Éric Gilbert

20.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
139 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Éric Gilbert is a scholar working on Communication, Control and Systems Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric Gilbert has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Communication, 34 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Éric Gilbert's work include Social Media and Politics (29 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (19 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (16 papers). Éric Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (29 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (19 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (16 papers). Éric Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and France. Éric Gilbert's co-authors include Cecelia Hutto, S. Sathiya Keerthi, Karrie Karahalios, Daniel Johnson, Amy Bruckman, Shagun Jhaver, Tanushree Mitra, Ilya Kolmanovsky, S.S. Keerthi and Saeideh Bakhshi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Éric Gilbert

134 papers receiving 12.4k citations

Hit Papers

VADER: A Parsimonious Rule... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2014 1991 1988 2009 1988 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. VADER: A Parsimonious Rule-Based Model for Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Text
    2014 3.3k citations Cecelia Hutto, Éric Gilbert Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media profile →
  2. Linear systems with state and control constraints: the theory and application of maximal output admissible sets
    1991 1.2k citations Éric Gilbert et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  3. A fast procedure for computing the distance between complex objects in three-dimensional space
    1988 1.0k citations Éric Gilbert, Daniel Johnson et al. IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation profile →
  4. Predicting tie strength with social media
    2009 906 citations Éric Gilbert et al. profile →
  5. Optimal infinite-horizon feedback laws for a general class of constrained discrete-time systems: Stability and moving-horizon approximations
    1988 576 citations S. Sathiya Keerthi, Éric Gilbert profile →
  6. #thyghgapp
    2016 198 citations Éric Gilbert et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Éric Gilbert United States 50 3.9k 3.4k 3.4k 1.9k 1.6k 139 13.2k
Lyle Ungar United States 67 6.2k 1.6× 2.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 630 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 418 17.8k
Thore Graepel United Kingdom 32 10.6k 2.7× 1.8k 0.5× 2.0k 0.6× 214 0.1× 2.9k 1.8× 103 20.6k
Deb Roy United States 31 3.5k 0.9× 4.7k 1.4× 318 0.1× 1.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 172 10.6k
Eric Bonabeau France 41 2.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 878 0.3× 230 0.1× 946 0.6× 105 14.4k
Eric Horvitz United States 73 8.0k 2.1× 2.3k 0.7× 416 0.1× 595 0.3× 3.0k 1.9× 393 20.5k
Bernard J. Jansen United States 56 3.7k 0.9× 3.7k 1.1× 140 0.0× 1.3k 0.7× 880 0.5× 432 14.1k
Terry Winograd United States 53 8.3k 2.1× 2.3k 0.7× 404 0.1× 737 0.4× 3.3k 2.0× 161 21.9k
Shu‐Chuan Chu China 46 2.5k 0.6× 3.3k 1.0× 509 0.1× 594 0.3× 1.4k 0.9× 303 9.3k
Glenn Shafer United States 38 6.4k 1.6× 1.3k 0.4× 927 0.3× 102 0.1× 829 0.5× 104 15.9k
C. Lee Giles United States 74 11.5k 2.9× 919 0.3× 829 0.2× 546 0.3× 3.7k 2.3× 507 23.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lampe, Cliff, et al.. (2024). Interpretability Gone Bad: The Role of Bounded Rationality in How Practitioners Understand Machine Learning. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CSCW1). 1–34. 6 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric, et al.. (2024). The Dynamics of (Not) Unfollowing Misinformation Spreaders. 1115–1125. 2 indexed citations
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Patel, S.J., et al.. (2024). Feminist Interaction Techniques: Social Consent Signals to Deter NCIM Screenshots. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Bakhshi, Saeideh, David A. Shamma, Lyndon Kennedy, & Éric Gilbert. (2021). Why We Filter Our Photos and How It Impacts Engagement. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 9(1). 12–21. 17 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric, et al.. (2017). Selfie-Presentation in Everyday Life: A Large-Scale Characterization of Selfie Contexts on Instagram. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 11(1). 42–51. 34 indexed citations
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Mitra, Tanushree, et al.. (2017). A Parsimonious Language Model of Social Media Credibility Across Disparate Events. 126–145. 45 indexed citations
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Bakhshi, Saeideh & Éric Gilbert. (2015). Red, Purple and Pink: The Colors of Diffusion on Pinterest. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117148–e0117148. 24 indexed citations
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Hutto, Cecelia & Éric Gilbert. (2014). VADER: A Parsimonious Rule-Based Model for Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Text. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 8(1). 216–225. 3286 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gilbert, Éric, et al.. (2013). Political blend. 120–130. 16 indexed citations
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Chilton, Lydia B., Paúl André, Jeffrey P. Bigham, et al.. (2013). CrowdCamp 2013. 313–314. 1 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric. (2012). Designing social translucence over social networks. 2731–2740. 30 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric. (2007). À propos de behind et after. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). N° 8(1). 13–28. 2 indexed citations
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Ong, C.J., Dan Sui, & Éric Gilbert. (2006). Enlarging the terminal region of nonlinear model predictive control using the support vector machine method. Automatica. 42(6). 1011–1016. 34 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yong, Michael Wilde, Ian Foster, et al.. (2005). Virtual data Grid middleware services for data‐intensive science. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 18(6). 595–608. 14 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric. (2001). Vers une analyse unitaire des modalités. "May, must, can, will, shall". SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2 indexed citations
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Ong, Chong Jin & Éric Gilbert. (1996). Growth distances: new measures for object separation and penetration. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 12(6). 888–903. 63 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric, Daniel Johnson, & S. Sathiya Keerthi. (1988). A fast procedure for computing the distance between complex objects in three-dimensional space. IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation. 4(2). 193–203. 1032 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gilbert, Éric & Daniel Johnson. (1985). Distance functions and their application to robot path planning in the presence of obstacles. IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation. 1(1). 21–30. 283 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric, et al.. (1971). A class of fixed-time fuel-optimal impulsive control problems and an efficient algorithm for their solution. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 16(1). 1–11. 35 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Éric. (1961). An Approximate Method for Analytically Evaluating the Response of Time-Variable Linear Systems. IRE Transactions on Circuit Theory. 8(3). 289–295. 1 indexed citations

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