Underlined authors contributed equally. License for the datasets and code is CC BY 4.0 unless noted otherwise.
Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems
Eds: Sune Lehmann and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Springer [Link] [Homepage]
Co-contributorship Network and Division of Labor in Individual Scientific Collaborations
Chao Lu, Yingyi Zhang, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Ying Ding, Chenwei Zhang, Dandan Ma
JASIST [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Co-prescription network reveals social dynamics of opioid doctor shopping
Brea L. Perry, Kaicheng Yang, Patrick Kaminski, Meltem Odabas, Jaehyuk Park, Michelle Martel, Carrie B. Oser, Patricia R. Freeman, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Jeffrey Talbert
PLoS ONE 14, e0223849 [Link] [PDF]
Information overload in group communication: from conversation to cacophony in the Twitch chat
Azadeh Nematzadeh, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Alessandro Flammini
Royal Society Open Science 6, 191412 [Link] [PDF] [Data] [Code]
Global labor flow network reveals the hierarchical organization and dynamics of geo-industrial clusters
Jaehyuk Park, Ian B. Wood, Elise Jing, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Souvik Ghosh, Michael D. Conover, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Nature Communications 10, 3449 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
[Phys.org] [Science Daily] [Inside Indiana Business] [Crimson Catalyst] (Other coverage)
Massive Multi-agent Data-Driven Simulations of the GitHub Ecosystem
Jim Blythe, John Bollenbacher, Di Huang, Pik-Mai Hui, Rachel Krohn, Diogo Pacheco, Goran Muric, Anna Sapienza, Alexey Tregubov, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Alessandro Flammini, Kristina Lerman, Filippo Menczer, Tim Weninger, and Emilio Ferrara
PAAMS’19 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
Evolution of the informational complexity of contemporary western music
Thomas Parmer and Yong-Yeol Ahn
ISMIR’19 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Code]
Element-centric clustering comparison unifies overlaps and hierarchy
Alexander J. Gates, Ian B. Wood, William P. Hetrick, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Scientific Reports 9, 8574 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
CluSim: a python package for calculating clustering similarity
Alexander J. Gates and Yong-Yeol Ahn
The Journal of Open Source Software 4(35), 1264 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
Community-Based Event Detection in Temporal Networks
Pablo Moriano, Jorge Finke, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Scientific Reports 9, 4358 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
Optimal modularity and memory capacity of neural reservoirs
Nathaniel Rodriguez, Eduardo Izquierdo, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Network Neuroscience 3, 551 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research: a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Elise Smith, Benoit Macaluso, and Vincent Larivière
Lancet 393 9-15 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
[Guardian] [Reuters] [Japan News] [Wired] (Other coverages)
Race and the beauty premium: Mechanical Turk workers’ evaluations of Twitter accounts
Anne Groggel, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, and Fabio Rojas
Information, Communication & Society [Link] [PDF]
Scalable Detection of Viral Memes from Diffusion Patterns
Pik-Mai Hui, Lilian Weng, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Filippo Menczer
Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems pp.197-211 (Springer) [Link] [PDF]
Spreading in Social Systems: Reflections
Sune Lehmann and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems pp.351-358 (Springer) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Optimal Modularity in Complex Contagion
Azadeh Nematzadeh, Nathaniel Rodriguez, Alessandro Flammini, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems pp.97-107 (Springer) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment
Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
ACL’18 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Data and code]
The Minor fall, the Major lift: inferring emotional valence of musical chords through lyrics
Artemy Kolchinsky, Nakul Dhande, Kengjeun Park, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Royal Society Open Science 4, 170952 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Data] [Code]
[Science] [The Conversation] [Atlas Obscura] [QUARTZ] (List of media coverage)
The impact of random models on clustering similarity
Alexander J. Gates and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Journal of Machine Learning Research 18, 1 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Inverse resolution limit of partition density and detecting overlapping communities by link-surprise
Juyong Lee, Zhong-Yuan Zhang, Jooyoung Lee, Bernard R. Brooks, Yong-Yeol Ahn
Scientific Reports 7, 12399 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Social Contagions on weighted networks
Yu-Xiao Zhu, Wei Wang, Ming Tang, Yong-Yeol Ahn
Physical Review E 96, 012306 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Data-driven Methods for the Study of Food Perception, Preparation, Consumption, and Culture
Ole G. Mouritsen, Rachel Edwards-Stuart, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sebastian E. Ahnert
Front. ICT 4, 15 [Link] [PDF]
A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter
Qing Ke, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Cassidy R. Sugimoto
PLoS One 12, e0175368 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
[Nature
News] [LSE Blog]
Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform
Supun Nakandala, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Norman Makoto Su, Yong-Yeol Ahn
ICWSM’17 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Code]
[Motherboard] [Kotaku] (List of other coverage)
Collective Dynamics of Belief Evolution under Cognitive Coherence and Social Conformity
Nathaniel Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Yong-Yeol Ahn
PLoS ONE 11, e0165910 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
Network Landscape of Western Classical Music
Arram Bae, Doheum Park, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Juyong Park
Leonardo 49, 448 [Link]
Twitter’s Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility
Shirin Nilizadeh, Anne Groggel, Peter Lista, Srijita Das, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, Fabio Rojas
ICWSM’16 [Link] [PDF] [Code]
The Multi-Scale Network Landscape of Collaboration
Arram Bae, Doheum Park, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Juyong Park
PLoS ONE 11, e0151784 (2016) [Link] [PDF]
Characterizing Conversation Patterns in Reddit: From the Perspectives of Content Properties and User Participation Behaviors
Daejin Choi, Jinyoung Han, Taejoong Chung, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Byung-Gon Chun, Ted Taekyoung Kwon
COSN’15 [Link] [PDF]
Quantifying socio-economic indicators in developing countries from mobile phone communication data: applications to Côte d’Ivoire
Huina Mao, Xin Shuai, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Johan Bollen
EPJ Data Science 4, 1-16 (2015). [Link] [PDF]
Optimizing drug-target interaction prediction based on random walk on heterogeneous networks
