Matteo Cinelli

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Matteo Cinelli is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Matteo Cinelli has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 18 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Matteo Cinelli's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (30 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (21 papers) and Social Media and Politics (17 papers). Matteo Cinelli is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (30 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (21 papers) and Social Media and Politics (17 papers). Matteo Cinelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Matteo Cinelli's co-authors include Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi, Michele Starnini, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Antonio Scala, Carlo Michele Valensise, Ana Lucía Schmidt, Francesco Pierri, Fabio Pammolli and Giovanni Bonaccorsi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matteo Cinelli

55 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

The echo chamber effect on social media

2021 891 citations Matteo Cinelli, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19

2020 695 citations Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time

2024 35 citations Niccolò Di Marco, Lorenzo Alvisi et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matteo Cinelli Italy	16	1.0k	518	427	416	351	60	2.3k
Alessandro Galeazzi Italy	11	992 1.0×	530 1.0×	319 0.7×	396 1.0×	287 0.8×	24	2.1k
Francesco Pierri Italy	14	728 0.7×	195 0.4×	159 0.4×	457 1.1×	244 0.7×	40	1.6k
Ana Lucía Schmidt Italy	10	572 0.6×	223 0.4×	152 0.4×	391 0.9×	152 0.4×	17	1.4k
Vasileios Lampos United Kingdom	21	605 0.6×	149 0.3×	193 0.5×	275 0.7×	649 1.8×	37	2.4k
Robert M. Bond United States	13	1.3k 1.3×	950 1.8×	632 1.5×	69 0.2×	311 0.9×	45	2.5k
Dean Eckles United States	23	1.4k 1.3×	561 1.1×	371 0.9×	139 0.3×	502 1.4×	47	2.4k
Christopher J. Fariss United States	20	1.7k 1.6×	741 1.4×	581 1.4×	34 0.1×	269 0.8×	68	2.8k
Helen Susannah Moat United Kingdom	21	479 0.5×	107 0.2×	320 0.7×	57 0.1×	187 0.5×	42	2.0k
Hyunyoung Choi United States	5	590 0.6×	73 0.1×	116 0.3×	134 0.3×	182 0.5×	7	2.0k
Claudia R. Schneider United Kingdom	14	1.6k 1.5×	274 0.5×	45 0.1×	408 1.0×	226 0.6×	27	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Matteo Cinelli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matteo Cinelli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Matteo Cinelli. 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 Matteo Cinelli. The network helps show where Matteo Cinelli may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matteo Cinelli

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Marco, Niccolò Di, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the effect of viral posts on social media engagement. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 639–639. 2 indexed citations

Galeazzi, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). Ideological fragmentation of the social media ecosystem: From echo chambers to echo platforms. PNAS Nexus.

Marco, Niccolò Di, et al.. (2025). The simulation of judgment in LLMs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(42). e2518443122–e2518443122. 1 indexed citations

Bojić, Ljubiša, Matteo Cinelli, Dubravko Ćulibrk, & Boris Delibašić. (2024). CERN for AI: a theoretical framework for autonomous simulation-based artificial intelligence testing and alignment. European Journal of Futures Research. 12(1). 5 indexed citations

Cinelli, Matteo, et al.. (2024). The influence of coordinated behavior on toxicity. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 43-44. 100289–100289. 2 indexed citations

Marco, Niccolò Di, Lorenzo Alvisi, Antonio Scala, et al.. (2024). Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time. Nature. 628(8008). 582–589. 35 indexed citations breakdown →

Marco, Niccolò Di, et al.. (2024). Patterns of linguistic simplification on social media platforms over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(50). e2412105121–e2412105121. 3 indexed citations

Cinelli, Matteo, et al.. (2023). Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network. Small Business Economics. 61(4). 1497–1514. 8 indexed citations

Mancini, Maurizio, et al.. (2023). Computing Beneficence: a Study of Pro-Social Attitudes in Comments of Online Social Media Users. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 16. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Cinelli, Matteo, et al.. (2022). Promoting engagement with quality communication in social media. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0275534–e0275534. 5 indexed citations

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Broere, Joris, et al.. (2021). Success of economic sanctions threats: coercion, information and commitment. International Interactions. 47(3). 417–448. 20 indexed citations

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Briand, Sylvie, Matteo Cinelli, Tim Nguyen, et al.. (2021). Infodemics: A new challenge for public health. Cell. 184(25). 6010–6014. 74 indexed citations

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Galeazzi, Alessandro, Matteo Cinelli, Giovanni Bonaccorsi, et al.. (2021). Human mobility in response to COVID-19 in France, Italy and UK. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 86 indexed citations

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Valensise, Carlo Michele, et al.. (2021). Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 12 indexed citations

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Cinelli, Matteo, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Alessandro Galeazzi, Walter Quattrociocchi, & Michele Starnini. (2021). The echo chamber effect on social media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(9). 891 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cinelli, Matteo, Leto Peel, Antonio Iovanella, & Jean‐Charles Delvenne. (2020). Network constraints on the mixing patterns of binary node metadata. Physical review. E. 102(6). 62310–62310. 18 indexed citations

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Cinelli, Matteo, Stefano Cresci, Alessandro Galeazzi, Walter Quattrociocchi, & Maurizio Tesconi. (2020). The limited reach of fake news on Twitter during 2019 European elections. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234689–e0234689. 35 indexed citations

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Cinelli, Matteo, et al.. (2020). Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229129–e0229129. 55 indexed citations

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Cinelli, Matteo, et al.. (2013). Effect of walking, running, and an end-task on object circumvention direction in soccer players and non-athletes. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 478–478. 1 indexed citations

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Hackney, Amy & Matteo Cinelli. (2011). Are Older Adults' Actions Affected by Their Perceptions When Walking Through Apertures?. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 911–911. 1 indexed citations

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