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PI

• Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, Northwestern University

Post-Doctoral Researchers

• Hao Peng, Northwestern University
• Orsolya Vásárhelyi, Corvinus University
• Miriam Schirmer, Northwestern University

Graduate Students

• Henry Dambanemuya, Northwestern University
• Herminio Boden, Northwestern University
• Igor Zakhlebin, Northwestern University
• Julia Barnett, Northwestern University
• Nick Vincent, Northwestern University
• Rod Abhari, Northwestern University
• Sohyeon Hwang, Northwestern University
• Sachita Nishal, Northwestern University
• Richard Zhang, Northwestern University
• Maalvika Bhat, Northwestern University
• Jose Cordova, Northwestern University

Undergraduate Students (REU)

• Toma Hirose, Northwestern University

Collaborators

• Daniel Romero, University of Michigan
• Eszter Hargittai, University of Zurich
• Misha Teplitskiy, University of Michigan
• Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington

• H Shi, Y Yu, D Romero and E-Á Horvát. When collaborative maintenance falls short: The persistence of retracted papers on Wikipedia. Forthcoming in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW’26), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18403

• D Kobak, R González-Márquez, E-Á Horvát and J Lause. Delving into LMM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary. Science Advances, 11:eadt3813, 2025 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813

• H Peng, M Teplitskiy, D Romero, E-Á Horvát. The Gender Gap in Scholarly Self-Promotion on Social Media. Nature Communications, 16:5552, 2025 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60590-y

• M Schirmer, N Walter and E-Á Horvát. Disparities by design: Toward a research agenda that links science misinformation and socioeconomic marginalization in the age of AI. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 2025 https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/disparities-by-design-toward-a-research-agenda-that-links-science-misinformation-and-socioeconomic-marginalization-in-the-age-of-ai/

• J Córdova, E-Á Horvát and D Romero. Timing and cross-platform presence shape the online dissemination of science. EPJ Data Science, 14:63, 2025 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00580-8

• R Zhang and E-Á Horvát. The unwanted dissemination of science: The usage of academic articles as ammunition in contested discursive arenas on Twitter. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW’25), volume 9, issue 7, article no 329, pp. 1-24, Bergen, Norway, 2025 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3757510

• J Córdova, T Hirose, H Shi, E-Á Horvát and D Romero. Multiplatform early predictors of academic articles’ visibility and citations. In Proceedings of The ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI’25), pp. 101-112, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2025 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715928.3737492

• M Bhat, D Romero and E-Á Horvát. Scholarly disengagement as an epistemic crisis: Clickbait, credibility, and the decline of public-facing science. In Proceedings of The ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI’25), pp. 286-296, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2025 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715928.3737484

• R Abhari and E-Á Horvát. “They Only Silence the Truth”: COVID-19 retractions and the politicization of science. Public Understanding of Science, October 2024 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625241290142

• O Vásárhelyi and E-Á Horvát. Who benefits from altmetrics? The effect of team gender composition on the link between online visibility and citation impact. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, pages 627-646, Bloomington, IN, 2023 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.00405

• S Hwang, E-Á Horvát and D Romero. Information retention in the multi-platform sharing of science. In Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’23), pages 375–386, Limassol, Cyprus, 2023 https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/22153/21932

• H Peng, D Romero, E-Á Horvát, Dynamics of cross-platform attention to retracted papers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (25) e2119086119, 2022 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119086119

• R Abhari, N Vincent, H Dambanemuya, H Bodon, E-Á Horvát, Twitter Engagement with Retracted Articles: Who, When, and How? https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04228

• E-Á Horvát, E Hargittai, Birds of a Feather Flock Together Online: Digital Inequality in Social Media Repertoires, Social Media + Society, v.7, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211052897

• O Vásárhelyi, I Zakhlebin, S Milojević, E-Á Horvát, Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars’ work, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.118, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102945118

• I Zakhlebin, E-Á Horvát, Diffusion of Scientific Articles across Online Platforms, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7341

• ICWSM 2023:  https://github.com/LINK-NU/INFOLOSS_REPO

• PNAS 2022: https://github.com/haoopeng/retraction_attention/

• PNAS 2021: https://github.com/LINK-NU/PNAS-Online-Dissemination-Gender

• SM+S 2021: https://github.com/LINK-NU/SMS21-Horvat-and-Hargittai