Research

Vision

Our aim is to develop data-driven computational models of complex socio-cognitive systems. We work to develop innovative mathematical models and computational tools to better understand, anticipate and control massive social phenomena with a complex systems approach.

Book(s)

- Quattrociocchi, W., & Vicini, A. (2018). Liberi di Crederci. Internet, informazione e post-verità. Codice Edizioni.- Quattrociocchi, W., & Vicini, A. (2016). Misinformation.: Guida alla società dell'informazione e della credulità. FrancoAngeli. https://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/scheda_libro.aspx?CodiceLibro=666.9

Scientific Papers (Selection)

2020

-Bonaccorsi, G., Pierri, F., Cinelli, M., Flori, A., Galeazzi, A., Porcelli, F., ... & Pammolli, F. (2020). Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(27), 15530-15535.- Schmidt, A. L., Peruzzi, A., Scala, A., Cinelli, M., Pomerantsev, P., Applebaum, A., ... & De Cesco, A. F. (2020). Measuring social response to different journalistic techniques on Facebook. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1), 1-7.-Scala, A., Flori, A., Spelta, A., Brugnoli, E., Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., & Pammolli, F. (2020). Time, space and social interactions: exit mechanisms for the COVID-19 epidemics. Scientific Reports arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04608.- Cinelli, M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Quattrociocchi, W., & Scala, A. (2020). Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet. PloS one, 15(3), e0229129.- Cinelli, M., Cresci, S., Galeazzi, A., Quattrociocchi, W., & Tesconi, M. (2020). The limited reach of fake news on Twitter during 2019 European elections. PloS one, 15(6), e0234689.- Zaccaria, A., Del Vicario, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Scala, A., & Pietronero, L. (2019). PopRank: Ranking pages’ impact and users’ engagement on Facebook. PloS one, 14(1), e0211038. IF 2.76

2019

- Vicario, M. D., Quattrociocchi, W., Scala, A., & Zollo, F. (2019). Polarization and fake news: Early warning of potential misinformation targets. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 13(2), 10. IF 1.51- Brugnoli, E., Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., & Scala, A. (2019). Recursive patterns in online echo chambers. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-18.- Mazza, M., Cresci, S., Avvenuti, M., Quattrociocchi, W., & Tesconi, M. (2019, June). Rtbust: Exploiting temporal patterns for botnet detection on twitter. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science (pp. 183-192).- Zaccaria, A., Del Vicario, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Scala, A., & Pietronero, L. (2019). PopRank: Ranking pages’ impact and users’ engagement on Facebook. PloS one, 14(1), e0211038. IF 2.76

2018

- Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Betsch, C., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook. Vaccine, 36(25), 3606-3612. IF 3.28- Peruzzi, A., Zollo, F., Quattrociocchi, W., & Scala, A. (2018). How News May Affect Markets’ Complex Structure: The Case of Cambridge Analytica. Entropy, 20(10), 765.

2017

- Schmidt A.L., Zollo F, Del Vicario M, Bessi A, Caldarelli G., Scala A., … Quattrociocchi W. (2017) Anatomy of News Consumption on Facebook. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/02/28/1617052114.full- Del Vicario, M., Zollo, F., Caldarelli, G., Scala, A., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Mapping social dynamics on Facebook: The Brexit debate. Social Networks, 50, 6-16. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316304166- Del Vicario, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Stanley, H. E., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Modeling confirmation bias and polarization. Scientific Reports, 7, 40391. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep40391- Del Vicario, M., Gaito, S., Quattrociocchi, W., Zignani, M., & Zollo, F. (2017). Public discourse and news consumption on online social media: A quantitative, cross-platform analysis of the Italian Referendum. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06016. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06016- Conti, M., Lain, D., Lazzeretti, R., Lovisotto, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). It's Always April Fools' Day! On the Difficulty of Social Network Misinformation Classification via Propagation Features. arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04221. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04221

2016

- Quattrociocchi, W., Scala, A., & Sunstein, C. R. (2016). Echo chambers on facebook. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2795110- Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Petroni, F., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). The spreading of misinformation online. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(3), 554-559. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554.full- Del Vicario, M., Vivaldo, G., Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook. Scientific Reports, 6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5131349/- Bessi, A., Petroni, F., Del Vicario, M., Zollo, F., Anagnostopoulos, A., Scala, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). Homophily and polarization in the age of misinformation. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 225(10), 2047-2059. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2015-50319-0- Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Puliga, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube. PloS one, 11(8), e0159641. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0159641

2015

- Mocanu, D., Rossi, L., Zhang, Q., Karsai, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Collective attention in the age of (mis) information. Computers in Human Behavior, 51, 1198-1204. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563215000382#- Bessi, A., Coletto, M., Davidescu, G. A., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Science vs conspiracy: Collective narratives in the age of misinformation. PloS one, 10(2), e0118093. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118093- Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation. PloS one, 10(8), e0134641. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134641- Zollo, F., Novak, P. K., Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Mozetič, I., Scala, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Emotional dynamics in the age of misinformation. PloS one, 10(9), e0138740. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138740- Zollo, F., Bessi, A., Del Vicario, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Shekhtman, L., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Debunking in a World of Tribes. arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.04267. https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04267

2014

- Bessi, A., Scala, A., Rossi, L., Zhang, Q., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2014). The economy of attention in the age of (mis) information. Journal of Trust Management, 1(1), 12. https://journaloftrustmanagement.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40493-014-0012-y- Quattrociocchi, W., Caldarelli, G., & Scala, A. (2014). Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence. Scientific reports, 4, 4938. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep04938