OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of EPJ Data Science is 8. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

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	42
On the interplay between educational attainment and nutrition: a spatially-aware perspective	41
Quantifying the economic impact of disasters on businesses using human mobility data: a Bayesian causal inference approach	34
Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	32
The growing amplification of social media: measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020	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
Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth	24
Emotions in online rumor diffusion	24
Modeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma	23
Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine	22
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	21
Susceptible-infected-spreading-based network embedding in static and temporal networks	20
On estimating the predictability of human mobility: the role of routine	19
A multi-layer approach to disinformation detection in US and Italian news spreading on Twitter	19
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
Analysing global professional gender gaps using LinkedIn advertising data	17
NodeSim: node similarity based network embedding for diverse link prediction	14
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	14
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
Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election	14
Italian Twitter semantic network during the Covid-19 epidemic	14
A data-driven approach for assessing biking safety in cities	13
Corruption red flags in public procurement: new evidence from Italian calls for tenders	13
Putting human behavior predictability in context	13
The rhythms of the night: increase in online night activity and emotional resilience during the spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown	13
Understanding peace through the world news	12
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	12
The great divide: drivers of polarization in the US public	12
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	12
Understanding vehicular routing behavior with location-based service data	12
Measuring sustainable tourism with online platform data	11
Characterizing key agents in the cryptocurrency economy through blockchain transaction analysis	11
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	11
A profile-based sentiment-aware approach for depression detection in social media	11
The dynamics of faculty hiring networks	11
Linking Twitter and survey data: asymmetry in quantity and its impact	11
Enhancing short-term crime prediction with human mobility flows and deep learning architectures	11
Prediction of new scientific collaborations through multiplex networks	11
Inferring psychological traits from spending categories and dynamic consumption patterns	10
Scaling of urban amenities: generative statistics and implications for urban planning	10
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	10
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	10
Privacy preserving data visualizations	10
Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	9
Uncovering the fragility of large-scale engineering projects	9
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
Multilayer networks for text analysis with multiple data types	8
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics	8
Early detection of influenza outbreak using time derivative of incidence	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