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COSMOS Research Center - Social Media Analytics and Socio-Cognitive Security

UA Little Rock

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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nxagarwal@ualr.edu

49 h-index 644 pubs 9,032 cited

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Nitin Agarwal is the founding director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) and the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas – Little Rock. He also holds a faculty fellowship at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California - Berkeley.

His research focuses on understanding digital and cyber social behaviors that emerge on contemporary information and communication platforms. Within COSMOS, Agarwal leads projects funded by federal agencies such as the Department of Defense, DARPA, the Department of State, and the National Science Foundation, totaling over $25 million. He also plays a role in the partnership between UA Little Rock and the Department of Homeland Security. Agarwal has developed publicly available social media analysis tools, including Blogtracker and YouTubeTracker, which have been utilized by organizations like NATO Strategic Communications and Public Affairs, European Defense agencies, the Australian Defense Science and Technology Agency, the Singapore government, and the Arkansas Attorney General’s office.

Agarwal's work has resulted in 318 publications and over 4,155 citations, with an h-index of 30. He is recognized as an ARA Academy member (ARA Scholar) in the research area of Cyber Social Computing and is considered a highly cited researcher.

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h-index: 49
Publications: 644
Citations: 9,032

Selected Publications

Toxicity-Driven Behavioral Homogenization in Multilayer Political Networks: Cross-Dimensional Coupling During Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2026)

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Attraction and retention dynamics in recommendation graphs: a cross-dataset analysis using uniform and degree-biased random walks (2026)

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Weighted Focal Structure Analysis for Coordinated Toxicity Propagation in Social Networks (2026)

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CI-FSA: Toward Scalable Discovery of Influential Groups in Social Networks (2026)

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Narrative Diffusion in Social Topologies: A Comparative Study of LLM-Driven Dynamics (2026)

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The Network Effect of Shared Grievances: Measuring Collective Concern of Tariff Policy (2026)

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Modeling the Propagation Dynamics of Visual Elements with Epidemiological Frameworks (2026)

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TrapIntensity: Quantifying Structural Entrapment via Hop-Aware Attraction and Retention (2026)

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Competing Narratives on TikTok: Modeling Taiwan’s 2024 Election Dynamics (2026)

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How Tariff War Discourse Spreads on Social Media? A Study of Narrative Outbreak (2026)

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Optimizing Focal Toxic Structure Selection for Social Network Disruption: A WFSA-Integer Programming Approach (2026)

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Persuasive Pathways Into Content Traps: The Role of Persuasive Features in Structuring Algorithmic Content Cycles (2026)

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How Far Is Too Far? Modeling User Attraction Pathways in Recommendation Networks via Random Walk Variants (2026)

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Large-scale toxicity intervention in social networks: evaluating integer programming-optimized focal toxic structures (2026)

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Identifying cohesive narrative formations in cross-platform trade-war discourse using weighted contextual focal structures analysis (2026)

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ARA Academy 2018 ARA Scholar

Dr. Agarwal directs the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS). His work centers on cyber social behaviors in modern information platforms with applications spanning defense, security, health, business, marketing, finance, and education. His specific areas include cyber information campaigns, social computing, deviant behavior modeling, group dynamics, social-cyber forensics, and privacy.

Policy Impact

Directs the COSMOS research center, attracting defense and security funding for social media analytics research that addresses national cybersecurity priorities from Arkansas.