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most citedPerception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses

151 citations · 166 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Multidimensional Political Attitudes and Polarization Across 141 Countries

Hazem Ibrahim, Aymane Omari, Aaron R. Kaufman

Societies worldwide are described as increasingly polarized, yet issue polarization -- how divided a society is over political positions -- has been measured almost entirely on a s…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating Decision Models for Text Annotation in Computational Social Science

Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki

Computational social science increasingly relies on large language models for text annotation, and the validity of published findings now rests on the labels generated by such mode…

cs.DL2026

The illusion of neutrality in metric-based research evaluation

Fengyuan Liu, Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki +1

Venue prestige and citation counts are two widely used, albeit imperfect, signals of research quality. When the two signals conflict, evaluators must decide how much weight to assi…

cs.CY2026

Understanding AI Provider Recommendations in Local Service Markets

Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki

When someone asks an AI assistant which doctor to see or which firm to trust with their savings, the answer is a referral. We audit AI provider recommendations in four registry-bac…

cs.SI2026

Informational Help-Seeking on Reddit Did Not Decline After ChatGPT

Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki

Did people stop asking other people for advice online once generative AI could answer their questions? Prior work on ChatGPT's effect on online help-seeking disagrees in both size…

cs.SI2026

Chance, Persistent Advantage, and the Generative-AI Era in Open-Source Package Careers

Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki

Studies of careers in science, film, music, and books report a common pattern. When a person's most successful work arrives is close to a random draw over the works they produce. H…

physics.soc-ph2026

Price Dislocations, News Citations, and Epistemic Leverage on Polymarket

Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki

Prediction-market probabilities increasingly appear in news coverage, yet little is known about which market movements become news or how much trading money sits behind the numbers…

cs.DL2026

Bias at the Borderline: Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt in Peer Review?

Hazem Ibrahim, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki

We study peer review at ICLR, a large machine-learning conference whose complete review record, including rejected submissions, is public. Reviewers score each submission; for the…

cs.CY2026

On-Screen Inertia: Persistent Racial and Gender Disparities in Hollywood Film (1900-2024)

Hazem Ibrahim, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki +1

Hollywood has diversified its casts. Whether this has translated into structural change in how those actors are positioned within narratives remains largely unexamined. Drawing on…

cs.SI2026

Auditing Differential Visibility of Political Content on TikTok

Hazem Ibrahim, Tewoflos Girmay

Allegations that TikTok shadow bans political content shape what creators post, what advertisers fund, and how regulators act, yet they are hard to adjudicate because platforms do…

cs.SI2026

Schadenfreude in the Digital Public Sphere: A Cross-National, Decade-Long Analysis of Facebook News Engagement

Nouar Aldahoul, Hazem Ibrahim, Majd Mahmutoglu +4

Pleasure at the misfortune of others, or schadenfreude, is widely believed to have become a routine feature of online news audiences, yet its prevalence and social patterning have…

cs.CY2025

Who Gets Seen in the Age of AI? Adoption Patterns of Large Language Models in Scholarly Writing and Citation Outcomes

Farhan Kamrul Khan, Hazem Ibrahim, Nouar Aldahoul +2

The rapid adoption of generative AI tools is reshaping how scholars produce and communicate knowledge, raising questions about who benefits and who is left behind. We analyze over…

cs.DL2025

Causal evidence of racial and institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data

Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Khalid Mengal +4

Scientific progress depends on researchers' ability to access and build upon the work of others. Yet, much published work remains behind expensive paywalls, and even accessible art…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

The Political Ideology of Large Language Models: Measurement, Inconsistency, and Persuasive Influence

Nouar Aldahoul, Hazem Ibrahim, Aaron R. Kaufman +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a transformational technology, fundamentally changing how people obtain information and interact with the world. As people become increasingly reli…

cs.CL2025

Neutralizing the Narrative: AI-Powered Debiasing of Online News Articles

Chen Wei Kuo, Kevin Chu, Nouar AlDahoul +3

Bias in news reporting significantly impacts public perception, particularly regarding crime, politics, and societal issues. Traditional bias detection methods, predominantly relia…

cs.PF2025

A Tale of Three Location Trackers: AirTag, SmartTag, and Tile

HyunSeok Daniel Jang, Hazem Ibrahim, Rohail Asim +2

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) location trackers, or "tags", are popular consumer devices for monitoring personal items. These tags rely on their respective network of companion device…

cs.SI2025★ 1 cited

TikTok's recommendations skewed towards Republican content during the 2024 U.S. presidential race

Hazem Ibrahim, HyunSeok Daniel Jang, Nouar Aldahoul +3

TikTok is a major force among social media platforms with over a billion monthly active users worldwide and 170 million in the United States. The platform's status as a key news so…

cs.SI2024

Analyzing political stances on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. election

Hazem Ibrahim, Farhan Khan, Hend Alabdouli +4

Social media platforms play a pivotal role in shaping public opinion and amplifying political discourse, particularly during elections. However, the same dynamics that foster democ…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

A Longitudinal Analysis of Racial and Gender Bias in New York Times and Fox News Images and Articles

Hazem Ibrahim, Nouar AlDahoul, Syed Mustafa Ali Abbasi +3

The manner in which different racial and gender groups are portrayed in news coverage plays a large role in shaping public opinion. As such, understanding how such groups are portr…

cs.CY2024

Inclusive content reduces racial and gender biases, yet non-inclusive content dominates popular culture

Nouar AlDahoul, Hazem Ibrahim, Minsu Park +2

Images are often termed as representations of perceived reality. As such, racial and gender biases in popular culture and visual media could play a critical role in shaping people'…

cs.CE2024★ 12 cited

Google Scholar is manipulatable

Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Yasir Zaki +1

Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be incentivized to inflate their citation counts. While previous literature has examined self-cit…

cs.CY2023★ 151 cited

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…