Multi-Agent Systems in Sync, Even When Agents Come and Go

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  14. Volume Changes of Lake Bracciano During the Sentinels Acquisition Period

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  15. Efficient Vaccine Distribution and Social Distancing Strategy for Pandemic Response and Control

    Article • PLOS One, June 2022, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  16. Infodemics: A new challenge for public health

    Article • Cell, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  17. Optimizing Critical Infrastructure Decision-Making with Faster Shortest Paths

    Article • Reliability Engineering & System Safety, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  18. Strategic Spatial Planning for Renewable Energy: A Policy Guide for Optimal Placement

    Article • Energy Sources Part B Economics Planning and Policy, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  19. COVID-19 Lockdowns: Unraveling Mobility Impact on Nations

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  20. Understanding How Repeated Lockdowns Can Help Fight Epidemics

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  21. Author Correction: Recursive patterns in online echo chambers

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  22. Optimizing Critical Infrastructure Decision-Making with Faster Shortest Paths

    Article • Water Resources Management, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  23. Complex systems applications to electric mobility and regional intermittent sources planning

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  24. How COVID-19 Information Spread on Social Media

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  25. Correction: Measuring social response to different journalistic techniques on Facebook

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  26. Balancing Lockdowns: Insights on Timing and Targeted Strategies

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  27. Measuring social response to different journalistic techniques on Facebook

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  28. The COVID-19 Lockdown: Impacts on Mobility, Inequality, and Fiscal Challenges in Italy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Antonio Scala

  29. Simplifying Water Quality Sensor Placement in Networks

    Article • Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, June 2020, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  30. Between Geography and Demography: Key Interdependencies and Exit Mechanisms for Covid-19

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Antonio Scala

  31. Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet

    Article • PLOS One, March 2020, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  32. Recursive patterns in online echo chambers

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  33. Finding Like-Minded Groups in Decision-Making: A Method for Dealing with Diverse Opinions

    Article • Omega, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  34. Health-care inequalities in Italy: challenges for the Government

    Article • The Lancet Public Health, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  35. Polarization and Fake News

    Article • ACM Transactions on the Web, May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fabiana Zollo, Dr Antonio Scala

  36. Optimizing Renewable Energy Planning: Minimizing Fluctuations and Costs for a Greener Future

    Article • Energy Policy, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  37. PopRank: Ranking pages’ impact and users’ engagement on Facebook

    Article • PLOS One, January 2019, PLOS

    Andrea Zaccaria, Dr Antonio Scala

  38. How News May Affect Markets’ Complex Structure: The Case of Cambridge Analytica

    Article • Entropy, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Antonio Scala

  39. Entropic Steering Criteria: Applications to Bipartite and Tripartite Systems

    Article • Entropy, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Antonio Scala

  40. Adrift in Crisis: Climate Challenges at Lake Bracciano

    Article • RENDICONTI LINCEI, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  41. Making Smarter Choices: Sparse AHP Methodologies

    Article • Soft Computing, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  42. Equal load-sharing models of cascades in interdependent network infrastructures

    Article • June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  43. Enhancing Group Ranking: New Methods for Networked Agents

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  44. Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook

    Article • Vaccine, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  45. A Holistic Approach for Collaborative Workload Execution in Volunteer Clouds

    Article • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  46. Unveiling the Structure of Water Distribution Networks: Not So Random After All

    Article • Water, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Antonio Scala, Armando Di Nardo

  47. Charting a Sustainable Path: Integrating Electric Mobility and Clean Energy at the Regional Level

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  48. Critical Information Infrastructures Security

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  49. Complex Networks and Infrastructural Grids

    Article • December 2017, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Antonio Scala

  50. Decisions with Incomplete Information: A New Approach for Distributed Decision-Making.

    Article • Automatica, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  51. Debunking in a world of tribes

    Article • PLOS One, July 2017, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  52. Mapping social dynamics on Facebook: The Brexit debate

    Article • Social Networks, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  53. Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Antonio Scala

