OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of EPJ Data Science is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Endogenous conflict and the limits of predictive optimization	79
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	49
How floods may affect the spatial spread of respiratory pathogens: the case of Emilia-Romagna, Italy in May 2023	47
Impact of federated data with local differential privacy for human mobility modeling	40
Generative AI voting: fair collective choice is resilient to LLM biases and inconsistencies	36
Simulating conversations on social media with generative agent-based models	36
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	34
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	33
Cognitive networks identify AI biases on societal issues in Large Language Models	29
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	27
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	26
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	23
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing	23
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	22
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	22
From crowdsourced data to policy design: monitoring and forecasting homeless tents	22
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	22
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	22
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	21
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	19
Assessing the impact of case correction methods on the fairness of COVID-19 predictive models	19
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	18
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	18
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	17
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	15

Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	15
Classifying social position with social media behavioral data	15
Mapping violence perceptions through YouTube comments: a new approach to real-time violence monitoring	14
Evaluating perceived built environment factors influencing children’s walking to school: an XGBoost–SHAP approach	14
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	14
Multimedia, engagement, and diffusion in alternative online communities: evidence from Spanish telegram channels	14
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	14
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	13
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	13
Understanding rhythmic structures, novelty, and influence in classical music from data	13
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	13
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	13
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	12
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	12
Multi-source, multi-level: a hierarchical taxonomy-based framework for AI trends analysis	12
Critical computational social science	11
Conductance and influence-capital: modeling online social influence	11
Milgram’s experiment in the knowledge space: individual navigation strategies	11
Quantitative thematic diversification and evolution of classical science fiction in the public domain based on complex network analysis and natural language processing	11
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	11
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	11
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	11
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	11
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	11
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	10
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	10
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	10
Misinformation is not about bad facts: an analysis of the production and consumption of fringe content	10
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	10
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	10
A supervised system for curating browsing whitelists for individuals with cognitive disabilities under legal guardianship	10
Endogenous labour flow networks	9
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	9
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	9
Integrating Large Language Models and knowledge graphs to capture political viewpoints in news media	9
Understanding the spatial and temporal impact of global events through large-scale social media data	9
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	9
Engagement with political videos on TikTok during the 2025 German federal election	9
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	9
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	8
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	8
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	8
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	8
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use	8
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	8
Uncovering large inconsistencies between machine learning derived gridded settlement datasets	8
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	8
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	8
Is it getting harder to make a hit? Evidence from 65 years of US music chart history	8
The dimensions of accessibility: proximity, opportunities, values	8

Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	7
Quantifying interdisciplinary synergy in higher STEM education	7
Analyzing user ideologies and shared news during the 2019 argentinian elections	7
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	7
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7
Enhancing smart city crowd management through behavioral data-driven human-robot collaborative navigation	7
Spatio-temporal changes in racial segregation and diversity in large US cities from 1990 to 2020: a visual data analysis	7
Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music: goal-directed mechanisms in music emotion recognition	7
Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape	7
The global dissemination of COVID-19 through two coexisting international transmission patterns	7
Construction and analysis of corporate greenwashing index: a deep learning approach	7
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	7
The role of transport systems in housing insecurity: a mobility-based analysis	7
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	7