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According to Wikipedia, Ulrik Brandes is a German computer scientist, social scientist, and network scientist known for his work on centrality, cluster analysis, and graph drawing. He is Professor for Social Networks at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences.

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A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality (2001) (4024)
What is network science? (2013) (1667)
On Modularity Clustering (2008) (1125)
Social Networks (2013) (900)
On variants of shortest-path betweenness centrality and their generic computation (2008) (765)
Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks (2003) (389)
Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations (2010) (389)
Experiments on Graph Clustering Algorithms (2003) (347)
Centrality Estimation in Large Networks (2007) (340)
Centrality Measures Based on Current Flow (2005) (339)
Efficient generation of large random networks. (2005) (267)
Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (2005) (257)
Longitudinal analysis of personal networks. The case of Argentinean migrants in Spain (2010) (247)
Eigensolver Methods for Progressive Multidimensional Scaling of Large Data (2006) (235)
GraphML Progress Report ? Structural Layer Proposal (2001) (229)
On Finding Graph Clusterings with Maximum Modularity (2007) (219)
Maximizing Modularity is hard (2006) (219)
Biological Networks (2018) (185)
Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia (2009) (180)
Maintaining the duality of closeness and betweenness centrality (2016) (151)
Studying Social Networks - A Guide to Empirical Research (2013) (139)
Visual unrolling of network evolution and the analysis of dynamic discourse (2002) (138)
Explorations into the Visualization of Policy Networks (1999) (137)
Networks Evolving Step by Step: Statistical Analysis of Dyadic Event Data (2009) (137)
A Bayesian Paradigm for Dynamic Graph Layout (1997) (135)
Communicating Centrality in Policy Network Drawings (2003) (127)
GraphML Progress Report (2001) (107)
Who's Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player (2006) (106)
Quality Metrics for Information Visualization (2018) (105)
An Experimental Study on Distance-Based Graph Drawing (2009) (103)
Drawing on Physical Analogies (2001) (102)
Engineering graph clustering: Models and experimental evaluation (2008) (101)
Interactive Level-of-Detail Rendering of Large Graphs (2012) (100)
Exploratory Network Visualization: Simultaneous Display of Actor Status and Connections (2001) (98)
Asymmetric Relations in Longitudinal Social Networks (2011) (92)
Graph Markup Language (GraphML) (2013) (92)
Social network analysis in sport research: an emerging paradigm (2017) (91)
Fast and Simple Horizontal Coordinate Assignment (2001) (89)
Crossing Reduction in Circular Layouts (2004) (85)
Visual Analysis of Controversy in User-Generated Encyclopedias∗ (2007) (80)
Visual Unrolling of Network Evolution and the Analysis of Dynamic Discourse† (2003) (79)
Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations [outcome of a Dagstuhl seminar, 13-16 April 2004] (2005) (78)
On Modularity - NP-Completeness and Beyond (2006) (74)
Explanation Through Network Visualization (2006) (72)
Visone Software for Visual Social Network Analysis (2001) (72)
Simmelian backbones: Amplifying hidden homophily in Facebook networks (2013) (68)
Drawing the AS Graph in 2.5 Dimensions (2004) (67)
Visualizing Related Metabolic Pathways in Two and a Half Dimensions (2003) (65)
Visualization methods for longitudinal social networks and stochastic actor-oriented modeling (2012) (64)
Investigating human geographic origins using dual-isotope (87Sr/86Sr, δ18O) assignment approaches (2017) (62)
Visualization of Bibliographic Networks with a Reshaped Landscape Metaphor (2002) (60)
Untangling the Hairballs of Multi-Centered, Small-World Online Social Media Networks (2015) (60)
A Quantitative Comparison of Stress-Minimization Approaches for Offline Dynamic Graph Drawing (2011) (59)
