Filippo Menczer
American computer scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Filippo Menczer is an American and Italian academic. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Luddy Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University. Menczer is the Director of the Observatory on Social Media, a research center where data scientists and journalists study the role of media and technology in society and build tools to analyze and counter disinformation and manipulation on social media. Menczer holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics, is a founding member and advisory council member of the IU Network Science Institute, a former director the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute, a fellow of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, and a former fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy. In 2020 he was named a Fellow of the ACM.
Filippo Menczer's Published Works
Published Works
- The science of fake news (2018) (2192)
- The rise of social bots (2014) (1523)
- Political Polarization on Twitter (2011) (1375)
- Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization (2017) (808)
- Competition among memes in a world with limited attention (2012) (776)
- BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots (2016) (759)
- Social phishing (2007) (614)
- Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users (2011) (603)
- The spread of low-credibility content by social bots (2017) (598)
- Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media (2011) (586)
- Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks (2013) (546)
- Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams (2010) (490)
- Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks (2015) (399)
- Friendship prediction and homophily in social media (2012) (385)
- The spread of fake news by social bots (2017) (371)
- The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge (2016) (347)
- Evaluating similarity measures for emergent semantics of social tagging (2009) (343)
- Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation (2016) (336)
- Feature selection in unsupervised learning via evolutionary search (2000) (332)
- Topical web crawlers: Evaluating adaptive algorithms (2004) (314)
- Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots (2019) (278)
- Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Astroturf Memes in Microblog Streams (2010) (275)
- Partisan asymmetries in online political activity (2012) (270)
- Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of online popularity (2010) (245)
- Evaluating topic-driven web crawlers (2001) (228)
- Crawling the Web (2004) (227)
- Algorithmic detection of semantic similarity (2005) (225)
- Social spam detection (2009) (211)
- Anatomy of an online misinformation network (2018) (204)
- Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection (2019) (194)
- Folks in Folksonomies: social link prediction from shared metadata (2010) (190)
- The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street (2013) (183)
- Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web (2000) (180)
- Customer Targeting: A Neural Network Approach Guided by Genetic Algorithms (2005) (171)
- Predicting Successful Memes Using Network and Community Structure (2014) (162)
- The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network (2013) (155)
- Measuring Online Social Bubbles (2015) (149)
- The role of information diffusion in the evolution of social networks (2013) (148)
- Fact-checking Effect on Viral Hoaxes: A Model of Misinformation Spread in Social Networks (2015) (140)
- Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information (2017) (137)
- A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers (2005) (136)
- Scale-free network growth by ranking. (2006) (132)
- Feature selection in data mining (2003) (127)
- Detection of Novel Social Bots by Ensembles of Specialized Classifiers (2020) (120)
- Evolutionary model selection in unsupervised learning (2002) (114)
- How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality (2017) (114)
- Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias (2006) (112)
- ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery (1997) (112)
- Growing and navigating the small world Web by local content (2002) (110)
- Social Dynamics of Science (2012) (107)
- Early detection of promoted campaigns on social media (2017) (106)
- Modeling Statistical Properties of Written Text (2009) (105)
- Lexical and semantic clustering by Web links (2004) (103)
- Evolution of online user behavior during a social upheaval (2014) (102)
