OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of EPJ Data Science is 2. 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
DApps ecosystems: mapping the network structure of smart contract interactions	16
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	16
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
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

Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	14
Arab reactions towards Russo-Ukrainian war	14
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
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative	13
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
Computational approaches for cyber social threats	12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	5
The presence of occupational structure in online texts based on word embedding NLP models	5
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	5
Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	5
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	5
Correction to: understanding trends, patterns, and dynamics in global company acquisitions: a network perspective	5
Tackling racial bias in automated online hate detection: Towards fair and accurate detection of hateful users with geometric deep learning	5
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	5
Evolving demographics: a dynamic clustering approach to analyze residential segregation in Berlin	5
The structural evolution of temporal hypergraphs through the lens of hyper-cores	5
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	5
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	5
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	5
Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks	5
Novelty and cultural evolution in modern popular music	4
Exploring language relations through syntactic distances and geographic proximity	4
A generative model for age and income distribution	4
Uncovering the fragility of large-scale engineering projects	4
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	4
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	4
Modeling and understanding the impact of COVID-19 containment policies on mobile service consumption in French cities	4
Imagine a Walkable City: Physical activity and urban imageability across 19 major cities	4
Dynamics of the social construction of knowledge: an empirical study of Zhihu in China	4
Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks	4
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	4
Extracting complements and substitutes from sales data: a network perspective	4
CORAL: COde RepresentAtion learning with weakly-supervised transformers for analyzing data analysis	4
Analysing global professional gender gaps using LinkedIn advertising data	4
Individual mobility deep insight using mobile phones data	3
Computational social science with confidence	3
The concept of decentralization through time and disciplines: a quantitative exploration	3
Social media sensors as early signals of influenza outbreaks at scale	3
Connection between climatic change and international food prices: evidence from robust long-range cross-correlation and variable-lag transfer entropy with sliding windows approach	3
First-mover advantage in music	3
Do poverty and wealth look the same the world over? A comparative study of 12 cities from five high-income countries using street images	3
Early warning signals for stock market crashes: empirical and analytical insights utilizing nonlinear methods	3
Spatio-temporal changes in racial segregation and diversity in large US cities from 1990 to 2020: a visual data analysis	3
Analyzing user ideologies and shared news during the 2019 argentinian elections	3
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	3
Leveraging augmentation techniques for tasks with unbalancedness within the financial domain: a two-level ensemble approach	3
Towards hypergraph cognitive networks as feature-rich models of knowledge	3
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	3
Identification of suspicious behavior through anomalies in the tracking data of fishing vessels	3
The role of transport systems in housing insecurity: a mobility-based analysis	3
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	2
Thinking spatially in computational social science	2
Scaling of urban amenities: generative statistics and implications for urban planning	2
Cycling into the workshop: e-bike and m-bike mobility patterns for predictive maintenance in Barcelona’s bike-sharing system	2
Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits	2
Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: a universal instrument for comparing complex systems	2
Correction to: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	2
Analysis and classification of privacy-sensitive content in social media posts	2
Characterizing key agents in the cryptocurrency economy through blockchain transaction analysis	2
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	2
An end-to-end statistical process with mobile network data for official statistics	2
Sweet tweets! Evaluating a new approach for probability-based sampling of Twitter	2
Evacuation patterns and socioeconomic stratification in the context of wildfires	2
Understanding stock market instability via graph auto-encoders	2
Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony	2
High earnings through firm influence: the role of hierarchical structures in public procurement	2
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	2
Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data	2
Uncovering and estimating complementarity in urban lives	2
Weakly supervised veracity classification with LLM-predicted credibility signals	2
Prediction of new scientific collaborations through multiplex networks	2
Mapping global value chains at the product level	2
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	2
Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape	2
Urban green space and happiness in developed countries	2
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	2
Comparing GPS and cell-based mobile phone data to identify activity participation during the COVID-19 pandemic	2