  54. Modeling confirmation bias and polarization

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  55. Access Time Eccentricity and Diameter

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  56. Availability Study of the Italian Electricity SCADA System in the Cloud

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  57. Using Complexity Science to Make Water Infrastructures More Sustainable

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala, Armando Di Nardo

  58. Everyday the Same Picture: Popularity and Content Diversity

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  59. Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  60. The equal load-sharing model of cascade failures in power grids

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  61. Islanding the power grid on the transmission level: less connections for more security

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  62. Complex, inter-networked economic and social systems

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  63. Homophily and polarization in the age of misinformation

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  64. Mitigating cascades in sandpile models: an immunization strategy for systemic risk?

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  65. Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube

    Article • PLOS One, August 2016, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  66. Cascades in interdependent flow networks

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  67. Enhancing network resilience via self-healing

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  68. Adopting the cloud to manage the electricity grid

    Article • April 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  69. Exploring the Potential of Solar-Powered Neighborhood Energy Grids in Cities

    Article • Science Advances, January 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Marta C. Gonzalez, Dr Antonio Scala

  70. The spreading of misinformation online

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Antonio Scala

  71. Self-Healing Protocols for Infrastructural Networks

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  72. Systemic Interdependencies

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  73. A Mean Field Model of Coupled Cascades in Flow Networks

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  74. A Workload-Based Approach to Partition the Volunteer Cloud

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  75. Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation

    Article • PLOS One, September 2015, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  76. Equal load-sharing models of cascades in network infrastructures

    Article • September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  77. Renewable Energy: Balancing Carbon Footprint and Economic Costs

    Article • PLOS One, September 2015, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  78. Size fluctuation in energy demand for the electric market: The effect of renewable sources

    Article • September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  79. Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation

    Article • PLOS One, August 2015, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  80. Viral Misinformation

    Article • May 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  81. Science vs Conspiracy: Collective Narratives in the Age of Misinformation

    Article • PLOS One, February 2015, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  82. Understanding the Impact of Renewable Energy and Fluctuations on Power Grid Stability

    Article • International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, January 2015, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Antonio Scala

  83. Knowing power grids and understanding complexity science

    Article • International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, January 2015, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Antonio Scala

  84. An agent based approach for the development of EV fleet Charging Strategies in Smart Cities

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  85. Integrating the electric grid and the commuter network through a “vehicle to grid” concept: a Complex Networks Theory approach

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  86. The economy of attention in the age of (mis)information

    Article • Journal of Trust Management, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  87. Unlocking Medical Insights: Applying Network Analysis to Orthodontics

    Article • New Journal of Physics, November 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Antonio Scala

  88. Directional depletion interactions in shaped particles

    Article • Condensed Matter Physics, September 2014, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics

    Dr Antonio Scala

  89. Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  90. Self-repairing networks

    Article • PLOS One, February 2014, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  91. Abruptness of Cascade Failures in Power Grids

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  92. Power Grids, Smart Grids and Complex Networks

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  93. Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  94. Brownian dynamics simulation of polydisperse hard spheres

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  95. Distributed Generation and Resilience in Power Grids

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  96. The Complexity Science Approach vs. the Simulative Approach

    Article • January 2013, IGI Global

    Dr Antonio Scala

  97. The Robustness of Assortativity

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  98. Assortativity decreases the robustness of interdependent networks

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  99. A Network Analysis of Countries’ Export Flows: Firm Grounds for the Building Blocks of the Economy

    Article • PLOS One, October 2012, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  100. Using Networks To Understand Medical Data: The Case of Class III Malocclusions

    Article • PLOS One, September 2012, PLOS

    Dr Antonio Scala

  101. Competitors’ communities and taxonomy of products according to export fluxes

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  102. Event-driven Langevin simulations of hard spheres

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  103. Robustness and assortativity for diffusion-like processes in scale-free networks

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), March 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Antonio Scala

  104. A network approach to orthodontic diagnosis

    Article • Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research, October 2011, Wiley

