1998 · Nature
Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
43,637 citationsRead
Most cited
245 papers in total2018 · Science
The science of fake news
3,998 citationsRead
2001 · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications
3,731 citationsRead
2017 · Nature Human Behaviour
Redefine statistical significance
2,853 citationsRead
2002 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A simple model of global cascades on random networks
2,697 citationsRead
2000 · Physical Review Letters
Network Robustness and Fragility: Percolation on Random Graphs
2,514 citationsRead
Newest first
245 papers in total2026
- A large-scale evaluation of commonsense knowledge in humans and large language modelsPNAS Nexus · 2 citations
- Integrative experiments identify how punishment affects welfare in public goods gamesScience · 1 citations
- The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the newsZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Empirical Trajectory Sparsity Biases Mobility-Informed Epidemic ModelingarXiv (Cornell University)
- LLM-Assisted Reranking to Operationalize Nuanced Objectives in Recommender SystemsarXiv (Cornell University)
- Quantifying the prevalence and impact of overreaching causal claims in social scienceNature Human Behaviour
- Craft, Curiosity, and Knowledge: Duncan Watts in Conversation with Philipp BrandtSociologica
2025
- Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage11 citations
- Unpacking media bias in the growing divide between cable and network newsScientific Reports · 6 citations
- Rethinking news framing with large language modelsScientific Reports · 2 citations
- A research agenda for encouraging prosocial behaviour on social mediaNature Human Behaviour · 2 citations
- Hypothetical nudges provide directional but noisy estimates of real behavior changeCommunications Psychology · 1 citations
- Computational social science: past, present, and future1 citations
- The role of topic choice in cross-partisan conversations
- The Task Space: An Integrative Framework for Team Research
2024
- Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformationNature · 150 citations
- Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on FacebookScience · 134 citations
- Causally estimating the effect of YouTube’s recommender system using counterfactual botsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 45 citations
- The exciting potential and daunting challenge of using GPS human-mobility data for epidemic modelingNature Computational Science · 19 citations
- A framework for quantifying individual and collective common senseProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 9 citations
- Replies to commentaries on beyond playing 20 questions with natureBehavioral and Brain Sciences · 8 citations
- Experiment aversion does generalize, but it can also be mitigatedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1 citations
- Weak Ties and the Origins of Network ScienceSFI Press eBooks
- Decoding Teamwork: The Computational Science of CollaborationAcademy of Management Proceedings
2023
- Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users’ activity on fringe social mediaPNAS Nexus · 32 citations
- The Effects of Group Composition and Dynamics on Collective PerformanceTopics in Cognitive Science · 11 citations
- The diminishing state of shared reality on US television newsarXiv (Cornell University) · 2 citations
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From OpenAlex- article107
- preprint41
- conference paper19
- book chapter12
- dataset5
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences18
- Princeton University Press eBooks11
- Science10
- arXiv (Cornell University)10
- SSRN Electronic Journal6
- David M. Rothschild20
- Abdullah Almaatouq19
- Jake M. Hofman18
- Mark E. Whiting16
- Siddharth Suri14
Experience and education
Universities
2025Wayne State University
2018University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2017National University of Singapore
2002 to 2010Princeton University
2002New Jersey Institute of Technology
2001Amherst College
Industry and labs
2012 to 2020Microsoft (United States)
1999 to 2011Santa Fe Institute
2008 to 2011Yahoo (United Kingdom)
2003Economic Policy Institute