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most citedArming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

417 citations · 434 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.soc-ph20212 cited

Systematic comparison of graph embedding methods in practical tasks

Yi-Jiao Zhang, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Radicchi

Network embedding techniques aim at representing structural properties of graphs in geometric space. Those representations are considered useful in downstream tasks such as link pr…

cs.SI2021

CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines

Matthew R. DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Bao Tran Truong +7

With a substantial proportion of the population currently hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine, it is important that people have access to accurate information. However, there is…

cs.SI20208 cited

The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook

Kai-Cheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Pik-Mai Hui +4

The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related misinformation -- the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic -- that makes populations more vulnerable to the…

physics.soc-ph20205 cited

Model-free hidden geometry of complex networks

Yi-Jiao Zhang, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Radicchi

The fundamental idea of embedding a network in a metric space is rooted in the principle of proximity preservation. Nodes are mapped into points of the space with pairwise distance…

cs.SI2020

The Manufacture of Partisan Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter

Christopher Torres-Lugo, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer

A growing body of evidence points to critical vulnerabilities of social media, such as the emergence of partisan echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation. We show that…

cs.CY20202 cited

How Twitter Data Sampling Biases U.S. Voter Behavior Characterizations

Kai-Cheng Yang, Pik-Mai Hui, Filippo Menczer

Online social media are key platforms for the public to discuss political issues. As a result, researchers have used data from these platforms to analyze public opinions and foreca…