Publications
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.
Zollo, F., Baronchelli, A., Betsch, C., Delmastro, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Understanding the complex links between social media and health behaviour. BMJ, 385.
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.
Zollo, F., Baronchelli, A., Betsch, C., Delmastro, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Understanding the complex links between social media and health behaviour. BMJ, 385.
Sangiorgio, E., Cinelli, M., Cerqueti, R., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Followers do not dictate the virality of news outlets on social media. PNAS Nexus, pgae257.
Etta, G., Cinelli, M., Di Marco, N., Avalle, M., Panconesi, A., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). A Topology-Based Approach for Predicting Toxic Outcomes on Twitter and YouTube. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
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.
Monti, C., Cinelli, M., Valensise, C., Quattrociocchi, W., & Starnini, M. (2023). Online conspiracy communities are more resilient to deplatforming. PNAS nexus, 2(10), pgad324.
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