A. Seal, Y.-Y. Ahn, and D. J. Wild.
Journal of Cheminformatics 7, 40 (2015). [Link] [PDF]
Robustness and modular structure in networks
J.P. Bagrow, S. Lehmann, and Y.-Y. Ahn
Network Science 3, 509 (2015). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Cooperative and Competitive Spreading Dynamics on the Human Connectome
B. Mišić, R. F. Betzel, A. Nematzadeh, J. Goñi, A. Griffa, P. Hagmann, A. Flammini, Y.-Y. Ahn, and O. Sporns
Neuron 86, 1518 (2015). [Link] [PDF]
[IUB News]
Community detection in bipartite networks using weighted symmetric binary matrix factorization
Z.-Y. Zhang and Y.-Y. Ahn
Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 0, 1550096 (2015). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Tie strength distribution in scientific collaboration networks
Qing Ke and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Physical Review E 90, 032804 (2014). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Community-Enhanced De-anonymization of Online Social Networks
Shirin Nilizadeh, Apu Kapadia, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
CCS’14 [PDF]
Optimal Network Modularity for Information Diffusion
Azadeh Nematzadeh, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Physical Review Letters (Editors’ suggestion) 113, 088701 (2014) [Link] [Erratum] [arXiv] [PDF]
A Network Framework of Cultural History
Maximilian Schich, Chaoming Song, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Alexander Mirsky, Mauro Martino, Albert-László Barabási, and Dirk
Helbing
Science 345, 558 (2014) [Link] [PDF] [Project page]
[Nature News] [National Geographic] [Business Insider] [The Times] [Daily Mail] [Spiegel] [Scientific American] [NPR] [동아사이언스]
Misogynistic language on Twitter and sexual violence
Rachel Fulper, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Emilio Ferrara, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Bryce Lewis, Kehontas Rowe
ChASM’14 [PDF]
Predicting Successful Memes using Network and Community Structure
Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
ICWSM’14 [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Metabolic Network Analysis-Based Identification of Antimicrobial Drug Targets in Category A Bioterrorism Agents
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Deok-Sun Lee, Henry Burd, William Blank, Vinayak Kapatral
PLoS ONE 9(1): e85195 (2014) [Link] [PDF]
Geography and Similarity of Regional Cuisines in China
Y.-X. Zhu, Z. Huang, Z.-K. Zhang, Q.-M. Zhang, T. Zhou, and Y.-Y. Ahn
PLOS ONE 8(11): e79161 (2013) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Data and code]
[Techonological Review] [Wired: Social Dimension]
Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks
L. Weng, F. Menczer, and Y.-Y. Ahn
Scientific Reports 3, 2522 (2013) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Slides] [Project page] [Data]
[Scientific American] [IEEE SPECTRUM]
Overlapping Community Detection in Complex Networks using Symmetric Binary Matrix Factorization
Z.-Y. Zhang, Y. Wang, and Y.-Y. Ahn
Physical Review E 87, 062803 (2013) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Code]
The Flavor Network
Y.-Y. Ahn and S. Ahnert
Leonardo 46, 272 (2013) [Link] [PDF]
Mobile Communications Reveal the Regional economy in Côte D’ivoire
H. Mao, X. Shuai, Y.-Y. Ahn, J. Bollen
NetMob 2013: Data for Development Challenge [Link]
Delayed Information Cascades in Flickr: Measurement, Analysis, and Modeling
M. Cha, F. Benevenuto, Y.-Y. Ahn, and K. P. Gummadi
Computer Networks 56, 1066 (2012) [Link] [PDF]
Flavor network and the principles of food pairing
Y.-Y. Ahn, S. Ahnert, J. P. Bagrow, and A.-L. Barabási
Scientific Reports 1, 196 (2011) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Hi-res Fig 2] [poster] [Ingredient-compounds dataset] [Flavor network backbone] [Recipe datasets with cuisines]
[Nature News] [Scientific American] [Technology Review] (List of media coverage)
