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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 75 536 463 255 217 234 26428
Computer Science 76 1325 1284 698 672 267 28016

Emilio Ferrara publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Emilio Ferrara between 1999 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Emilio Ferrara published across 27 years, from 1999 to 2025, averaging 14.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 48 publications in 2023. 71 of the 393 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 48. Peak 48 publications in 2023. 1999: 1 publication 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 0 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 0 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 20 publications 2015: 16 publications 2016: 17 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 28 publications 2019: 30 publications 2020: 39 publications 2021: 39 publications 2022: 35 publications 2023: 48 publications 2024: 45 publications 2025: 26 publications
1999 2025

393 publications in total across all disciplines

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Emilio Ferrara: publications per year, 1999 to 2025
Year Publications
1999 1
2000 0
2001 0
2002 1
2003 1
2004 0
2005 0
2006 0
2007 0
2008 0
2009 0
2010 5
2011 12
2012 9
2013 9
2014 20
2015 16
2016 17
2017 12
2018 28
2019 30
2020 39
2021 39
2022 35
2023 48
2024 45
2025 26
Total 393
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Emilio Ferrara publications per year - data summary

  • Emilio Ferrara, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of Southern California, has 393 publications recorded across 27 years, from 1999 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1999 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2023, with 48 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1999, 2002 and 2003, with 1 publication each.
  • 8 of the 27 years in the span carry no publications at all (2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 14.6 papers per year over the whole span, or 20.7 per year counting only the 19 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 193 publications, 49% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1999-2007: 3 publications (0.3 per year); 2008-2016: 88 publications (9.8 per year); 2017-2025: 302 publications (33.6 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Emilio Ferrara publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emilio Ferrara sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 234–243 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170 234
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Emilio Ferrara publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Emilio Ferrara, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of Southern California, records 234 publications - the 75th percentile of the discipline.
  • 75% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Emilio Ferrara, and about 25% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Emilio Ferrara ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Emilio Ferrara D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emilio Ferrara sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 75 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45 75
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Emilio Ferrara D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Emilio Ferrara, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of Southern California, records 75 D-Index - the 93rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 93% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Emilio Ferrara, and about 7% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Emilio Ferrara ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

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

  • Graph embedding techniques, applications, and performance: A survey

    Palash Goyal;Emilio Ferrara

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

    Alessandro Bessi;Emilio Ferrara

  • Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

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

  • BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots

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

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

    Emilio Ferrara

  • Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media

    Emilio Ferrara;Emilio Ferrara;Zeyao Yang

  • Deep neural networks for bot detection

    Sneha Kudugunta;Emilio Ferrara

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

    Massimo Stella;Emilio Ferrara;Manlio De Domenico

  • Generalized Louvain method for community detection in large networks

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

  • Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

    Qing Ke;Emilio Ferrara;Filippo Radicchi;Alessandro Flammini

  • Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

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

  • Web data extraction, applications and techniques

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

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

    Adam Badawy;Emilio Ferrara;Kristina Lerman

  • The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

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

  • The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

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

  • Optimal Network Modularity for Information Diffusion

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

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

    Bjarke Mønsted;Piotr Sapieżyński;Emilio Ferrara;Sune Lehmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristina Lerman
Kristina Lerman University of Southern California
Alessandro Flammini
Alessandro Flammini Indiana University
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Pasquale De Meo
Pasquale De Meo University of Messina
Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
Aram Galstyan
Aram Galstyan University of Southern California
Licia Capra
Licia Capra University College London
Tiago H. Falk
Tiago H. Falk Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi Indiana University
Silvia Giordano
Silvia Giordano University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

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