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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
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  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multi-dimensional human and cyber dynamic networks

Overview

Kathleen M. Carley is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within social sciences and computer science. Their work extensively addresses topics related to misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, spam and phishing detection, opinion dynamics and social influence, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, complex network analysis techniques, and sentiment analysis and opinion mining.

Carley has contributed to various subfields, including sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, information systems, and communication. Their publications appear in several venues with notable frequency, such as arXiv (Cornell University), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Social Network Analysis and Mining, and Journal of Computational Social Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Carley include:

  • "Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Social cybersecurity: an emerging science," 2020, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • "Bots and online hate during the COVID-19 pandemic: case studies in the United States and the Philippines," 2020, Journal of Computational Social Science
  • "Hunting Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2021, Social Media + Society
  • "Disinformation and Misinformation on Twitter during the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Joshua Uyheng, Iain J. Cruickshank, Samantha C. Phillips, and Peter Carragher.

Kathleen M. Carley was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2014 for contributions to multi-dimensional human and cyber dynamic networks.

Best Publications

  • Network Structure in Virtual Organizations

    Manju K. Ahuja;Kathleen M. Carley

  • A Theory of Group Stability

    Kathleen Carley

  • Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose

    Fred Morstatter;Jürgen Pfeffer;Huan Liu;Kathleen M. Carley

  • Coding Choices for Textual Analysis: A Comparison of Content Analysis and Map Analysis

    Kathleen Carley

  • Simulation modeling in organizational and management research

    J. Richard Harrison;Zhiang Lin;Glenn R. Carroll;Kathleen M. Carley

  • Extracting, Representing, and Analyzing Mental Models

    Kathleen Carley;Michael Palmquist

  • On the robustness of centrality measures under conditions of imperfect data

    Stephen P. Borgatti;Kathleen M. Carley;David Krackhardt

  • Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence

    Fei-Yue Wang;Daniel Zeng;K.M. Carley;W. Mao

  • Understanding online firestorms: Negative word-of-mouth dynamics in social media networks

    J. Pfeffer;T. Zorbach;K. M. Carley

  • Individual Centrality and Performance in Virtual R&D Groups: An Empirical Study

    Manju K. Ahuja;Dennis F. Galletta;Kathleen M. Carley

  • Extracting team mental models through textual analysis

    Kathleen M. Carley

  • Organizational Learning and Personnel Turnover

    Kathleen Carley

  • Computational organization theory

    Kathleen M. Carley;Michael J. Prietula

  • Choosing Work Group Members: Balancing Similarity, Competence, and Familiarity

    Pamela J Hinds;Kathleen M Carley;David Krackhardt;Doug Wholey

  • Identification of coordination requirements: implications for the Design of collaboration and awareness tools

    Marcelo Cataldo;Patrick A. Wagstrom;James D. Herbsleb;Kathleen M. Carley

  • Dynamic Network Analysis

    Kathleen Carley

  • Simulating organizations: computational models of institutions and groups

    Michael J. Prietula;Kathleen M. Carley;Les Gasser

  • Introduction to the Special Issue: Applications of Complexity Theory to Organization Science

    Philip Anderson;Alan Meyer;Kathleen Eisenhardt;Kathleen Carley

  • Socio-technical congruence: a framework for assessing the impact of technical and work dependencies on software development productivity

    Marcelo Cataldo;James D. Herbsleb;Kathleen M. Carley

  • Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers

    Ronald Brelger;Kathleen Carley;Philippa Pattison

Frequent Co-Authors

David Krackhardt
David Krackhardt Carnegie Mellon University
Huan Liu
Huan Liu Arizona State University
James D. Herbsleb
James D. Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University
Bradley Schmerl
Bradley Schmerl Carnegie Mellon University
Carter T. Butts
Carter T. Butts University of California, Irvine
Les Gasser
Les Gasser University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fei-Yue Wang
Fei-Yue Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Garlan
David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University
Edoardo M. Airoldi
Edoardo M. Airoldi Temple University
Suzanne Bakken
Suzanne Bakken Columbia University

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