Onur Varol

4.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
39 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Onur Varol is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Onur Varol has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Information Systems and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Onur Varol's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (18 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (12 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Onur Varol is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (18 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (12 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Onur Varol collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and United Kingdom. Onur Varol's co-authors include Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A. Davis, Kai‐Cheng Yang, Pik-Mai Hui, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Asher Ameli, J. J. Patten and Joseph Loscalzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Onur Varol

38 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.

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

2017 517 citations Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara et al. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media profile →
Network Medicine Framework for Identifying Drug Repurposing Opportunities for COVID-19

2020 330 citations Deisy Morselli Gysi, Ítalo Faria do Valle et al. PubMed Central profile →
Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

2019 257 citations Kai‐Cheng Yang, Onur Varol et al. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies profile →
Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection

2020 218 citations Kai‐Cheng Yang, Onur Varol et al. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Onur Varol United States	15	1.0k	789	613	329	328	39	2.0k
Aron Culotta United States	30	696 0.7×	578 0.7×	2.0k 3.2×	387 1.2×	351 1.1×	72	3.3k
Kalina Bontcheva United Kingdom	36	1.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.8×	3.1k 5.0×	359 1.1×	608 1.9×	160	4.5k
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales Italy	21	1.1k 1.1×	426 0.5×	967 1.6×	810 2.5×	788 2.4×	86	2.8k
Tanmoy Chakraborty India	25	798 0.8×	789 1.0×	1.5k 2.5×	126 0.4×	609 1.9×	193	2.6k
Courtney D. Corley United States	14	310 0.3×	317 0.4×	1.0k 1.7×	106 0.3×	157 0.5×	46	2.0k
Reza Zafarani United States	24	1.6k 1.6×	1.6k 2.0×	1.7k 2.8×	260 0.8×	831 2.5×	54	3.2k
Sitaram Asur United States	15	737 0.7×	426 0.5×	817 1.3×	309 0.9×	1.0k 3.1×	23	2.4k
Srijan Kumar United States	20	485 0.5×	667 0.8×	889 1.5×	128 0.4×	434 1.3×	72	1.9k
Petr Sojka Czechia	11	298 0.3×	494 0.6×	1.7k 2.7×	127 0.4×	128 0.4×	81	2.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Onur Varol

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

All Works

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Varol, Onur, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Cultural Heritage Archive Analysis via Automated Entity Extraction and Graph-Based Representation Learning. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 18(4). 1–25. 1 indexed citations

Varol, Onur, et al.. (2024). TurkishBERTweet: Fast and reliable large language model for social media analysis. Expert Systems with Applications. 255. 124737–124737. 13 indexed citations

Varol, Onur, et al.. (2024). First public dataset to study 2023 Turkish general election. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 8794–8794. 2 indexed citations

Meng, Xiangyi, Onur Varol, & Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási. (2024). Hidden citations obscure true impact in science. PNAS Nexus. 3(5). pgae155–pgae155. 4 indexed citations

Varol, Onur, et al.. (2024). Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media. EPJ Data Science. 13(1). 3 indexed citations

Pfeffer, Jürgen, Daniel Matter, Kokil Jaidka, et al.. (2023). Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17. 1073–1081. 14 indexed citations

Varol, Onur. (2023). Should we agree to disagree about Twitter’s bot problem?. 37-38. 100263–100263. 11 indexed citations

Singh, Karandeep, Gabriel Lima, Meeyoung Cha, et al.. (2022). Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: Takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0263381–e0263381. 61 indexed citations

Cha, Meeyoung, Chiyoung Cha, Karandeep Singh, et al.. (2021). Prevalence of Misinformation and Factchecks on the COVID-19 Pandemic in 35 Countries: Observational Infodemiology Study. JMIR Human Factors. 8(1). e23279–e23279. 28 indexed citations

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Olteanu, Alexandra, Onur Varol, & Emre Kıcıman. (2021). Towards an Open-Domain Framework for Distilling the Outcomes of Personal Experiences from Social Media Timelines. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 10(1). 647–650.

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Ferrara, Emilio, Onur Varol, Filippo Menczer, & Alessandro Flammini. (2021). Detection of Promoted Social Media Campaigns. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 10(1). 563–566. 5 indexed citations

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Gysi, Deisy Morselli, Ítalo Faria do Valle, Marinka Žitnik, et al.. (2020). Network Medicine Framework for Identifying Drug Repurposing Opportunities for COVID-19. PubMed Central. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, Onur Varol, Pik-Mai Hui, & Filippo Menczer. (2020). Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 34(1). 1096–1103. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, Onur Varol, Clayton A. Davis, et al.. (2019). Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 1(1). 48–61. 257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Varol, Onur, et al.. (2018). The minute-scale dynamics of online emotions reveal the effects of affect labeling. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(1). 92–100. 45 indexed citations

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Shao, Chengcheng, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Onur Varol, Alessandro Flammini, & Filippo Menczer. (2017). The spread of misinformation by social bots. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations

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Varol, Onur. (2017). Analyzing Social Big Data to Study Online Discourse and Its Manipulation. IUScholarWorks (Indiana University). 1 indexed citations

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Varol, Onur, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A. Davis, Filippo Menczer, & Alessandro Flammini. (2017). Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 11(1). 280–289. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Varol, Onur. (2016). Spatiotemporal analysis of censored content on Twitter. 372–373. 5 indexed citations

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Varol, Onur, et al.. (2014). Mode coupling points to functionally important residues in myosin II. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 82(9). 1777–1786. 1 indexed citations

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