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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	70
Endogenous conflict and the limits of predictive optimization	46
Cognitive networks identify AI biases on societal issues in Large Language Models	38
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	34
How floods may affect the spatial spread of respiratory pathogens: the case of Emilia-Romagna, Italy in May 2023	34
Impact of federated data with local differential privacy for human mobility modeling	33
Simulating conversations on social media with generative agent-based models	32
Generative AI voting: fair collective choice is resilient to LLM biases and inconsistencies	31
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	25
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	25
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	24
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing	23
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	22
From crowdsourced data to policy design: monitoring and forecasting homeless tents	20
Online advertisement in a pink-colored market	20
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	20
Assessing the impact of case correction methods on the fairness of COVID-19 predictive models	20
Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election	20
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	19
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	19
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	18
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	17
Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	17
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	17
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	17

Classifying social position with social media behavioral data	16
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	16
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	14
Mapping violence perceptions through YouTube comments: a new approach to real-time violence monitoring	14
Multimedia, engagement, and diffusion in alternative online communities: evidence from Spanish telegram channels	14
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	14
Evaluating perceived built environment factors influencing children’s walking to school: an XGBoost–SHAP approach	14
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	13
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	13
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	13
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	13
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	13
Understanding rhythmic structures, novelty, and influence in classical music from data	12
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	11
Critical computational social science	11
Milgram’s experiment in the knowledge space: individual navigation strategies	11
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	11
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	11
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	11
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	11
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	11
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	11
Endogenous labour flow networks	10
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	10
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	10
Quantitative thematic diversification and evolution of classical science fiction in the public domain based on complex network analysis and natural language processing	10
Conductance and influence-capital: modeling online social influence	10
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	10
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	10
Engagement with political videos on TikTok during the 2025 German federal election	9
Misinformation is not about bad facts: an analysis of the production and consumption of fringe content	9
News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization	9
A supervised system for curating browsing whitelists for individuals with cognitive disabilities under legal guardianship	9
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	8
Understanding the spatial and temporal impact of global events through large-scale social media data	8
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	8
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	8
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	8
Is it getting harder to make a hit? Evidence from 65 years of US music chart history	8
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	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
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	7
Uncovering large inconsistencies between machine learning derived gridded settlement datasets	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7
Construction and analysis of corporate greenwashing index: a deep learning approach	7
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	7
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	7
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	7
On the adoption of e-moped sharing systems	7

Quantifying interdisciplinary synergy in higher STEM education	7
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use	7
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	7
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	7
Enhancing smart city crowd management through behavioral data-driven human-robot collaborative navigation	7
The global dissemination of COVID-19 through two coexisting international transmission patterns	7
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	7