Using Graph Layout to Visualize Train Interconnection Data (1998) (59)
Computing Voronoi Treemaps: Faster, Simpler, and Resolution‐independent (2012) (58)
Recognizing modes of acculturation in personal networks of migrants (2010) (56)
Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (2002) (54)
Triangle Listing Algorithms: Back from the Diversion (2014) (54)
Visual Statistics for Collections of Clustered Graphs (2008) (50)
Path-based supports for hypergraphs (2010) (50)
Visual Ranking of Link Structures (2001) (50)
Reconstructing Archaeological Networks with Structural Holes (2017) (48)
Map Warping for the Annotation of Metro Maps (2008) (47)
NP-Completeness Results for Minimum Planar Spanners (1997) (44)
Modeling frequency and type of interaction in event networks (2013) (44)
Sketch-Driven Orthogonal Graph Drawing (2002) (43)
Pure spreading activation is pointless (2009) (42)
Re-conceptualizing centrality in social networks† (2016) (42)
More Flexible Radial Layout (2009) (42)
Correlations among centrality indices and a class of uniquely ranked graphs (2017) (42)
Visual Understanding of Metabolic Pathways Across Organisms Using Layout in Two and a Half Dimensions (2004) (42)
Organizing Search Results with a Reference Map (2012) (38)
Visualizing Internet Evolution on the Autonomous Systems Level (2007) (38)
Probabilistic Graph Layout for Uncertain Network Visualization (2017) (38)
Social Capital Companion: Capturing Personal Networks as They are Lived. (2014) (34)
Dynamic Spectral Layout of Small Worlds (2005) (33)
MotionRugs: Visualizing Collective Trends in Space and Time (2019) (33)
A Sparse Stress Model (2016) (33)
Heuristics for Speeding Up Betweenness Centrality Computation (2012) (32)
Structural Similarity: Spectral Methods for Relaxed Blockmodeling (2010) (30)
Drawing Phylogenetic Trees (2005) (29)
Network positions (2016) (29)
Improving Angular Resolution in Visualizations of Geographic Networks (2000) (29)
Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (2009) (28)
Composing Effective Teams through Team Dating (2010) (28)
Blocks of Hypergraphs - Applied to Hypergraphs and Outerplanarity (2010) (28)
Topology manipulations for speeding betweenness centrality computation (2015) (27)
Generative Data Models for Validation and Evaluation of Visualization Techniques (2016) (26)
Multi-circular Layout of Micro/Macro Graphs (2007) (26)
Vertex Bisection is Hard, too (2009) (26)
Relative importance of effects in stochastic actor-oriented models* (2013) (26)
Network Creation Games with Disconnected Equilibria (2008) (25)
Conditional Independence in Dynamic Networks (2013) (25)
Layout of graph visualizations (1999) (24)
Drawing trees in a streaming model (2009) (24)
Centrality in Policy Network Drawings (1999) (23)
Link prediction with social vector clocks (2013) (23)
Summarizing Dynamic Bipolar Conflict Structures (2006) (22)
Dynamic WWW Structures in 3D (2000) (21)
Investigating Link Inference in Partially Observable Networks: Friendship Ties and Interaction (2016) (20)
Stub Bundling and Confluent Spirals for Geographic Networks (2013) (20)
Graph Drawing by Classical Multidimensional Scaling: New Perspectives (2012) (20)
Gestaltlines (2013) (19)
Social networks and similarity of site assemblages (2018) (18)
Phylogenetic graph models beyond trees (2009) (18)
Dynamic Grid Embedding with Few Bends and Changes (1998) (17)
More Canonical Ordering (2011) (17)
A Linear Time Algorithm for the Arc Disjoint Menger Problem in Planar Directed Graphs (2000) (17)
Efficient orbit-aware triad and quad census in directed and undirected graphs (2017) (17)
GraphML Transformation (2004) (16)
Fast Quasi-Threshold Editing (2015) (16)
Social network analysis and visualization [Applications Corner] (2008) (15)
Recent Advances in Scalable Network Generation (2020) (15)
Force-Directed Graph Drawing (2016) (15)
Revision and Co-revision in Wikipedia : Detecting Clusters of Interest (2007) (14)
Generating node coordinates for shortest-path computations in transportation networks (2004) (14)
