Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Rosche, C., Broennimann, O., Novikov, A., Mrázová, V., Boiko, G. V., Danihelka, J., Gastner, M. T., Guisan, A., Kožić, K., Lehnert, M., Müller-Schärer, H., Nagy, D. U., Remelgado, R., Ronikier, M., Selke, J. A., Shiyan, N. M., Suchan, T., Thoma, A. E., Zdvořák, P., and Mráz, P. (2024) Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centaurea stoebe in Europe. New Phytologist, online ahead of print.

Duncan, I. K. and Gastner, M. T. (2024) Comparative evaluation of the web-based contiguous cartogram generation tool go-cart.io. PLOS ONE, 19(5), p. e0298192. Available at DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0298192 and the author’s website.

Fung, K. L. T., Perrault, S. T., and Gastner, M. T. (2024) Effectiveness of area-to-value legends and grid lines in contiguous area cartograms. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(8), pp. 4‍6‍3‍1–4‍6‍4‍7. Available at DOI 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3275925 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. (2023) Teaching data visualisation and basic map-making skills at a liberal arts college. Cartography and Geoinformation (Kartografija i Geoinformacije), 22(39), pp. 4‍3–5‍9. Available at DOI 10.32909/kg.22.39.3 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Miaji, N. Z., and Singhania, A. (2022) Smooth pycnophylactic interpolation produced by density-equalising map projections. Cartography and Geoinformation (Kartografija i Geoinformacije), 21(37), pp. 6‍0–6‍9. Available at DOI 10.32909/kg.21.37.3 and the author’s website.

Ódor, G., Gastner, M. T., Kelling, J., and Deco, G. (2021) Modelling on the very large-scale connectome. Journal of Physics: Complexity, 2(4), p. 0‍4‍5‍0‍0‍2. Available at DOI 10.1088/2632-072X/ac266c and the author’s website.

Ishida, K., Oborny, B., and Gastner, M. T. (2021) Agent-based neutral competition in two-community networks. Physical Review E, 104(2), p. 0‍2‍4‍3‍0‍8. Available at DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.024308 and the author’s website.

Yau, Y. C. and Gastner, M. T. (2021) Mapping the inequality of the global distribution of seasonal influenza vaccine. Environment and Planning A, 53(6), pp. 1‍2‍4‍9–1‍2‍5‍2. Available at DOI 10.1177/0308518X21998356 and the author’s website.

Duncan, I. K., Tingsheng, S., Perrault, S. T., and Gastner, M. T. (2021) Task-based effectiveness of interactive contiguous area cartograms. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 27(3), pp. 2‍1‍3‍6–2‍1‍5‍2. Available at DOI 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3041745 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Ishida, K. (2019) Voter model on networks partitioned into two cliques of arbitrary sizes. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 52(50), p. 5‍0‍5‍7‍0‍1. Available at DOI 10.1088/1751-8121/ab542f and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Takács, K., Gulyás, M., Szvetelszky, Z., and Oborny, B. (2019) The impact of hypocrisy on opinion formation: a dynamic model. PLOS ONE, 14(6), p. e0218729. Available at DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0218729 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Oborny, B., and Gulyás, M. (2018) Consensus time in a voter model with concealed and publicly expressed opinions. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2018(6), p. 0‍6‍3‍4‍0‍1. Available at DOI 10.1088/1742-5468/aac14a and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Seguy, V., and More, P. (2018) Fast flow-based algorithm for creating density-equalizing map projections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(10), pp. E2156–E2164. Available at DOI 10.1073/pnas.1712674115 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Ódor, G. (2016) The topology of large Open Connectome networks for the human brain. Scientific Reports, 6(6), p. 2‍7‍2‍4‍9. Available at DOI 10.1038/srep27249 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. (2015) The Ising chain constrained to an even or odd number of positive spins. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2015(3), p. P03004. Available at DOI 10.1088/1742-5468/2015/03/P03004 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Markou, N., Pruessner, G., and Draief, M. (2014) Opinion formation models on a gradient. PLOS ONE, 9(12), p. e114088. Available at DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0114088 and the author’s website.

Salnikov, V., Schien, D., Youn, H., Lambiotte, R., and Gastner, M. T. (2014) The geography and carbon footprint of mobile phone use in Côte d’Ivoire. EPJ Data Science, 3(1), p. 3. Available at DOI 10.1140/epjds21 and the author’s website.

Seebens, H., Gastner, M. T., and Blasius, B. (2013) The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping. Ecology Letters, 16(6), pp. 7‍8‍2–7‍9‍0. Available at DOI 10.1111/ele.12111 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Oborny, B. (2012) The geometry of percolation fronts in two-dimensional lattices with spatially varying densities. New Journal of Physics, 14(10), p. 1‍0‍3‍0‍1‍9. Available at DOI 10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/103019 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. (2011) Scaling and entropy in p-median facility location along a line. Physical Review E, 84(3), p. 0‍3‍6‍1‍1‍2. Available at DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.036112 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Oborny, B., Ryabov, A. B., and Blasius, B. (2011) Changes in the gradient percolation transition caused by an Allee effect. Physical Review Letters, 106(12), p. 1‍2‍8‍1‍0‍3. Available at DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.128103 and the author’s website.

Kaluza, P., Kölzsch, A., Gastner, M. T., and Blasius, B. (2010) The complex network of global cargo ship movements. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 7(48), pp. 1‍0‍9‍3–1‍1‍0‍3. Available at DOI 10.1098/rsif.2009.0495 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Oborny, B., Zimmermann, D. K., and Pruessner, G. (2009) Transition from connected to fragmented vegetation across an environmental gradient: Scaling laws in ecotone geometry. The American Naturalist, 174(1), pp. E23–E39. Available at DOI 10.1086/599292 and the author’s website.

