Onur Varol

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The rise of social bots
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Clayton A. Davis, F. Menczer +1 more
2014Communications of the ACM2,140 citations Open access
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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
Chengcheng Shao, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Onur Varol, Kai-Cheng Yang +2 more
2017Nature Communications1,274 citations Open access
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Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A. Davis, F. Menczer +1 more
2017International Conference on Web and Social Media1,146 citations Open access
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BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots
Clayton A. Davis, Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, A. Flammini +1 more
2016The Web Conference940 citations Open access
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Network medicine framework for identifying drug-repurposing opportunities for COVID-19
Deisy Morselli Gysi, Ítalo Do Valle, M. Zitnik, Asher Ameli +7 more
2020Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America527 citations Open access
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Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Pik-Mai Hui, F. Menczer
2019AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence426 citations Open access
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Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Clayton A. Davis, Emilio Ferrara +2 more
2019Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies421 citations Open access
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The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge
V. Subrahmanian, Amos Azaria, Skylar Durst, Vadim Kagan +18 more
2016Computer412 citations Open access
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
Matthew J. Salganik, Ian Lundberg, Alexander T. Kindel, Caitlin E. Ahearn +108 more
2020Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America266 citations Open access
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Detection of Novel Social Bots by Ensembles of Specialized Classifiers
Mohsen Sayyadiharikandeh, Onur Varol, Kai-Cheng Yang, A. Flammini +1 more
2020International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management252 citations Open access
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Predicting online extremism, content adopters, and interaction reciprocity
Emilio Ferrara, Wen-Qiang Wang, Onur Varol, A. Flammini +1 more
2016Social Informatics151 citations Open access
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Early detection of promoted campaigns on social media
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, F. Menczer, A. Flammini
2017EPJ Data Science133 citations Open access
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Evolution of online user behavior during a social upheaval
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, C. Ogan, F. Menczer +1 more
2014Web Science Conference117 citations Open access
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Nature’s reach: narrow work has broad impact
Alexander J. Gates, Qing Ke, Onur Varol, A. Barabási
2019Nature94 citations
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Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: Takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic
Karandeep Singh, G. Lima, Meeyoung Cha, C. Cha +3 more
2021PLoS ONE92 citations Open access
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Detection of Promoted Social Media Campaigns
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, F. Menczer, A. Flammini
2016International Conference on Web and Social Media92 citations Open access
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Clustering memes in social media
Emilio Ferrara, Mohsen JafariAsbagh, Onur Varol, Vahed Qazvinian +2 more
2013International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining78 citations Open access
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The minute-scale dynamics of online emotions reveal the effects of affect labeling
Rui Fan, Onur Varol, Ali Varamesh, Alexander T. J. Barron +3 more
2018Nature Human Behaviour72 citations Open access
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Distilling the Outcomes of Personal Experiences: A Propensity-scored Analysis of Social Media
Alexandra Olteanu, Onur Varol, Emre Kıcıman
2017Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work69 citations
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Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
Juergen Pfeffer, Daniel Matter, Kokil Jaidka, Onur Varol +12 more
2023International Conference on Web and Social Media65 citations Open access
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Traveling trends: social butterflies or frequent fliers?
