2026 Emilio Ferrara: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	76	1325	1284	697	671	267	28016
Social Sciences and Humanities	75	536	463	255	217	234	26428

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

1325

1284

697

671

267

28016

Social Sciences and Humanities

536

463

255

217

234

26428

Computer Science

D-Index

Citations

28016

World Ranking

1325

National Ranking

697

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

26428

World Ranking

536

National Ranking

255

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Emilio Ferrara is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. The research focus centers on artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, communication, information systems, and statistical and nonlinear physics. Their work spans multiple domains related to computational social science and network analysis.

Key areas of study include:

Artificial Intelligence
Sociology and Political Science
Communication
Information Systems
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

The scientist's main research topics comprise:

Misinformation and Its Impacts
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Social Media and Politics
Spam and Phishing Detection
Topic Modeling
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Kristina Lerman
Emily Chen
Luca Luceri
Julie Jiang
Goran Murić

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, most notably:

Harvard Dataverse
arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
First Monday

Selected recent publications include:

"Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey of Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies" (2023), Sci
"Should ChatGPT be biased? Challenges and risks of bias in large language models" (2023), First Monday
"Political polarization drives online conversations about COVID-19 in the United States" (2020), Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
"Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19" (2020), Journal of Computational Social Science
"Characterizing social media manipulation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election" (2020), First Monday

In 2019, the scientist was recognized as an ACM Senior Member.

Best Publications

The rise of social bots

Emilio Ferrara;Onur Varol;Clayton Davis;Filippo Menczer

2903
Citations
Graph embedding techniques, applications, and performance: A survey

Palash Goyal;Emilio Ferrara

1938
Citations
Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion

Alessandro Bessi;Emilio Ferrara

1255
Citations
Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

Onur Varol;Emilio Ferrara;Clayton A. Davis;Filippo Menczer

1234
Citations
BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots

Clayton Allen Davis;Onur Varol;Emilio Ferrara;Alessandro Flammini

979
Citations
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set.

Emily Chen;Kristina Lerman;Emilio Ferrara

978
Citations
Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election

Emilio Ferrara

590
Citations
Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media

Emilio Ferrara;Emilio Ferrara;Zeyao Yang

549
Citations
Deep neural networks for bot detection

Sneha Kudugunta;Emilio Ferrara

508
Citations
Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems.

Massimo Stella;Emilio Ferrara;Manlio De Domenico

483
Citations
Generalized Louvain method for community detection in large networks

Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara;Alessandro Provetti

474
Citations
Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

Qing Ke;Emilio Ferrara;Filippo Radicchi;Alessandro Flammini

465
Citations
Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Kai Cheng Yang;Onur Varol;Clayton A. Davis;Emilio Ferrara

460
Citations
Web data extraction, applications and techniques

Emilio Ferrara;Pasquale De Meo;Giacomo Fiumara;Robert Baumgartner

447
Citations
Analyzing the digital traces of political manipulation: the 2016 russian interference Twitter campaign

Adam Badawy;Emilio Ferrara;Kristina Lerman

403
Citations
The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

V.S. Subrahmanian;Amos Azaria;Skylar Durst;Vadim Kagan

397
Citations
The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

V.S. Subrahmanian;Amos Azaria;Skylar Durst;Vadim Kagan

395
Citations
Optimal Network Modularity for Information Diffusion

Azadeh Nematzadeh;Emilio Ferrara;Alessandro Flammini;Yong-Yeol Ahn

330
Citations
Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots.

Bjarke Mønsted;Piotr Sapieżyński;Emilio Ferrara;Sune Lehmann

306
Citations
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Dataset of Anti-vaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation and Conspiracies.

Goran Muric;Yusong Wu;Emilio Ferrara

305
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristina Lerman University of Southern California

Alessandro Flammini Indiana University

Filippo Menczer Indiana University

Pasquale De Meo University of Messina

Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California

Aram Galstyan University of Southern California

Licia Capra University College London

Tiago H. Falk Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

Filippo Radicchi Indiana University

Silvia Giordano University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

External Links

Personal website of Emilio Ferrara Google Scholar page

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