- Approximating PageRank from In-Degree (2007) (101)
- Complementing search engines with online web mining agents (2003) (100)
- The production of information in the attention economy (2014) (97)
- Prevalence of Low-Credibility Information on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak (2020) (96)
- Finding Streams in Knowledge Graphs to Support Fact Checking (2017) (95)
- First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia (2015) (95)
- The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook (2020) (91)
- Ranking web sites with real user traffic (2008) (88)
- Universality of scholarly impact metrics (2013) (88)
- Detection of Promoted Social Media Campaigns (2016) (83)
- Adaptive information agents in distributed textual environments (1998) (81)
- Emerging small-world referral networks in evolutionary labor markets (2001) (79)
- Scalable Web Search by Adaptive Online Agents: An InfoSpiders Case Study (1999) (78)
- Evolution of document networks (2004) (78)
- Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity (2006) (77)
- MySpiders: Evolve Your Own Intelligent Web Crawlers (2002) (77)
- From Complex Environments to Complex Behaviors (1996) (75)
- Topical Crawling for Business Intelligence (2003) (74)
- Clustering memes in social media (2013) (72)
- Social network structure, segregation, and equality in a labor market with referral hiring (2008) (72)
- Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers (2019) (68)
- Traveling trends: social butterflies or frequent fliers? (2013) (61)
- Efficient and Scalable Pareto Optimization by Evolutionary Local Selection Algorithms (2000) (61)
- Effect of rule choice in dynamic interactive spatial commons (2008) (61)
- Maturation and the Evolution of Imitative Learning in Artificial Organisms (1995) (59)
- Topicality and Impact in Social Media: Diverse Messages, Focused Messengers (2014) (58)
- On the Influence of Social Bots in Online Protests - Preliminary Findings of a Mexican Case Study (2016) (56)
- Truthy: enabling the study of online social networks (2012) (54)
- Quantifying Biases in Online Information Exposure (2018) (54)
- Exploration versus Exploitation in Topic Driven Crawlers (2002) (53)
- Latent energy environments (1996) (52)
- Artificial Life Applied to Adaptive Information Agents (1995) (52)
- Ultra High-Dimensional Nonlinear Feature Selection for Big Biological Data (2016) (51)
- OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media (2016) (50)
- Emerging semantic communities in peer web search (2006) (47)
- Traffic in Social Media II: Modeling Bursty Popularity (2010) (47)
- EVOLVING SENSORS IN ENVIRONMENTS OF CONTROLLED COMPLEXITY (1994) (46)
- Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal (2021) (46)
- Adaptive Assistants for Customized E-Shopping (2002) (46)
- Personalizing PageRank Based on Domain Profiles (2004) (45)
- What's in a session: tracking individual behavior on the web (2009) (45)
- Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media (2020) (45)
- Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies (2021) (44)
- Mapping the semantics of Web text and links (2005) (43)
- Exposure to Social Engagement Metrics Increases Vulnerability to Misinformation (2020) (42)
- How to make the top ten: Approximating PageRank from in-degree (2005) (42)
- Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information (2002) (41)
- Co-evolution of movement behaviours by tropical pelagic predatory fishes in response to prey environment: a simulation model (2000) (41)
- Optimal ensemble construction via meta-evolutionary ensembles (2006) (40)
- IntelliShopper: a proactive, personal, private shopping assistant (2002) (39)
- Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (2009) (39)
- Unveiling Coordinated Groups Behind White Helmets Disinformation (2020) (39)
- Dynamic extraction topic descriptors and discriminators: towards automatic context-based topic search (2004) (37)
- ARCCHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods (1997) (36)
- A First Course in Network Science (2020) (36)
- GiveALink: mining a semantic network of bookmarks for web search and recommendation (2005) (35)
- Using Hyperlink Features to Personalize Web Search (2004) (35)
- On the lack of typical behavior in the global Web traffic network (2005) (35)
- The egalitarian effect of search engines (2005) (34)
- CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-Language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines (2021) (34)
- Correction: Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks (2015) (34)
- Clustering memes in social media streams (2014) (33)
- Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content (2001) (33)
