A.G. Møller, D.M. Romero, D. Jurgens, and L.M. Aiello. "The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study" Sci Rep, 2026. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code] [Blog]
H. Peng, M. Teplitskiy, D.M. Romero, and E-Á. Horvát. "The Gender Gap in Scholarly Self-Promotion on Social Media." Nature Communications, 16, 5552, 2025. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code]
S. Xiang, D.M. Romero, and M. Teplitskiy. "Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research: Disparate Outcomes for Topic and Knowledge Base." Proc. National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 122 (16) e2409752122, 2025. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code]
J. Córdova, E-Á. Horvát, and D.M. Romero. "Timing and Cross-Platform Presence Shape the Online Dissemination of Science." EPJ Data Sci, 14, 63, 2025.
A. Ananthasubramaniam, D. Jurgens, and D.M. Romero. "Roles of Network and Identity in Hashtag Diffusion." Proc. of The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2025. [Data and Code]
J. Córdova, T. Hirose, H. Shi, E-Á. Horvát, and D.M. Romero. "Multiplatform Early Predictors of Academic Articles' Visibility and Citations." Proc. of The ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI), 2025.
M. Bhat, D.M. Romero, and and E-Á. Horvát. "Scholarly Disengagement as an Epistemic Crisis: Clickbait, Credibility, and the Decline of Public-Facing Science." Proc. of The ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI), 2025.
Y. Yu, H. Chen, D.M. Romero, and P. Dhillon. "Signals in the Noise: Decoding Unexpected Engagement Patterns on Twitter." Proc. 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2025.
S. Xiang, D.M. Romero, and M. Teplitskiy. "Research Topic Choice: Motivations, Strategies, and Consequences." Quantitative Science Studies, 1-66, 2025.
Y. Yu, X. Li, T. Li, P. Dhillon, and D.M. Romero. "Demographic Disparity in Wikipedia Coverage: A Global Perspective." EPJ Data Sci, 14, 15, 2025.
Y. Yu and D.M. Romero. "Does the Use of Unusual Combinations of Datasets Contribute to Greater Scientific Impact?" Proc. National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121 (41) e2402802121, 2024. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code]
A. Ananthasubramaniam, D. Jurgens, and D.M. Romero. "Networks and Identity Drive the Spatial Diffusion of Linguistic Innovation in Urban and Rural Areas." npj Complex, 1, 14, 2024. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code]
D. Gamba, Y. Yu, Y. Yuan, G. Schoenebeck, and D.M. Romero. "Exit Ripple Effects: Understanding the Disruption of Socialization Networks Following Employee Departures." Proc. of The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2024.
M. Choi, D.M. Romero, and D. Jurgens. "Profile Update: The Effects of Identity Disclosure on Network Connections and Language." EPJ Data Sci, 45, 2024. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code]
H.K. Dambanemuya, D.M. Romero, and E-Á. Horvát. "Emergent Influence Networks in Good-Faith Online Discussions." Proc. 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2024.
A.N. Bhogal, V.J. Berrocal, D.M. Romero, M.A. Willis, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, and T.C. Veinot. "Social Acceptability of Health Behavior Posts on Social Media: An Experiment." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 66(5), 870-876, 2024
D. Maldeniya, M. De Choudhury, D. Garcia, and D.M. Romero. "Pulling Through Together: Social Media Response Trajectories in Disaster-Stricken Communities." Journal of Computational Social Science, 1-52, 2023.
M. Choi, D. Jurgens, and D.M. Romero. "Analyzing the Engagement of Social Relationships During Life Event Shocks in Social Media." Proc. 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2023.
S. Hwang, E-Á. Horvát, and D.M. Romero. "Information Retention in the Multi-Platform Sharing of Science." Proc. 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2023.
H. Peng, D.M. Romero, and E-Á. Horvát. "Dynamics of Cross-Platform Attention to Retracted Papers." Proc. National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119 (25) e2119086119, 2022. [Supplemental Material] [Data and Code] Press coverage: The Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, Le Monde (In French), Deutschlandfunk (German Radio)
T.C. Veinot, P.J., Clarke, D.M. Romero, L.R. Buis, T.R. Dillahunt, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, A. Beals, L. Brown, O.Richards, A. Williamson, and M.G. Antonio. "Equitable Research PRAXIS: A Framework for Health Informatics Methods." IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 31(01), 307-316, 2022.
P. Vaghela, R.K. Mothilal, D.M. Romero, and J. Pal. "Caste Capital on Twitter: A Formal Network Analysis of Caste Relations among Indian Politicians." Proc. 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2022.
