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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	59
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	57
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	56
Addressing long-tailed distribution in judicial text for criminal motive classification: a balanced contrastive learning approach	39
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	35
Understanding peace through the world news	34
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	31
Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi	30
Measuring corporate digital divide through websites: insights from Italian firms	28
Segmentation using large language models: A new typology of American neighborhoods	22
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	22
Language and the use of law are predictive of judge gender and seniority	20
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	20
Efficiency and resilience: key drivers of distribution network growth	19
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	18
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	17
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	16
DApps ecosystems: mapping the network structure of smart contract interactions	16
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	15
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	15
Keyword expansion techniques for mining social movement data on social media	15
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	15
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	15
Spatial distribution of solar PV deployment: an application of the region-based convolutional neural network	15
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	15

Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	14
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	14
Modeling teams performance using deep representational learning on graphs	14
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	14
Arab reactions towards Russo-Ukrainian war	14
Bridging the digital divide: mapping Internet connectivity evolution, inequalities, and resilience in six Brazilian cities	13
Understanding trends, patterns, and dynamics in global company acquisitions: a network perspective	13
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative	13
How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events	12
Correction to: Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	12
Computational reproducibility in computational social science	12
Temperature impact on the economic growth effect: method development and model performance evaluation with subnational data in China	12
Computational approaches for cyber social threats	12
On the interplay between educational attainment and nutrition: a spatially-aware perspective	11
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	11
Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident	10
The effect of anti-money laundering policies: an empirical network analysis	10
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics	10
Lost in translation: using global fact-checks to measure multilingual misinformation prevalence, spread, and evolution	9
Demographic disparity in Wikipedia coverage: a global perspective	9
Correlation and autocorrelation of data on complex networks	9
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	9
Exposure to parks through the lens of urban mobility	9
Academic failures and co-location social networks in campus	9
Tainted ties: the structure and dynamics of corruption networks extracted from deferred prosecution agreements	9
Mapping state-sponsored information operations with multi-view modularity clustering	9
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	8
Evaluating the construct validity of text embeddings with application to survey questions	8
On estimating the predictability of human mobility: the role of routine	8
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	8
Correction: Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	8
Balancing specialization and adaptation in a transforming scientific landscape	8
Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	8
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	8
Attitudes towards migration in a COVID-19 context: testing a behavioral immune system hypothesis with Twitter data	8
The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors	7
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	7
Diversity dilemmas: uncovering gender and nationality biases in graduate admissions across top North American computer science programs	7
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	7
Does noise affect housing prices? A case study in the urban area of Thessaloniki	7
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7
What relational event models can reveal: Commentary on Thomas Grund’s “Dynamics of Denunciation: The Limits of a Scandal”	6
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	6
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	6
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	6
Higher-order structures of local collaboration networks are associated with individual scientific productivity	6
Analyzing user reactions using relevance between location information of tweets and news articles	6
Identifying the systemic importance and systemic vulnerability of financial institutions based on portfolio similarity correlation network	6
Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices	6

Human-network regions as effective geographic units for disease mitigation	6
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	6