- Correlated topologies in citation networks and the Web (2004) (32)
- Traffic in Social Media I: Paths Through Information Networks (2010) (32)
- On Local Estimations of PageRank: A Mean Field Approach (2007) (31)
- Contextual tag inference (2011) (31)
- Behavior-driven clustering of queries into topics (2011) (30)
- A scalable, collaborative similarity measure for social annotation systems (2009) (30)
- Design and prototyping of a social media observatory (2013) (30)
- Scholarometer: A Social Framework for Analyzing Impact across Disciplines (2012) (29)
- Quality versus quantity in scientific impact (2014) (28)
- On the Inevitability of Online Echo Chambers (2019) (28)
- Research Challenges of Digital Misinformation: Toward a Trustworthy Web (2018) (28)
- Neutral bots probe political bias on social media (2020) (27)
- 6S: Distributing Crawling and Searching Across Web Peers (2005) (27)
- The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media (2016) (26)
- Topic-Driven Crawlers: Machine Learning Issues (2002) (26)
- The spread of misinformation by social bots (2017) (26)
- Attention on Weak Ties in Social and Communication Networks (2015) (26)
- Combining link and content analysis to estimate semantic similarity (2004) (25)
- Bookmark Hierarchies and Collaborative Recommendation (2006) (25)
- Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots (2020) (25)
- Structural analysis of behavioral networks from the Internet (2008) (24)
- The Hoaxy Misinformation and Fact-Checking Diffusion Network (2018) (24)
- A cluster-based approach to tracking, detection and segmentation of broadcast news (1999) (23)
- Visualizing Communication on Social Media: Making Big Data Accessible (2012) (23)
- Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation (2021) (23)
- Botometer 101: social bot practicum for computational social scientists (2022) (22)
- Recombination and unsupervised learning: effects of crossover in the genetic optimization of neural networks (1992) (21)
- Small world peer networks in distributed web search (2004) (21)
- Bot Electioneering Volume: Visualizing Social Bot Activity During Elections (2019) (21)
- Crowdsourcing Scholarly Data (2010) (21)
- An Endogenous Fitness Paradigm for Adaptive Information Agents (1994) (20)
- Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests (2003) (20)
- Feature Engineering for Social Bot Detection (2018) (20)
- Arming the public with AI to counter social bots (2019) (20)
- Evidence of hyperplanes in the genetic learning of neural networks (2004) (18)
- An evolutionary multi-objective local selection algorithm for customer targeting (2001) (18)
- Ambiguous author query detection using crowdsourced digital library annotations (2013) (18)
- CoVaxxy: A global collection of English Twitter posts about COVID-19 vaccines (2021) (17)
- The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations (2021) (17)
- BotSlayer: real-time detection of bot amplification on Twitter (2019) (17)
- Political audience diversity and news reliability in algorithmic ranking (2020) (16)
- Agents, bookmarks and clicks: a topical model of web navigation (2010) (16)
- GiveALink tagging game: an incentive for social annotation (2010) (16)
- Local Selection (1998) (16)
- Target Seeking Crawlers and their Topical Performance (2002) (15)
- 1 Evolving Heterogeneous Neural Agents by Local Selection (1999) (15)
- Visualizing social links in exploratory search (2008) (15)
- Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis (2002) (15)
- Life-like agents: internalizing local cues for reinforcement learning and evolution (1998) (14)
- Efficient assembly of social semantic networks (2008) (14)
- Remembering what we like: Toward an agent-based model of Web traffic (2009) (14)
- Topicality and Social Impact: Diverse Messages but Focused Messengers (2014) (13)
- Retraction Note: Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information (2019) (13)
- Properties and Evolution of Internet Traffic Networks from Anonymized Flow Data (2011) (13)
- Fakey: A Game Intervention to Improve News Literacy on Social Media (2021) (12)
- Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service (2003) (12)
- Fakey: A Game Intervention to Improve News Literacy on Social Media (2021) (12)
- Massive Multi-agent Data-Driven Simulations of the GitHub Ecosystem (2019) (12)
- Sixearch.org 2.0 peer application for collaborative web search (2009) (12)
- Changing Latent Energy Environments: A Case for the Evolution of Plasticity (1994) (12)
- Human-Bot Interactions : Detection , Estimation , and Characterization (2017) (11)
- ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned (1998) (11)
- Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Social Networks for Distributed Content-Based Web Search (2008) (11)
- Design of social games for collecting reliable semantic annotations (2011) (11)
- Detecting Ambiguous Author Names in Crowdsourced Scholarly Data (2011) (11)
- Information Pollution by Social Bots (2019) (10)
- Modeling Traffic on the Web Graph (2010) (10)
- Supporting a Social Media Observatory with Customizable Index Structures: Architecture and Performance (2014) (10)
- A NEURO-ETHOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR THE TSP: CHANGING METAPHORS IN CONNECTIONIST MODELS (1994) (10)
- Fast filtering and animation of large dynamic networks (2013) (9)
- Adaptive query routing in peer web search (2005) (9)
- Latent Energy Environments: A tool for artificial life simulations (1993) (9)
- A Semantic Framework for Evaluating Topical Search Methods (2011) (8)
- Mining for Topics to Suggest Knowledge Model Extensions (2016) (8)
- Incentives for social annotation (2009) (8)
- One Year of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter: Longitudinal Study (2022) (8)
- Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science (2014) (8)
- A Role for Network Science in Social Norms Intervention (2015) (8)
- The DARPA SocialSim Challenge: Massive Multi-Agent Simulations of the Github Ecosystem (2019) (7)
- A model for the emergence of sex in evolving networks: Adaptive advantage or random drift? In F (1992) (7)
- Detecting Climate Teleconnections With Granger Causality (2020) (7)
- Neutral Bots Reveal Political Bias on Social Media (2020) (7)
- Agent-based model selection framework for complex adaptive systems (2006) (7)
- Beyond Zipf's law: Modeling the structure of human language (2009) (7)
- An Agenda for Disinformation Research (2020) (7)
- Latency-dependent fitness in evolutionary multithreaded Web agents (2001) (7)
- The chain model for social tagging game design (2011) (7)
- Intelligent Peer Networks for Collaborative Web Search (2008) (6)
- Scalable Detection of Viral Memes from Diffusion Patterns (2018) (6)
- The Manufacture of Political Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter (2020) (6)
- Recency predicts bursts in the evolution of author citations (2019) (6)
- Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media (2022) (6)
- Can the Wikipedia moderation model rescue the social marketplace of ideas? (2021) (6)
- Lack of quality discrimination in online information markets (2017) (6)
- Fakey (2021) (6)
- Diverse peer selection in collaborative web search (2009) (6)
- On the challenges of predicting microscopic dynamics of online conversations (2021) (6)
- Using Topic Ontologies and Semantic Similarity Data to Evaluate Topical Search (2010) (5)
- A Framework for Analysis of Anonymized Network Flow Data (2007) (5)
- Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks (2006) (5)
- Is Agent-based Online Search Feasible? (1999) (5)
- Can crowdsourcing rescue the social marketplace of ideas? (2021) (5)
- Incentives for social annotation (2009) (5)
- Social Network Structure , Equality and Segregation in a Labor Market with Referral Hiring (2002) (5)
- White Paper: DEEP FAKERY—An Action Plan (2020) (5)
- Semi-Supervised Evaluation of Search Engines via Semantic Mapping (2003) (4)
- Scholarometer: a system for crowdsourcing scholarly impact metrics (2014) (4)
- The Manufacture of Partisan Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter (2020) (4)
- How Twitter data sampling biases U.S. voter behavior characterizations (2020) (4)
- Manipulating the Online Marketplace of Ideas. (2020) (4)
- BotSlayer: DIY Real-Time Influence Campaign Detection (2020) (4)
- Connecting dream networks across cultures (2014) (3)
- Computational Analysis of Collective Behaviors via Agent-Based Modeling (2013) (3)
- Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions (2022) (3)
- HYPERTEXT 2009, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Torino, Italy, June 29 - July 1, 2009 (2009) (3)
- OAMulator: a teaching resource to introduce computer architecture concepts (2001) (3)
- Emergent semantics from game-induced folksonomies (2012) (3)
- Early detection of promoted campaigns on social media (2017) (3)
- News Sharing Networks Expose Information Polluters on Social Media (2022) (3)
- The diffusion of political memes in social media: keynote abstract (2012) (3)
- OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND POLITICAL MANIPULATION (2013) (3)
- 4 Reasons Why Social Media Make Us Vulnerable to Manipulation (2020) (3)
- RelSifter: Scoring Triples from Type-like Relations - The Samphire Triple Scorer at WSDM Cup 2017 (2017) (2)
