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Bruno Gonçalves

Bruno Gonçalves

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Computer Science

D-Index
36
Citations
13290
World Ranking
10970
National Ranking
4561

Overview

Bruno Gonçalves is a researcher affiliated with TRM Labs in the United States, contributing to fields at the intersection of physics, social sciences, and engineering. Their work encompasses diverse topics such as opinion dynamics, social influence, complex network analysis, and computational text analysis methods.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering

Subfields in which Gonçalves has published research involve:

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Communication

Key topics in their research portfolio are:

  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Computational and Text Analysis Methods
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

The scientist has coauthored multiple publications with a consistent group of collaborators, including Michael Conover, A. Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini, and Hugo Barbosa.

Gonçalves has published in various venues, often contributing to:

  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Revista do Professor de Física
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PLoS ONE

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Political Polarization on Twitter," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "American cultural regions mapped through the lexical analysis of social media," 2023, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "Pêndulo Simples: Tracker x Phyphox," 2020, Revista do Professor de Física
  • "Exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for a Dirac equation describing the interaction of spin-1/2 relativistic particles with an external electromagnetic field," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Bruno Gonçalves has contributed to book publications with Springer International Publishing, including:

  • Complex Networks XI, 2020
  • Complex Networks XII, 2021

Best Publications

  • Political Polarization on Twitter

    Michael D. Conover;Jacob Ratkiewicz;Matthew R. Francisco;Bruno Gonçalves

  • Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases

    Duygu Balcan;Vittoria Colizza;Bruno Gonçalves;Hao Hu

  • Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media

    Jacob Ratkiewicz;Michael D. Conover;Mark Meiss;Bruno Goncalves

  • Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users

    Michael D. Conover;Bruno Goncalves;Jacob Ratkiewicz;Alessandro Flammini

  • Modeling users' activity on Twitter networks: validation of Dunbar's number

    Bruno Goncalves;Nicola Perra;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Activity driven modeling of time varying networks

    Nicola Perra;Bruno Goncalves;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases: The GLobal Epidemic and Mobility computational model

    Duygu Balcan;Bruno Gonçalves;Hao Hu;José J. Ramasco

  • Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams

    Jacob Ratkiewicz;Michael Conover;Mark Meiss;Bruno Gonçalves

  • Dynamical classes of collective attention in twitter

    Janette Lehmann;Bruno Gonçalves;José J. Ramasco;Ciro Cattuto

  • The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms

    Delia Mocanu;Andrea Baronchelli;Nicola Perra;Bruno Gonçalves

  • Happiness is assortative in online social networks

    Johan Bollen;Bruno Gonçalves;Guangchen Ruan;Huina Mao

  • Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent-based versus structured metapopulation models.

    Marco Ajelli;Bruno Gonçalves;Duygu Balcan;Vittoria Colizza

  • Partisan asymmetries in online political activity

    Michael D Conover;Bruno Gonçalves;Alessandro Flammini;Filippo Menczer

  • Real-time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm

    Michele Tizzoni;Paolo Bajardi;Chiara Poletto;José J. Ramasco

  • The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale.

    Wouter Van den Broeck;Corrado Gioannini;Bruno Gonçalves;Marco Quaggiotto;Marco Quaggiotto

  • Towards a characterization of behavior-disease models.

    Nicola Perra;Duygu Balcan;Bruno Gonçalves;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame

    Shahar Ronen;Bruno Gonçalves;Bruno Gonçalves;Kevin Z. Hu;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Human dynamics revealed through Web analytics.

    Bruno Gonçalves;José J. Ramasco

  • Random walks and search in time-varying networks

    Nicola Perra;Andrea Baronchelli;Delia Mocanu;Bruno Gonçalves

  • The role of information diffusion in the evolution of social networks

    Lilian Weng;Jacob Ratkiewicz;Nicola Perra;Bruno Gonçalves

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
José J. Ramasco
José J. Ramasco Spanish National Research Council
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Alessandro Flammini
Alessandro Flammini Indiana University
Andrea Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli City, University of London
Johan Bollen
Johan Bollen Indiana University
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Pan Hui
Pan Hui Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yamir Moreno
Yamir Moreno University of Zaragoza
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University

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