Reza Zafarani

5.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
54 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Reza Zafarani is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Reza Zafarani has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 29 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 23 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Reza Zafarani's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (29 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (17 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (17 papers). Reza Zafarani is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (29 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (17 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (17 papers). Reza Zafarani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Iran. Reza Zafarani's co-authors include Xinyi Zhou, Huan Liu, Huan Liu, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Kai Shu, Ashwin Rajadesingan, Suhang Wang, Vir V. Phoha, Atishay Jain and Jiliang Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Access and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Reza Zafarani

51 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

A Survey of Fake News

2020 570 citations Xinyi Zhou, Reza Zafarani ACM Computing Surveys profile →
Social Media Mining

2014 363 citations Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi et al. profile →
Connecting users across social media sites

2013 270 citations Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu profile →
Sarcasm Detection on Twitter

2015 231 citations Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reza Zafarani United States	24	1.7k	1.6k	1.6k	831	395	54	3.2k
Kalina Bontcheva United Kingdom	36	3.1k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	608 0.7×	281 0.7×	160	4.5k
Marcelo Mendoza Chile	16	1.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	206 0.5×	82	3.4k
Bárbara Poblete Chile	16	1.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	210 0.5×	63	3.3k
Maurizio Tesconi Italy	27	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	347 0.4×	481 1.2×	83	2.6k
Stefano Cresci Italy	27	849 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	376 0.5×	484 1.2×	66	2.5k
Arkaitz Zubiaga United Kingdom	28	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	731 0.9×	247 0.6×	125	3.3k
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru India	31	1.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.5×	3.3k 2.0×	498 0.6×	1.2k 3.0×	169	4.9k
Liangjie Hong United States	22	1.7k 1.0×	405 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	833 1.0×	268 0.7×	43	2.9k
Tanmoy Chakraborty India	25	1.5k 0.9×	798 0.5×	789 0.5×	609 0.7×	327 0.8×	193	2.6k
Qi He United States	21	1.9k 1.1×	424 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	294 0.7×	64	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Reza Zafarani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Reza Zafarani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reza Zafarani

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

All Works

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Li, Jiayu, et al.. (2022). AdverSparse: An Adversarial Attack Framework for Deep Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks. ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 5857–5861. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Chen, Xinyi Zhou, & Reza Zafarani. (2021). CHECKED: Chinese COVID-19 fake news dataset. Social Network Analysis and Mining. 11(1). 46 indexed citations

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Ma, Rui, et al.. (2020). A Probabilistic Cascading Failure Model for Dynamic Operating Conditions. IEEE Access. 8. 61741–61753. 4 indexed citations

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Phoha, Vir V., et al.. (2020). Graph-Based Identification and Authentication: A Stochastic Kronecker Approach. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 34(7). 3282–3294. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinyi, Atishay Jain, Vir V. Phoha, & Reza Zafarani. (2020). Fake News Early Detection. 1(2). 1–25. 145 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinyi & Reza Zafarani. (2020). A Survey of Fake News. ACM Computing Surveys. 53(5). 1–40. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zafarani, Reza, et al.. (2020). WebShapes: Network Visualization with 3D Shapes. 837–840. 1 indexed citations

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Zafarani, Reza, et al.. (2020). The Spectral Zoo of Networks: Embedding and Visualizing Networks with Spectral Moments. 1426–1434. 5 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinyi, Atishay Jain, Vir V. Phoha, & Reza Zafarani. (2019). Fake News Early Detection: A Theory-driven Model. arXiv (Cornell University). 42 indexed citations

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Phoha, Vir V., et al.. (2019). Network Identification and Authentication. 1144–1149. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinyi & Reza Zafarani. (2019). Fake News Detection: An Interdisciplinary Research. 1292–1292. 28 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinyi & Reza Zafarani. (2018). Fake News: A Survey of Research, Detection Methods, and Opportunities.. arXiv (Cornell University). 134 indexed citations

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Shu, Kai, Suhang Wang, Jiliang Tang, Reza Zafarani, & Huan Liu. (2017). User Identity Linkage across Online Social Networks. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter. 18(2). 5–17. 184 indexed citations

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Abbasi, Mohammad Ali, Reza Zafarani, Jiliang Tang, & Huan Liu. (2014). Am i more similar to my followers or followees?. 200–205. 3 indexed citations

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Zafarani, Reza & Huan Liu. (2014). Users Joining Multiple Sites: Distributions and Patterns. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 8(1). 635–638. 26 indexed citations

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Kumar, Shamanth, Fred Morstatter, Reza Zafarani, & Huan Liu. (2013). Whom should I follow?. 139–147. 42 indexed citations

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Barbier, Geoffrey, Reza Zafarani, Huiji Gao, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, & Huan Liu. (2012). Maximizing benefits from crowdsourced data. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 18(3). 257–279. 55 indexed citations

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Zafarani, Reza, et al.. (2008). Towards a more efficient static software change impact analysis method. 84–90. 34 indexed citations

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Zafarani, Reza, et al.. (2007). A New Bidirectional Neural Network for Lexical Modeling and Speech Recognition Improvement. Scientia Iranica. 14(6). 571–578. 4 indexed citations

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Zafarani, Reza, et al.. (2005). An ANFIS based method of agent behavior in simulated soccer agents. 8 pp.–18. 2 indexed citations

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