Esma Aı̈meur

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Esma Aı̈meur is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Esma Aı̈meur has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 38 papers in Information Systems and 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Esma Aı̈meur's work include Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (21 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (17 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (17 papers). Esma Aı̈meur is often cited by papers focused on Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (21 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (17 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (17 papers). Esma Aı̈meur collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Lebanon. Esma Aı̈meur's co-authors include Gilles Brassard, Sébastien Gambs, Sabrine Amri, Claude Frasson, Abdou Maïga, José M. Fernandez, Nasir Ali, Yann‐Gaël Guéhéneuc, Kimiz Dalkir and David J. Schonfeld and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Computers & Education and Machine Learning.

In The Last Decade

Esma Aı̈meur

80 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review
    2023 252 citations Esma Aı̈meur, Sabrine Amri et al. Social Network Analysis and Mining profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Esma Aı̈meur Canada 19 664 540 500 135 134 86 1.4k
Michael Carl Tschantz United States 17 672 1.0× 294 0.5× 498 1.0× 164 1.2× 75 0.6× 33 1.2k
Tanmoy Chakraborty India 25 1.5k 2.3× 789 1.5× 798 1.6× 327 2.4× 33 0.2× 193 2.6k
Basit Shahzad Saudi Arabia 18 374 0.6× 526 1.0× 308 0.6× 23 0.2× 54 0.4× 74 1.2k
Kami Vaniea United Kingdom 24 385 0.6× 743 1.4× 644 1.3× 338 2.5× 33 0.2× 70 1.4k
Vibha Singhal Sinha India 13 494 0.7× 517 1.0× 170 0.3× 64 0.5× 131 1.0× 36 1.0k
Lucas Dixon United States 14 1.8k 2.8× 554 1.0× 214 0.4× 139 1.0× 290 2.2× 34 2.5k
Mark Strembeck Austria 19 671 1.0× 713 1.3× 665 1.3× 23 0.2× 168 1.3× 94 1.4k
Nayeon Lee Hong Kong 8 947 1.4× 192 0.4× 223 0.4× 37 0.3× 38 0.3× 16 1.7k
Dan Goldwasser United States 23 1.1k 1.6× 256 0.5× 239 0.5× 56 0.4× 45 0.3× 88 1.5k
Tim Weninger United States 20 951 1.4× 645 1.2× 289 0.6× 102 0.8× 14 0.1× 69 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Esma Aı̈meur

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Fields of papers citing papers by Esma Aı̈meur

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Esma Aı̈meur. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Esma Aı̈meur. The network helps show where Esma Aı̈meur may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Esma Aı̈meur

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Esma Aı̈meur. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Esma Aı̈meur based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Esma Aı̈meur. Esma Aı̈meur is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Abid, Hafedh, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Power of Dual Deep Learning for Fake News Detection. Informatica. 48(4). 1 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2024). Exploring beyond detection: a review on fake news prevention and mitigation techniques. Journal of Computational Social Science. 8(1). 2 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2023). Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review. Social Network Analysis and Mining. 13(1). 30–30. 252 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hecking, Tobias, et al.. (2022). Community detection for access-control decisions: Analysing the role of homophily and information diffusion in Online Social Networks. elib (German Aerospace Center). 29. 100203–100203. 1 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2022). Foundations and Practice of Security. Lecture notes in computer science. 2 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2020). Preventative Nudges: Introducing Risk Cues for Supporting Online Self-Disclosure Decisions. Information. 11(8). 399–399. 8 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2020). A Nudge-based Recommender System Towards Responsible Online Socializing.. Conference on Recommender Systems. 23–39. 1 indexed citations
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Abusitta, Adel, et al.. (2020). Teens-Online: a Game Theory-Based Collaborative Platform for Privacy Education. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 31(4). 726–768. 8 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2020). User content categorisation model, a generic model that combines text mining and semantic models. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering. 21(4). 536–536. 3 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2019). Privacy, Trust, and Manipulation in Online Relationships. Journal of Technology in Human Services. 38(2). 159–183. 6 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2019). Manipulation and Malicious Personalization: Exploring the Self-Disclosure Biases Exploited by Deceptive Attackers on Social Media. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 2. 26–26. 17 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2018). Understanding Trust, Privacy and Financial Fears in Online Payment. 28–36. 23 indexed citations
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Maïga, Abdou, et al.. (2012). SMURF: A SVM-based Incremental Anti-pattern Detection Approach. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 466–475. 87 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2008). Intelligent tutoring systems : 9th International Conference, ITS 2008 Montreal, Canada, June 23-27, 2008 : proceedings. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 8 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2007). Topic Tree: Increasing the Accuracy of Item Retrieval. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2007(1). 6933–6940. 1 indexed citations
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Richard, Philippe R., et al.. (2005). Development of an Intelligent Tutorial System to Enhance Students’ Mathematical Competence in Problem Solving. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2005(1). 2042–2049. 4 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2004). Building a Multi-Agent System for Automatic Negotiation in Web Service Applications. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1466–1467. 7 indexed citations
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Aı̈meur, Esma, et al.. (2000). Short-Term Profiling for a Case-Based Reasoning. 23–30. 1 indexed citations
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Frasson, Claude, et al.. (1997). Using Pedagogical Agents In a Multi-strategic Intelligent Tutoring System. 14 indexed citations

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