Varol, Onur

The rise of social bots

Ferrara, E., Varol, O., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2016) · Communications of the ACM

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

Shao, C., Ciampaglia, G. L., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2018) · Nature Communications

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSpam and Phishing Detection

Cited by 1,125

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

Varol, O., Ferrara, E., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2017) · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

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BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots

Davis, C. A., Varol, O., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2016) · Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web - WWW 16 Companion

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 909

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Yang, K., Varol, O., Davis, C. A., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2019) · Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 419

Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration

Salganik, M. J., Lundberg, I., Kindel, A. T., Ahearn, C. E., Al-Ghoneim, K., Almaatouq, A., Altschul, D. M., Brand, J. E., Carnegie, N. B., Compton, R. J., et al. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Family Dynamics and RelationshipsOnline Learning and Analytics

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Detection of Novel Social Bots by Ensembles of Specialized Classifiers

Sayyadiharikandeh, M., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2020) · Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 159

Network medicine framework for identifying drug-repurposing opportunities for COVID-19

Morselli Gysi, D., do Valle, Í., Zitnik, M., Ameli, A., Gan, X., Varol, O., Ghiassian, S. D., Patten, J. J., Davey, R. A., Loscalzo, J., et al. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Computational Drug Discovery MethodsSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Cited by 107

Journalists on Twitter: self-branding, audiences, and involvement of bots

Varol, O., & Uluturk, I. (2020) · Journal of Computational Social Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsJournalism and Media Studies

Cited by 39

Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media

Zouzou, Y., & Varol, O. (2024) · EPJ Data Science

Spam and Phishing DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

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