Youn, H., Gastner, M. T., and Jeong, H. (2008) Price of anarchy in transportation networks: Efficiency and optimality control. Physical Review Letters, 101(12), p. 1‍2‍8‍7‍0‍1. Available at DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.128701 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Newman, M. E. J. (2006) Optimal design of spatial distribution networks. Physical Review E, 74(1), p. 0‍1‍6‍1‍1‍7. Available at DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.016117 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Newman, M. E. J. (2006) The spatial structure of networks. The European Physical Journal B, 49(2), pp. 247–252. Available at DOI 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00046-8 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Newman, M. E. J. (2006) Shape and efficiency in spatial distribution networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2006(1), p. P01015. Available at DOI 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/01/P01015 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Shalizi, C. R., and Newman, M. E. J. (2005) Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results. Advances in Complex Systems, 8(1), pp. 1‍1‍7–1‍2‍3. Available at DOI 10.1142/S0219525905000397 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Newman, M. E. J. (2004) Diffusion-based method for producing density-equalizing maps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(20), pp. 7‍4‍9‍9–7‍5‍0‍4. Available at DOI 10.1073/pnas.0400280101 and the author’s website.


Peer-Reviewed Long Conference Papers

Yurcik, W., Schick, A., North, S., Gastner, M. T., de Miranda, F. R., da Silva Avelino, R., de Moraes Batista, A. F., Pluta, G., and Brooks, I. (2024) Monitoring/mapping of USA healthcare (all hospitals)—magnified vulnerability due to shared IT infrastructure, market concentration, & geographical distribution. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM CCS Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare (HealthSec’24). Available at DOI 10.1145/3689942.3694754 and the author’s website.

Tingsheng, S., Duncan, I. K., Chang, Y.-N., and Gastner, M. T. (2020) Motivating good practices for the creation of contiguous area cartograms. In Bandrova, T. et al. (Eds.), 8th International Conference on Cartography and GIS, Vol. 1, pp. 5‍8‍9–5‍9‍8. Bulgarian Cartographic Association, Sofia. Available at ISSN 1314-0604 and the author’s website.

Evtushenko, A. and Gastner, M. T. (2020) Beyond Fortune 500: Women in a global network of directors. In Cherifi, H. et al. (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII, pp. 5‍8‍6–5‍9‍8. Springer, Cham. Available at DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_47 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Ducruet, C. (2014) How heavy-tailed is the distribution of global cargo ship traffic? In 10th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems, pp. 2‍8‍9–2‍9‍4. Available at DOI 10.1109/SITIS.2014.33 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. (2010) Traffic flow in a spatial network model. In Minai, A., Braha, D., and Bar-Yam, Y. (Eds.), Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, pp. 3‍1‍5–3‍2‍2. Springer, Berlin. Available at DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85081-6_40 and the author’s website.

Youn, H., Gastner, M. T., and Jeong, H. (2009) Inefficiency in networks with multiple sources and sinks. In Zhou, J. (Ed.), Complex Sciences, pp. 3‍3‍4–3‍3‍8. Springer, Berlin. Available at DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_32 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. (2006) Shape and efficiency in growing spatial distribution networks. 2nd European Conference on Complex Systems, pp. 8‍2. Available at https://www.cabdyn.ox.ac.uk/complexity_PDFs/ECCS06/Conference_Proceedings/PDF/p82.pdf and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Newman, M. E. J. (2005) Density-equalizing map projections: Diffusion-based algorithm and applications. 8th International Conference on GeoComputation. Available at http://web.archive.org/web/20220122141856/http://www.geocomputation.org/2005/ and the author’s website.


Encyclopedia Entry

Gastner, M. T. (2021) Cartogram. In Daya Sagar, B. S. et al. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences. Springer, Cham. Available at DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7_55-1 and the author’s website.


Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter

Gastner, M. T. and Ducruet, C. (2015) The distribution functions of vessel calls and port connectivity in the global cargo ship network. In Ducruet, C. (Ed.), Maritime Networks: Spatial Structures and Time Dynamics, pp. 2‍8‍9–2‍9‍4. Routledge, London. Available at DOI 10.4324/9781315692852 and the author’s website.


Peer-Reviewed Abstracts

Tharatipyakul, A., Perrault, S. T., Feng, C.-C., and Gastner, M. T. (2024) Designing mobile-optimized cartograms. Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association, 7, p. 1‍6‍9. Available at DOI 10.5194/ica-abs-7-169-2024 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T., Perrault, S. T., and Feng, C.-C. (2021) Balancing shape distortions and contiguity in cartograms. Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association, 3, p. 8‍7. Available at DOI 10.5194/ica-abs-3-87-2021 and the author’s website.

Gastner, M. T. and Ishida, K. (2019) Mean consensus time of the voter model on networks partitioned into two cliques of arbitrary sizes. In Cherifi, H. et al. (Eds.), Complex Networks 2019, pp. 4‍6-4‍8. International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Lisbon. Available at ISBN 978-2-9557050-3-2 and the author’s website.

Tingsheng, S., Duncan, I. K., and Gastner, M. T. (2019) go-cart.io: A web application for generating contiguous cartograms. Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association, 1, p. 3‍3‍3. Available at DOI 10.5194/ica-abs-1-333-2019 and the author’s website.


Technical Report

Gastner, M. T. (2016) Network formation, statistical physics and social dynamics. Technical Report, CORDIS (European Commission), published online on 17 February 2016. Available at https://cordis.europa.eu/docs/results/327/327325/final1-final_report.pdf and the author’s website.


Ph.D. Thesis

Gastner, M. T. (2005) Spatial distributions: Density-equalizing map projections, facility location, and two-dimensional networks. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Available at https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/125368 and the author’s website.