Ivan Smirnov
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Ivan Smirnov
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Computational Social Scientist at University of Technology Sydney
Need help. There seem to be many websites providing open access to a large collection of theses metadata via search queries. However, I can't find a way to get something like a data dump for research purposes. Does anyone know anything about this?
March 14, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Ivan Smirnov
Friday paper alert! With
@ismirnov.bsky.social
&
@janalasser.bsky.social
we discuss power asymmetries in algorithm auditing (and CSS broadly) research and their implications. This paper was a lot of fun to write thanks to the amazing co-authors! epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
March 8, 2024 at 10:30 AM
One of my papers has just got its 100th citation, and I've written down some reflections on that (which are to be continued). Curiously, even though it is the most cited of my papers, it is also my least favourite.
Reflections on the 100th Citation
My least favourite paper is the most cited
open.substack.com
February 6, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Paper is out! Together with Camelia Oprea and Markus Strohmaier, we have explored the potential impact of toxic comments on Wikipedia:

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia
Abstract. Wikipedia is one of the most successful collaborative projects in history. It is the largest encyclopedia ever created, with millions of users worldwi
academic.oup.com
December 6, 2023 at 7:02 AM
Goodbye Germany! 💔 #onewayticket
October 19, 2023 at 2:50 PM