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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey	50
Urban green space and happiness in developed countries	44
On the interplay between educational attainment and nutrition: a spatially-aware perspective	43
Quantifying the economic impact of disasters on businesses using human mobility data: a Bayesian causal inference approach	34
The growing amplification of social media: measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020	33
Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	32
Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi	31
Generalized word shift graphs: a method for visualizing and explaining pairwise comparisons between texts	29
Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine	28
Support the underground: characteristics of beyond-mainstream music listeners	26
Emotions in online rumor diffusion	24
Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth	24
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	23
Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine	22
A multi-layer approach to disinformation detection in US and Italian news spreading on Twitter	20
On estimating the predictability of human mobility: the role of routine	19
Analysing global professional gender gaps using LinkedIn advertising data	18
Estimating tie strength in social networks using temporal communication data	18
Characteristics of human mobility patterns revealed by high-frequency cell-phone position data	18
NodeSim: node similarity based network embedding for diverse link prediction	15
Italian Twitter semantic network during the Covid-19 epidemic	15
Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election	15
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	15
The impact of digital contact tracing on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic—a comprehensive modelling study	14

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data	14
The rhythms of the night: increase in online night activity and emotional resilience during the spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown	14
A data-driven approach for assessing biking safety in cities	13
Putting human behavior predictability in context	13
Corruption red flags in public procurement: new evidence from Italian calls for tenders	13
The dynamics of faculty hiring networks	12
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	12
Measuring sustainable tourism with online platform data	12
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	12
Understanding peace through the world news	12
Characterizing key agents in the cryptocurrency economy through blockchain transaction analysis	12
Understanding vehicular routing behavior with location-based service data	12
Linking Twitter and survey data: asymmetry in quantity and its impact	11
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	11
Enhancing short-term crime prediction with human mobility flows and deep learning architectures	11
Scaling of urban amenities: generative statistics and implications for urban planning	11
A profile-based sentiment-aware approach for depression detection in social media	11
Prediction of new scientific collaborations through multiplex networks	11
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	10
Privacy preserving data visualizations	10
Inferring psychological traits from spending categories and dynamic consumption patterns	10
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	10
Unraveling the hidden organisation of urban systems and their mobility flows	9
How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events	9
Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data	9
Challenges when identifying migration from geo-located Twitter data	9
The effect of anti-money laundering policies: an empirical network analysis	9
Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	9
Uncovering the fragility of large-scale engineering projects	9
Compression ensembles quantify aesthetic complexity and the evolution of visual art	8
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	8
A global-scale analysis of the sharing economy model – an AirBnB case study	8
Multilayer networks for text analysis with multiple data types	8
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics	8
Predictive modeling to study lifestyle politics with Facebook likes	7
An end-to-end statistical process with mobile network data for official statistics	7
Public perception of generative AI on Twitter: an empirical study based on occupation and usage	7
Extracting complements and substitutes from sales data: a network perspective	7
Predicting subjective well-being in a high-risk sample of Russian mental health app users	7
Exposing influence campaigns in the age of LLMs: a behavioral-based AI approach to detecting state-sponsored trolls	6
Analysis and classification of privacy-sensitive content in social media posts	6
Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks	6
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	6
Spatiotemporal distributions of population in Seoul: joint influence of ridership and accessibility of the subway system	6
Reaching the bubble may not be enough: news media role in online political polarization	6
A generative model for age and income distribution	6
Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	6
Revealing the determinants of gender inequality in urban cycling with large-scale data	6
Understanding China’s urban system evolution from web search index data	6
Evolution of the political opinion landscape during electoral periods	6

Imagine a Walkable City: Physical activity and urban imageability across 19 major cities	6
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	6
Internal migration and mobile communication patterns among pairs with strong ties	6
Money flow network among firms’ accounts in a regional bank of Japan	5
Socioeconomic biases in urban mixing patterns of US metropolitan areas	5
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	5
The potential of Facebook advertising data for understanding flows of people from Ukraine to the European Union	5
Tackling racial bias in automated online hate detection: Towards fair and accurate detection of hateful users with geometric deep learning	5
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	5
Practices of public procurement and the risk of corrupt behavior before and after the government transition in México	5
Academic failures and co-location social networks in campus	5
Keyword expansion techniques for mining social movement data on social media	5
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative	4
Measuring close proximity interactions in summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Experimental evaluation of baselines for forecasting social media timeseries	4
Evaluating the construct validity of text embeddings with application to survey questions	4
Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident	4
Socially disruptive periods and topics from information-theoretical analysis of judicial decisions	4
Differences in collaboration structures and impact among prominent researchers in Europe and North America	4
Companies under stress: the impact of shocks on the production network	4
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	4
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	4
Arab reactions towards Russo-Ukrainian war	4
Complex decision-making strategies in a stock market experiment explained as the combination of few simple strategies	4
Predicting partially observed processes on temporal networks by Dynamics-Aware Node Embeddings (DyANE)	4
CORAL: COde RepresentAtion learning with weakly-supervised transformers for analyzing data analysis	4
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	3
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	3
Trade synchronization and social ties in stock markets	3
Mapping state-sponsored information operations with multi-view modularity clustering	3
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	3
A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia	3
Modelling railway delay propagation as diffusion-like spreading	3
Quantifying participation biases on social media	3
Higher-order structures of local collaboration networks are associated with individual scientific productivity	3
Evaluating structural edge importance in temporal networks	3
Human mobility prediction with causal and spatial-constrained multi-task network	3
A language framework for modeling social media account behavior	3
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	3
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	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	2
Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks	2
Spatial distribution of solar PV deployment: an application of the region-based convolutional neural network	2
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	2
The structure of segregation in co-authorship networks and its impact on scientific production	2
Finding epic moments in live content through deep learning on collective decisions	2
Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data	2
Remaining popular: power-law regularities in network dynamics	2
Leveraging augmentation techniques for tasks with unbalancedness within the financial domain: a two-level ensemble approach	2
Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony	2
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	2
Temperature impact on the economic growth effect: method development and model performance evaluation with subnational data in China	2
Using mobile money data and call detail records to explore the risks of urban migration in Tanzania	2
State-space models reveal bursty movement behaviour of dance event visitors	2
Multiple gravity laws for human mobility within cities	2
Amenity complexity and urban locations of socio-economic mixing	2
A network theory of inter-firm labor flows	2
Novelty and cultural evolution in modern popular music	2
Sweet tweets! Evaluating a new approach for probability-based sampling of Twitter	2
Tainted ties: the structure and dynamics of corruption networks extracted from deferred prosecution agreements	2
Competition-driven modeling of temporal networks	2
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	2
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	2
The geometry of suspicious money laundering activities in financial networks	2
Investigating the contribution of author- and publication-specific features to scholars’ h-index prediction	2