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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Computer Science 76 1356 1314 12 12 332 20402

Preslav Nakov publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Preslav Nakov between 2000 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Preslav Nakov published across 27 years, from 2000 to 2026, averaging 22 papers a year. Output peaked at 89 publications in 2025. 90 of the 594 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60 80
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2000 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 89. Peak 89 publications in 2025. 2000: 2 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 7 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 16 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 31 publications 2017: 30 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 47 publications 2020: 30 publications 2021: 47 publications 2022: 39 publications 2023: 73 publications 2024: 77 publications 2025: 89 publications 2026: 1 publication
2000 2026

594 publications in total across all disciplines

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Preslav Nakov: publications per year, 2000 to 2026
Year Publications
2000 2
2001 3
2002 4
2003 7
2004 3
2005 4
2006 2
2007 5
2008 5
2009 16
2010 5
2011 6
2012 8
2013 13
2014 12
2015 18
2016 31
2017 30
2018 17
2019 47
2020 30
2021 47
2022 39
2023 73
2024 77
2025 89
2026 1
Total 594
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Preslav Nakov 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 Preslav Nakov sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 32–41 to 991+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 609. Most scientists, 609, have 142–151 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 332–341 publications, is where this scientist sits. 32–41 publications: 7 scientists 42–51 publications: 22 scientists 52–61 publications: 82 scientists 62–71 publications: 134 scientists 72–81 publications: 249 scientists 82–91 publications: 324 scientists 92–101 publications: 421 scientists 102–111 publications: 420 scientists 112–121 publications: 497 scientists 122–131 publications: 544 scientists 132–141 publications: 555 scientists 142–151 publications: 609 scientists 152–161 publications: 559 scientists 162–171 publications: 534 scientists 172–181 publications: 556 scientists 182–191 publications: 583 scientists 192–201 publications: 519 scientists 202–211 publications: 508 scientists 212–221 publications: 490 scientists 222–231 publications: 437 scientists 232–241 publications: 423 scientists 242–251 publications: 408 scientists 252–261 publications: 377 scientists 262–271 publications: 301 scientists 272–281 publications: 335 scientists 282–291 publications: 320 scientists 292–301 publications: 293 scientists 302–311 publications: 250 scientists 312–321 publications: 238 scientists 322–331 publications: 206 scientists 332–341 publications: 209 scientists 342–351 publications: 208 scientists 352–361 publications: 162 scientists 362–371 publications: 176 scientists 372–381 publications: 127 scientists 382–391 publications: 158 scientists 392–401 publications: 128 scientists 402–411 publications: 104 scientists 412–421 publications: 94 scientists 422–431 publications: 99 scientists 432–441 publications: 83 scientists 442–451 publications: 108 scientists 452–461 publications: 73 scientists 462–471 publications: 77 scientists 472–481 publications: 69 scientists 482–491 publications: 84 scientists 492–501 publications: 62 scientists 502–511 publications: 54 scientists 512–521 publications: 57 scientists 522–531 publications: 51 scientists 532–541 publications: 51 scientists 542–551 publications: 32 scientists 552–561 publications: 38 scientists 562–571 publications: 28 scientists 572–581 publications: 43 scientists 582–591 publications: 33 scientists 592–601 publications: 41 scientists 602–611 publications: 32 scientists 612–621 publications: 28 scientists 622–631 publications: 25 scientists 632–641 publications: 27 scientists 642–651 publications: 17 scientists 652–661 publications: 20 scientists 662–671 publications: 17 scientists 672–681 publications: 15 scientists 682–691 publications: 14 scientists 692–701 publications: 21 scientists 702–711 publications: 13 scientists 712–721 publications: 12 scientists 722–731 publications: 19 scientists 732–741 publications: 14 scientists 742–751 publications: 12 scientists 752–761 publications: 10 scientists 762–771 publications: 10 scientists 772–781 publications: 11 scientists 782–791 publications: 10 scientists 792–801 publications: 11 scientists 802–811 publications: 8 scientists 812–821 publications: 8 scientists 822–831 publications: 7 scientists 832–841 publications: 11 scientists 842–851 publications: 10 scientists 852–861 publications: 5 scientists 862–871 publications: 9 scientists 872–881 publications: 4 scientists 882–891 publications: 6 scientists 892–901 publications: 3 scientists 902–911 publications: 6 scientists 912–921 publications: 3 scientists 922–931 publications: 2 scientists 932–941 publications: 2 scientists 942–951 publications: 2 scientists 952–961 publications: 3 scientists 962–971 publications: 3 scientists 972–981 publications: 3 scientists 982–990 publications: 5 scientists 991+ publications: 100 scientists
32–41 publications 991+