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, F. Menczer, A. Flammini
2013Conference on Online Social Networks65 citations Open access
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OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media
Clayton A. Davis, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, L. Aiello, Keychul Chung +25 more
2016PeerJ Computer Science63 citations Open access
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Success in books: predicting book sales before publication
Xin-Di Wang, B. Yucesoy, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad +1 more
2019EPJ Data Science45 citations Open access
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TurkishBERTweet: Fast and Reliable Large Language Model for Social Media Analysis
Ali Najafi, Onur Varol
2023Expert systems with applications40 citations
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Clustering memes in social media streams
Mohsen JafariAsbagh, Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, F. Menczer +1 more
2014Social Network Analysis and Mining40 citations Open access
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Feature Engineering for Social Bot Detection
Onur Varol, C. Davis, F. Menczer, A. Flammini
201839 citations
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What is gained and what is left to be done when content analysis is added to network analysis in the study of a social movement: Twitter use during Gezi Park
C. Ogan, Onur Varol
201739 citations
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Journalists on Twitter: self-branding, audiences, and involvement of bots
Onur Varol, Ismail Uluturk
2019Journal of Computational Social Science36 citations
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Deception strategies and threats for online discussions
Onur Varol, Ismail Uluturk
2018First Monday34 citations Open access
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The spread of misinformation by social bots
Chengcheng Shao, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Onur Varol, A. Flammini +1 more
201731 citations
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Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media
Yasser Zouzou, Onur Varol
2023EPJ Data Science29 citations Open access
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Arming the public with AI to counter social bots
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Clayton A. Davis, Emilio Ferrara +2 more
2019arXiv.org25 citations
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Should we agree to disagree about Twitter's bot problem?
Onur Varol
2022Online Soc. Networks Media23 citations Open access
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COVID-19 Infodemic Prevalence over 35 Countries.
Meeyoung Cha, C. Cha, K. Singh, G. Lima +3 more
2020JMIR Human Factors22 citations Open access
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Prevalence of Misinformation and Factchecks on the COVID-19 Pandemic in 35 Countries: Observational Infodemiology Study
Meeyoung Cha, C. Cha, Karandeep Singh, G. Lima +3 more
2020JMIR Human Factors21 citations Open access
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Hidden citations obscure true impact in science
Xiangyi Meng, Onur Varol, A. Barabási
2023PNAS Nexus18 citations Open access
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Mechanisms Driving Online Vaccine Debate During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ozgur Can Seckin, A. Atalay, Ege Otenen, Umut Duygu +1 more
2024Social Media + Society13 citations Open access
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Information access equality on generative models of complex networks
Xindi Wang, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad
2022Applied Network Science13 citations Open access
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The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey
Ozen Bas, C. Ogan, Onur Varol
2022Social Media + Society13 citations Open access
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Information dissemination in heterogeneous-intent networks
Abhimanyu Das, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Emre Kıcıman, Onur Varol
2016Web Science Conference11 citations
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Spatiotemporal analysis of censored content on Twitter
Onur Varol
2016Web Science Conference10 citations Open access
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Social Bots: Detection and Challenges
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Alexander C. Nwala, Mohsen Sayyadiharikandeh +3 more
2023arXiv.org8 citations
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Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity
Ozgur Can Seckin, Onur Varol
2022EPJ Data Science8 citations Open access
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#Secim2023: First Public Dataset for Studying Turkish General Election
Ali Najafi, Nihat Muğurtay, Ege Demirci, Serhat Demirkiran +2 more
2022arXiv.org7 citations Open access
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Information Access Equality on Network Generative Models
Xin-Di Wang, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad
2021Social Science Research Network6 citations Open access
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Enhancing Cultural Heritage Archive Analysis via Automated Entity Extraction and Graph-Based Representation Learning
Anil Ozdemir, Berke Odaci, Lorans Tanatar Baruh, Onur Varol +1 more
2025ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage4 citations
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L2P: An Algorithm for Estimating Heavy-tailed Outcomes
Xin-Di Wang, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad
2019arXiv.org4 citations
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Towards an Open-Domain Framework for Distilling the Outcomes of Personal Experiences from Social Media Timelines
Alexandra Olteanu, Onur Varol, Emre Kıcıman
2016International Conference on Web and Social Media4 citations Open access
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Conspiracy theories as instruments of power: The case of conspiracy beliefs in the wake of the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye
Sinan Alper, Onur Varol, Onurcan Yilmaz
2025Political Psychology3 citations
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Who Follows Turkish Presidential Candidates in 2023 Elections?
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2023Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference3 citations
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