Gilad Lotan

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Gilad Lotan is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Communication and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilad Lotan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 4 papers in Communication and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gilad Lotan's work include Social Media and Politics (4 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (4 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 papers). Gilad Lotan is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (4 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (4 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 papers). Gilad Lotan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Gilad Lotan's co-authors include danah boyd, Su Golder, Erhardt Graeff, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, Mike Ananny, John Kelly, Thomas Zeitzoff, Suman Roy and Mor Naaman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Peace Research, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and IEEE Multimedia.

In The Last Decade

Gilad Lotan

10 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter
    2010 1.4k citations danah boyd, Su Golder et al. profile →
  2. The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
    2011 378 citations Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff et al. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) profile →

Peers

Gilad Lotan
Linh Dang-Xuan Germany
Sarita Yardi United States
Jeffrey Boase Canada
Itai Himelboim United States
Deen Freelon United States
Mike Ananny United States
Andreas Jungherr Germany
Damian Trilling Netherlands
Luke Sloan United Kingdom
Sandra González‐Bailón United States
Linh Dang-Xuan Germany
Gilad Lotan
Citations per year, relative to Gilad Lotan Gilad Lotan (= 1×) peers Linh Dang-Xuan

Countries citing papers authored by Gilad Lotan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gilad Lotan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gilad Lotan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gilad Lotan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gilad Lotan 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 Gilad Lotan. Gilad Lotan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Lotan, Gilad. (2021). Mapping Information Flows on Twitter. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 5(4). 23–27.
2.
Naaman, Mor, Amy X. Zhang, Samuel Brody, & Gilad Lotan. (2021). On the Study of Diurnal Urban Routines on Twitter. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 6(1). 258–265. 4 indexed citations
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Grinberg, Nir, Mor Naaman, Blake Shaw, & Gilad Lotan. (2021). Extracting Diurnal Patterns of Real World Activity from Social Media. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 7(1). 205–214. 4 indexed citations
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Zeitzoff, Thomas, John Kelly, & Gilad Lotan. (2015). Using social media to measure foreign policy dynamics. Journal of Peace Research. 52(3). 368–383. 33 indexed citations
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Roy, Suman, et al.. (2015). The attention automaton: Sensing collective user interests in social network communities. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 2(1). 40–52. 12 indexed citations
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Roy, Suman & Gilad Lotan. (2014). Detecting geo-spatial weather clusters using dynamic heuristic subspaces. 493. 811–818. 2 indexed citations
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Roy, Suman, Gilad Lotan, & Wenjun Zeng. (2013). Social Multimedia Signals: Sense, Process, and Put Them to Work. IEEE Multimedia. 20(1). 7–13. 5 indexed citations
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Lotan, Gilad, et al.. (2011). The Arab Spring| The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. International journal of communication. 5. 31. 233 indexed citations
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Lotan, Gilad, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, et al.. (2011). The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 378 indexed citations breakdown →
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boyd, danah, Su Golder, & Gilad Lotan. (2010). Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter. 1–10. 1373 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lotan, Gilad, et al.. (2007). imPulse. 1983–1988. 13 indexed citations

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