Evidence for Network Evolution in an Arabidopsis Interactome Map
Arabidopsis Interactome Mapping Consortium
Science 333, 601 (2011) [Link] [PDF]
Understanding the demographics of Twitter users
A. Mislove, S. Lehmann, Y.-Y. Ahn, J.-P. Onnela, and J. N. Rosenquist
ICWSM’11 [Link] [PDF]
Topological Cluster Analysis Reveals the Systemic Organization of the Caenorhabditis elegans Connectome
Y. Sohn, M. K. Choi, Y.-Y. Ahn, J. Lee, and J. Jeong
PLOS Comp. Biol. 7, e1001139 (2011) [Link] [PDF]
Googling social interactions: Web search engine based social network construction
S. H. Lee, P.-J. Kim, Y.-Y. Ahn, and H. Jeong
PLOS ONE 5, e11233 (2010) [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Project page]
[NewScientist] [georgezaidan:Pocket Science]
Link communities reveal multiscale complexity in networks
Y.-Y. Ahn, J. P. Bagrow, and S. Lehmann
Nature 466, 761 (2010). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [source codes & visualization] [Talk slides]
[news@Northeastern] [한겨레 사이언스온]
A blueprint for antimicrobial hit discovery targeting metabolic networks
Y. Shen, J. Liu, G. Estiu, B. Isin, Y.-Y. Ahn, D.-S. Lee, A.-L. Barabási, V. Kapatral, O. Wiest, and Z. N. Oltvai
PNAS 107, 1082 (2010). [Link] [PDF]
Analyzing the video popularity characteristics of large-scale user generated content systems
M. Cha, H. Kwak, P. Rodriguez, Y.-Y. Ahn, and S. Moon
ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking 17, 1357 (2009). [Link] [PDF]
Comparison of online social relations in terms of volume vs. interaction: a case study of Cyworld
H. Chun, H. Kwak, Y.-H. Eom, Y.-Y. Ahn, S. Moon, and H. Jeong
IMC’08 [Link]
[PDF]
Impact of the updating scheme on stationary states of networks
F. Radicchi, Y.-Y. Ahn, and H. Meyer-Ortmanns
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 41, 224010 (2008). [Link] [PDF]
I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world’s largest user generated content video system
M. Cha, H. Kwak, P. Rodriguez, Y.-Y. Ahn, and S. Moon
IMC’07 [Link] [PDF]
Analysis of Topological Characteristics of Huge Online Social Networking Services
Y.-Y. Ahn, S. Han, H. Kwak, S. Moon, and H. Jeong
WWW’07 [PDF] [Updated & corredted PDF] [Data]
Epidemic dynamics of two species of interacting particles on scale-free networks
Y.-Y. Ahn, N. Masuda, H. Jeong, and J. D. Noh
Physical Review E 74, 066113 (2006). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Wiring Cost in the Organization of a Biological Neuronal Network
Y.-Y. Ahn, B. J. Kim, and H. Jeong
Physica A 367, 531 (2006). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF] [Data (pajek)] [Probably better wiring data]
Collaborative blog spam filtering using adaptive percolation search
S. Han, Y.-Y. Ahn, S. Moon, and H. Jeong
The 3rd Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem held in conjunction with WWW’06 [Link] [PDF]
Growing network model for community with group structure
J. D. Noh, H.-C. Jeong, Y.-Y. Ahn, and H. Jeong
Physical Review E 71, 036131 (2005). [Link] [arXiv] [PDF]
Underlying scale-free trees in complex networks
D.-H. Kim, S.-W. Son, Y.-Y. Ahn, P.-J. Kim, Y.-H. Eom, and H. Jeong
Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement 157, 213 (2005). [Link] [PDF]
Response network emerging from simple perturbation
S.-W. Son, D.-H. Kim, Y.-Y. Ahn, and H. Jeong
Journal of the Korean Physical Society 44, 628 (2004). [Link] [PDF]
Mapping the conversation: political topics and geography on Twitter
A. Mislove, S. Lehmann, Y.-Y. Ahn, J.-P. Onnela, and J. N. Rosenquist
[Link]
Flavor network, Edge-Serpentine Gallery exhibition “Maps for the 21st Century”
Y.-Y. Ahn, S. Ahnert, J. P. Bagrow, and A.-L. Barabási
[Link]
Pulse of the Nation: visualizing the mood of twitter
A. Mislove, S. Lehmann, Y.-Y. Ahn, J.-P. Onnela, J. N. Rosenquist
[Project page] [YouTube]
[Slashdot] [NewScientist] [CBS] [BBC] [NYTimes] and [more]
Twittermood: United States map of mood
Y.-Y. Ahn, J. P. Bagrow, S. Lehmann, and A. Pawling
[Link]