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  1. Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits

    Article • EPJ Data Science, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  2. Negative Social Tipping Dynamics Resulting from and Reinforcing Earth System Destabilisation

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  3. Why Social Media Falls Short While Wikipedia Thrives

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri, Filippo Menczer

  4. From Print to Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Public Sphere in the Digital Age

    Article • August 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  5. Terrorist attacks sharpen the binary perception of “Us” vs. “Them”

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  6. Between news and history: identifying networked topics of collective attention on Wikipedia

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  7. The cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks

    Article • Collective Intelligence, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  8. Individual differences in knowledge network navigation

    Article • March 2023, Research Square

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  9. Complex systems in the spotlight: next steps after the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

    Article • Journal of Physics Complexity, January 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  10. From Print to Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Public Sphere in the Digital Age

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  11. What drives passion? An empirical examination on the impact of personality trait interactions and job environments on work passion

    Article • Current Psychology, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  12. Fooled by facts: quantifying anchoring bias through a large-scale experiment

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  13. Collective memory in the digital age

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  14. Football is becoming more predictable; network analysis of 88 thousand matches in 11 major leagues

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, December 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  15. Controversy around climate change reports: a case study of Twitter responses to the 2019 IPCC report on land

    Article • Climatic Change, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  16. Computational courtship understanding the evolution of online dating through large-scale data analysis

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  17. Gender Imbalance and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Contributions to Citizen Science Projects: The Case of Zooniverse

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, June 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  18. Dissent and rebellion in the House of Commons: a social network analysis of Brexit-related divisions in the 57th Parliament

    Article • Applied Network Science, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  19. Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  20. The Kaleidoscope of Privacy: Differences across French, German, UK, and US GDPR Media Discourse

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  21. Islamophobes are not all the same! A study of far right actors on Twitter

    Article • Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  22. Positive algorithmic bias cannot stop fragmentation in homophilic networks

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Sociology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  23. What, when and where of petitions submitted to the UK government during a time of chaos

    Article • Policy Sciences, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  24. Social complex contagion in music listenership: A natural experiment with 1.3 million participants

    Article • Social Networks, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  25. Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  26. Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity?\\ An analysis of 11.5 thousand online profiles

    Article • October 2019, ScienceOpen

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  27. Emergence of world-stock-market network

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  28. Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  29. Topic Modeling of Everyday Sexism Project Entries

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Humanities, January 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  30. Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, May 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Barbara McGillivray, Professor Taha Yasseri

  31. How digital design shapes political participation: A natural experiment with social information

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2018, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  32. Understanding Human-Machine Networks

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Taha Yasseri, Professor Taha Yasseri

  33. Inspiration, Captivation, and Misdirection: Emergent Properties in Networks of Online Navigation

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  34. Rapid rise and decay in petition signing

    Article • EPJ Data Science, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  35. Characterization of the anisotropy of rough surfaces: Crossing statistics

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, August 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  36. Two Diverging Roads: A Semantic Network Analysis of Chinese Social Connection (“Guanxi”) on Twitter

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Humanities, June 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  37. The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age

    Article • Science Advances, April 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  38. Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative environment: A data-driven modeling

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2017, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  39. Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2017, PLOS

    Luciano Floridi, Professor Taha Yasseri

  40. Social Informatics

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  41. Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative Interactions in Online Collaboration

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  42. Some lives matter more

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, October 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Taha Yasseri, Professor Taha Yasseri

  43. UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN MOOCs

    Article • September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  44. Editorial: At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  45. A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  46. Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models

    Article • EPJ Data Science, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  47. P-Values: Misunderstood and Misused

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, March 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  48. Political Turbulence

    Article • January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  49. Human-Machine Networks: Towards a Typology and Profiling Framework

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  50. Political Turbulence

    Article • November 2015, JSTOR

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  51. Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?

    Article • it - Information Technology, September 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  52. Modeling social dynamics in a collaborative environment

    Article • EPJ Data Science, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  53. Structural limitations of learning in a crowd: communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  54. Mapping the UK webspace

    Article • June 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  55. Big Data and Collective Action

    Article • May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  56. The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics

    Article • EPJ Data Science, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  57. Vote Me Up If You Like My Ideas!! Experiences of Learning in a MOOC

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  58. Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2013, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  59. Temporal analysis of activity patterns of editors in collaborative mapping project of OpenStreetMap

    Article • August 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  60. Petition growth and success rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street website

    Article • May 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  61. Value Production in a Collaborative Environment

    Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  62. Opinions, Conflicts, and Consensus: Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  63. The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  64. - Nanostructures on Thin Films by keV Ion Beams

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  65. A Practical Approach to Language Complexity: A Wikipedia Case Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  66. Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  67. Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  68. Edit Wars in Wikipedia

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  69. A Monte Carlo study of surface sputtering by dual and rotated ion beams

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  70. Simulating discrete models of pattern formation by ion beam sputtering

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  71. Surfactant Sputtering: Theory of a new method of surface nanostructuring by ion beams

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  72. The influence of beam divergence on ion-beam induced surface patterns

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri