OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of EPJ Data Science is 6. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The mobility laws of location-based games	50
Temperature impact on the economic growth effect: method development and model performance evaluation with subnational data in China	50
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	50
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	34
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	33
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	32
Arab reactions towards Russo-Ukrainian war	31
Keyword expansion techniques for mining social movement data on social media	28
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	26
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	24
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	24
The effect of anti-money laundering policies: an empirical network analysis	23
DApps ecosystems: mapping the network structure of smart contract interactions	19
Modeling teams performance using deep representational learning on graphs	18
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics	15
Measuring corporate digital divide through websites: insights from Italian firms	15
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	15
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	15
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	14
Efficiency and resilience: key drivers of distribution network growth	14
Language and the use of law are predictive of judge gender and seniority	13
Segmentation using large language models: A new typology of American neighborhoods	13
Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident	13
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	12
Understanding peace through the world news	12

How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events	12
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	12
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	12
Bridging the digital divide: mapping Internet connectivity evolution, inequalities, and resilience in six Brazilian cities	12
Spatial distribution of solar PV deployment: an application of the region-based convolutional neural network	12
On the interplay between educational attainment and nutrition: a spatially-aware perspective	11
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	11
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	11
Correction to: Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	11
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	11
Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi	11
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	10
Computational reproducibility in computational social science	10
Understanding trends, patterns, and dynamics in global company acquisitions: a network perspective	10
Computational approaches for cyber social threats	10
Tainted ties: the structure and dynamics of corruption networks extracted from deferred prosecution agreements	9
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative	9
Evaluating the construct validity of text embeddings with application to survey questions	9
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	9
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	8
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	8
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	8
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	8
Connecting and linking neurocognitive, digital phenotyping, physiologic, psychophysical, neuroimaging, genomic, & sensor data with survey data	8
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7
The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors	7
Human-network regions as effective geographic units for disease mitigation	7
The presence of occupational structure in online texts based on word embedding NLP models	7
On estimating the predictability of human mobility: the role of routine	6
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	6
Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices	6
What relational event models can reveal: Commentary on Thomas Grund’s “Dynamics of Denunciation: The Limits of a Scandal”	6
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	6
Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Identifying the systemic importance and systemic vulnerability of financial institutions based on portfolio similarity correlation network	6
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	6
Attitudes towards migration in a COVID-19 context: testing a behavioral immune system hypothesis with Twitter data	6
Evolving demographics: a dynamic clustering approach to analyze residential segregation in Berlin	6
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	6
Diversity dilemmas: uncovering gender and nationality biases in graduate admissions across top North American computer science programs	6
Correlation and autocorrelation of data on complex networks	6
Balancing specialization and adaptation in a transforming scientific landscape	6