2026 Yu-Ru Lin: 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	33	12600	12232	5105	4873	149	5197

Yu-Ru Lin 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 Yu-Ru Lin sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 149 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yu-Ru Lin 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 Yu-Ru Lin sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yu-Ru Lin is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. The scientific work focuses primarily on the social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, communication, statistical and nonlinear physics, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main research topics covered by Yu-Ru Lin include:

Social Media and Politics
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advanced battery technologies research

Yu-Ru Lin has contributed to various journals and conference venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Frontiers in Marine Science
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research

Recent scholarly papers by Yu-Ru Lin and collaborators are:

#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtags, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
The dynamics of Twitter users' gun narratives across major mass shooting events, 2020, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Additional notable papers authored by others but relevant within the broader research field include:

Data-Driven Computational Social Science: A Survey, 2020, Big Data Research
Accuracy of long-form data in the Taiwan cancer registry, 2021, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Yu-Ru Lin collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

Wen-Ting Chung
Yongsu Ahn
Huai-Ting Huang
Yeh-Fang Hu
Yan-Gu Lin

Best Publications

Facetnet: a framework for analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic networks

Yu-Ru Lin;Yun Chi;Shenghuo Zhu;Hari Sundaram

569
Citations
Analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic social networks

Yu-Ru Lin;Yun Chi;Shenghuo Zhu;Hari Sundaram

371
Citations
Recipe recommendation using ingredient networks

Chun-Yuen Teng;Yu-Ru Lin;Lada A. Adamic

365
Citations
How Does the Data Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media

Munmun De Choudhury;Yu Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;K. Selçuk Candan

327
Citations
MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization

Yu-Ru Lin;Jimeng Sun;Paul Castro;Ravi Konuru

288
Citations
Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Diffusion in Real Time

Nan Cao;Yu-Ru Lin;Xiaohua Sun;D. Lazer

238
Citations
#FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media

Jian Zhao;Nan Cao;Zhen Wen;Yale Song

218
Citations
FacetAtlas: Multifaceted Visualization for Rich Text Corpora

Nan Cao;Jimeng Sun;Yu-Ru Lin;D Gotz

201
Citations
Rising tides or rising stars?: Dynamics of shared attention on Twitter during media events.

Yu Ru Lin;Brian Keegan;Drew Margolin;David Lazer

190
Citations
TargetVue: Visual Analysis of Anomalous User Behaviors in Online Communication Systems

Nan Cao;Conglei Shi;Sabrina Lin;Jie Lu

160
Citations
FairSight: Visual Analytics for Fairness in Decision Making

Yongsu Ahn;Yu-Ru Lin

127
Citations
Tracking employment shocks using mobile phone data

Jameson Lawrence Toole;Yu-Ru Lin;Erich Muehlegger;Daniel Shoag

124
Citations
Discovery of Blog Communities based on Mutual Awareness

Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Jun Tatemura

123
Citations
Voila: Visual Anomaly Detection and Monitoring with Streaming Spatiotemporal Data

Nan Cao;Chaoguang Lin;Qiuhan Zhu;Yu-Ru Lin

120
Citations
Blog Community Discovery and Evolution Based on Mutual Awareness Expansion

Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Junichi Tatemura

113
Citations
#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtags

Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin;Brian Keegan;Andrea Baronchelli

109
Citations
Splog detection using self-similarity analysis on blog temporal dynamics

Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Junichi Tatemura

106
Citations
The ripple of fear, sympathy and solidarity during the Boston bombings

Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin

87
Citations
Connecting content to community in social media via image content, user tags and user communication

Munmun De Choudhury;Hari Sundaram;Yu-Ru Lin;Ajita John

86
Citations
SocialHelix: visual analysis of sentiment divergence in social media

Nan Cao;Lu Lu;Yu-Ru Lin;Fei Wang

79
Citations
Voices of victory: a computational focus group framework for tracking opinion shift in real time

Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin;Brian Keegan;David Lazer

75
Citations
More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks

Yu-Ru Lin;James P. Bagrow;David Lazer

71
Citations
Data-driven Computational Social Science: A Survey

Jun Zhang;Wei Wang;Feng Xia;Yu-Ru Lin

58
Citations
Twitter in academic events

Denis Parra;Christoph Trattner;Diego Gómez;Matías Hurtado

40
Citations
#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtag

Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin;Brian Keegan;Andrea Baronchelli

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hari Sundaram University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nan Cao Tongji University

David Lazer Northeastern University

Belle L. Tseng Apple (United States)

Yun Chi Robinhood

Jimeng Sun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Munmun De Choudhury Georgia Institute of Technology

Hanghang Tong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University

Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

External Links

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