2026 Alberto Barrón-Cedeño: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	46	6952	6750	170	168	119	6143

Overview

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their research domain primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a significant number of publications in Artificial Intelligence and Sociology and Political Science as subfields.

Their work often addresses topics such as:

Misinformation and Its Impacts
Topic Modeling
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Spam and Phishing Detection
Software Engineering Research

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño has contributed to numerous recent papers including:

"Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers" (2021), published in Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
"Cross-Language Source Code Re-Use Detection Using Latent Semantic Analysis" (2020), published in Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
"SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Online information disorder: fake news, bots and trolls" (2022), published in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
"Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat!: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims" (2021), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in Alberto Barrón-Cedeño's research include:

Giovanni Da San Martino
Preslav Nakov
Tamer Elsayed
Maram Hasanain
Fatima Haouari

Their publications appear predominantly in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Language Resources and Evaluation
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño has also contributed to book publications, including one with Springer Science+Business Media titled Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction published in 2022.

Best Publications

An Evaluation Framework for Plagiarism Detection

Martin Potthast;Benno Stein;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Paolo Rosso

382
Citations
Overview of the 2nd International Competition on Plagiarism Detection

Martin Potthast;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Andreas Eiselt;Benno Stein

310
Citations
Cross-language plagiarism detection

Martin Potthast;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Benno Stein;Paolo Rosso

303
Citations
Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article

Giovanni Da San Martino;Seunghak Yu;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Rostislav Petrov

297
Citations
Overview of the 1st international competition on plagiarism detection

Martin Potthast;Benno Stein;Andreas Eiselt;Alberto Barrón-Cedeno

281
Citations
Overview of the author identification task at PAN 2014

Efstathios Stamatatos;Walter Daelemans;Ben Verhoeven;Benno Stein

221
Citations
Proppy: Organizing the news based on their propagandistic content

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Israa Jaradat;Giovanni Da San Martino;Preslav Nakov

187
Citations
Plagiarism meets paraphrasing: Insights for the next generation in automatic plagiarism detection

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Marta Vila;M. Martí;Paolo Rosso

185
Citations
SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

Giovanni Da San Martino;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Henning Wachsmuth;Rostislav Petrov

185
Citations
On Automatic Plagiarism Detection Based on n-Grams Comparison

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Paolo Rosso

179
Citations
Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers

Preslav Nakov;David P. A. Corney;Maram Hasanain;Firoj Alam

157
Citations
A Survey on Computational Propaganda Detection.

Giovanni Da San Martino;Stefano Cresci;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Seunghak Yu

154
Citations
Plagiarism Detection across Distant Language Pairs

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Paolo Rosso;Eneko Agirre;Gorka Labaka

121
Citations
On cross-lingual plagiarism analysis using a statistical model

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Paolo Rosso;David Pinto;Alfons Juan

112
Citations
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims

Preslav Nakov;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Tamer Elsayed;Reem Suwaileh

112
Citations
Fully Automated Fact Checking Using External Sources

Georgi Karadzhov;Preslav Nakov;Lluís Màrquez;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

109
Citations
Methods for cross-language plagiarism detection

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Parth Gupta;Paolo Rosso

105
Citations
Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Tamer Elsayed;Preslav Nakov;Giovanni Da San Martino

94
Citations
A Context-Aware Approach for Detecting Worth-Checking Claims in Political Debates

Pepa Gencheva;Preslav Nakov;Lluís Màrquez;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

91
Citations
Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat! Lab: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims

Tamer Elsayed;Preslav Nakov;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Maram Hasanain

82
Citations
Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Articles

Giovanni Da San Martino;Seunghak Yu;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Rostislav Petrov

71
Citations
SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

G. Da San Martino;A. Barrón-Cedeño;H. Wachsmuth;R. Petrov

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Preslav Nakov Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Rosso Universitat Politècnica de València

Lluís Màrquez Amazon (United States)

Alessandro Moschitti Amazon (United States)

Benno Stein Bauhaus University, Weimar

James Glass MIT

Shafiq Joty Salesforce (United States)

Martin Potthast Leipzig University

Yonatan Belinkov Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Kareem Darwish Hamad bin Khalifa University

External Links

Personal website of Alberto Barrón-Cedeño Google Scholar page

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