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Quality versus quantity in scientific impact
Jasleen Kaur, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer +2
Citation metrics are becoming pervasive in the quantitative evaluation of scholars, journals and institutions. More then ever before, hiring, promotion, and funding decisions rely…
Clustering memes in social media streams
Mohsen JafariAsbagh, Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol +2
The problem of clustering content in social media has pervasive applications, including the identification of discussion topics, event detection, and content recommendation. Here w…
The production of information in the attention economy
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Online traces of human activity offer novel opportunities to study the dynamics of complex knowledge exchange networks, and in particular how the relationship between demand and su…
The Rise of Social Bots
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Clayton Davis +2
The Turing test aimed to recognize the behavior of a human from that of a computer algorithm. Such challenge is more relevant than ever in today's social media context, where limit…
Evolution of Online User Behavior During a Social Upheaval
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Christine L. Ogan +2
Social media represent powerful tools of mass communication and information diffusion. They played a pivotal role during recent social uprisings and political mobilizations across…
Optimal network modularity for information diffusion
Azadeh Nematzadeh, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini +1
We investigate the impact of community structure on information diffusion with the linear threshold model. Our results demonstrate that modular structure may have counter-intuitive…