Publications


We explore the architecture of collective intelligence across scales—individual, group, and system. Our work combines computational modeling, somatic insight, and participatory research to understand how knowledge is produced and shared in complex, decentralized environments. From peer-learning forums to open science networks, we trace how structure, behavior, and meaning intertwine to shape human collaboration and transformation.

See below for theses and reports.

Beyond individualism: A multilevel approach to the Inner Development Goals

Boaz Feldman and Marc Santolini (2025)
Inner Development Goals: Stories of Collective Leadership in Action, Volume 1: From “I” to “We” (web) (pdf)

KEGNN: Knowledge-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks for User Engagement Prediction

Ching-Hao Fan, Hao Zhou, Yao Sun, Geovanny Palomino Roldan, Olga Kokshagina, Marc Santolini, Lijing Wang (2025)
ICMR ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (web)

Optimising Team Dynamics: The Role of AI in Enhancing Challenge-Based Learning Participation Experience and Outcomes

Georgara, A., Santolini, M., Kokshagina, O., Jacinta Haux, C. J., Jacobs, D., Biwott, G., Correa, M., Sierra, C., Fernandez-Marquez, J. L., & Rodriguez-Aguilar, J. A. (2025).
Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (web) (pdf)

From Self to Group to Community: Integrating Developmental and Multi-Level Approaches in Somatic Therapy

Feldman, B., Tupikina, L., Santolini, M. (2024)
Group (web) (preprint)

Leveraging data science for change: navigating perspectives in a world of rapid transformation

Farook, Z., Tupikina, L., Haklay, M., Santolini, M., Perello, J., Soacha, K. & Grey, F. (2024)
ARPHA Proceedings (web) (pdf) (slides)

Large Language Models recover scientific collaboration networks from text

Rathin Jeyaram, Robert N Ward, Marc Santolini (2024)
Applied Network Science (web) (pdf)

Beyond Zipf’s Law: Exploring the Discrete Generalized Beta Distribution in Open-Source Repositories

Przemysław Nowak, Marc Santolini, Chakresh Singh, Grzegorz Siudem, Liubov Tupikina (2024)
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (web) (pdf)

Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape

Singh, C., Tupikina, L., Lecuyer, F., Starnini, M., Santolini, M. (2024)
EPJ Data Science (web) (pdf)

iGEM: a model system for team science and innovation

Santolini, M., Blondel, L., Palmer, M. J., Ward, R. N., Jeyaram, R., Brink, K. R., Krishna, A., Barabasi, A-L. (2023)
arXiv (Web) (PDF)

An Epistemology for Democratic Citizen Science

Jaeger J., Masselot C., Greshake Tzovaras B., Senabre Hidalgo E., Haklay M., Santolini M. (2023)
Royal Society Open Science (Web) (PDF)

Forum posts, communication patterns, and relational structures: A multi-level view of discussions in online courses

Poquet, O., Trenholm, S., Santolini, M. (2023)
Education Technology, Research and Development (Web) (PDF)

Collaboration and Performance of Citizen Science Projects Addressing the SDGs

Masselot, C., Jeyaram, R., Tackx, R., Fernandez-Marquez, J. L., Grey, F., Santolini, M. (2023)
Citizen Science Theory and Practice (Web) (PDF)

Harnessing collective intelligence for the future of learning – a co-constructed research and development agenda

Misevic, D., Atal, I., Bedard, D., Cherel, E., Escamilla, J., Evans, L., Hannon, V., Huron, C., Irrmann, O., Kizilcec, R., Lazega, E., Lemoie, K., Lindner, A., Macedo, M., Mainguy, G., Mann, R., Masselot, C., Michelucci, P., Nikolayeva, I., Ogan, A., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Pescetelli, N., Poquet, S., Rafner, J., Regester, D., Santolini, M., Sevin, J.-M., Shahaf, D., Sherson, J., Smith, J., Söllner, M., Soulié, F., Taddei, F., Tupikina, L., Van Der Leeuw, S. (2023)
Human Computation (Web) (PDF)

Association of hospital centrality in inter-hospital patient-sharing networks with patient mortality and length of stay

Bergmark W. R., Jin G., Semco S. R., Santolini M., Olsen M. A., Dhand A. (2023)
PLOS One (Web) (PDF)

Education-based grant programmes for bottom-up distance learning and project catalysis: Antimicrobial Resistance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graham C. L. B , Akligoh H., King’Ori J., Adzaho G., Salekwa L., Campbell P., Saba C. K. S., Landrain T. E., Santolini M. (2023)
Access Microbiology (Web) (PDF)

Community review: a robust and scalable selection system for resource allocation within open science and innovation communities

Graham C. L. B., Landrain T. E., Vjestica A., Greshake Tzovoras B., Masselot C., Lawton E., Haenel L., Blondel L., Santolini M. (2022)
F1000 Research (Web) (PDF)

Quantifying the rise and fall of scientific fields

Singh, C., Barme, E., Ward, R., Tupikina, L., Santolini, M. (2022)
PLoS ONE (web) (pdf) (dataset)

