Publications

The Spread of True and False News Online

Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. 2018. Science, 359(6380): 1146-1151.
• Named the ‘Second Most Influential Paper of 2018’ in any scientific discipline by Altmetrics.
• “Excellence in New Communications Fellows Choice Award” of the Society for New Communications Research of The Conference Board, 2018.

Computational Social Science

Lazer, D., Pentland, A., Adamic, L., Aral, S., Barabasi, A.L., Brewer, D., Christakis, N., Contractor, N., Fowler, J., Gutmann, M., Jebara, A., King, G., Macy, M., Roy, D., & Van Alstyne, M. 2009. Science, February 6: 721-722.

Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks

Aral, S., Muchnik, L., & Sundararajan, A. 2009. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Dec. 22, 106(51): 21544-21549.
• Supporting Information

Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks

Aral, S., & Walker, D. 2012. Science, July 20: 337-341.
• Supporting Online Material

IT Assets, Organizational Capabilities & Firm Performance: How Resource Allocations and Organizational Differences Explain Performance Variation

Aral, S. & Weill, P. 2007. Organization Science, 18(5), September-October: 1-18.

Creating Social Contagion through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks

Aral, S. & Walker, D. 2011. Management Science, 57(9); September: 1623-1639.
• Best Paper in Management Science, Information Systems, Runner Up ’10-’12.
• Selected as an “Editor’s Choice” article by the editors of Science: 333(6050): 09/23/11.
• Summarized in “Designing Viral Products for Broader Reach” published in the GfK Marketing Intelligence Review.

Social Media and Business Transformation

Aral, S., Dellarocas, C. & Godes, D. 2013. Information Systems Research, 24(1); March: 3-13.

Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment

Muchnik, L., Aral, S., & Taylor, S. 2013. Science, 341(6146): 647-651.
• Supplementary Information

The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff

Aral, S. & Van Alstyne, M. 2011. American Journal of Sociology, 117(1); July: 90-171.

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

Aral, S., Brynjolfsson, E. & Van Alstyne, M. 2012. Information Systems Research, 23(3); September: 849-867. (Lead Article).
• Best Overall Paper International Conference on Information Systems, 2006.
• Best Paper – IT Economics – International Conference on Information Systems, 2006.

Tie Strength, Embeddedness & Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment

Aral, S., & Walker, D. 2014. Management Science, 60(6): 1352 - 1370.

Identifying Social Influence: A Comment on Opinion Leadership and Social Contagion in New Product Diffusion

Aral, S. 2011. Marketing Science, 30(2); March/April: 217-223.

Generating Premium Returns on Your IT Investments

Weill, P. & Aral, S. 2006. Sloan Management Review, 47(2): 39-48.

Three Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, HR Analytics and Information Technology

Aral, S., Brynjolfsson, E. & Wu, L. 2012. Management Science, 58(5); May: 913-931.
• Best Overall Paper Nominee International Conference on Information Systems, 2009.

Mining Face to Face Interaction Networks Using Sociometric Badges: Evidence Predicting Productivity in IT Configuration

Wu, L., Waber, B., Aral, S., Brynjolfsson, E., & Pentland, S. 2008. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Information Systems, Paris, France.
• Best Overall Paper

Engineering Social Contagions: Optimal Network Seeding in the Presence of Homophily

Aral, S., Muchnik, L., Sundararajan, A. 2013. Network Science, 1(2): 1-29.
• Best Paper in Network Science, 2013-2016.

Exercise Contagion in a Global Social Network

Aral, S. & Nicolaides, C. 2017. Nature Communications, 8(14753): 1-8.
• Supplementary Information

Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks

Aral, S., Brynjolfsson, E., & Van Alstyne, M. 2007. Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal, CA.

Identifying Social Influence in Networks Using Randomized Experiments

Aral, S. & Walker, D. 2011. IEEE Intelligent Systems, September-October, 26(5): 91-96.

Value of Social Network—A Large-Scale Analysis on Network Structure Impact to Financial Revenue of Information Technology Consultants

Wu, L., Lin, C-Y, Aral, S. & Brynjolfsson, E. (Working Paper)

The Future of Weak Ties

Aral, S. 2016. American Journal of Sociology, 121(6): 1931- 1939.

Networked Experiments

Aral, S. 2016. The Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, Oxford University Press.

Poked to Vote

Aral, S. 2012. Nature, 489, September 12: 212-214.

Selection Effects in Online Sharing: Consequences for Peer Adoption

Taylor, S., Bakshy, E., & Aral, S. 2013. 14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 16-20, 2013, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA.

Social Influence Maximization Under Empirical Influence Models

Aral, S. & Dhillon, P. 2018. Nature Human Behavior, April.
• Supplementary Information

Unpacking Novelty: The Anatomy of Vision Advantages

Aral, S. & Dhillon, P. (Working Paper)

IT, Repeated Contracts & the Number of Suppliers

Aral, S., Bakos, Y., & Brynjolfsson, E. 2017. Management Science, March 15.

Identity and Opinion: A Randomized Experiment

Taylor, S., Muchnik, L., & Aral, S. 2013. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN). New York, NY.

Protecting Elections from Social Media Manipulation

Aral, S. & Eckles, D. 2019. Science, 365(6456): 58-861.
• Supplementary Materials

Social Computing, Networks and Knowledge Management

Kings, N.J., Davies, J., Verrill, D., Aral, S., Brynjolfsson, E., Van Alstyne, M. 2008. Information and Communication Technologies Futures, BT Press.