Virgilio Almeida: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Virgilio Almeida's h-index is 67 (170 i10-index, 19,537+ total citations across 4+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of July 2026. Virgilio Almeida is affiliated with Professor Emeritus at UFMG - Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
Virgilio Almeida is a researcher affiliated with Professor Emeritus at UFMG - Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, specializing in Social algorithms, cyberspace and digital governance, distributed systems. Their work has been cited 19,537 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Virgilio Almeida's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 4 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 67
- i10-Index
- 170
- Total Citations
- 19,537
- Citing Countries
- 13
As of July 2026.
Virgilio Almeida has an h-index of 67 and 19,537 total citations across 4 publications, with research cited by institutions in 13 countries.
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Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks
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The researcher established foundational methods for characterizing reference locality in the World Wide Web, a seminal contribution that has significantly influenced subsequent web architecture research.
The researcher established foundational frameworks for web service capacity planning, integrating metrics, models, and methods to address critical infrastructure scalability challenges.
The researcher established a foundational framework for characterizing user behavior in online social networks, as evidenced by a seminal 2009 IMC paper with over 1,200 citations.
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About Virgilio Almeida's research
Virgilio Almeida is a researcher in Social algorithms, cyberspace and digital governance and distributed systems at Professor Emeritus at UFMG - Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Their work has been cited 19,537 times across 4 publications (h-index 67), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks” (2009), has accumulated 1,235 citations. Other influential works include “Detecting spammers on twitter” (2010) with 1,210 citations and “Capacity Planning for Web Services: metrics, models, and methods” (2001) with 1,126 citations.
Citations of Virgilio Almeida's research come primarily from United States, Italy and Qatar, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
