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Analysis of Collaboration in CS Prizewinning with a Nobel-Turing Comparison
Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Yongtao Zhang, Brian Uzzi +1
In the scientific community, prizes play a pivotal role in shaping research trajectories by conferring credibility and offering financial incentives to researchers. Yet, we know li…
An experimental study of the influence of anonymous information on social media users
Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Brendan Cross, John Hulton +3
Increasingly, people use social media for their day-to-day interactions and as a source of information, even though much of this information is practically anonymous. This raises t…
Hierarchical community detection benchmark for heterogeneous inter-community connectivity
Brendan Cross, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Here, we introduce a new tool for community detection, a generator of networks, which uses parameters to control the structure of created networks. Typically, network scientists de…
Using LLMs to Infer Non-Binary COVID-19 Sentiments of Chinese Micro-bloggers
Jerry Chongyi Hu, Mohammed Shahid Modi, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Studying public sentiment during crises is crucial for understanding how opinions and sentiments shift, resulting in polarized societies. We study Weibo, the most popular microblog…
Analysis of flows in social media uncovers a new multi-step model of information spread
Matteo Serafino, G. Virginio Clemente, James Flamino +3
Since the advent of the internet, communication paradigms have continuously evolved, resulting in a present-day landscape where the dynamics of information dissemination have under…
Limits of Large Language Models in Debating Humans
James Flamino, Mohammed Shahid Modi, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in communicating with humans. Their potential use as artificial partners with humans in sociological experiments involvin…