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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	61
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	48
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	35
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	34
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	33
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	31
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	30
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	26
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	23
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	20
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	20
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	20
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	18
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	18
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	17
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	17
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	17
Extracting complements and substitutes from sales data: a network perspective	17
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	17
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	17
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	16
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	16
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	16
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	15
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	15

On the duration of face-to-face contacts	15
Analysis and classification of privacy-sensitive content in social media posts	15
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	15
Companies under stress: the impact of shocks on the production network	15
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	15
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	14
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	14
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	13
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	13
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	13
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	12
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	12
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	12
Fair automated assessment of noncompliance in cargo ship networks	12
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	11
Critical computational social science	11
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	10
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	10
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	10
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	10
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	9
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	9
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	9
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	9
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	9
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	9
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	9
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	8
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	8
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	8
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	8
Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	8
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	8
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	8
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	8
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	8
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	8
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	7
Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks	7
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	7
Sweet tweets! Evaluating a new approach for probability-based sampling of Twitter	7
Tackling racial bias in automated online hate detection: Towards fair and accurate detection of hateful users with geometric deep learning	7
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7