Network Inequality and Fairness Group

We have created an interactive research map that visually represents the ongoing projects and future directions of the Network Inequality and Fairness Group. Below, you can explore a dynamic overview of our work.

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For a complete list of our academic publications, please visit our Google Scholar profile. The following is a selection of publications from our members.

• Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, Mauritz N. Cartier van Dissel, and Fariba Karimi. “Intersectional inequalities in social ties.” Science Advances 11 (2025): eadu9025. DOI
• Mauritz N. Cartier van Dissel, Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Ana María Jaramillo, and Fariba Karimi. “hyperFA* IR: A hypergeometric approach to fair rankings with finite candidate pool.” Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2025): 2112–2126. PDF
• Sina Sajjadi, Pourya Toranj Simin, Mehrzad Shadmangohar, Basak Taraktas, Ulya Bayram, Maria V. Ruiz-Blondet, and Fariba Karimi. “Structural inequalities exacerbatel infection disparities.” Scientific Reports 15, no. 1 (2025): 9082. LINK
• Ana Maria Jaramillo, Mariana Macedo, Marcos Oliveira, Fariba Karimi, and Ronaldo Menezes. “Systematic comparison of gender inequality in scientific rankings across disciplines.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13061 (2025). PDF
• Marcos Oliveira, Leonie Neuhauser, and Fariba Karimi. “Stronger together? The homophily trap in networks.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20158 (2024). PDF
• Daniel Kondor, Valerie Hafez, Sudhang Shankar, Rania Wazir, and Fariba Karimi. “Complex systems perspective in assessing risks in artificial intelligence.” Philosophical Transactions A 382.2285 (2024): 20240109. PDF
• Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, Mauritz N. Cartier van Dissel, and Fariba Karimi. “Intersectional inequalities in social networks.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21189 (2024). PDF
• Amelie Desvars-Larrive and Fariba Karimi. “Beyond silos: integrating diversity for a stronger One Health.” The Lancet Planetary Health 8.10 (2024): e719.
• Jun Sun and Fariba Karimi. “Emergence of group size disparity in growing networks with adoption.” Communications Physics 7.1 (2024): 309.
• Chiara Zappalà, Luca Gallo, Jan Bachmann, Federico Battiston, and Fariba Karimi. “Gender disparities in the dissemination and acquisition of scientific knowledge.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17441 (2024). PDF
• Jan Bachmann, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Gerardo Iñiguez, and Fariba Karimi. “Cumulative advantage of brokerage in academia.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11909 (2024). PDF
• Antonio Ferrara, Francesco Bonchi, Francesco Fabbri, Fariba Karimi, and Claudia Wagner. “Bias-aware ranking from pairwise comparisons.” Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 38.4 (2024): 2062–2086. Link
• Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, Mauritz N. Cartier van Dissel, and Fariba Karimi. “The hidden architecture of connections: How do multidimensional identities shape our social networks?” arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17043 (2024). PDF
• Luca Gallo, Chiara Zappalà, Fariba Karimi, and Federico Battiston. “Higher-order modeling of face-to-face interactions.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05026 (2024). PDF
• Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Ola Ali, Elma Dervić, Fariba Karimi, Elisa Omodei, Rainer Stütz, Georg Heiler, and Yurij Holovatch. “The diaspora model for human migration.” PNAS Nexus 3.5 (2024): pgae178. Link
• Matthias Raddant and Fariba Karimi. “The dynamics of diversity on corporate boards.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11334 (2024). PDF
• Andrew J. Stier, Sina Sajjadi, Fariba Karimi, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, and Marc G. Berman. “Implicit racial biases are lower in more populous, more diverse, and less segregated US cities.” Nature Communications 15.1 (2024): 961. Link
• Sina Sajjadi, Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, and Fariba Karimi. “Unveiling homophily beyond the pool of opportunities.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13642 (2024). PDF
• Nicola Cinardi and Fariba Karimi. “(In-) equality of opportunities creates structural marginalization in networks.” OSF (2024).
• Fariba Karimi and Marcos Oliveira. “On the inadequacy of nominal assortativity for assessing homophily in networks.” Scientific Reports (2023). Link
• Lisette Espín-Noboa, Tiago Peixoto, and Fariba Karimi. “Social network modeling and applications, a tutorial.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11004 (2023). PDF
• Leonie Neuhäuser, Fariba Karimi, Jan Bachmann, Markus Strohmaier, and Michael T. Schaub. “Improving the visibility of minorities through network growth interventions.” Communications Physics 6.1 (2023): 108. Link
• Valeria Fionda, Olaf Hartig, Reyhaneh Abdolazimi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Hongzhi Chen, Xiao Chen, Peng Cui, Jeffrey Dalton, Xin Luna Dong, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Wenqi Fan, Manuela Fritz, Quan Gan, Jingtong Gao, Xiaojie Guo, Torsten Hahmann, Jiawei Han, Soyeon Han, Estevam Hruschka, Liang Hu, Jiaxin Huang, Utkarshani Jaimini, Olivier Jeunen, Yushan Jiang, Fariba Karimi, et al. “Tutorials at the Web Conference 2023.” Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (2023). PDF
