Publications
My publications have received global press coverage in outlets including the BBC, Science, Wired, and La Repubblica, and have reached audiences in more than 15 countries. The most significant publications are marked with ★.
For citation counts and a full list, see my Google Scholar profile or ORCID page.
2025 The geography of inequalities in access to healthcare across England: the role of bus travel time variability
Chen, Z., & Botta, F.
Journal of Physics: Complexity
Chen, Z., & Botta, F.
Journal of Physics: Complexity
2025 Packaging code and data for reproducible research: A case study of journey time statistics
Botta, F., Lovelace, R., Gilbert, L., & Turrell, A.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Botta, F., Lovelace, R., Gilbert, L., & Turrell, A.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
2025 ★ Rail journey cost calculator for Great Britain
Botta, F.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 52(3), 747–755
Botta, F.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 52(3), 747–755
2025 Valeriepieris Circles Reveal City and Regional Boundaries in England and Wales (preprint)
Arthur, R., & Botta, F.
arXiv:2502.07451
Arthur, R., & Botta, F.
arXiv:2502.07451
2024 Unveiling social vibrancy in urban spaces with app usage (preprint)
Collins, T., Pacheco, D., Di Clemente, R., & Botta, F.
arXiv:2412.14943
Collins, T., Pacheco, D., Di Clemente, R., & Botta, F.
arXiv:2412.14943
2024 Unrestricted Versus Regulated Open Data Governance: A Bibliometric Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleotide Sequence Databases
Sheehan, N., Botta, F., & Leonelli, S.
Data Science Journal, 23(1)
Sheehan, N., Botta, F., & Leonelli, S.
Data Science Journal, 23(1)
2023 ★ Spatiotemporal gender differences in urban vibrancy
Collins, T., Di Clemente, R., Gutiérrez-Roig, M., & Botta, F.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Collins, T., Di Clemente, R., Gutiérrez-Roig, M., & Botta, F.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
2023 ★ COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility
Santana, C., Botta, F., Barbosa, H., Privitera, F., Menezes, R., & Di Clemente, R.
Nature Human Behaviour, 7(10), 1729–1739
Santana, C., Botta, F., Barbosa, H., Privitera, F., Menezes, R., & Di Clemente, R.
Nature Human Behaviour, 7(10), 1729–1739
2022 Cognitive networks extract insights on COVID-19 vaccines from English and Italian popular tweets
Stella, M., Vitevitch, M. S., & Botta, F.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 6(2), 52
Stella, M., Vitevitch, M. S., & Botta, F.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 6(2), 52
2021 ★ Rapid indicators of deprivation using grocery shopping data
Bannister, A., & Botta, F.
Royal Society Open Science, 8(12), 211069
Bannister, A., & Botta, F.
Royal Society Open Science, 8(12), 211069
2021 Quantifying the differences in call detail records
Botta, F.
Royal Society Open Science, 8(6), 201443
Botta, F.
Royal Society Open Science, 8(6), 201443
2021 ★ Modelling urban vibrancy with mobile phone and OpenStreetMap data
Botta, F., & Gutiérrez-Roig, M.
PLOS ONE, 16(6), e0252015
Botta, F., & Gutiérrez-Roig, M.
PLOS ONE, 16(6), e0252015
2020 In search of art: rapid estimates of gallery and museum visits using Google Trends
Botta, F., Preis, T., & Moat, H. S.
EPJ Data Science, 9(1), 14
Botta, F., Preis, T., & Moat, H. S.
EPJ Data Science, 9(1), 14
2020 ★ Measuring the size of a crowd using Instagram
Botta, F., Moat, H. S., & Preis, T.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47(9), 1690–1703
Botta, F., Moat, H. S., & Preis, T.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47(9), 1690–1703
2020 Sensing global tourism numbers with millions of publicly shared online photographs
Preis, T., Botta, F., & Moat, H. S.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(3), 471–477
Preis, T., Botta, F., & Moat, H. S.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(3), 471–477
2017 Analysis of the communities of an urban mobile phone network
Botta, F., & Del Genio, C. I.
PLOS ONE, 12(3), e0174198
Botta, F., & Del Genio, C. I.
PLOS ONE, 12(3), e0174198
2016 Finding network communities using modularity density
Botta, F., & Del Genio, C. I.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(12), 123402
Botta, F., & Del Genio, C. I.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(12), 123402
2015 ★ Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data
Botta, F., Moat, H. S., & Preis, T.
Royal Society Open Science, 2(5), 150162
Botta, F., Moat, H. S., & Preis, T.
Royal Society Open Science, 2(5), 150162
2015 Quantifying stock return distributions in financial markets
Botta, F., Moat, H. S., Stanley, H. E., & Preis, T.
PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0135600
Botta, F., Moat, H. S., Stanley, H. E., & Preis, T.
PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0135600