Explorative Visualization of Citation Patterns in Social Network Research* (2011) (14)
Graph Data Format Workshop Report (2000) (14)
Smallest graphs with distinct singleton centers* (2014) (14)
Optimal leaf ordering of complete binary trees (2007) (14)
GXL to GraphML and Vice Versa with XSLT (2005) (13)
Adaptive Disentanglement Based on Local Clustering in Small-World Network Visualization (2016) (13)
Quad Census Computation: Simple, Efficient, and Orbit-Aware (2016) (12)
Visibility Network Patterns and Methods for Studying Visual Relational Phenomena in Archeology (2017) (12)
Affiliation Dynamics with an Application to Movie-Actor Biographies (2006) (12)
Travel Planning with Self-Made Maps (2001) (12)
Untangling Hairballs - From 3 to 14 Degrees of Separation (2014) (12)
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications : Special Issue on Selected Papers from the Eighteenth International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2010 (2012) (12)
Faster Evaluation of Shortest-Path Based Centrality Indices (2000) (12)
Structural Trends in Network Ensembles (2009) (12)
Dynamic Spectral Layout with an Application to Small Worlds (2007) (12)
Network ensemble clustering using latent roles (2011) (11)
On the Hardness of Orthogonal-Order Preserving Graph Drawing (2009) (11)
Structural Similarity in Graphs (A Relaxation Approach for Role Assignment) (2004) (10)
Is Editing More Rewarding Than Discussion? A Statistical Framework to Estimate Causes of Dropout from Wikipedia (2009) (10)
How to draw the minimum cuts of a planar graph (2000) (10)
Exploring Transformations in Caribbean Indigenous Social Networks through Visibility Studies: the Case of Late Pre-Colonial Landscapes in East-Guadeloupe (French West Indies) (2017) (10)
WordSpace: visual summary of text corpora (2006) (10)
Orthogonal-Ordering Constraints are Tough (2013) (10)
Edge-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs with Short Total Length (1996) (10)
Visualization of Conflict Networks (2008) (10)
Group-Level Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks (2009) (10)
Social Network Analysis and Visualization (2009) (9)
Hypergraph Representations : a Study of Carib Attacks on Colonial Forces, 1509-1700 (2017) (9)
Stars, neighborhood inclusion and network centrality (2015) (9)
Colored Simultaneous Geometric Embeddings (2007) (9)
Highlighting conflict dynamics in event data (2005) (8)
Empirical design of geometric algorithms (1999) (8)
Fast Layout Methods for Timetable Graphs (2000) (8)
Minimum‐Displacement Overlap Removal for Geo‐referenced Data Visualization (2017) (8)
Positional Dominance: Concepts and Algorithms (2017) (7)
Drawing the AS graph in two and a half dimensions (2004) (7)
Angle and Distance Constraints on Tree Drawings (2006) (7)
Software for visual social network analysis (2002) (7)
An Overview of JDSL 2 . 0 , the Data Structures Library in Java ∗ (2003) (7)
Visual triangulation of network-based phylogenetic trees (2004) (7)
Random Field Models for Graph Layout (1997) (6)
10 Reasons to Get Interested in Graph Drawing (2019) (6)
Legislators’ roll-call voting behavior increasingly corresponds to intervals in the political spectrum (2020) (6)
On graphical representations of similarity in geo-temporal frequency data (2016) (6)
A Framework for Reconstructing Archaeological Networks Using Exponential Random Graph Models (2019) (6)
Network effects on interest rates in online social lending (2011) (6)
Centrality as a Predictor of Lethal Proteins: Performance and Robustness (2014) (6)
Contextual Visualization of Actor Status in Social Networks (2000) (5)
A Software Package of Algorithms and Heuristics for Disjoint Paths in Planar Networks (1999) (5)
Visual Navigation with Schematic Maps (2009) (5)
Advances in Network Science (2016) (5)
Visone (2001) (4)
Central Positions in Social Networks (2020) (4)
Coloring Random 3-Colorable Graphs with Non-uniform Edge Probabilities (2006) (4)
Stochastic Gradient Descent Works Really Well for Stress Minimization (2020) (4)
