Please cite both the package and the original article in your publications:

Gruson H (2021). “contactdata: Social Contact Matrices for 152 Countries.” R package version 0.2.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=contactdata.

Prem K, Cook AR, Jit M (2017). “Projecting social contact matrices in 152 countries using contact surveys and demographic data.” PLoS Computational Biology, 13(9), e1005697. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005697.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Misc{,
    title = {{contactdata}: Social Contact Matrices for 152 Countries},
    author = {Hugo Gruson},
    year = {2021},
    note = {R package version 0.2.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=contactdata},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Projecting social contact matrices in 152 countries using
      contact surveys and demographic data},
    author = {Kiesha Prem and Alex R. Cook and Mark Jit},
    journal = {PLoS Computational Biology},
    year = {2017},
    volume = {13},
    number = {9},
    pages = {e1005697},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005697},
  }