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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	56
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	44
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	35
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	33
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	28
How floods may affect the spatial spread of respiratory pathogens: the case of Emilia-Romagna, Italy in May 2023	24
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	23
Simulating conversations on social media with generative agent-based models	23
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	23
Endogenous conflict and the limits of predictive optimization	23
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	21
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	20
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	20
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	20
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	19
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	19
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	19
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	19
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	18
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing	17
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	16
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	16
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	16
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	16
Classifying social position with social media behavioral data	15

Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	15
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	15
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	14
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	14
Companies under stress: the impact of shocks on the production network	14
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	14
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	13
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	13
Understanding rhythmic structures, novelty, and influence in classical music from data	13
Analysis and classification of privacy-sensitive content in social media posts	13
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	13
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	12
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	11
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	11
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	11
Fair automated assessment of noncompliance in cargo ship networks	10
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	10
Critical computational social science	10
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	10
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	10
Milgram’s experiment in the knowledge space: individual navigation strategies	10
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	10
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	9
Endogenous labour flow networks	9
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	9
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	9
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	9
Misinformation is not about bad facts: an analysis of the production and consumption of fringe content	9
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	8
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	8
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	8
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	8
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	8
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	8
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	8
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use	7
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	7
Tackling racial bias in automated online hate detection: Towards fair and accurate detection of hateful users with geometric deep learning	7
Is it getting harder to make a hit? Evidence from 65 years of US music chart history	7
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	7
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	7
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	7
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	7
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	7
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	6
Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music: goal-directed mechanisms in music emotion recognition	6
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	6
Early warning signals for stock market crashes: empirical and analytical insights utilizing nonlinear methods	6

Sweet tweets! Evaluating a new approach for probability-based sampling of Twitter	6
The role of transport systems in housing insecurity: a mobility-based analysis	6
Uncovering large inconsistencies between machine learning derived gridded settlement datasets	6
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	6
Construction and analysis of corporate greenwashing index: a deep learning approach	6
Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks	6
Analyzing user ideologies and shared news during the 2019 argentinian elections	6
Quantifying interdisciplinary synergy in higher STEM education	6
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	6
Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	6
Spatio-temporal changes in racial segregation and diversity in large US cities from 1990 to 2020: a visual data analysis	6
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	6
Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape	6