H. Peng, Q. Ke, C. Budak, D.M. Romero, and YY Ahn. "Neural Embeddings of Scholarly Periodicals Reveal Complex Disciplinary Organizations." Science Advances, 7, eabb9004, 2021. [Supplementary Material] [Data] [Code]
M. Choi, C. Budak, D.M. Romero, and D. Jurgens. "More than Meets the Tie: Examining the Role of Interpersonal Relationships in Social Networks." Proc. 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2021. [Supplemental Material] [Code] [Video and Poster]
H. Peng, A. Nematzadeh, D.M. Romero, and E. Ferrara. "Network Modularity Controls the Speed of Information Diffusion." Phys. Rev. E, 102, 052316, 2020. [Supplemental Material]
D. Maldeniya, C. Budak, L. Robert, and D.M. Romero. "Herding a Deluge of Good Samaritans: How GitHub Projects Respond to Increased Attention." Proc. of The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2020. [Slides] [Video]
V.G.V. Vydiswaran, D.M. Romero, X. Zhao, D. Yu, I. Gomez-Lopez, J.X. Lu, B.E. Iott, A. Baylin, E.C. Jansen, P. Clarke, V.J. Berrocal, R. Goodspeed, and T.C. Veinot. "Uncovering the relationship between food-related discussion on Twitter and neighborhood characteristics." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 27(2), 254-264, 2020. Press coverage: The Counter, PatientEngagementHIT
T. Ammari, S. Schoenebeck, and D.M. Romero. "How Self-declared Throwaway Accounts Enable Parenting Disclosure and Support on Reddit." Proc. 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2019.
F. Zhang, R. Wang, E. Blohm, C. Budak, L. Robert, and D.M. Romero. "Participation of New Editors After Times of Shock on Wikipedia." Proc. 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2019. [Slides]
E.L. Platt and D.M. Romero. "Towards Attack Tolerant Networks: Concurrent Multipath Routing and the Butterfly Network." PLoS ONE, 14(4), 2019.
T. Cunha, D. Jurgens, C. Tan, and D.M. Romero. "Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities." Proc. of The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2019. [Slides] [Poster]
H. Peng, C. Budak, and D.M. Romero. "Event-Driven Analysis of Crowd Dynamics in the Black Lives Matter Online Social Movement." Proc. of The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2019. [Slides] [Poster]
D.M. Romero, B. Uzzi, and J. Kleinberg. "Social Networks under stress: Specialized Team Roles and their Communication Structure." ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Volume 13, Issue 1, Article 6, 2019.
E.L. Platt and D.M. Romero. "Network Structure, Efficiency, and Performance in WikiProjects." Proc. 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018. [Data and Code] [Slides]
V.G.V. Vydiswaran, D.M. Romero, X. Zhao, D.Yu, I. Gomez-Lopez, J.X. Lu, B. Iott, A. Baylin, P. Clarke, V. Berrocal, R. Goodspeed, and T. Veinot. "'Bacon Bacon Bacon': Food-related Tweets and Sentiment in Metro Detroit" Proc. 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018. Press coverage: Detour Detroit
Y. Shen, P. Clarke, I. Gomez-Lopez, A.B. Hill, D.M. Romero, R. Goodspeed, V. J. Berrocal, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, and T. Veinot. "Using Social Media to Assess the Community Food Store Environment: Comparing Yelp Reviews with a Direct Observation Audit Instrument for Grocery Stores." Public Health Nutrition, 2018.
R. Goodspeed, X. Yan, J Hardy, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, V. Berrocal, P. Clarke, D.M. Romero, I. Gomez-Lopez, and T. Veinot. "Comparing the Data Quality of Global Positioning System Devices and Mobile Phones for Assessing Relationships Between Place, Mobility, and Health: Field Study." JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth, 6(8):e168, 2018.
S. Chakraborty, J. Pal, P. Chandra, and D.M. Romero. "Political Tweets and Mainstream News Impact in India: A Mixed Methods Investigation into Political Outreach." Proc. ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 2018.
T. Ammari, S. Schoenebeck, and D.M. Romero. "Pseudonymous Parents: Comparing Parenting Roles and Identities on the Mommit and Daddit Subreddits." Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 2018. [Code]
J. Hardy, T.C. Veinot, X. Yan, V.J. Berrocal, P. Clarke, R. Goodspeed, I.N. Gomez, D.M. Romero, and V.G.V. Vydiswaran. "User Acceptance of Location-Tracking Technologies in Health Research: Implications for Study Design and Data Quality." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2018.
F. Zhang, D. Livneh, C. Budak, L. Robert, and D.M. Romero. "Crowd Development: The Interplay Between Crowd Evaluation and Collaborative Dynamics in Wikipedia." Proc. 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2018.
