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  1. AI feedback enhances community-based content moderation through engagement with counterarguments

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior Reports, August 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  2. From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media, July 2026, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  3. Visual Anthropomorphism Shifts Evaluations of Gendered AI Managers

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior Artificial Humans, June 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  4. What they don’t tell you about conspiracy theories: genius-driven science and informal science communication predict susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs

    Article • Current Psychology, June 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  5. Selective divergence between Grokipedia and Wikipedia articles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Taha Yasseri, Professor Taha Yasseri

  6. Gender bias in perception of human managers extends to AI managers

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior Reports, March 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  7. Visual Anthropomorphism Shifts Evaluations of Gendered AI Managers

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  8. Visual Anthropomorphism Shifts Evaluations of Gendered AI Managers

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  9. How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  10. Gender Dynamics and Homophily in a Social Network of LLM Agents

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  11. Computational sociology of humans and machines: conflict and collaboration

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  12. My personal and our collective journey in computational social science

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  13. Handbook of Computational Social Science

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  14. How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  15. How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  16. How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  17. AI’s assigned gender affects human-AI cooperation

    Article • iScience, November 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  18. How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  19. Female Managers Are Judged More Harshly Even When They Are AI

    Article • September 2025, IOS Press

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  20. Conspiracy Theories as Culturally Evolved Epistemologies: A Perspective for the Age of AI

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  21. The Memory Machine

    Article • February 2025, Front Matter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  22. What They Don't Tell You About Conspiracy Theories: Genius-Driven Science and Informal Science Communication Predict Susceptibility to Conspiracy Beliefs

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  23. What They Don't Tell You About Conspiracy Theories: Genius-Driven Science and Editor-Free Preference Predict Susceptibility to Conspiracy Beliefs

    Article • December 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  24. What They Don't Tell You About Conspiracy Theories: Genius-Driven Science and Informal Science Communication Predict Susceptibility to Conspiracy Beliefs

    Article • December 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  25. AI-enhanced collective intelligence

    Article • Patterns, November 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  26. From Black squares to White guilt: The influence of Black Lives Matter on non-Indigenous views of the Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia

    Article • Journal of Sociology, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  27. A new sociology of humans and machines

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  28. How large language models can reshape collective intelligence

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  29. Negative social tipping dynamics resulting from and reinforcing Earth system destabilization

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, September 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  30. Individual differences in knowledge network navigation

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  31. Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits

    Article • EPJ Data Science, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  32. Negative Social Tipping Dynamics Resulting from and Reinforcing Earth System Destabilisation

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  33. Why Social Media Falls Short While Wikipedia Thrives

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri, Filippo Menczer

  34. From Print to Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Public Sphere in the Digital Age

    Article • August 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  35. Terrorist attacks sharpen the binary perception of “Us” vs. “Them”

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  36. Between news and history: identifying networked topics of collective attention on Wikipedia

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  37. The cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks

    Article • Collective Intelligence, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  38. Individual differences in knowledge network navigation

    Article • March 2023, Research Square

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  39. Complex systems in the spotlight: next steps after the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

    Article • Journal of Physics Complexity, January 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  40. From Print to Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Public Sphere in the Digital Age

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  41. What drives passion? An empirical examination on the impact of personality trait interactions and job environments on work passion

    Article • Current Psychology, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  42. Fooled by facts: quantifying anchoring bias through a large-scale experiment

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  43. Collective memory in the digital age

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  44. Football is becoming more predictable; network analysis of 88 thousand matches in 11 major leagues

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, December 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  45. Controversy around climate change reports: a case study of Twitter responses to the 2019 IPCC report on land

    Article • Climatic Change, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  46. Computational courtship understanding the evolution of online dating through large-scale data analysis

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  47. Gender Imbalance and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Contributions to Citizen Science Projects: The Case of Zooniverse

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, June 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  48. Dissent and rebellion in the House of Commons: a social network analysis of Brexit-related divisions in the 57th Parliament

