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Filippo Menczer publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Filippo Menczer sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 283 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Filippo Menczer D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Filippo Menczer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For research on the vulnerability of social media networks to disinformation and manipulation
  • 2013 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Filippo Menczer is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, including sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, communication, statistical and nonlinear physics, and information systems. The scientist has contributed to various subfields with notable publication counts in sociology and political science (62), artificial intelligence (42), and communication (26).

The scientist's work primarily covers several main topics, including misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, spam and phishing detection, advanced malware detection techniques, opinion dynamics and social influence, and complex network analysis techniques. The volume of publications in these areas highlights their research focus on social and computational challenges related to information dissemination and online social behavior.

Filippo Menczer has authored and co-authored influential research papers, some of which include:

  • Political Polarization on Twitter (2021), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media (2021), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection (2020), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook (2021), published in Big Data & Society

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Matthew DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Christopher Torres-Lugo, John Bryden, and John Bollenbacher. These collaborators have contributed extensively alongside Menczer in academic publications, reflecting strong and ongoing research partnerships.

Filippo Menczer has published in multiple scholarly venues, often appearing in sources such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, arXiv from Cornell University, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, and Harvard Dataverse. These venues indicate a presence in both preprint repositories and conference proceedings.

The scientist has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, with one notable work titled A First Course in Network Science, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Among professional recognitions, Filippo Menczer was named an ACM Fellow in 2020, an acknowledgment associated with research on the vulnerability of social media networks to disinformation and manipulation. Earlier, in 2013, they were recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Best Publications

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • The rise of social bots

    Emilio Ferrara;Onur Varol;Clayton Davis;Filippo Menczer

  • Political Polarization on Twitter

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

  • Social phishing

    Tom N. Jagatic;Nathaniel A. Johnson;Markus Jakobsson;Filippo Menczer

  • ERRATUM: Competition among memes in a world with limited attention

    L. Weng;A. Flammini;A. Vespignani;F. Menczer

  • The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

    Chengcheng Shao;Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia;Onur Varol;Kai-Cheng Yang

  • 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

  • Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media

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

  • Virality prediction and community structure in social networks

    Lilian Weng;Filippo Menczer;Yong-Yeol Ahn

  • Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users

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

  • Competition among memes in a world with limited attention

    L. Weng;A. Flammini;A. Vespignani;A. Vespignani;F. Menczer

  • Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks

    Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia;Prashant Shiralkar;Luis Mateus Rocha;Luis Mateus Rocha;Johan Bollen

  • Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams

    Jacob Ratkiewicz;Michael Conover;Mark Meiss;Bruno Gonçalves

  • Friendship prediction and homophily in social media

    Luca Maria Aiello;Alain Barrat;Rossano Schifanella;Ciro Cattuto

  • Topical web crawlers: Evaluating adaptive algorithms

    Filippo Menczer;Gautam Pant;Padmini Srinivasan

  • Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

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

  • Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Astroturf Memes in Microblog Streams

    Jacob Ratkiewicz;Michael D. Conover;Mark R. Meiss;Bruno Gonçalves

  • Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation

    Chengcheng Shao;Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia;Alessandro Flammini;Filippo Menczer

  • Feature selection in unsupervised learning via evolutionary search

    YeongSeog Kim;W. Nick Street;Filippo Menczer

  • Evaluating similarity measures for emergent semantics of social tagging

    Benjamin Markines;Ciro Cattuto;Filippo Menczer;Dominik Benz

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Flammini
Alessandro Flammini Indiana University
Emilio Ferrara
Emilio Ferrara University of Southern California
Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Richard K. Belew
Richard K. Belew University of California, San Diego
Santo Fortunato
Santo Fortunato Indiana University
Ciro Cattuto
Ciro Cattuto University of Turin
Padmini Srinivasan
Padmini Srinivasan University of Iowa
W. Nick Street
W. Nick Street University of Iowa
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi Indiana University

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