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Lada A. Adamic 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 Lada A. Adamic sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 137 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lada A. Adamic 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 Lada A. Adamic sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 75th percentile

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

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Overview

Lada A. Adamic is affiliated with Facebook in the United States. Their research spans several areas within social sciences and physics, with a focus on computational and social network analysis.

Their publication record includes contributions to the field of social media, politics, and complex networks. Adamic's work frequently appears in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, where they have published 11 papers. Other venues for their research include arXiv (Cornell University), the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, the Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media, and the Harvard Dataverse.

Research topics covered by Adamic include:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Media Influence and Politics

Their work spans the main fields of Social Sciences, represented by 24 publications, and Physics and Astronomy, with 15 publications. In terms of subfields, their output includes contributions to Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Information Systems, and Computer Science Applications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Adamic include:

  • "The Party Is Over Here: Structure and Content in the 2010 Election," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "The Anatomy of Large Facebook Cascades," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Memes Online: Extracted, Subtracted, Injected, and Recollected," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Families on Facebook," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Lada A. Adamic has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Bogdan State
  • Amaç Herdağdelen
  • Mark S. Ackerman
  • M. D. Simmons
  • Eytan Adar

Best Publications

  • Computational Social Science

    David M. Lazer;Alex Pentland;Lada Adamic;Sinan Aral;Sinan Aral

  • Friends and neighbors on the Web

    Lada A Adamic;Eytan Adar

  • Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook

    Eytan Bakshy;Solomon Messing;Lada A. Adamic;Lada A. Adamic

  • The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog

    Lada A. Adamic;Natalie Glance

  • The dynamics of viral marketing

    Jure Leskovec;Lada A. Adamic;Bernardo A. Huberman

  • The role of social networks in information diffusion

    Eytan Bakshy;Itamar Rosenn;Cameron Marlow;Lada Adamic

  • Search in Power-law networks

    Lada A. Adamic;Rajan M. Lukose;Amit R. Puniyani;Bernardo A. Huberman

  • Power-Law Distribution of the World Wide Web

    Lada A. Adamic;Bernardo A. Huberman

  • Expertise networks in online communities: structure and algorithms

    Jun Zhang;Mark S. Ackerman;Lada Adamic

  • Growth dynamics of the World-Wide Web

    Bernardo A. Huberman;Lada A. Adamic

  • Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something

    Lada A. Adamic;Jun Zhang;Eytan Bakshy;Mark S. Ackerman

  • Zipf's law and the Internet

    Lada A. Adamic;Bernardo A. Huberman

  • How to search a social network

    Lada A. Adamic;Eytan Adar

  • Can cascades be predicted

    Justin Cheng;Lada Adamic;P. Alex Dow;Jon Michael Kleinberg

  • The Small World Web

    Lada A. Adamic

  • Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace

    Eytan Adar;Lada A. Adamic

  • A social network caught in the Web

    Lada A. Adamic;Orkut Buyukkokten;Eytan Adar

  • Social influence and the diffusion of user-created content

    Eytan Bakshy;Brian Karrer;Lada A. Adamic

  • The Nature of Markets in the World Wide Web

    Bernardo A. Huberman;Lada A. Adamic

  • Information flow in social groups

    Fang Wu;Bernardo A. Huberman;Lada A. Adamic;Joshua R. Tyler

  • Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto-a ranking tutorial

    L. A. Adamic

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. Ackerman
Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eytan Adar
Eytan Adar University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg Cornell University
Jure Leskovec
Jure Leskovec Stanford University
Belle L. Tseng
Belle L. Tseng Apple (United States)
Francine R. Chen
Francine R. Chen FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Harith Alani
Harith Alani The Open University
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers University of North Texas

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