Style in the age of Instagram!
J Park, GL Ciampaglia, and E Ferrara. The 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016) Useful links: Arxiv | ACM Our work on Science of Success…
Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science
Q Ke, E Ferrara, F Radicchi, and A Flammini. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 Useful links: Arxiv | PNAS Scientific papers typically have a finite lifetime: their…
Evolution of Online User Behavior During a Social Upheaval
O Varol, E Ferrara, C Ogan, F Menczer, and A Flammini. ACM Web Science 2014 Useful links: Arxiv | ACM Digital Library. Social media represent powerful tools of mass communication…
Detecting criminal organizations in mobile phone networks
E Ferrara, S Catanese, P De Meo, and G Fiumara. Expert Systems with Applications, 4:5733-5750, (2014). Useful links: Journal Page | Arxiv | PDF. The study of criminal networks using…
Analyzing user behavior across social sharing environments
P De Meo, E Ferrara, F Abel, L Aroyo, and GJ Houben. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) 5(1), 2013. Useful links: PDF | ACM library |…
Traveling Trends: Social Butterflies or Frequent Fliers?
E Ferrara, O Varol, F Menczer and A Flammini. ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN’13), 2013. Useful links: PDF | ACM library | Arxiv. Trending topics reflect the conversations…
Clustering memes in Social media
E Ferrara, M JafariAsbagh, O Varol, V Qazvinian, F Menczer, and A Flammini. 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’13), 2013. Useful links: PDF…
The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
MD Conover, E Ferrara, F Menczer, and A Flammini. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64679 (2013). Useful links: PDF | Journal page. We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating…
Scientific impact evaluation and the effect of self-citations: mitigating the bias by discounting h-index
E Ferrara, and AE Romero. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(11):2332–2339 (2013). Useful links: PDF | Arxiv | Journal Page. In this paper, we propose…
The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network
MD Conover, C Davis, E Ferrara, K McKelvey, F Menczer, and A Flammini. PLoS One 8(3):e55957 (2013). Useful links: PDF | Journal page. Social movements rely in large measure on…