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20172026
most citedAssessing the risks of "infodemics" in response to COVID-19 epidemics

581 citations

6 papers

cs.CV2026

What They Saw, Not Just Where They Looked: Semantic Scanpath Similarity via VLMs and NLP metric

Mohamed Amine Kerkouri, Marouane Tliba, Bin Wang +3

Scanpath similarity metrics are central to eye-movement research, yet existing methods predominantly evaluate spatial and temporal alignment while neglecting semantic equivalence b…

econ.GN2025★ 3 cited

Impact of government spending shocks in the Visegrad countries, 1999Q1-2019Q4

Zoltan Bartha, Marco M. Matarrese

This study investigates the impact of a fiscal policy spending shock on the economy of the Visegrad 4 countries. The impact is estimated with an SVAR model, and the calculations ar…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 24 cited

Effectiveness of dismantling strategies on moderated vs. unmoderated online social platforms

Oriol Artime, Valeria d'Andrea, Riccardo Gallotti +2

Online social networks are the perfect test bed to better understand large-scale human behavior in interacting contexts. Although they are broadly used and studied, little is known…

cs.CY2020★ 3 cited

CO.ME.T.A. -- covid-19 media textual analysis. A dashboard for media monitoring

Emma Zavarrone, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino +3

The focus of this paper is to trace how mass media, particularly newspapers, have addressed the issues about the containment of contagion or the explanation of epidemiological evol…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 581 cited

Assessing the risks of "infodemics" in response to COVID-19 epidemics

Riccardo Gallotti, Francesco Valle, Nicola Castaldo +2

Our society is built on a complex web of interdependencies whose effects become manifest during extraordinary events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, with shocks in one system propag…

math.DS2017★ 14 cited

The Topological Weighted Centroid (TWC): A topological approach to the time-space structure of epidemic and pseudo-epidemic processes

Massimo Buscema, Giulia Massini, Pier Luigi Sacco

This paper offers the first systematic presentation of the topological approach to the analysis of epidemic and pseudo-epidemic spatial processes. We introduce the basic concepts a…