Sinan Aral
Impact in
- Communication top 0.05%
- Social Media and Politics
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics top 0.1%
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Papers in
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- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence 23
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques 20
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- Digital Marketing and Social Media 9
- Social Capital and Networks 8
- Misinformation and Its Impacts 6
- Media Influence and Politics 6
- Co-authors
- Deb Kumar Roy (2 shared papers)Soroush Vosoughi (1 shared paper)D. Walker (6 shared papers)Lev Muchnik (5 shared papers)Marshall Van Alstyne (7 shared papers)Peter Weill (2 shared papers)Arun Sundararajan (4 shared papers)Sean J. Taylor (7 shared papers)
- Journals
- Management Science (8 papers)Science (7 papers)Journal of the Association for Information Systems (5 papers)Nature Human Behaviour (3 papers)Information Systems Research (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesChinaIsrael
In The Last Decade
Sinan Aral
60 papers receiving 13.1k citations
Sinan Aral's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 180
- Communication 2.9k
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3.7k
- Sociology and Political Science 7.6k
- Information Systems and Management 623
- Management Information Systems 790
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The spread of true and false news online Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 5292 |
| 2 | Computational Social Science Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 2398 |
| 3 | Distinguishing influence-based contagion from homophily-driven diffusion in dynamic networks Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 885 |
| 4 | Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 744 |
| 5 | IT Assets, Organizational Capabilities, and Firm Performance: How Resource Allocations and Organizational Differences Explain Performance Variation Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 729 |
| 6 | Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 575 |
| 7 | Creating Social Contagion Through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 502 |
| 8 | The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 422 |
| 9 | Tie Strength, Embeddedness, and Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 296 |
| 10 | Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 271 |
| 11 | 2012 | 229 | |
| 12 | 2017 | 214 | |
| 13 | 2010 | 143 | |
| 14 | 2019 | 133 | |
| 15 | A causal test of the strength of weak ties Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 119 |
| 16 | 2020 | 113 | |
| 17 | 2013 | 106 | |
| 18 | 2013 | 87 | |
| 19 | 2018 | 81 | |
| 20 | 2016 | 77 |
About Sinan Aral
Sinan Aral is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Management Science and Operations Research and Strategy and Management, having authored 64 papers that have together received 14.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (23 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (20 papers), Digital Marketing and Social Media (9 papers), Social Capital and Networks (8 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers), Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (6 papers), Social Media and Politics (6 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (2.9k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (3.7k citations), Sociology and Political Science (7.6k citations), Information Systems and Management (623 citations) and Management Information Systems (790 citations). Sinan Aral has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Deb Kumar Roy, Soroush Vosoughi, D. Walker, Lev Muchnik, Marshall Van Alstyne, Peter Weill, Arun Sundararajan, Sean J. Taylor, Alex Pentland and Noshir Contractor. Their work appears in journals such as Management Science, Science, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Nature Human Behaviour and Information Systems Research.
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