Recent Publications

• General scales unlock AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power. arXiv (2025). 

• Price of anarchy in algorithmic matching of romantic partners.  ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (2024).

• Adversarial dynamics in centralized versus decentralized intelligent systems, Topics in Cognitive Science (2023).

• Bots influence opinion dynamics without direct human-bot interaction, Applied Network Science (2022).

• Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from computability theory, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2021).

• Human detection of machine-manipulated media, Communications of the ACM (2021).

Selected Publications

• Time-critical social mobilization. Science (2011). Covered by: New York Times, MIT News, Science News.

• Limits of social mobilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2013).

• Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation. Nature Communications (2013). Covered by PNAS, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, MIT News.

• Epidemic contact tracing via communication traces, PLOS One (2014). Covered by Max Planck Society, El Pais, Reuters, Die Zeit.

• Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity. Science Advances (2016). Covered by Science Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post.

• Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2018). Covered by Scientific American.

• Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress. Nature Human Behaviour (2018). Covered by Nature News.

• Small cities face greater impact from automation. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2018). Covered by MIT Technology Review, New Scientist.

• Cooperating with machines. Nature Communications (2018). Covered by Science Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Le Monde, Nature, Nature Human Behavior.

• The evolution of citation graphs in artificial intelligence research. Nature Machine Intelligence (2019).

• Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2019).

• Machine behaviour. Nature (2020). Covered by Forbes, MIT Technology Review, Conversations on Machine Behavior

• Universal resilience patterns in labor markets. Nature Communications (2021). Covered by MIT News.

• The past, present, and future of digital contact tracing. Nature Electronics (2021).

• A time-critical crowdsourced computational search for the origins of COVID-19. Nature Electronics (2021).

• Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans, Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2022). Covered by El Pais.

For a comprehensive list please check Cebrian’s Google Scholar profile.