GraphFramEx: Towards Systematic Evaluation of Explainability Methods for Graph Neural Networks (2022) (4)
WiGis : a Framework for Web-based Interactive Graph Visualizations (2012) (4)
Plainware and Polychrome: Quantifying Perceptual Differences in Ceramic Classification Between Diverse Groups to Further a Strong Objectivity (2020) (3)
Trace-elemental and multi-isotopic (Sr-Nd-Pb) discrimination of jade in the circum-Caribbean: Implications for pre-colonial inter-island exchange networks (2021) (3)
Visualization for Visual Analytics: Micro-visualization, Abstraction, and Physical Appeal (2014) (3)
Cliques in Regular Graphs and the Core-Periphery Problem in Social Networks (2016) (3)
Keynote address: Why everyone seems to be using spring embedders for network visualization, and should not (2011) (3)
Predicting Network Structure Using Unlabeled Interaction Information (2014) (3)
Will they stay or will they go? How network properties of WebICs predict dropout rates of valuable Wikipedians (2011) (2)
Characterizing Families of Cuts that can be Represented by Axis-Parallel Rectangles (2003) (2)
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2013 (2013) (2)
Leftist Canonical Ordering (2009) (2)
A collection of tributes to Linton C. Freeman (2018) (2)
Role-equivalent Actors in Networks ? Group Structures Beyond Dense Communities (2007) (2)
Hunting Down Graph B (1999) (2)
Flexible Level-of-Detail Rendering for Large Graphs (2016) (2)
Empirical Evaluation for Graph Drawing (Dagstuhl Seminar 15052) (2015) (2)
Fully Dynamic Orthogonal Graph Layout for Interactive Systems (2000) (2)
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (2018) (2)
A Labeling Problem for Symbol Maps of Archaeological Sites (2016) (1)
Universit at Konstanz Random Field Models for Graph Layout Random Field Models for Graph Layout (1997) (1)
On Dasgupta's hierarchical clustering objective and its relation to other graph parameters (2021) (1)
Graph Drawing (2010) (1)
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Graph drawing (2010) (1)
Computing Wikipedia Edit-Networks (2009) (1)
Gennany Composing Effective Teams through Team Dating (2012) (1)
Social Capital Companion (2014) (1)
Modeling Open, Web-Based Collaboration Networks : The Case of Wikipedia (2012) (1)
Motif-Based Visual Analysis of Dynamic Networks (2022) (1)
Erratum: Fast and Simple Horizontal Coordinate Assignment (2020) (1)
The Evolution of Roles (2019) (1)
Visualization Methods for Longitudinal Social 1 Networks and Actor-based Modeling ? (2011) (1)
2015 Proceedings of the Seventeenth Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX) (2015) (1)
Geographic Routing on Improved Coordinates (2007) (1)
Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (2000) (1)
Social Network Analysis in Sports and Physical Activity Research (2012) (1)
Social shifts in the late pre-hispanic US Southwest (2015) (1)
The 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2000) (2004) (1)
A Linear Time Algorithm for the Arc Disjoint Menger Problem in Planar Directed Graphs (Extended Abstract) (1997) (1)
Social Network Algorithms and Software (2015) (1)
Social Stratification from Networks of Leveling Ties (2018) (1)
Skeleton-Based Clustering by Quasi-Threshold Editing (2022) (1)
2014 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2014) : proceedings : 4-7 March 2014, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan ; [including papers of the PacificVAST Workshop] (2014) (0)
Stylometric similarity in literary corpora: Non-authorship clustering and Deutscher Novellenschatz (2022) (0)
08191 Working Group Report - Visualization of Trajectories (2008) (0)
Explorations into the Visualization of Policy Networks Explorations into the Visualization of Policy Networks (1998) (0)
Universit at Konstanz a Bayesian Paradigma for Dynamic Graph Layout a Bayesian Paradigma for Dynamic Graph Layout (1997) (0)
26 Social Networks (2012) (0)
Empirical Design of Geometric Algorithms Empirical Design of Geometric Algorithms (1999) (0)
28 Social Networks (2005) (0)
