Books

• Quattrociocchi, W., & Vicini, A. (2023). Polarizzazioni: Informazione, Opinioni e Altri Demoni. FrancoAngeli. 
• 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

List of Selected Publications

• Avalle, M., Di Marco, N., Etta, G., Sangiorgio, E., Alipour, S., Bonetti, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time. Nature, 1-8.

• Alipour, S., Di Marco, N., Avalle, M., Etta, G., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). The drivers of global news spreading patterns. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1519.

• Alipour, Shayan, Alessandro Galeazzi, Emanuele Sangiorgio, Michele Avalle, Ljubisa Bojic, Matteo Cinelli, and Walter Quattrociocchi. "Cross-platform social dynamics: an analysis of ChatGPT and COVID-19 vaccine conversations." Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (2024): 2789.

• Valensise, Carlo M., Matteo Cinelli, and Walter Quattrociocchi. "The drivers of online polarization: fitting models to data." Information Sciences (2023): 119152.

• Etta, G., Sangiorgio, E., Di Marco, N., Avalle, M., Scala, A., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2023). Characterizing engagement dynamics across topics on Facebook. Plos one, 18(6), e0286150.

• Santoro, A., Galeazzi, A., Scantamburlo, T., Baronchelli, A., Quattrociocchi, W., & Zollo, F. (2023). Analyzing the changing landscape of the Covid-19 vaccine debate on Twitter. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 13(1), 115.

• Falkenberg, M., Galeazzi, A., Torricelli, M., Di Marco, N., Larosa, F., Sas, M., ... & Baronchelli, A. (2022). Growing polarization around climate change on social media. Nature Climate Change, 1-8.

• Cinelli, M., Etta, G., Avalle, M., Quattrociocchi, A., Di Marco, N., Valensise, C., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2022). Conspiracy theories and social media platforms. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101407

• Cinelli, M., Cresci, S., Quattrociocchi, W., Tesconi, M., & Zola, P. (2022). Coordinated inauthentic behavior and information spreading on twitter. Decision Support Systems, 113819.

• Cinelli, Matteo, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Alessandro Galeazzi, Walter Quattrociocchi, and Michele Starnini. "The echo chamber effect on social media." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 9 (2021): e2023301118.

• Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C. M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A. L., ... & Scala, A. (2020). The covid-19 social media infodemic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05004. Scientific reports.

• 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.

• 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. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04608.Scientific reports.

• 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.

• 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).

• Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Betsch, C., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook. Vaccine, 36(25), 3606-3612.

• 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), 1-22.

• Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(12), 3035-3039.

• 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.

• 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, 37825.

• 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.

• 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.

Scientific Papers (Selection)

2024

• Avalle, M., Di Marco, N., Etta, G., Sangiorgio, E., Alipour, S., Bonetti, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time. Nature, 1-8.

• Alipour, S., Di Marco, N., Avalle, M., Etta, G., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). The drivers of global news spreading patterns. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1519.

• Alipour, Shayan, Alessandro Galeazzi, Emanuele Sangiorgio, Michele Avalle, Ljubisa Bojic, Matteo Cinelli, and Walter Quattrociocchi. "Cross-platform social dynamics: an analysis of ChatGPT and COVID-19 vaccine conversations." Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (2024): 2789.

2023

• Valensise, Carlo M., Matteo Cinelli, and Walter Quattrociocchi. "The drivers of online polarization: fitting models to data." Information Sciences (2023): 119152.

• Etta, G., Sangiorgio, E., Di Marco, N., Avalle, M., Scala, A., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2023). Characterizing engagement dynamics across topics on Facebook. Plos one, 18(6), e0286150.

• Santoro, A., Galeazzi, A., Scantamburlo, T., Baronchelli, A., Quattrociocchi, W., & Zollo, F. (2023). Analyzing the changing landscape of the Covid-19 vaccine debate on Twitter. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 13(1), 115.

2022

• Falkenberg, M., Galeazzi, A., Torricelli, M., Di Marco, N., Larosa, F., Sas, M., ... & Baronchelli, A. (2022). Growing polarization around climate change on social media. Nature Climate Change, 1-8.

• Cinelli, M., Etta, G., Avalle, M., Quattrociocchi, A., Di Marco, N., Valensise, C., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2022). Conspiracy theories and social media platforms. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101407.
• Cinelli, M., Cresci, S., Quattrociocchi, W., Tesconi, M., & Zola, P. (2022). Coordinated inauthentic behavior and information spreading on twitter. Decision Support Systems, 113819.
• Etta, G., Cinelli, M., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C. M., Quattrociocchi, W., & Conti, M. (2022). Comparing the Impact of Social Media Regulations on News Consumption. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

2021

• Falkenberg, M., Galeazzi, A., Torricelli, M., Di Marco, N., Larosa, F., Sas, M., ... & Baronchelli, A. (2021). Growing climate polarisation on social media. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12137.
• Briand, S. C., Cinelli, M., Nguyen, T., Lewis, R., Prybylski, D., Valensise, C. M., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). Infodemics: A new challenge for public health. Cell, 184(25), 6010-6014.
• Cinelli, M., Pelicon, A., Mozetič, I., Quattrociocchi, W., Novak, P. K., & Zollo, F. (2021). Dynamics of online hate and misinformation. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-12.
• Cinelli, M., Pelicon, A., Mozetič, I., Quattrociocchi, W., Kralj Novak, P., & Zollo, F. (2021). Italian YouTube Hate Speech Corpus.
• Valensise, C. M., Cinelli, M., Nadini, M., Galeazzi, A., Peruzzi, A., Etta, G., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). Lack of evidence for correlation between COVID-19 infodemic and vaccine acceptance. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07946.
• Galeazzi, A., Cinelli, M., Bonaccorsi, G., Pierri, F., Schmidt, A. L., Scala, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). Human mobility in response to COVID-19 in France, Italy and UK. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-10.
• Di Marco, N., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). Infodemics on Youtube: Reliability of Content and Echo Chambers on COVID-19. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08684.
• Etta, G., Cinelli, M., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C. M., Conti, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). News consumption and social media regulations policy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03924.
• Cinelli, M., Pelicon, A., Mozetič, I., Quattrociocchi, W., Novak, P. K., & Zollo, F. (2021). Online Hate: Behavioural Dynamics and Relationship with Misinformation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.14005.
• Nizzoli, L., Avvenuti, M., Tesconi, M., Cresci, S., Di Pietro, R., Quattrociocchi, W., Gini, F. (2021) Leveraging Social Media and AI to foster Secure Societies against Online and Offline Threats. 
• Cinelli, M., Morales, G. D. F., Galeazzi, A., Quattrociocchi, W., & Starnini, M. (2021). The echo chamber effect on social media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(9).
• Galeazzi, A., Cinelli, M., Bonaccorsi, G., Pierri, F., Schmidt, A. L., Scala, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). Human mobility in response to COVID-19 in France, Italy and UK. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-10.
• Valensise, C. M., Serra, A., Galeazzi, A., Etta, G., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2021). Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12376. Scientific Reports

2020

• Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C. M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A. L., ... & Scala, A. (2020). The covid-19 social media infodemic. Scientific Reports
• 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