We’re excited to announce that researchers at the Observatory on Social Media, the IU Network Science Institute, and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research will present 57 papers at various conferences over the summer.

Network Science Conference (NetSci)

• Oral presentations
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Clara Boothby, Filipi Silva, Attila Varga, Xiaoran Yan, Stasa Milojevic, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Mapping the space of research interests with embedding methods
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato: Clustering graph embedding in sparse networks
  • Munjung Kim, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Quantifying disruptiveness using neural embedding method
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Robert Mahari, Sandro Lera, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Uncovering the universal nature of citation networks: from science of science to law of law and patterns of patents
  • Matthew R. DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden, Filippo Menczer: Social media cascade reconstruction to find misinformation amplifiers
  • Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Santo Fortunato: Social contagion in science
  • Filipi Silva: Exploring visualizations of large networks and embeddings using Helios-Web
  • Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Julia B Barnett, Stasa Milojevic and Emoke-Agnes Horvat: Intersectional Inequalities in the Impact of Online Visibility on Citations
• Posters
  • Filipi N. Silva, Sadamori Kojaku, Lili Miao, Yong-Yeol Ahn, A Fine-Grained Map of All Sciences: Visualizing Nations’ Scientific Production
  • Ashutosh Tiwari, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn: A biased contrastive learning debiases graph neural networks
  • Rachith Aiyappa, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Extracting Belief Networks from Tweets

International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

• Plenary talks
  • Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Santo Fortunato: Social contagion in science
• Oral presentations
  • Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Sagar Kumar, Santo Fortunato, Maimuna Majumder: The COVID-19 research outbreak: how the pandemic culminated in a surge of new researchers
  • Morgan Frank, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Esteban Moro: AI exposure predicts unemployment risk
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Robert Mahari, Sandro Lera, Sandy Pentland, Esteban Moro, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Uncovering the universal nature of citation networks: From science of science to law of law and patterns of patents
  • Ashutosh Tiwari, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Biased contrastive learning debiases graph neural networks
  • Filipi N. Silva: Real-time visualization of large networks and embeddings
  • Bao Tran Truong, Xiaodan Lou, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer: Vulnerabilities of the Online Public Square to Manipulation
  • Akira Matsui, Kunihiro Miyazaki, Taichi Murayama: Exploring Urban-Rural Disparities in the Production of Politicians' Information
• Posters
  • Matthew R. DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden, Filippo Menczer: Social media cascade reconstruction to find misinformation amplifiers
  • Rachith Aiyappa, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Zero-Shot Stance Detection on Tweets
  • Munjung Kim, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Quantifying disruptiveness using a neural embedding method
  • Filipi Nascimento Silva, Sadamori Kojaku, Lili Miao, Yong-Yeol Ahn, A Fine-Grained Map of All Sciences: Visualizing Nations’ Scientific Production
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Clara Boothby, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Attila Varga, Xiaoran Yan, Stasa Milojevic, Alessandro Flamini, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Mapping Scientific Foraging
  • Lili Miao, Byungkyu Lee, Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy Sugimoto, Yong-Yeol Ahn: The hierarchical structure in international collaboration
  • Kunihiro Miyazaki, Taichi Murayama, Akira Matsui, Takayuki Uchiba, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An: Political Honeymoon Effect on Social Media: Characterizing Social Media Reaction to the Changes of Prime Minister in Japan
  • Kunihiro Miyazaki, Takayuki Uchiba, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Kazutoshi Sasahara: How do Toxic Comments Induce Fearful Responses in Anti-vaccine Videos on YouTube?
  • Francesco Pierri, Matthew R DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, David Axelrod, John Bryden, Filippo Menczer: The spread of vaccine misinformation on Twitter during 2021
  • Munjung Kim, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Quantifying disruptiveness using neural embedding method

International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI)

• Oral presentations
  • Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Santo Fortunato: Social contagion in science
  • Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Sagar Kumar, Santo Fortunato, Maimuna Majumder: The COVID-19 research outbreak: how the pandemic culminated in a surge of new researchers
  • Munjung Kim, Sadamori Kojaku, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Quantifying disruptiveness using neural embedding method
  • Enrico Berkes, Monica Marion, Stasa Milojevic and Bruce Weinberg: Slow convergence: Career impediments to boundary spanning in biomedical science
• Posters
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Clara Boothby, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Attila Varga, Xiaoran Yan, Stasa Milojevic, Alessandro Flamini, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Understanding the landscape of COVID-19 research by using neural embedding
  • Ana C. M. Brito, Filipi N. Silva, Diego R. Amancio: Analyzing the influence of prolific collaborations on authors productivity and visibility
  • Sirag Erkol, Satyaki Sikdar, Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato: Consistency pays off in science
  • Attila Varga: Autocatalysis of social capital in scholarly networks
  • Lili Miao, Byungkyu Lee, Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy Sugimoto, Yong-Yeol Ahn: The hierarchical structure in international collaboration
  • Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Julia B Barnett, Stasa Milojevic and Agnes-Emoke Horvat: The Disappearing Glass Ceiling in Citations? Not for All Women

International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

• Full Papers
  • Kunihiro Miyazaki, Takayuki Uchiba, Kenji Tanaka, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Kazutoshi Sasahara: "This is Fake News": Characterizing the Spontaneous Debunking from Twitter Users to COVID-19 False Information
  • Taichi Murayama, Akira Matsui, Kunihiro Miyazaki, Yasuko Matsubara, Yasushi Sakurai: The Chance of Winning Election Impacts on Social Media Strategy
  • Tuğrulcan Elmas, Rebekah Overdorf, Karl Aberer: Misleading Repurposing on Twitter
  • Yulin Yu, Ben Cheung, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Paramveer Dhillon: Novelty in what sense? Heterogeneous relationships between novelty and popularity in music
• Datasets
  • Rachith Aiyappa, Matthew R. DeVerna, Manita Pote, Bao Tran Truong, Wanying Zhao, David Axelrod, Aria Pessianzadeh, Zoher Kachwala, Munjung Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Minsuk Kim, Sunny Gandhi, Amrutha Manikonda, Francesco Pierri, Filippo Menczer, Kai-Cheng Yang: A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
  • Shaoyi Liaw, Fan Huang, Fabricio Benevenuto, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An: YouNICon: YouTube's CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos
• Workshops
  • Tuğrulcan Elmas, İlker Gül: Opinion Mining from YouTube Captions Using ChatGPT: A Case Study of Street Interviews Polling the 2023 Turkish Elections

The Web Conference

• Posters
  • Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An: Is ChatGPT better than Human Annotators? Potential and Limitations of ChatGPT in Explaining Implicit Hate Speech
  • Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An: Chain of Explanation: New Prompting Method to Generate Higher Quality Natural Language Explanation for Implicit Hate Speech
  • Tuğrulcan Elmas, Stephane Selim, Célia Houssiaux: Measuring and Detecting Virality on Social Media: The Case of Twitter's Viral Tweets Topic
• Workshops
  • Tuğrulcan Elmas: Analyzing Activity and Suspension Patterns of Twitter Bots Attacking Turkish Twitter Trends by a Longitudinal Dataset

Web Science Conference (WebSci)

• Kunihiro Miyazaki, Taichi Murayama, Akira Matsui, Masaru Nishikawa, Takayuki Uchiba, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An: Political Honeymoon Effect on Social Media: Characterizing Social Media Reaction to the Changes of Prime Minister in Japan
• Hong Zhang, Haewoon Kwak, Wei Gao, Jisun An: Wearing Masks Implies Refuting Trump? Towards Target-specific User Stance Prediction across Events in COVID-19 and US Election 2020
• Tuğrulcan Elmas: The Impact of Data Persistence Bias on Social Media Studies

Midwest Cognitive Science Conference

• Plenary talks
  • Devin Robert Wright, Ege Otenen, Yiyan Tan, Ying Li, John K. Kruschke, Fritz Breithaupt: Man vs. Machine: What ChatGPT Reveals about Human Memory, Emotion, and Creativity in the Serial Reproduction of Stories

Midwest Machine Learning Symposium

• Posters
  • Rachith Aiyappa, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Can we trust the evaluation on ChatGPT?

The Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting

• Oral presentation
  • Enrico Berkes, Monica Marion, Stasa Milojevic and Bruce Weinberg: Slow convergence: Career impediments to boundary spanning in biomedical science

JCDL 2023 workshop on Innovation Measurement for Scientific Communication

• Keynote
  • Stasa Milojevic: Science as an engine of progress and progress of science

International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) 2023

• Workshop
  • Lingfei Wu, Erin Leahey, Stasa Milojevic: Science of Team Science & Innovation