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most citedShifting Polarization and Twitter News Influencers between two U.S. Presidential Elections

115 citations · 136 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SI2023

Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election

Matteo Serafino, Zhenkun Zhou, Jose S. Andrade +2

The ongoing debate surrounding the impact of the Internet Research Agency s (IRA) social media campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential election has largely overshadowed the invo…

econ.GN2023

The Impact of Customer Online Satisfaction on Stock Returns: Evidence from the E-commerce Reviews in China

Zhi Su, Danni Wu, Zhenkun Zhou +2

This paper investigates the significance of consumer opinions in relation to value in China's A-share market. By analyzing a large dataset comprising over 18 million product review…

cs.SI2023★ 2 cited

Detecting Political Opinions in Tweets through Bipartite Graph Analysis: A Skip Aggregation Graph Convolution Approach

Xingyu Peng, Zhenkun Zhou, Chong Zhang +1

Public opinion is a crucial factor in shaping political decision-making. Nowadays, social media has become an essential platform for individuals to engage in political discussions…

cs.SI2023

DoubleH: Twitter User Stance Detection via Bipartite Graph Neural Networks

Chong Zhang, Zhenkun Zhou, Xingyu Peng +1

Given the development and abundance of social media, studying the stance of social media users is a challenging and pressing issue. Social media users express their stance by posti…

cs.CY2023★ 2 cited

When Cyber Aggression Prediction Meets BERT on Social Media

Zhenkun Zhou, Mengli Yu, Yuxin He +1

Increasingly, cyber aggression becomes the prevalent phenomenon that erodes the social media environment. However, due to subjective and expense, the traditional self-reporting que…

econ.GN2022

Predicting China's CPI by Scanner Big Data

Zhenkun Zhou, Zikun Song, Tao Ren

Scanner big data has potential to construct Consumer Price Index (CPI). This work utilizes the scanner data of supermarket retail sales, which are provided by China Ant Business Al…

cs.SI2021★ 115 cited

Shifting Polarization and Twitter News Influencers between two U.S. Presidential Elections

James Flamino, Alessandro Galezzi, Stuart Feldman +7

Social media are decentralized, interactive, and transformative, empowering users to produce and spread information to influence others. This has changed the dynamics of political…

cs.SI2021

Why polls fail to predict elections

Zhenkun Zhou, Matteo Serafino, Luciano Cohan +2

In the past decade we have witnessed the failure of traditional polls in predicting presidential election outcomes across the world. To understand the reasons behind these failures…

cs.SI2019★ 5 cited

Artificial intelligence for elections: the case of 2019 Argentina primary and presidential election

Zhenkun Zhou, Hernan A. Makse

We use a method based on machine learning, big-data analytics, and network theory to process millions of messages posted in Twitter to predict election outcomes. The model has achi…

cs.SI2017★ 1 cited

Homophily of Music Listening in Online Social Networks

Zhenkun Zhou, Ke Xu, Jichang Zhao

Homophily, ranging from demographics to sentiments, breeds connections in social networks, either offline or online. However, with the prosperous growth of music streaming service,…

cs.CY2017★ 1 cited

Tales of Emotion and Stock in China: Volatility, Causality and Prediction

Zhenkun Zhou, Ke Xu, Jichang Zhao

How the online social media, like Twitter or its variant Weibo, interacts with the stock market and whether it can be a convincing proxy to predict the stock market have been debat…

cs.CY2017★ 1 cited

Extroverts Tweet Differently from Introverts in Weibo

Zhenkun Zhou, Ke Xu, Jichang Zhao

Being dominant factors driving the human actions, personalities can be excellent indicators in predicting the offline and online behavior of different individuals. However, because…

cs.SI2016★ 9 cited

Can Online Emotions Predict the Stock Market in China?

Zhenkun Zhou, Jichang Zhao, Ke Xu

Whether the online social media, like Twitter or its variant Weibo, can be a convincing proxy to predict the stock market has been debated for years, especially for China. However,…