This scientist: 332 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Computer Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
32–41 7
42–51 22
52–61 82
62–71 134
72–81 249
82–91 324
92–101 421
102–111 420
112–121 497
122–131 544
132–141 555
142–151 609
152–161 559
162–171 534
172–181 556
182–191 583
192–201 519
202–211 508
212–221 490
222–231 437
232–241 423
242–251 408
252–261 377
262–271 301
272–281 335
282–291 320
292–301 293
302–311 250
312–321 238
322–331 206
332–341 209 332
342–351 208
352–361 162
362–371 176
372–381 127
382–391 158
392–401 128
402–411 104
412–421 94
422–431 99
432–441 83
442–451 108
452–461 73
462–471 77
472–481 69
482–491 84
492–501 62
502–511 54
512–521 57
522–531 51
532–541 51
542–551 32
552–561 38
562–571 28
572–581 43
582–591 33
592–601 41
602–611 32
612–621 28
622–631 25
632–641 27
642–651 17
652–661 20
662–671 17
672–681 15
682–691 14
692–701 21
702–711 13
712–721 12
722–731 19
732–741 14
742–751 12
752–761 10
762–771 10
772–781 11
782–791 10
792–801 11
802–811 8
812–821 8
822–831 7
832–841 11
842–851 10
852–861 5
862–871 9
872–881 4
882–891 6
892–901 3
902–911 6
912–921 3
922–931 2
932–941 2
942–951 2
952–961 3
962–971 3
972–981 3
982–990 5
991+ 100
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Preslav Nakov 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 Preslav Nakov sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 52 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 131+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 990. Most scientists, 990, have 36–37 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 76–77 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Computer Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 879
32–33 983
34–35 918
36–37 990
38–39 968
40–41 907
42–43 821
44–45 763
46–47 689
48–49 543
50–51 543
52–53 518
54–55 500
56–57 458
58–59 400
60–61 337
62–63 308
64–65 292
66–67 249
68–69 213
70–71 192
72–73 189
74–75 165
76–77 139 76
78–79 119
80–81 121
82–83 113
84–85 88
86–87 87
88–89 75
90–91 69
92–93 57
94–95 46
96–97 38
98–99 34
100–101 36
102–103 27
104–105 37
106–107 18
108–109 31
110–111 19
112–113 16
114–115 12
116–117 20
118–119 15
120–121 5
122–123 20
124–125 8
126–127 5
128–129 7
130 3
131+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Arab Emirates Leader Award

Overview

Preslav Nakov is affiliated with the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates. Their research expertise lies primarily in computer science, with significant contributions to artificial intelligence and social sciences. The scope of their work spans multiple subfields including information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, and communication.

The scientist has a notable record of publications focusing on various topics such as topic modeling, misinformation and its impacts, natural language processing techniques, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, spam and phishing detection, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, and multimodal machine learning applications.

Preslav Nakov's recent papers include:

  • Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers, 2021, Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
  • A Survey on Stance Detection for Mis- and Disinformation Identification, 2022, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
  • Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images, 2021, IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
  • On the effect of dropping layers of pre-trained transformer models, 2022, Computer Speech & Language

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Preslav Nakov are:

  • Giovanni Da San Martino
  • Firoj Alam
  • Shaden Shaar
  • Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
  • Momchil Hardalov

Their work appears regularly in various publication venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Preslav Nakov has also contributed to book publications, notably publishing with Morgan & Claypool Publishers on the title Semantic Relations Between Nominals, Second Edition in 2021.

Best Publications

  • SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal;Noura Farra;Preslav Nakov

  • SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Preslav Nakov;Alan Ritter;Sara Rosenthal;Fabrizio Sebastiani

  • SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations between Pairs of Nominals

    Iris Hendrickx;Su Nam Kim;Zornitsa Kozareva;Preslav Nakov

  • SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval).

    Marcos Zampieri;Shervin Malmasi;Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal

  • Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media

    Marcos Zampieri;Shervin Malmasi;Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal

  • SemEval-2013 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal;Zornitsa Kozareva;Veselin Stoyanov

  • Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition

    Larry Smith;Lorraine K Tanabe;Rie Johnson nee Ando;Cheng-Ju Kuo

  • SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020)

    Marcos Zampieri;Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal;Pepa Atanasova

  • SemEval-2014 Task 9: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal;Alan Ritter;Preslav Nakov;Veselin Stoyanov

  • SemEval-2015 Task 10: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal;Preslav Nakov;Svetlana Kiritchenko;Saif Mohammad

  • SemEval-2017 Task 3: Community Question Answering

    Preslav Nakov;Doris Hoogeveen;Lluís Màrquez;Alessandro Moschitti

  • Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article

    Giovanni Da San Martino;Seunghak Yu;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Rostislav Petrov

  • SemEval-2007 Task 04: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals

    Roxana Girju;Preslav Nakov;Vivi Nastase;Stan Szpakowicz

  • Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources

    Ramy Baly;Georgi Karadzhov;Dimitar Alexandrov;James R. Glass

  • FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation

    Van-Hoang Nguyen;Kazunari Sugiyama;Preslav Nakov;Min-Yen Kan

  • SemEval-2015 Task 3: Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

    Preslav Nakov;Llu'is Màrquez;Walid Magdy;Alessandro Moschitti

  • Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT

    Prakhar Ganesh;Yao Chen;Xin Lou;Mohammad Ali Khan

  • BioText Search Engine

    Marti A. Hearst;Anna Divoli;Harendra Guturu;Alex Ksikes

  • Proppy: Organizing the news based on their propagandistic content

    Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Israa Jaradat;Giovanni Da San Martino;Preslav Nakov

  • SemEval-2016 Task 3: Community Question Answering

    Preslav Nakov;Lluís Màrquez;Alessandro Moschitti;Walid Magdy

  • SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

    G. Da San Martino;A. Barrón-Cedeño;H. Wachsmuth;R. Petrov

  • SemEval-2015 Task 10: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal;Saif M Mohammad;Preslav Nakov;Alan Ritter

  • SemEval-2013 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Preslav Nakov;Zornitsa Kozareva;Alan Ritter;Sara Rosenthal

  • SemEval-2014 Task 9: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal;Preslav Nakov;Alan Ritter;Veselin Stoyanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluís Màrquez
Lluís Màrquez Amazon (United States)
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño University of Bologna
Alessandro Moschitti
Alessandro Moschitti Amazon (United States)
Shafiq Joty
Shafiq Joty Salesforce (United States)
Marti A. Hearst
Marti A. Hearst University of California, Berkeley
Stan Szpakowicz
Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa
Jörg Tiedemann
Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki
Marcos Zampieri
Marcos Zampieri George Mason University
Alan Ritter
Alan Ritter Georgia Institute of Technology

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