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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.

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44 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.

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.

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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.

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

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

    Emily Chen;Kristina Lerman;Emilio Ferrara

  • 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

  • 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

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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