Onur Varol
E-mail : onur.varol
sabanciuniv.edu
Areas of Interest :
Computational Social Science; Data Science; Machine Learning; Complex Systems; Network Science; Data MiningPublications :
| Article |
| Najafi, Ali and Varol, Onur (2024) "TurkishBERTweet: fast and reliable large language model for social media analysis", Expert Systems with Applications, Vol.255, No.Part C (SCI) |
| Zouzou, Yasser and Varol, Onur (2024) "Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media", EPJ Data Science, Vol.13, No.1 (SCI, SSCI) |
| Meng, Xiangyi and Varol, Onur and Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo (2024) "Hidden citations obscure true impact in science", PNAS Nexus, Vol.3, No.5 (ESCI) |
| Najafi, Ali and Muğurtay, Nihat and Zouzou, Yasser and Demirci, Ege and Demirkıran, Serhat and Karadeniz, Hüseyin Alper and Varol, Onur (2024) "First public dataset to study 2023 Turkish general election", Scientific Reports, Vol.14, No.1 (SCI) |
| Seçkin, Özgür Can and Atalay, Aybuke and Ötenen, Ege and Duygu, Umut and Varol, Onur (2024) "Mechanisms driving online vaccine debate during the COVID-19 pandemic", Social Media and Society, Vol.10, No.1 (SSCI) |
| Varol, Onur (2023) "Should we agree to disagree about Twitter's bot problem?", Online Social Networks and Media, Vol.37-38 (NA) |
| Seçkin, Özgür Can and Varol, Onur (2022) "Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity", EPJ Data Science, Vol.11, No.1 (SCI, SSCI) |
| Bas, Özen and Ogan, Christine L. and Varol, Onur (2022) "The role of legacy media and social media in increasing public engagement about violence against women in Turkey", Social Media and Society, Vol.8, No.4 (SSCI) |
| Wang, Xindi and Varol, Onur and Eliassi-Rad, Tina (2022) "Information access equality on generative models of complex networks", Applied Network Science, Vol.7, No.1 (ESCI) |
| Singh, Karandeep and Lima, Gabriel and Cha, Meeyoung and Cha, Chiyoung and Kulshrestha, Juhi and Ahn, Yong-Yeol and Varol, Onur (2022) "Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic", PLoS One, Vol.17, No.2 (SCI) |
| Gysi, Deisy Morselli and Do Valle, Ítalo and Zitnik, Marinka and Ameli, Asher and Gan, Xiao and Varol, Onur and Ghiassian, Susan Dina and Patten, J. J. and Davey, Robert A. and Loscalzo, Joseph and Barabási, Albert László (2021) "Network medicine framework for identifying drug-repurposing opportunities for COVID-19", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.118, No.19 (SCI) |
| Cha, Meeyoung and Cha, Chiyoung and Singh, Karandeep and Lima, Gabriel and Ahn, Yong Yeol and Kulshrestha, Juhi and Varol, Onur (2021) "Prevalence of misinformation and factchecks on the COVID-19 pandemic in 35 countries: observational infodemiology study", JMIR Human Factors, Vol.8, No.1 (ESCI) |
| Papers in Conference Proceedings |
| Yargı, Özgün and Varol, Onur, "Instagram account classification: influencer vs. company profiles [Instagram hesap sınıflandırması: fenomen ve şirket profillerinin ayrıştırılması]", 32nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, May 2024 |
| Yener, Alp Önder and Najafi, Ali and Varol, Onur, "City-level user location detection from social media and analysis of political participation [Sosyal medya kullanıcı verilerinden seçmen şehir bilgisi tespit etme ve siyasi katılım analizi]", 32nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, May 2024 |
| Najafi, Ali and Varol, Onur, "VRLLab at HSD-2Lang 2024: Turkish hate speech detection online with TurkishBERTweet", Hurriyetoglu, A. and Tanev, H. and Thapa, S. and Uludogan, G. (eds.), 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text, CASE 2024, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), March 2024, 185-189 |
| Varol, Onur, "Who follows Turkish Presidential candidates in 2023 elections? [Türkiye 2023 Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimlerinde adayları kim takip ediyor?]", 31st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), July 2023 |
| Pfeffer, Juergen and Matter, Daniel and Jaidka, Kokil and Varol, Onur and Mashhadi, Afra and Lasser, Jana and Assenmacher, Dennis and Wu, Siqi and Yang, Diyi and Brantner, Cornelia and Romero, Daniel M. and Otterbacher, Jahna and Schwemmer, Carsten and Joseph, Kenneth and Garcia, David and Morstatter, Fred, "Just another day on Twitter: a complete 24 hours of Twitter data", Lin, Yu-Ru and Cha, Meeyoung and Quercia, Daniele (eds.), Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023), AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), June 2023, 1073-1081 |
| Sayyadiharikandeh, Mohsen and Varol, Onur and Yang, Kai-Cheng and Flammini, Alessandro and Menczer, Filippo, "Detection of novel social bots by ensembles of specialized classifiers", CIKM '20: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, ACM, October 2020, 2725-2732 |