• Javier Ureña-Carrion, Fariba Karimi, Gerardo Iñiguez, and Mikko Kivelä. “Assortative and preferential attachment lead to core-periphery networks.” Phys. Rev. Research 5 (2023). Link
• Andrew Stier, Sina Sajjadi, Fariba Karimi, Luis Bettencourt, and Marc G. Berman. “City population, majority group size, and residential segregation drive implicit racial biases in US cities.” SSRN Electronic Journal (2023). PDF
• Fariba Karimi and Aaron Clauset. “Abolish ageism in early-career research awards.” Nature 620.7974 (2023): 492–492. PDF
• Fariba Karimi, Marcos Oliveira, and Markus Strohmaier. “Marginalization Effects in Face-to-face Social Networks.” SIAM News (2022). Link
• Eirini Ntoutsi, Pavlos Fafalios, Ujwal Gadiraju, et al. “Bias in data‐driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey.” WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2020). Link
• Julian Kohne, Natalie Gallagher, Zeynep Melis Kirgil, Rocco Paolillo, Lars Padmos, and Fariba Karimi. “The Role of Network Structure and Initial Group Norm Distributions in Norm Conflict.” Computational Conflict Research (2020). Link
• Eun Lee*, Fariba Karimi*, Claudia Wagner, Hang-Hyun Jo, Markus Strohmaier, and Mirta Galesic. “Homophily explains perception biases in social networks.” Nature Human Behaviour (2023). Link (also in arXiv:1710.08601)
• Fariba Karimi, Mathieu Génois, Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer, and Markus Strohmaier. “Homophily influences ranking of minorities in social networks.” Scientific Reports 8 (2018). Link
• Jun Sun, Steffen Staab, and Fariba Karimi. “Decay of Relevance in Exponentially Growing Networks.” WebSci ’18: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science (2018). Link
• Fariba Karimi, Philipp Mayr, and Fakhri Momeni. “Analyzing the network structure and gender differences among the members of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community.” International Journal on Digital Libraries (2018). Link
• Lisette Espín-Noboa, Claudia Wagner, Fariba Karimi, and Kristina Lerman. “Towards Quantifying Sampling Bias in Network Inference.” Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), arXiv:1803.02422 (2018). Link
• Claudia Wagner, Olga Zagovora, Tatiana Sennikova, and Fariba Karimi. “Collective Attention towards Scientists and Research Topics.” WebSci ’18: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science (2018). Link
• Mohsen Jadidi, Fariba Karimi, Haiko Lietz, and Claudia Wagner. “Gender Disparities in Science? Dropout, Productivity, Collaborations and Success of Male and Female Computer Scientists.” Advances in Complex Systems 20.08 (2017): 1750011. Link
• Jérôme Kunegis, Fariba Karimi, and Jun Sun. “The problem of action at a distance in networks and the emergence of preferential attachment from triadic closure.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science 2 (2017). Link
• Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer, Fariba Karimi, Jürgen Pfeffer, and Markus Strohmaier. “Sampling from social networks with attributes.” Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW) (2017). Link
• Fariba Karimi, Claudia Wagner, Florian Lemmerich, Mohsen Jadidi, and Markus Strohmaier. “Inferring gender from names on the web: A comparative evaluation of gender detection methods.” Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW) (2016). Link
• Ann Samoilenko, Fariba Karimi, Daniel Edler, Jérôme Kunegis, and Markus Strohmaier. “Linguistic neighbourhoods: explaining cultural borders on Wikipedia through multilingual co-editing activity.” EPJ Data Science 5.1 (2016): 9. Link
• Fariba Karimi, Ludvig Bohlin, Ann Samoilenko, Martin Rosvall, and Andrea Lancichinetti. “Mapping bilateral information interests using the activity of Wikipedia editors.” Palgrave Communications 1 (2015): 15041. Link
• Anna Sircova, Fariba Karimi, Evgeny Osin, Sungmin Lee, and Petter Holme. “Simulating irrational human behavior to prevent resource depletion.” PLOS ONE 10.12 (2015): e0143122. Link
• Fariba Karimi. Doctoral thesis: Temporal Network Analysis of Social Systems. Umeå University (2015). Link
• Fariba Karimi, Veronica C. Ramenzoni, and Petter Holme. “Structural differences between open and direct communication in an online community.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 414 (2014): 263–272. Link
• Fariba Karimi and Petter Holme. “Threshold model of cascades in empirical temporal networks.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392.16 (2013): 3476–3483. Link
• Fariba Karimi and Petter Holme. “A temporal network version of Watts’s cascade model.” In: Temporal Networks (Springer, Berlin, 2013): 315–329. Link
• Fariba Karimi and Matthias Raddant. “Cascades in real interbank markets.” Computational Economics 45.1 (2015): 69–91. Link
• Fariba Karimi. Master thesis: Structural difference between public and private communication in an online community. Lund University (2010). Link
• Fariba Karimi. Master thesis: Study of classical charged particles in the presence of gravitational fields. Shahid Beheshti University (2007). (PDF in Farsi)