- Visual comparison of search results: A censorship case study (2008) (2)
- Finding semantic needles in haystacks of Web text and links (2005) (2)
- Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2017 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2017) (2)
- Following the Trail of Fake News Spreaders in Social Media: A Deep Learning Model (2022) (2)
- Scalable Query and Analysis for Social Networks: An Integrated High-Level Dataflow System with Pig and Harp (2015) (2)
- Large language models can rate news outlet credibility (2023) (2)
- Text Snippets from the DomGraph (2008) (2)
- Socially induced semantic networks and applications (2009) (2)
- Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers (2020) (2)
- Modeling search-dominated Web growth (2006) (1)
- Friendship prediction and homophily in social media **PREPRINT*** (2011) (1)
- Partisan asymmetries in online political activity (2012) (1)
- Kinsey Reporter: Citizen Science for Sex Research (2016) (1)
- CoVaxxy Tweet IDs data set (2021) (1)
- Competition among memes in a world with limited attention (2012) (1)
- Do Recommender Systems Make Social Media More Susceptible to Misinformation Spreaders? (2022) (1)
- 1 E VOLVING S ENSORS IN E NVIRONMENTS OF C ONTROLLED C OMPLEXITY (1994) (1)
- Publisher Correction: Neutral bots probe political bias on social media (2022) (1)
- An Application of Personalized PageRank Vectors : Personalized Search Engine (2004) (1)
- Right and left, partisanship predicts vulnerability to misinformation (2020) (1)
- Introduction to the special topic section on mining Web resources for enhancing information retrieval (2007) (1)
- Fast filtering and animation of large dynamic networks (2014) (1)
- How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality (2018) (0)
- 6S: A Collaborative Web Search Network (2007) (0)
- Impact, productivity, and scientific excellence (2014) (0)
- Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia (2016) (0)
- Table of Contents: Online Supplement Volume 7S, Number 1 (2011) (0)
- The spread of low-credibility content by social bots (2018) (0)
- Web Forms and Untraceable DDoS Attacks (2010) (0)
- Eight Ways Social Media Makes Society Vulnerable to Misinformation (2019) (0)
- HT 2009, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2009) (0)
- Session details: Keynote2 (2009) (0)
- IU Progress Report May 2013 (2013) (0)
- IU Progress Report January 2013 (2013) (0)
- Web science 2014 chairs' welcome (2014) (0)
- Structural mining of large-scale behavioral data from the internet (2010) (0)
- Publisher Correction: Neutral bots probe political bias on social media (2022) (0)
- How things Work and Fail (2012) (0)
- Context Visualization for Social Bookmark Management (2012) (0)
- A multi-platform collection of social media posts about the 2022 U.S. midterm elections (2023) (0)
- On the challenges of predicting microscopic dynamics of online conversations (2021) (0)
- Fast animation of large dynamic networks (2013) (0)
- Navigating the Small World Web by Textual Cues (2002) (0)
- Agents, Bookmarks and Clicks: A topical model of Web traffic (2010) (0)
- Trigger control in a high energy physics experiment (1989) (0)
- DESPIC: Detecting Early Signatures of Persuasion in Information Cascades (2015) (0)
- Session details: Session 3: engagements (full papers) (2014) (0)
- Adaptive peer networks for distributed web search (2009) (0)
- Modeling the structure of written text (2009) (0)
- Clustering memes in social media streams (2014) (0)
- Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs (2003) (0)
- Ukraine as a Political Tool in Facebook Sponsored Content (2022) (0)
- Crowdsourced disciplines and universal impact (2014) (0)
- Vulnerabilities of the Online Public Square to Manipulation (2019) (0)
- A General Language for Modeling Social Media Account Behavior (2022) (0)
- Torino (Italy) to host the 20th ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia Conference in June 2009 (2008) (0)
- Measuring the Burden of Infodemics: Summary of the Methods and Results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference (2022) (0)
- On the use of sampling statistics to advance bibliometrics (2014) (0)
- Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information (2017) (0)
- Supporting Social Data Observatory with Customizable Index Structures on HBase - Architecture and Performance (2013) (0)
- Online misinformation is linked to COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal (Preprint) (2021) (0)
- Evidence of a coordinated network amplifying inauthentic narratives in the 2020 election (2020) (0)
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