S. Mukherjee, D.M. Romero, B. Jones and B. Uzzi. "The Nearly Universal Link Between the Age of Past Knowledge and Tomorrow's Breakthroughs in Science and Technology: The Hotspot." Science Advances, 3, e1601315, 2017. Press coverage: CS Monitor
F. Zhang, D. Livneh, C. Budak, L. Robert, and D.M. Romero. "Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia." Proc. 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017. [Slides]
D. Maldeniya, A. Varghese, T. Stuart, and D.M. Romero. "The Role of Optimal Distinctiveness and Homophily in Online Dating." Proc. 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017. [Slides][Poster]
I.N. Gomez-Lopez, P. Clarke, A.B. Hill, D.M. Romero, R. Goodspeed, V.J. Berrocal, V.G.V. Vydiswaran, and T.C. Veinot. "Using Social Media to Identify Sources of Healthy Food in Urban Neighborhoods." Journal of Urban Health, 2017.
D.M. Romero, K. Reinecke, and L. Robert. "The Influence of Early Respondents: Information Cascade Effects in Online Event Scheduling." Proc. 10th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2017. [Slides][Poster]
D.M. Romero, B. Uzzi, and J. Kleinberg. "Social Networks Under Stress." Proc. 25th ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2016. (Best Paper Award) [Slides]
L. Robert and D.M. Romero. "The Influence of Diversity and Experience on the Effects of Crowd Size." Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2016.
D.M. Romero, R. Swaab, B. Uzzi, and A. Galinsky. "Mimicry Is Presidential: Linguistic Style Matching in Presidential Debates and Improved Polling Numbers." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 41(10) 1311-1319, 2015. [Video] Press coverage: Fortune, Pacific Standard, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine
D.M. Romero, D. Huttenlocher, and J. Kleinberg. "Coordination and Efficiency in Decentralized Collaboration." Proc. 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2015. [Slides]
L. Robert and D.M. Romero "Crowd Size, Diversity and Performance." Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 2015. [Slides]
C. Kuehn, E.A. Martens, and D.M. Romero. "Critical Transitions in Social Network Activity." Journal of Complex Networks, 2(2), 141-152, 2014. [Summary in Oxford University Press's Blog]
N. Mishra, D.M. Romero, and P. Tsaparas. "Estimating the Relative Utility of Networks for Predicting User Activities." Proc. 22th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013. [Slides]
D.M. Romero, C. Tan, and J. Ugander. "On the Interplay between Social and Topical Structure." Proc. 7th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2013. [Slides]
D.M. Romero, B. Meeder, and J. Kleinberg. "Differences in the Mechanics of Information Diffusion Across Topics: Idioms, Political Hashtags, and Complex Contagion on Twitter." Proc. 20th ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2011. [Slides] [List of hashtags with categories] Press coverage: New York Times, CBS News
D.M. Romero, W. Galuba, S. Asur, and B.A. Huberman "Influence and Passivity in Social Media." Proc. European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2011. (2021 Test of Time Award) [Slides] Press coverage: New Scientist, The Economist, BBC, MIT Tech Review, CNet, Mashable
J. Cheng, D.M. Romero, B. Meeder, and J. Kleinberg. "Predicting Reciprocity in Social Networks. " Proc. 3rd IEEE Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2011.
D.M. Romero, B. Meeder, V. Barash, and J. Kleinberg "Maintaining Ties on Social Media Sites: The Competing Effects of Balance, Exchange, and Betweenness." Proc. 5th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2011.
M.J. Brzozowski and D.M. Romero "Who Should I Follow? Recommending People in Directed Social Networks." Proc. 5th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2011.
D.M. Romero, C. Kribs-Zaleta, A. Mubayi, and C. Orbe "An Epidemiological Approach to the Spread of Political Third Parties." Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 15, 707-738, 2011.
D.M. Romero and J. Kleinberg, "The Directed Closure Process in Hybrid Social-Information Networks, with an Analysis of Link Formation on Twitter." Proc. 4th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2010. [Slides]
S. Yardi, D.M. Romero, G. Schoenebeck, and d. boyd, "Detecting spam in a Twitter network." First Monday, Volume 15, Number 1, 2010.
B.A. Huberman, D.M. Romero, and F. Wu, "Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope." First Monday, Volume 14, Number 1, 2009. Press coverage: Wall Street Journal
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B.A. Huberman, D.M. Romero, and F. Wu, "Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity." Journal of Information Sciences, Volume 35, Number 6, pp. 758-765, 2009. [Slides] Press coverage: New Scientist