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 2021-08-01 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