    Dr Antonio Scala

  105. POPULATION DYNAMICS ON COMPLEX FOOD WEBS

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, August 2011, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Antonio Scala

  106. Progressive pearl necklace collapse mechanism for cerato-ulmin aggregation film

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  107. Atomic force microscopy images suggest aggregation mechanism in cerato-platanin

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  108. Event-driven Brownian dynamics for hard spheres

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Cristiano De Michele, Dr Antonio Scala

  109. Molecular correlation functions for uniaxial ellipsoids in the isotropic state

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Cristiano De Michele, Dr Antonio Scala

  110. Saddle index properties, singular topology, and its relation to thermodynamic singularities for aϕ4

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  111. Recent results on the connection between thermodynamics and dynamics in supercooled water

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, September 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  112. Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations and Energy Landscape in an Out-of-Equilibrium Strong-Glass-Forming Liquid

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  113. Comment on “Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids” [J. Chem. Phys. 116, 10297 (2002)]

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Jonathan Doye, Dr Antonio Scala, David Wales

  114. Reply to “Comment on ‘Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids’ ” [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 5263 (2002)]

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Antonio Scala

  115. Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  116. Water and its energy landscape

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, November 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  117. Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Antonio Scala

  118. Statistical physics and liquid water: “What matters”

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, April 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  119. Models for a liquid–liquid phase transition

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, February 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala, Dr. Giancarlo Franzese

  120. Off-equilibrium dynamics in the energy landscape of a simple model glass

    Article • Philosophical Magazine B, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  121. A stroll in the energy landscape

    Article • Philosophical Magazine B, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  122. A stroll in the energy landscape

    Article • Philosophical Magazine B, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  123. Off-equilibrium dynamics in the energy landscape of a simple model glass

    Article • Philosophical Magazine B, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Scala

  124. Dynamics of supercooled water in configuration space

    Article • August 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  125. Small-world networks and the conformation space of a short lattice polymer chain

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Antonio Scala

  126. Waterlike anomalies for core-softened models of fluids: Two-dimensional systems

    Article • March 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  127. Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the potential energy surface of simulated water

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  128. Thermodynamically important contacts in folding of model proteins

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Nikolay V Dokholyan, Dr Antonio Scala

  129. Saddles in the Energy Landscape Probed by Supercooled Liquids

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  130. Free energy surface of supercooled water

    Article • December 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  131. Classes of small-world networks

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Antonio Scala

  132. Configurational entropy and diffusivity of supercooled water

    Article • Nature, July 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  133. Instantaneous Normal Mode Analysis of Supercooled Water

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  134. Unsolved mysteries of water in its liquid and glassy phases

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Antonio Scala

  135. The puzzling behavior of water at very low temperature

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2000, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antonio Scala

  136. Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala

  137. Waterlike anomalies for core-softened models of fluids: One dimension

    Article • December 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  138. Quasicrystals in a monodisperse system

    Article • Physical Review E, September 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  139. The puzzle of liquid water: a very complex fluid

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, September 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  140. Physics of supercooled water: Possibility of two liquid phases

    Article • January 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Antonio Scala

  141. Liquid-State Anomalies and the Stell-Hemmer Core-Softened Potential

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  142. Local structural heterogeneities in liquid water under pressure

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, September 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  143. The puzzling statistical physics of liquid water

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, August 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  144. Kinetics of spatially confined precipitation and periodic pattern formation

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, May 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Antonio Scala

  145. Crossover between Spatially Confined Precipitation and Periodic Pattern Formation in Reaction Diffusion Systems

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 1996, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala

  146. Percolation and cluster Monte Carlo dynamics for spin models

    Article • July 1996, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala, Dr. Giancarlo Franzese

  147. Generalized percolation models for frustrated spin systems

    Article • Il Nuovo Cimento D, August 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Scala, Dr. Giancarlo Franzese

  148. Critical clusters and efficient dynamics for frustrated spin models

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antonio Scala, Dr. Giancarlo Franzese

  149. Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Networks based on Spectral Algorithms

    Article • EasyChair

    Dr Antonio Scala