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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	51
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	44
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	36
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	35
How floods may affect the spatial spread of respiratory pathogens: the case of Emilia-Romagna, Italy in May 2023	27
Effective strategies for targeted attacks to the network of Cosa Nostra affiliates	25
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	23
Modeling international mobility using roaming cell phone traces during COVID-19 pandemic	23
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	22
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	22
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	22
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	21
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	21
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	20
A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network	19
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	19
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	18
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	18
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	18
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing	18
Extracting complements and substitutes from sales data: a network perspective	17
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	17
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	17
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	16
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe	16

Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	16
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	15
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	15
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	13
Companies under stress: the impact of shocks on the production network	13
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	13
Analysis and classification of privacy-sensitive content in social media posts	13
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	12
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	12
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	12
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	12
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	12
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	12
Milgram’s experiment in the knowledge space: individual navigation strategies	11
Critical computational social science	11
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	11
Fair automated assessment of noncompliance in cargo ship networks	11
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	10
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	10
Endogenous labour flow networks	10
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	10
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	10
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	10
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	9
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	9
Misinformation is not about bad facts: an analysis of the production and consumption of fringe content	9
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	9
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	9
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	9
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	8
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	8
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	8
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	8
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	7
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	7
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	7
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	7
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use	7
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	7
LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect	6
Tackling racial bias in automated online hate detection: Towards fair and accurate detection of hateful users with geometric deep learning	6
Sweet tweets! Evaluating a new approach for probability-based sampling of Twitter	6
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	6
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate	6
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	6
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	6
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	6
Construction and analysis of corporate greenwashing index: a deep learning approach	6
Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter	6
Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	6

Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks	5
Spatio-temporal changes in racial segregation and diversity in large US cities from 1990 to 2020: a visual data analysis	5
Has Covid-19 permanently changed online purchasing behavior?	5
Garbage in garbage out? Impacts of data quality on criminal network intervention	5
Detection of anomalous spatio-temporal patterns of app traffic in response to catastrophic events	5
Early warning signals for stock market crashes: empirical and analytical insights utilizing nonlinear methods	5
Analyzing user ideologies and shared news during the 2019 argentinian elections	5
The impact of playlist characteristics on coherence in user-curated music playlists	5
Unsupervised detection of coordinated information operations in the wild	5
The role of transport systems in housing insecurity: a mobility-based analysis	5
Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape	5
Quantifying participation biases on social media	5
Mental health concerns precede quits: shifts in the work discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic and great resignation	5
Investigating the contribution of author- and publication-specific features to scholars’ h-index prediction	5
Public perception of generative AI on Twitter: an empirical study based on occupation and usage	4
Understanding China’s urban system evolution from web search index data	4
Shift in house price estimates during COVID-19 reveals effect of crisis on collective speculation	4
Downscaling spatial interaction with socioeconomic attributes	4
Unveiling the silent majority: stance detection and characterization of passive users on social media using collaborative filtering and graph convolutional networks	4
Profile update: the effects of identity disclosure on network connections and language	4
Comparison of home detection algorithms using smartphone GPS data	4
Multiple gravity laws for human mobility within cities	4
Cryptocurrency co-investment network: token returns reflect investment patterns	4
Journalists are most likely to receive abuse: analysing online abuse of UK public figures across sport, politics, and journalism on Twitter	4
A new approach to estimate neighborhood socioeconomic status using supermarket transactions and GNNs	4
Corruption red flags in public procurement: new evidence from Italian calls for tenders	4
Using mobile money data and call detail records to explore the risks of urban migration in Tanzania	4
Holistic approach to analysing debates on ecological sustainability over time on X	4
Untangling pair synergy in the evolution of collaborative scientific impact	4
Correction to: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	3
The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors	3
Enhancing short-term crime prediction with human mobility flows and deep learning architectures	3
Socioeconomic disparities in mobility behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries	3
Exposure to parks through the lens of urban mobility	3
A generative model for age and income distribution	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
Assessing the complexity of a path search optimization method based on clustering for a transport graph	3
Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony	3
Higher-order structures of local collaboration networks are associated with individual scientific productivity	3
Tainted ties: the structure and dynamics of corruption networks extracted from deferred prosecution agreements	3
Bridging the digital divide: mapping Internet connectivity evolution, inequalities, and resilience in six Brazilian cities	3
The presence of occupational structure in online texts based on word embedding NLP models	3
Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	3
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	3
Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits	3
Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: a universal instrument for comparing complex systems	3
CORAL: COde RepresentAtion learning with weakly-supervised transformers for analyzing data analysis	3
Designing transit routes based on vehicle routing behavior determined through location-based services data	3
Computational reproducibility in computational social science	3
Computational approaches for cyber social threats	3
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics	3
Computational social science with confidence	3
Bibliometric cartography of data science: a large-scale analysis on knowledge integration and diffusion	3
Leveraging augmentation techniques for tasks with unbalancedness within the financial domain: a two-level ensemble approach	3
Correction to: Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election	2
Novel embeddings improve the prediction of risk perception	2
Emotions in online rumor diffusion	2
Understanding trends, patterns, and dynamics in global company acquisitions: a network perspective	2
Putting human behavior predictability in context	2
Scaling law of real traffic jams under varying travel demand	2
Human mobility prediction with causal and spatial-constrained multi-task network	2
Both sides of the story: comparing student-level data on reading performance from administrative registers to application generated data from a reading app	2
Glitter or gold? Deriving structured insights from sustainability reports via large language models	2
A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia	2
Addressing long-tailed distribution in judicial text for criminal motive classification: a balanced contrastive learning approach	2
Exposing influence campaigns in the age of LLMs: a behavioral-based AI approach to detecting state-sponsored trolls	2
Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trust	2
Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data	2
Comparing GPS and cell-based mobile phone data to identify activity participation during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Longitudinal modularity, a modularity for link streams	2
Measuring close proximity interactions in summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media	2
Language and the use of law are predictive of judge gender and seniority	2
Modelling railway delay propagation as diffusion-like spreading	2
The geometry of suspicious money laundering activities in financial networks	2
Correction: Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online	2
Reaching the bubble may not be enough: news media role in online political polarization	2