Eszter Bokányi
Postdoctoral Researcher, Leiden University
Network Science |
Computational Social Science |
Urban Data Science |
Human Mobility and Social Networks |
Geography of Innovation
About
Eszter Bokányi is a postdoctoral researcher at the LIACS, Leiden University. She holds a PhD in Physics from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her work focuses on network science and computational social science, exploring how the structural properties of large-scale social networks can be linked to persistent societal problems such as inequality or segregation. She is particularly interested in examining the connections between urban spaces and social ties in spatial networks.
Preprints
- Population-scale social network analysis
- de Bel, V., Bokányi, E., Hank, K., & Leopold, T. (2024).
A parallel kinship universe? Using Dutch kinship network data to replicate Kolk et al.’s (2023) demographic account of kinship networks in Sweden.
socarxiv/3k6nq - Kazmina, Y., Heemskerk, E. M., Bokányi, E., & Takes, F. W. (2024).
From contact to threat: A social network perspective on perceptions of immigration.
arXiv:2407.06820
- de Bel, V., Bokányi, E., Hank, K., & Leopold, T. (2024).
Selected Publications
- Population-scale social network analysis
- Menyhért, M., Bokányi, E., Corten, R., Heemskerk, E. M., Kazmina, Y., & Takes, F. W. (2025).
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks.
EPJ Data Science 14(1), 8 DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00522-4 - Kazmina, Y., Heemskerk, E. M., Bokányi, E., & Takes, F. W. (2024).
Socio-economic segregation in a population-scale social network.
Social Networks, 78, 279–291. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2024.02.005 - Bokányi, E., Heemskerk, E. M., & Takes, F. W. (2023).
The anatomy of a population-scale social network.
Scientific Reports, 13(1), 9209. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36324-9
- Menyhért, M., Bokányi, E., Corten, R., Heemskerk, E. M., Kazmina, Y., & Takes, F. W. (2025).
- Spatial social networks
- Aiello, L. M., Vybornova, A., Juhász, S., Szell, M., & Bokányi, E. (2025).
Urban highways are barriers to social ties.
PNAS 122(10), e2408937122DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2408937122 - Kovács, Á. J., Juhász, S., Bokányi, E., & Lengyel, B. (2023).
Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50(4), 1072–1086.DOI: 10.1177/23998083221120663 - Bokányi, E., Juhász, S., Karsai, M., & Lengyel, B. (2021).
Universal patterns of long-distance commuting and social assortativity in cities.
Scientific Reports, 11(1), 20829.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00416-1 - Bokányi, E., Lábszki, Z., & Vattay, G. (2017).
Prediction of employment and unemployment rates from Twitter daily rhythms in the US.
EPJ Data Science, 6(1), 14.DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0112-x - Bokányi, E., Kondor, D., Dobos, L., Sebők, T., Stéger, J., Csabai, I., & Vattay, G. (2016).
Race, religion and the city: Twitter word frequency patterns reveal dominant demographic dimensions in the United States.
Palgrave Communications, 2, 16010.10.1057/palcomms.2016.10
- Aiello, L. M., Vybornova, A., Juhász, S., Szell, M., & Bokányi, E. (2025).
- Innovation diffusion
- Bokányi, E., Novák, M., Jakobi, Á., & Lengyel, B. (2022).
Urban hierarchy and spatial diffusion over the innovation life cycle.
Royal Society Open Science, 9(5), 211038.DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211038 - Lengyel, B., Bokányi, E., Di Clemente, R., Kertész, J., & González, M. C. (2020).
The role of geography in the complex diffusion of innovations.
Scientific Reports, 10(1), 15065.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72137-w
- Bokányi, E., Novák, M., Jakobi, Á., & Lengyel, B. (2022).
- Epidemic modeling
- Bokányi, E., Vizi, Z., Koltai, J., Röst, G., & Karsai, M. (2023).
Real-time estimation of the effective reproduction number of COVID-19 from behavioral data.
Scientific Reports, 13(1), 21452.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46418-z - Ligeti, A. S., Bokányi, E., Karsai, M., Koltai, J. A., Oroszi, B., & Röst, G. (2022).
Investigating the role of societal dynamics in pandemic preparedness (in Hungarian).
Népegészségügy, 99(1), 64–75.LINK - Bokányi, E., Pollner, P., & Joó, T. (2021).
Contact tracing and management support systems (in Hungarian).
Scientia et Securitas, 2(1), 17–29.DOI: 10.1556/112.2021.00015
- Bokányi, E., Vizi, Z., Koltai, J., Röst, G., & Karsai, M. (2023).
- Simulation of urban ride-hailing services
- Bokányi, E., & Hannák, A. (2020).
Understanding inequalities in ride-hailing services through simulations.
Scientific Reports, 10(1), 6500.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63171-9
- Bokányi, E., & Hannák, A. (2020).
Contact
Email: e.bokanyi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
BlueSky: @bokanyie.bsky.social
GitHub: bokae
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