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2014 (2015) (0)
Empirical Evaluation for Graph Drawing (2015) (0)
Fast Multidimensional Scaling of Network Distances and its Application to Large Bibliographic Networks (2008) (0)
Plain Ware and Polychrome: Quantifying Perceptual Differences in Ceramic Classification (2018) (0)
Is cooperation sustained under increased mixing in evolutionary public goods games on networks? (2023) (0)
Voting for Centrality (2022) (0)
Brochures/Reviews/Reports (2013) (0)
PlaNet : A Software Package of Algorithms and Heuristics on Planar Networks (1997) (0)
A Framework for Reconstructing Archaeological Networks Using Exponential Random Graph Models (2019) (0)
Longitudinal Social Networks and (2011) (0)
Tilburg University Centrality in Policy Network Drawings (2008) (0)
Visual Ranking of Link Stru tures ? ( Extended Abstra t ) (2001) (0)
Scale-free networks need not be fragile (2020) (0)
Spectral Graph Drawing (2020) (0)
Foreword: Special Issue of Journal of Discrete Algorithms on the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG '2000) held June 15-17, 2000 in Konstanz, Germany (2004) (0)
Geographic Routing on Improved Coordinates (Extended Abstract) (2007) (0)
Welcome from the ASONAM 2018 Program Chairs (2018) (0)
Understanding the Composition of an Ensemble of Personal Networks (2010) (0)
PageRank - What Is Really Relevant in the World-Wide Web? (2011) (0)
25 Social Networks (2005) (0)
Constructing Provably Robust Scale-Free Networks (2022) (0)
Network Connection Games with Disconnected Equilibria (2008) (0)
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, ALENEX 2015, San Diego, CA, USA, January 5, 2015 (2015) (0)
Modeling Open, Web-Based Collaboration Networks (2012) (0)
Geochemical characterisation of jadeitite in the Greater Caribbean and source discrimination applying multiclass regression analyses: Implications for precolonial inter-islands exchange networks (2019) (0)
applied to Hypergraphs and Outerplanarity (2010) (0)
Dagstuhl Manifesto: Digital Social Media (2010) (0)
Network Visualization (2019) (0)
Special Issue with Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2010 : Guest Editors' Foreword (2012) (0)
Dynamic analysis of personal networks . The case of Argentinean migrants in Spain * (2009) (0)
On the Persistence of Strongly Embedded Ties (2018) (0)
Efficient orbit-aware triad and quad census in directed and undirected graphs (2017) (0)
Chapter 10. Challenges in Algorithm Engineering (0)
Exploring Transformations in Caribbean Indigenous Social Networks through Visibility Studies: the Case of Late Pre-Colonial Landscapes in East-Guadeloupe (French West Indies) (2017) (0)
The Positional Approach to Network Analysis (2016) (0)
Interactive method for integrated schematic representation of networks and geographical maps (2008) (0)
Foreword: Special Issue of Journal of Discrete Algorithms on the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG '2000) held June 15–17, 2000 in Konstanz, Germany (2004) (0)
Hardness Results for Seeding Complex Contagion with Neighborhoods (2021) (0)
Link Analysis and Visualization (2008) (0)
New Meetings/Nouvelle Réunions (2006) (0)
Should Scientists act more Politically? (2020) (0)
Past Meetings/Reunions Passées (2006) (0)
Is editing more rewarding than discussion (2009) (0)
The Latent Space Model (2010) (0)
Np-completeness Results for Minimum Planar Spanners Np{completeness Results for Minimum Planar Spanners (1997) (0)
A Faster Algorithm for Betweenness Centrality (cid:3) (0)
NWS volume 1 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
Completeness Results for Minimum (1998) (0)
Reconstructing Archaeological Networks with Structural Holes (2017) (0)
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference and School on Advances in Network Science - Volume 9564 (2016) (0)
Two Applications of Information Visualization in Social Network Data (2006) (0)
1 introduction. (2007) (0)
Alenex workshop preface (2005) (0)

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