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D-Index
41
Citations
19615
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8568
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3665

Haewoon Kwak 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 Haewoon Kwak sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 134 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Haewoon Kwak 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 Haewoon Kwak sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Haewoon Kwak is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence and sociology. Their body of work spans research areas such as misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, social media and politics, complex network analysis techniques, topic modeling, spam and phishing detection, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics within these fields. Notable papers include:

  • "Persona Perception Scale: Development and Exploratory Validation of an Instrument for Evaluating Individuals' Perceptions of Personas" (2020), published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • "Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "More of a Receiver Than a Giver: Why Do People Unfollow in Twitter?" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "FrameAxis: characterizing microframe bias and intensity with word embedding" (2021), published in PeerJ Computer Science
  • "Public perception of generative AI on Twitter: an empirical study based on occupation and usage" (2024), published in EPJ Data Science

Haewoon Kwak has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jisun An
  • Takayuki Uchiba
  • Kunwoo Park
  • Yong-Yeol Ahn
  • Bernard J. Jansen

Their research has been disseminated across various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PeerJ Computer Science
  • JMIR Formative Research

Their main fields of study include computer science and social sciences, with a significant number of works in artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, statistical and nonlinear physics, communication, and information systems. This multidisciplinary approach reflects an integration of computational methods with social and political analysis.

Best Publications

  • What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?

    Haewoon Kwak;Changhyun Lee;Hosung Park;Sue Moon

  • I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system

    Meeyoung Cha;Haewoon Kwak;Pablo Rodriguez;Yong-Yeol Ahn

  • Analysis of topological characteristics of huge online social networking services

    Yong-Yeol Ahn;Seungyeop Han;Haewoon Kwak;Sue Moon

  • Analyzing the video popularity characteristics of large-scale user generated content systems

    Meeyoung Cha;Haewoon Kwak;Pablo Rodriguez;Yong-Yeol Ahn

  • Exploring Cyberbullying and Other Toxic Behavior in Team Competition Online Games

    Haewoon Kwak;Jeremy Blackburn;Seungyeop Han

  • Comparison of online social relations in volume vs interaction: a case study of cyworld

    Hyunwoo Chun;Haewoon Kwak;Young-Ho Eom;Yong-Yeol Ahn

  • What is Gab: A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber

    Savvas Zannettou;Barry Bradlyn;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Haewoon Kwak

  • Didn't you see my message?: predicting attentiveness to mobile instant messages

    Martin Pielot;Rodrigo de Oliveira;Haewoon Kwak;Nuria Oliver

  • The wisdom of the few: a collaborative filtering approach based on expert opinions from the web

    Xavier Amatriain;Neal Lathia;Josep M. Pujol;Haewoon Kwak

  • Finding influentials based on the temporal order of information adoption in twitter

    Changhyun Lee;Haewoon Kwak;Hosung Park;Sue Moon

  • Fragile online relationship: a first look at unfollow dynamics in twitter

    Haewoon Kwak;Hyunwoo Chun;Sue Moon

  • STFU NOOB!: predicting crowdsourced decisions on toxic behavior in online games

    Jeremy Blackburn;Haewoon Kwak

  • What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?

    Savvas Zannettou;Barry Bradlyn;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Haewoon Kwak

  • Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News

    Julio Cesar Soares dos Rieis;Fabrício Benevenuto de Souza;Pedro Olmo Stancioli Vaz de Melo;Raquel Oliveira Prates

  • Anatomy of online hate: Developing a taxonomy and machine learning models for identifying and classifying hate in online news media

    Joni Salminen;Hind Almerekhi;Milica Milenković;Soon Gyo Jung

  • Customer segmentation using online platforms: isolating behavioral and demographic segments for persona creation via aggregated user data

    Jisun An;Haewoon Kwak;Soon‑gyo Jung;Joni Salminen;Joni Salminen

  • Linguistic Analysis of Toxic Behavior in an Online Video Game

    Haewoon Kwak;Jeremy Blackburn

  • Persona Generation from Aggregated Social Media Data

    Soon-Gyo Jung;Jisun An;Haewoon Kwak;Moeed Ahmad

  • High correlation of Middle East respiratory syndrome spread with Google search and Twitter trends in Korea

    Soo Yong Shin;Dong Woo Seo;Jisun An;Haewoon Kwak

  • Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News

    Julio Reis;Fabrıcio Benevenuto;Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo;Raquel Prates

  • Imaginary People Representing Real Numbers: Generating Personas from Online Social Media Data

    J. An;H. Kwak;S. Jung;J. Salminen

  • Mining communities in networks: a solution for consistency and its evaluation

    Haewoon Kwak;Yoonchan Choi;Young-Ho Eom;Hawoong Jeong

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard J. Jansen
Bernard J. Jansen Qatar Computing Research Institute
Sue Moon
Sue Moon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yong-Yeol Ahn
Yong-Yeol Ahn Indiana University
Jeremy Blackburn
Jeremy Blackburn Binghamton University
Hawoong Jeong
Hawoong Jeong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Meeyoung Cha
Meeyoung Cha Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Preslav Nakov
Preslav Nakov Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Pablo Rodriguez
Pablo Rodriguez Telefónica (Spain)
Fabrício Benevenuto
Fabrício Benevenuto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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