    Article • Applied Network Science, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  49. Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  50. The Kaleidoscope of Privacy: Differences across French, German, UK, and US GDPR Media Discourse

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  51. Islamophobes are not all the same! A study of far right actors on Twitter

    Article • Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  52. Positive algorithmic bias cannot stop fragmentation in homophilic networks

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Sociology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  53. What, when and where of petitions submitted to the UK government during a time of chaos

    Article • Policy Sciences, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  54. Social complex contagion in music listenership: A natural experiment with 1.3 million participants

    Article • Social Networks, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  55. Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  56. Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity?\\ An analysis of 11.5 thousand online profiles

    Article • October 2019, ScienceOpen

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  57. Emergence of world-stock-market network

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  58. Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  59. Topic Modeling of Everyday Sexism Project Entries

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Humanities, January 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  60. Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, May 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Barbara McGillivray, Professor Taha Yasseri

  61. How digital design shapes political participation: A natural experiment with social information

    Article • PLOS One, April 2018, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  62. Understanding Human-Machine Networks

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Taha Yasseri, Professor Taha Yasseri

  63. Inspiration, Captivation, and Misdirection: Emergent Properties in Networks of Online Navigation

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  64. Rapid rise and decay in petition signing

    Article • EPJ Data Science, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  65. Characterization of the anisotropy of rough surfaces: Crossing statistics

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, August 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  66. Two Diverging Roads: A Semantic Network Analysis of Chinese Social Connection (“Guanxi”) on Twitter

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Humanities, June 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  67. The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age

    Article • Science Advances, April 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  68. Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative environment: A data-driven modeling

    Article • PLOS One, March 2017, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  69. Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia

    Article • PLOS One, February 2017, PLOS

    Luciano Floridi, Professor Taha Yasseri

  70. Social Informatics

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  71. Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative Interactions in Online Collaboration

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  72. Some lives matter more

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, October 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Taha Yasseri, Professor Taha Yasseri

  73. UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN MOOCs

    Article • September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  74. Editorial: At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  75. A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  76. Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models

    Article • EPJ Data Science, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  77. P-Values: Misunderstood and Misused

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, March 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  78. Political Turbulence

    Article • January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  79. Human-Machine Networks: Towards a Typology and Profiling Framework

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  80. Political Turbulence

    Article • November 2015, JSTOR

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  81. Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?

    Article • it - Information Technology, September 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  82. Modeling social dynamics in a collaborative environment

    Article • EPJ Data Science, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  83. Structural limitations of learning in a crowd: communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  84. Mapping the UK webspace

    Article • June 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  85. Big Data and Collective Action

    Article • May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  86. The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics

    Article • EPJ Data Science, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  87. Vote Me Up If You Like My Ideas!! Experiences of Learning in a MOOC

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  88. Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data

    Article • PLOS One, August 2013, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  89. Temporal analysis of activity patterns of editors in collaborative mapping project of OpenStreetMap

    Article • August 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  90. Petition growth and success rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street website

    Article • May 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Taha Yasseri, Scott Hale, Dr Taha Yasseri

  91. Value Production in a Collaborative Environment

    Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  92. Opinions, Conflicts, and Consensus: Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  93. The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  94. - Nanostructures on Thin Films by keV Ion Beams

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  95. Nanofabrication by Ion-Beam Sputtering

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  96. A Practical Approach to Language Complexity: A Wikipedia Case Study

    Article • PLOS One, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  97. Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia

    Article • PLOS One, June 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  98. Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis

    Article • PLOS One, January 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  99. Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  100. Edit Wars in Wikipedia

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  101. A Monte Carlo study of surface sputtering by dual and rotated ion beams

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  102. Simulating discrete models of pattern formation by ion beam sputtering

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  103. Surfactant Sputtering: Theory of a new method of surface nanostructuring by ion beams

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  104. The influence of beam divergence on ion-beam induced surface patterns

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri