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20132025
most citedParticipatory Patterns in an International Air Quality Monitoring Initiative

40 citations · 102 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.soc-ph2025

Network topology effects on the social circle polls

Giovanni Palermo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ruggiero D. Lo Sardo +3

Election polls play a critical role in political discussions by probing public opinion and enabling political parties to assess their performance before elections. However, traditi…

physics.soc-ph2024

News ecosystem dynamics: Supply, Demand, Diffusion, and the role of Disinformation

Pietro Gravino, Giulio Prevedello, Emanuele Brugnoli

The digital age provides new challenges as information travels more quickly in a system of increasing complexity. But it also offers new opportunities, as we can track and study th…

physics.soc-ph2024

Cross-platform impact of social media algorithmic adjustments on public discourse

Pietro Gravino, Ruggiero Donald Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli

In the hypertrophic and uncharted information world, recommender systems are gatekeepers of knowledge. The evolution of these algorithms is usually an opaque process, but in Februa…

physics.soc-ph2024

From trust in news to disagreement: is misinformation more controversial?

Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Enrico Ubaldi +2

The growing prevalence of fruitless disagreement threatens social cohesion and constructive public discourse. While polarised discussions often reflect distrust in the news, the li…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 1 cited

Recommender systems may enhance the discovery of novelties

Giordano De Marzo, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto

Recommender systems are vital for shaping user online experiences. While some believe they may limit new content exploration and promote opinion polarization, a systematic analysis…

physics.soc-ph2023

The geography of innovation dynamics

Matteo Straccamore, Vittorio Loreto, Pietro Gravino

Cities and metropolitan areas are major drivers of creativity and innovation in all possible sectors: scientific, technological, social, artistic, etc. The critical concentration a…

cs.CL2023★ 30 cited

Exploitation and exploration in text evolution. Quantifying planning and translation flows during writing

Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Pietro Gravino, Christine Cuskley +1

Writing is a complex process at the center of much of modern human activity. Despite it appears to be a linear process, writing conceals many highly non-linear processes. Previous…

physics.soc-ph2021

Assessing disinformation through the dynamics of supply and demand in the news ecosystem

Pietro Gravino, Giulio Prevedello, Martina Galletti +1

Social dialogue, the foundation of our democracies, is currently threatened by disinformation and partisanship, with their disrupting role on individual and collective awareness an…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 26 cited

Complex delay dynamics on railway networks: from universal laws to realistic modelling

Bernardo Monechi, Pietro Gravino, Riccardo di Clemente +1

Railways are a key infrastructure for any modern country. The reliability and resilience of this peculiar transportation system may be challenged by different shocks such as disrup…

physics.soc-ph2016

On the emergence of syntactic structures: quantifying and modelling duality of patterning

Vittorio Loreto, Pietro Gravino, Vito D. P. Servedio +1

The complex organization of syntax in hierarchical structures is one of the core design features of human language. Duality of patterning refers for instance to the organization of…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 40 cited

Participatory Patterns in an International Air Quality Monitoring Initiative

Alina Sîrbu, Martin Becker, Saverio Caminiti +17

The issue of sustainability is at the top of the political and societal agenda, being considered of extreme importance and urgency. Human individual action impacts the environment…

cs.CY2014★ 2 cited

XTribe: a web-based social computation platform

Saverio Caminiti, Claudio Cicali, Pietro Gravino +4

In the last few years the Web has progressively acquired the status of an infrastructure for social computation that allows researchers to coordinate the cognitive abilities of hum…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 3 cited

Modeling the emergence of a new language: Naming Game with hybridization

L. Pucci, P. Gravino, V. D. P. Servedio

In recent times, the research field of language dynamics has focused on the investigation of language evolution, dividing the work in three evolutive steps, according to the level…