507 citations · 805 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
14 papers
Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
Bedoor AlShebli, Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Anne Maass
October 7, 2023 marked the start of a war against Gaza, one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history, which quickly produced a stark global attitudinal divide. To examin…
Disparities in Peer Review Tone and the Role of Reviewer Anonymity
Maria Sahakyan, Bedoor AlShebli
The peer review process is often regarded as the gatekeeper of scientific integrity, yet increasing evidence suggests that it is not immune to bias. Although structural inequities…
From job titles to jawlines: Using context voids to study generative AI systems
Shahan Ali Memon, Soham De, Sungha Kang +5
In this paper, we introduce a speculative design methodology for studying the behavior of generative AI systems, framing design as a mode of inquiry. We propose bridging seemingly…
Where postdoctoral journeys lead
Yueran Duan, Shahan Ali Memon, Bedoor AlShebli +3
Postdoctoral training is a career stage often described as a demanding and anxiety-laden time when many promising PhDs see their academic dreams slip away due to circumstances beyo…
Current policies governing editorial conflicts of interest are ineffective
Fengyuan Liu, Bedoor AlShebli, Talal Rahwan
Research-active editors face a potential conflict of interest (COI) when handling submissions from authors who share the same affiliation or those who recently collaborated with th…
Characterizing the effect of retractions on publishing careers
Shahan Ali Memon, Kinga Makovi, Bedoor AlShebli
Retracting academic papers is a fundamental tool of quality control, but it may have far-reaching consequences for retracted authors and their careers. Previous studies have highli…
Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses
Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Rohail Asim +36
The emergence of large language models has led to the development of powerful tools such as ChatGPT that can produce text indistinguishable from human-generated work. With the incr…
Human intuition as a defense against attribute inference
Marcin Waniek, Navya Suri, Abdullah Zameek +2
Attribute inference - the process of analyzing publicly available data in order to uncover hidden information - has become a major threat to privacy, given the recent technological…
China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together
Bedoor AlShebli, Shahan Ali Memon, James A. Evans +1
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a disruptive technology, promising to grant a significant economic and strategic advantage to nations that harness its power. China, with it…
Gender inequality and self-publication patterns among scientific editors
Fengyuan Liu, Petter Holme, Matteo Chiesa +2
Academic publishing is the principal medium of documenting and disseminating scientific discoveries. At the heart of its daily operations are the editorial boards. Despite their ac…
Traffic networks are vulnerable to disinformation attacks
Marcin Waniek, Gururaghav Raman, Bedoor AlShebli +2
Disinformation continues to attract attention due to its increasing threat to society. Nevertheless, a disinformation-based attack on critical infrastructure has never been studied…
The Impact of Informal Mentorship in Academic Collaborations
Bedoor AlShebli, Kinga Makovi, Talal Rahwan
Inspired by the numerous benefits of mentorship in academia, we study "informal mentorship" in scientific collaborations, whereby a junior scientist is supported by multiple senior…
How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid
Gururaghav Raman, Bedoor AlShebli, Marcin Waniek +2
Social technologies have made it possible to propagate disinformation and manipulate the masses at an unprecedented scale. This is particularly alarming from a security perspective…
The Preeminence of Ethnic Diversity in Scientific Collaboration
Bedoor K AlShebli, Talal Rahwan, Wei Lee Woon
Inspired by the social and economic benefits of diversity, we analyze over 9 million papers and 6 million scientists to study the relationship between research impact and five clas…