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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?	69
The microvelocity of money in Ethereum	44
A hybrid stock prediction method based on periodic/non-periodic features analyses	34
How floods may affect the spatial spread of respiratory pathogens: the case of Emilia-Romagna, Italy in May 2023	33
Impact of federated data with local differential privacy for human mobility modeling	32
Endogenous conflict and the limits of predictive optimization	31
Simulating conversations on social media with generative agent-based models	31
Cognitive networks identify AI biases on societal issues in Large Language Models	29
Estimating work engagement from online chat tools	25
Drivers of hate speech in political conversations on Twitter: the case of the 2022 Italian general election	24
Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies	23
Generative AI voting: fair collective choice is resilient to LLM biases and inconsistencies	23
Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case	22
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
Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter	20
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks	19
Which sport is becoming more predictable? A cross-discipline analysis of predictability in team sports	19
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data	19
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing	18
From crowdsourced data to policy design: monitoring and forecasting homeless tents	17
Assessing the impact of case correction methods on the fairness of COVID-19 predictive models	17
Human mobility reshaped? Deciphering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on activity patterns, spatial habits, and schedule habits	17
Quantifying polarization in online political discourse	16
Classifying social position with social media behavioral data	16

Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks	16
Mapping violence perceptions through YouTube comments: a new approach to real-time violence monitoring	16
On the duration of face-to-face contacts	16
Understanding rhythmic structures, novelty, and influence in classical music from data	14
Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories	14
Leveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance	14
Science as exploration in a knowledge landscape: tracing hotspots or seeking opportunity?	13
Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election	13
Correction: Temporal network analysis using zigzag persistence	13
Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns	13
Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity	13
Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach	12
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices	12
Milgram’s experiment in the knowledge space: individual navigation strategies	11
Identifying the temporal dynamics of densification and sparsification in human contact networks	11
Evolution of sample-based music authorship network	11
Can Google Trends predict asylum-seekers’ destination choices?	11
Conductance and influence-capital: modeling online social influence	11
Open data and quantitative techniques for anthropology of road traffic	11
Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation	10
Critical computational social science	10
The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter	10
Endogenous labour flow networks	10
Entropy-based text feature engineering approach for forecasting financial liquidity changes	10
The simpliciality of higher-order networks	10
Engagement with political videos on TikTok during the 2025 German federal election	9
A supervised system for curating browsing whitelists for individuals with cognitive disabilities under legal guardianship	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
Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks	9
Quantitative thematic diversification and evolution of classical science fiction in the public domain based on complex network analysis and natural language processing	9
Large-scale digital signatures of emotional response to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign	8
Is it getting harder to make a hit? Evidence from 65 years of US music chart history	8
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter	8
Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook	8
A new methodology to measure faultlines at scale leveraging digital traces	8
Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics	8
Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter	8
Studying social networks in the age of computational social science	8
Construction and analysis of corporate greenwashing index: a deep learning approach	7
The dimensions of accessibility: proximity, opportunities, values	7
Explaining human mobility predictions through a pattern matching algorithm	7
Understanding the spatial and temporal impact of global events through large-scale social media data	7
Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election	7
The global dissemination of COVID-19 through two coexisting international transmission patterns	7
Quantifying interdisciplinary synergy in higher STEM education	7
Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music: goal-directed mechanisms in music emotion recognition	7
Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit	7
UTDRM: unsupervised method for training debunked-narrative retrieval models	7
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use	7

Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks	7
Evaluating Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of low-credibility content: an observational study	7
Uncovering large inconsistencies between machine learning derived gridded settlement datasets	7
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning	7
Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile	7
Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks	7
The right to audit and power asymmetries in algorithm auditing	7