OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of EPJ Data Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	61
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	48
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	35
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	34
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	33
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	31
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	30
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	26
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	23
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	20
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	20
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	20
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	18
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	18
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	17
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	17
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	17
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	17
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	17
Extracting complements and substitutes from sales data: a network perspective	17
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	16
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	16
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	16
Analysis and classification of privacy-sensitive content in social media posts	15
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	15

Companies under stress: the impact of shocks on the production network	15
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	15
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	15
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	15
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	15
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	14
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	14
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	13
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	13
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	13
Fair automated assessment of noncompliance in cargo ship networks	12
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	12
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	12
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	12
Critical computational social science	11
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	11
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	10
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	10
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	10
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	10
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	9
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	9
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	9
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	9
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	9
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	9
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	9
Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	8
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	8
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	8
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	8
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	8
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	8
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	8
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	8
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	8
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	8
Tackling racial bias in automated online hate detection: Towards fair and accurate detection of hateful users with geometric deep learning	7
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	7
Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks	7
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	7
Sweet tweets! Evaluating a new approach for probability-based sampling of Twitter	7
Early warning signals for stock market crashes: empirical and analytical insights utilizing nonlinear methods	6
The role of transport systems in housing insecurity: a mobility-based analysis	6
Spatio-temporal changes in racial segregation and diversity in large US cities from 1990 to 2020: a visual data analysis	6
Analyzing user ideologies and shared news during the 2019 argentinian elections	6
Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape	6
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	6

Quantifying participation biases on social media	5
Characterizing key agents in the cryptocurrency economy through blockchain transaction analysis	5
Predicting partially observed processes on temporal networks by Dynamics-Aware Node Embeddings (DyANE)	5
Profile update: the effects of identity disclosure on network connections and language	5
Mental health concerns precede quits: shifts in the work discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic and great resignation	5
The impact of playlist characteristics on coherence in user-curated music playlists	5
Multiple gravity laws for human mobility within cities	5
A new approach to estimate neighborhood socioeconomic status using supermarket transactions and GNNs	5
Uncovering the fragility of large-scale engineering projects	5
Investigating the contribution of author- and publication-specific features to scholars’ h-index prediction	5
Urban green space and happiness in developed countries	5
Unsupervised detection of coordinated information operations in the wild	5
Comparison of home detection algorithms using smartphone GPS data	5
Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	4
Understanding China’s urban system evolution from web search index data	4
Public perception of generative AI on Twitter: an empirical study based on occupation and usage	4
Downscaling spatial interaction with socioeconomic attributes	4
Holistic approach to analysing debates on ecological sustainability over time on X	4
Using mobile money data and call detail records to explore the risks of urban migration in Tanzania	4
Untangling pair synergy in the evolution of collaborative scientific impact	4
Corruption red flags in public procurement: new evidence from Italian calls for tenders	4
Evaluating structural edge importance in temporal networks	4
Cryptocurrency co-investment network: token returns reflect investment patterns	4
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics	4
Shift in house price estimates during COVID-19 reveals effect of crisis on collective speculation	4
Unveiling the silent majority: stance detection and characterization of passive users on social media using collaborative filtering and graph convolutional networks	4
Enhancing short-term crime prediction with human mobility flows and deep learning architectures	4
Socioeconomic disparities in mobility behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries	4
Computational reproducibility in computational social science	4
Tainted ties: the structure and dynamics of corruption networks extracted from deferred prosecution agreements	3
The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors	3
Computational social science with confidence	3
Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits	3
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	3
Higher-order structures of local collaboration networks are associated with individual scientific productivity	3
The presence of occupational structure in online texts based on word embedding NLP models	3
Bridging the digital divide: mapping Internet connectivity evolution, inequalities, and resilience in six Brazilian cities	3
Leveraging augmentation techniques for tasks with unbalancedness within the financial domain: a two-level ensemble approach	3
Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony	3
CORAL: COde RepresentAtion learning with weakly-supervised transformers for analyzing data analysis	3
Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: a universal instrument for comparing complex systems	3
Prediction of new scientific collaborations through multiplex networks	3
Computational approaches for cyber social threats	3
A generative model for age and income distribution	3
Do poverty and wealth look the same the world over? A comparative study of 12 cities from five high-income countries using street images	3
Correction to: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	3
Assessing the complexity of a path search optimization method based on clustering for a transport graph	3
Correction: Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	3
Exposure to parks through the lens of urban mobility	3
Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth	2
Inferring psychological traits from spending categories and dynamic consumption patterns	2
Evolution of urban forms observed from space	2
Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trust	2
Exposing influence campaigns in the age of LLMs: a behavioral-based AI approach to detecting state-sponsored trolls	2
Glitter or gold? Deriving structured insights from sustainability reports via large language models	2
Spatial distribution of solar PV deployment: an application of the region-based convolutional neural network	2
Addressing long-tailed distribution in judicial text for criminal motive classification: a balanced contrastive learning approach	2
A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia	2
Both sides of the story: comparing student-level data on reading performance from administrative registers to application generated data from a reading app	2
Putting human behavior predictability in context	2
Scaling law of real traffic jams under varying travel demand	2
Human mobility prediction with causal and spatial-constrained multi-task network	2
Reaching the bubble may not be enough: news media role in online political polarization	2
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative	2
Emotions in online rumor diffusion	2
Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media	2
Longitudinal modularity, a modularity for link streams	2
Modelling railway delay propagation as diffusion-like spreading	2
Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data	2
The geometry of suspicious money laundering activities in financial networks	2
Comparing GPS and cell-based mobile phone data to identify activity participation during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Understanding trends, patterns, and dynamics in global company acquisitions: a network perspective	2
Language and the use of law are predictive of judge gender and seniority	2
Novel embeddings improve the prediction of risk perception	2
Correction to: Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election	2
Measuring close proximity interactions in summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic	2