Publications

Our research group actively publishes in leading conferences and journals in the fields of Network Science, Data Science, and Algorithmic Fairness. Below is a selection of our recent publications.

2026

Akrati Saxena, Harshith Kumar Yadav, Bart Rutten and Shashi Shekhar Jha, DQ4FairIM: Fairness-aware Influence Maximization using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems journal. Link

Akrati Saxena, Reproducibility Challenges in Computational Network Science: Evidence, Causes, and Recommendations. Accepted in the ACM-REP conference 2026.

Akrati Saxena and Ella Has, Revisiting Incremental Skip-gram for Dynamic Network Embedding. Accepted in the ACM-REP conference 2026.

Fabrizio Corriera, Frank Takes, and Akrati Saxena, Individual Fairness in Community Detection: Quantitative Measure and Comparative Evaluation. Accepted in the Social Network Analysis and Mining journal. Link

Saxena, A., Singh, A., Saxena, H. and Helles, R., 2026, May. Tracking the Trackers: Structural Evolution of Web-Tracking on Educational Websites. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 (pp. 392-397).

2025

De Vink, E., Takes, F. W., and Saxena, A. (2025). Measuring Group Fairness in Community Detection. PLoS One. Nov 11;20(11):e0336212. DOI

Caroline Brasileiro Pena, David J.P. O’Sullivan, Padraig MacCarron, and Akrati Saxena (2025). Dynamics of temporal influence on polarised networks. PLoS One, 20(12), p.e0337753. DOI.

Das, S., Biswas, A. and Saxena, A., 2025. Modeling Homophily Fusion on Cascading for Overlapping Community Detection in Social Networks. Expert Systems with Applications, p.130963. DOI

Mariana Macedo, and Saxena, A (2025). Gender biases in online communication: A case study of Soccer. Applied Intelligence, 56(1), p.33. DOI

Rrubaa Panchendrarajan, Harsh Saxena, and Akrati Saxena. Social Media and Academia: How Gender Influences Online Scholarly Discourse, Accepted at the CsoNet 2025 Conference .

Kirtidev Mohapatra, Harsh Vardhan Singh, Rishi Ranjan Singh, and Akrati Saxena. Fairness-aware Analysis of Centrality Measures in Social Networks, Accepted at the CsoNet 2025 Conference

2024

Wu, L., Saxena, A. Traag, V., 2024. Geography in Scientific Practice and Country Biases, In the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024). DOI

de Groot, A., Fletcher, G., van Maanen, G., Saxena, A., Serebrenik, A. and Taylor, L. (2024). A canon is a blunt force instrument: data science, canons, and generative frictions. In Dialogues in Data Power (pp. 186-214). Bristol University Press.

Saxena, A., Fletcher, G. and Pechenizkiy, M. (2024). Fairsna: Algorithmic fairness in social network analysis. ACM Computing Surveys. DOI

Saxena, A., Pei, Y. and Pechenizkiy, M., 2024. Fal-cur: fair active learning using uncertainty and representativeness on fair clustering. Expert Systems with Applications, 242, p.122842. DOI

de Vink, E. and Saxena, A., 2024, December. Group Fairness Metrics for Community Detection Methods in Social Networks. In International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (pp. 43-56). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI

2023

Fajri, R., Saxena, A., Pei, Y., and Pechenizkiy, M. (2023). FAL-CUR: Fair Active Learning using Uncertainty and Representativeness on Fair Clustering. Expert Systems With Applications Journal. DOI

Saxena, A., Gutiérrez Bierbooms, C. and Pechenizkiy, M. (2023). Fairness-aware fake news mitigation using counter information propagation. Applied Intelligence. DOI

Liang, Z., Li, Y., Huang, T., Saxena, A., Pei, Y. and Pechenizkiy, M., 2023, November. Heterophily-Based Graph Neural Network for Imbalanced Classification. In International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (pp. 74-86). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI

Pandey, P.K., Arya, A. and Saxena, A., 2023. X-distribution: Retraceable Power-Law Exponent of Complex Networks. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 18(5), pp.1-12.DOI

Saxena, A., Sethiya, N., Saini, J.S., Gupta, Y. and Iyengar, S.R.S.(2023). Social network analysis of the caste-based reservation system in India. In CSoNet 2022 Proceedings (pp. 203-214). Springer. DOI

Arya, A., Pandey, P. K., Saxena, A. (2023). Balanced and Unbalanced Triangle Count in Signed Networks. Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.DOI

2022

Saxena, A., Fletcher, G. and Pechenizkiy, M. (2022). Nodesim: Node similarity based network embedding for diverse link prediction. EPJ Data Science, 11(1), 1-22. DOI

Doewes, A., Saxena, A., Pei, Y., & Pechenizkiy, M. (2022). Individual Fairness Evaluation for Automated Essay Scoring System. EDM 2022, 206–216. DOI

2021

Saxena, A., Fletcher, G., & Pechenizkiy, M. (2021). HM-EIICT: Fairness-aware link prediction in complex networks using community information. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 1-18. DOI

Saxena, A., Fletcher, G., & Pechenizkiy, M. (2021). How Fair is Fairness-aware Representative Ranking?. In Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (pp. 161-165). DOI