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EPJ Data Science
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EPJ Data Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 786 17 30 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 100
Documents by Best Scientists*: 113
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 50
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.742
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at EPJ Data Science?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Data science, Social media, Artificial intelligence, Mobile phone and Big data. It focuses on Data science but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Context (language use), Popularity, Data mining and Complex network. The journal explores issues in Social media which can be linked to other research areas like Simulation and Social network.

The study on Artificial intelligence presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Machine learning.

  • Data science (19.09%)
  • Social media (17.15%)
  • Artificial intelligence (11.00%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A survey of results on mobile phone datasets analysis (413 citations)
  • A roadmap for the computation of persistent homology (293 citations)
  • Crowd disasters as systemic failures: analysis of the Love Parade disaster (219 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at EPJ Data Science:

The most cited publications cover a variety of subjects, including Social media, Data science, Artificial intelligence, Big data and Social network. The works on Social media tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Data mining, Computational sociology, Internet privacy, Information cascade and Grassroots. The most cited papers focus on Data science but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Mobile phone, Learning classifier system, Key (cryptography), Scientific publishing and Complex network.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mostly deals with topics like Pandemic, Social media, Cluster analysis, Artificial intelligence and Politics. In addition to Social media research, it aims to explore topics under Advertising, Shock (economics) and Personal mobility. While the primary focus in EPJ Data Science is Cluster analysis, it also dissects topics surrounding Mobile phone and Environmental resource management and Public transport as a whole.

The studies in Artificial intelligence featured incorporate elements of Machine learning and Markov process. Semantic network research in EPJ Data Science involves the investigation of Presidential system studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Data science. EPJ Data Science addresses concerns in Data science which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Structure (mathematical logic), Survey data collection and Metric (mathematics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Generalized word shift graphs: a method for visualizing and explaining pairwise comparisons between texts (17 citations)
  • Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey (12 citations)
  • The growing amplification of social media: measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020 (12 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in EPJ Data Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bruno Lepri (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Alex Pentland (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christopher M. Danforth (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ciro Cattuto (7 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Mirco Musolesi (7 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in EPJ Data Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (25 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Oxford (24 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Institute for Scientific Interchange (21 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University College London (20 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • ETH Zurich (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 1.92% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 43.14% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.76% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.76% of all publications and 33.33% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

    Guido Caldarelli;Guido Caldarelli;Rocco De Nicola;Marinella Petrocchi;Marinella Petrocchi;Manuel Pratelli

    (2021)
    55 Citations
  • Quantifying the economic impact of disasters on businesses using human mobility data: a Bayesian causal inference approach

    Takahiro Yabe;Yunchang Zhang;Satish V. Ukkusuri

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Hao Cui;János Kertész

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Differences in collaboration structures and impact among prominent researchers in Europe and North America

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Estimating tie strength in social networks using temporal communication data

    Javier Ureña-Carrion;Jari Saramäki;Mikko Kivelä

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • Italian Twitter semantic network during the Covid-19 epidemic.

    Mattia Mattei;Guido Caldarelli;Tiziano Squartini;Fabio Saracco

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • A data-driven approach for assessing biking safety in cities

    Sara Daraei;Konstantinos Pelechrinis;Daniele Quercia

    (2021)
    18 Citations
  • Prediction of new scientific collaborations through multiplex networks

    Marta Tuninetti;Alberto Aleta;Daniela Paolotti;Yamir Moreno;Yamir Moreno

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • A language framework for modeling social media account behavior

    (2023)
    13 Citations

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