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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  2. Visual Anthropomorphism Shifts Evaluations of Gendered AI Managers

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  3. Visual Anthropomorphism Shifts Evaluations of Gendered AI Managers

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  8. Handbook of Computational Social Science

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • iScience, November 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • September 2025, IOS Press

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  16. The Memory Machine

    Article • February 2025, Front Matter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. AI-enhanced collective intelligence

    Article • Patterns, November 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  21. 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

  22. A new sociology of humans and machines

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  23. How large language models can reshape collective intelligence

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, September 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  25. Individual differences in knowledge network navigation

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  26. 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

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

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  28. 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

  29. 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

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  31. 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

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

    Article • Collective Intelligence, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  33. Individual differences in knowledge network navigation

    Article • March 2023, Research Square

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. Collective memory in the digital age

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

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

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  46. 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

  47. Positive algorithmic bias cannot stop fragmentation in homophilic networks

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  48. 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

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

    Article • Social Networks, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • October 2019, ScienceOpen

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  52. Emergence of world-stock-market network

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  53. Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  54. Topic Modeling of Everyday Sexism Project Entries

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Humanities, January 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  55. 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

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

    Article • PLOS One, April 2018, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  57. 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

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

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  59. Rapid rise and decay in petition signing

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  61. 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

  62. 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

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

    Article • PLOS One, March 2017, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  64. Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia

    Article • PLOS One, February 2017, PLOS

    Luciano Floridi, Professor Taha Yasseri

  65. Social Informatics

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  66. 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

  67. Some lives matter more

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

    Dr Taha Yasseri, Professor Taha Yasseri

  68. UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN MOOCs

    Article • September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  72. P-Values: Misunderstood and Misused

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, March 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  73. Political Turbulence

    Article • January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  75. Political Turbulence

    Article • November 2015, JSTOR

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  77. Modeling social dynamics in a collaborative environment

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  78. 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

  79. Mapping the UK webspace

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  80. Big Data and Collective Action

    Article • May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  81. 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

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

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • PLOS One, August 2013, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  85. 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

  86. Value Production in a Collaborative Environment

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  89. - Nanostructures on Thin Films by keV Ion Beams

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  90. Nanofabrication by Ion-Beam Sputtering

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • PLOS One, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  92. Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia

    Article • PLOS One, June 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

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

    Article • PLOS One, January 2012, PLOS

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  94. Edit Wars in Wikipedia

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

    Professor Taha Yasseri

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. 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

  98. 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