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Researcher · University of Southern California · United States

Emilio Ferrara

Emilio Ferrara publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Complex Network Analysis Techniques and Social Media and Politics.

ORCID 0000-0002-1942-2831 OpenAlex
World rank
#409
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#205
of 1,627,098
Works
1,827
Citations
21k
Citations per work
11.3
h-index
69
i10-index 190Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Emilio Ferrara

What does Emilio Ferrara research?

Emilio Ferrara's work is mostly in Computer Science (28%), Social Sciences (28%), Physics and Astronomy (14%).

Physical Sciences: 776 works · 42.5% of their workComputer Science: 519 works · 28.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 325 works · 17.8% of their workInformation Systems: 143 works · 7.8% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 51 works · 2.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 258 works · 14.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 258 works · 14.1% of their workEverything else: 537 works · 29.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 513 works · 28.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 513 works · 28.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 360 works · 19.7% of their workCommunication: 153 works · 8.4% of their workTHEIR WORKEmilio Ferrara1,827works
Physical Sciences42%Social Sciences28%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science51928.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy25814.1%
  2. Everything else53729.4%
    1. Social Sciences51328.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence18% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics14% of their works
  4. 4Communication8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems8% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Emilio Ferrara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Polarization, Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Machine Learning, Fake News, Misinformation and Community Structure.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media3163 topics
  2. Polarization2282 topics
  3. Network Dynamics1672 topics
  4. Social Influence1672 topics
  5. Machine Learning1563 topics
  6. Fake News1551 topic
  7. Misinformation1551 topic
  8. Community Structure941 topic
  9. Scale-Free Networks941 topic
  10. Digital Divide851 topic
  11. Political Participation851 topic
  12. Detection761 topic
  13. Hate Speech761 topic
  14. Bounded Confidence731 topic
  15. Opinion Dynamics731 topic
  16. Phishing601 topic
  17. Spam Detection601 topic
  18. Neural Networks311 topic
  19. Word Representation311 topic
  20. Ethics201 topic
  21. Fairness201 topic

Where does Emilio Ferrara work?

Emilio Ferrara's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Southern California, United States.

How many publications and citations does Emilio Ferrara have?

OpenAlex counts 1,827 works and 20,680 citations for Emilio Ferrara, an h-index of 69, ranking #409 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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