2026 Preslav Nakov: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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

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

1528
Citations
SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Preslav Nakov;Alan Ritter;Sara Rosenthal;Fabrizio Sebastiani

1235
Citations
SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations between Pairs of Nominals

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

743
Citations
SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval).

Marcos Zampieri;Shervin Malmasi;Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal

723
Citations
Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media

Marcos Zampieri;Shervin Malmasi;Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal

692
Citations
SemEval-2013 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal;Zornitsa Kozareva;Veselin Stoyanov

558
Citations
Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition

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

539
Citations
SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020)

Marcos Zampieri;Preslav Nakov;Sara Rosenthal;Pepa Atanasova

481
Citations
SemEval-2014 Task 9: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Sara Rosenthal;Alan Ritter;Preslav Nakov;Veselin Stoyanov

402
Citations
SemEval-2015 Task 10: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Sara Rosenthal;Preslav Nakov;Svetlana Kiritchenko;Saif Mohammad

359
Citations
SemEval-2017 Task 3: Community Question Answering

Preslav Nakov;Doris Hoogeveen;Lluís Màrquez;Alessandro Moschitti

319
Citations
Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article

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

297
Citations
SemEval-2007 Task 04: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals

Roxana Girju;Preslav Nakov;Vivi Nastase;Stan Szpakowicz

236
Citations
Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources

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

235
Citations
FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation

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

221
Citations
SemEval-2015 Task 3: Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

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

218
Citations
Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT

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

198
Citations
BioText Search Engine

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

198
Citations
Proppy: Organizing the news based on their propagandistic content

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

187
Citations
SemEval-2016 Task 3: Community Question Answering

Preslav Nakov;Lluís Màrquez;Alessandro Moschitti;Walid Magdy

181
Citations
SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

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

15
Citations
SemEval-2015 Task 10: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

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

5
Citations
SemEval-2013 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Preslav Nakov;Zornitsa Kozareva;Alan Ritter;Sara Rosenthal

2
Citations
SemEval-2014 Task 9: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Sara Rosenthal;Preslav Nakov;Alan Ritter;Veselin Stoyanov

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluís Màrquez Amazon (United States)

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño University of Bologna

James Glass MIT

Alessandro Moschitti Amazon (United States)

Shafiq Joty Salesforce (United States)

Marti A. Hearst University of California, Berkeley

Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa

Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki

Marcos Zampieri George Mason University

Alan Ritter Georgia Institute of Technology

External Links

Wikipedia of Preslav Nakov Personal website of Preslav Nakov Google Scholar page

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