Nicholas A. Christakis

Research interests

Publications

• Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2284-y

• Machine behaviour

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y

• Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers

  Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature10736

• Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior

  Statistics in Medicine · 2012 · 10.1002/sim.5408

• Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 10.1073/pnas.1108243108

• Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.0913149107

• Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks

  PLoS ONE · 2010 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0012948

• A Dynamic Network Approach for the Study of Human Phenotypes

  PLoS Computational Biology · 2009 · 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000353

• Alone in the crowd: The structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2009 · 10.1037/a0016076

• Computational Social Science

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1167742

• Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study

  BMJ · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2338

• The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa0706154

• Social Networks and Health

  Annual Review of Sociology · 2008 · 10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134601

• Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

  Social Networks · 2008 · 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.07.002

• The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network

  Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.01432.x

• The implications of human metabolic network topology for disease comorbidity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 10.1073/pnas.0802208105

• The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa066082

• Mortality after the Hospitalization of a Spouse

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2006 · 10.1056/nejmsa050196

• Prognostic Factors in Advanced Cancer Patients: Evidence-Based Clinical Recommendations—A Study by the Steering Committee of the European Association for Palliative Care

  Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2005 · 10.1200/jco.2005.06.866

• Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Cancer near the End of Life

  Annals of Internal Medicine · 2001 · 10.7326/0003-4819-134-12-200106190-00009

• In Search of a Good Death: Observations of Patients, Families, and Providers

  Annals of Internal Medicine · 2000 · 10.7326/0003-4819-132-10-200005160-00011

• 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

  BMJ · 2000 · 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.469

• Response rates to mail surveys published in medical journals

  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 1997 · 10.1016/s0895-4356(97)00126-1

• Survival of Medicare Patients after Enrollment in Hospice Programs

  New England Journal of Medicine · 1996 · 10.1056/nejm199607183350306

• Do clinical clerks suffer ethical erosion? Studentsʼ perceptions of their ethical environment and personal development

  Academic Medicine · 1994 · 10.1097/00001888-199408000-00017

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