Extitutional Theory: Modeling Structured Social Dynamics Beyond Institutions

De Filippi P., Santolini M. (2023)
Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization (Web) (PDF)

Detection of Spatiotemporal Clusters of COVID-19–Associated Symptoms and Prevention Using a Participatory Surveillance App: Protocol for the @choum Study

De Ridder, D,, Loizeau A. J., Sandoval, J. L., Ehrler, F., Perrier M., Ritch A., Violot G., Santolini M., Greshake Tzovaras B., Stringhini, S., Kaiser L., Pradeau J. F., Joost S., Guessous I. (2022)
JMIR research protocols (Web) (PDF)

Quantified Us: a group-in-the-loop approach to team network reconstruction

Tackx, R., Blondel, L, Santolini, M., (2021)
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Web) (PDF)

Uncovering the fragility of large-scale engineering project networks

Santolini, M., Ellinas,C. and Nicolaides,C. (2021)
EPJ Data Science (Web) (PDF)

Implementing the Co-Immune Open Innovation Program to Address Vaccination Hesitancy and Access to Vaccines: Retrospective Study

Masselot C. M., Greshake Tzovaras B.,Graham C. L. B., Finnegan G., Jeyaram R., Vitali I., Landrain T. E., Santolini M., (2021)
Journal of Participatory Medicine (Web) (PDF)

COVID-19 and beyond: a call for action and audacious solidarity to all the citizens and nations, it is humanity’s fight.

Auffray et al. (2020)
F1000Research (Journal Page) (PDF)

Are Forum Networks Social Networks? A Methodological Perspective.

O. Poquet, L. Tupikina, and M. Santolini (2020)
Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK ’20), Frankfurt, Germany. (Journal Page) (PDF)

Towards group-aware learning analytics: using social network analysis and machine learning to monitor and predict performance in collaborative learning

M. Saqr, J. Nouri, M. Santolini (2019)
13th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (web) (PDF)

The periphery and the core properties explain the omnigenic model in the human interactome

B. Wang, K. Glass, A. Röhl, M. Santolini, D.C Croteau-Chonka, S.T Weiss, B.A Raby, A. Sharma (2019)
bioRxiv (web) (PDF)

Predicting perturbation patterns from the topology of biological networks.

M. Santolini, A-L Barabasi, (2018)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (web) (PDF)

Epidemium: A multidisciplinary community to tackle cancer using big and open data.

Mehdi Benchoufi, Marc Fournier, David Magrez, Gaspard Macaux, Vanessa Barue, Alicia Mansilla Sanchez, Olivier de Fresnoye, Romain Fillaudeau, Ozanne Tauvel-Mocquet, Nassera Chalabi, Jean Frédéric Petit-Nivard, Leo Blondel, Marc Santolini, Béchir Ben Hadj Yahia (2018)
Journal of Clinical Oncology (web) (PDF)

Theses / reports

How can learning ecosystems contribute to ensuring children in adversity thrive, across the global south?

Brown, K., Clayton, R., Hannon, V., Kokshagina, O., Mosso Cobian, F., Santolini, M., Shafiq, R., & Stephenson, M. (2025)
Global South Learning Ecosystem Project Report, Learning Planet Institute report (pdf)

Material awareness in design practice: integrating embodied learning and aesthetic sustainability

Zoe Lina Wehmeyer, Louise Massacrier (2025)
M2 Internship report (thesis, booklet)

Network Approaches to Reconstruct and Analyse Team Collaborative Structures in Open Science and Innovation

Rathin Jeyaram (2024)
PhD Thesis (web)

Radicalisation des communautés digitales: Le cas du djihadisme.

Blondel, L., El Haouari, N., Fraiberger, S. P., Jardin, A., Micheron, H., & Santolini, M (2024)
Ile de France (PDF)

Impact of technology-supported collective intelligence on patient-led research

Greshake Tzovaras, B., , Santolini, M.(2021)
NESTA (pdf)

Best Practices of Interdisciplinary Communication in Complex Systems Research

Masselot, C., Tupikina, L., Santolini, M., (2022)
German Ministry for Science and Education (PDF)

Interface for visualization of team analytics with the CoSo platform

Masselot, C., Santolini, M.(2023)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme : Crowd4SDG (pdf)

Statistical model of the association between collaboration dynamics and project performance

Santolini, M., Masselot, C., Jeyaram, R (2023)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme : Crowd4SDG (PDF)

In-situ assessment report of citizen local interactions and self-reporting GEAR cycle 3.

Santolini, M., Masselot, C., Jeyaram, R (2023)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme : Crowd4SDG (pdf)

In-situ assessment report of citizen local interactions and self-reporting GEAR cycle 2.

Santolini, M., Masselot, C., Jeyaram, R (2022)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme : Crowd4SDG (PDF)

In-situ assessment report of citizen local interactions and self-reporting GEAR cycle 1.

Santolini, M., & Masselot, C. (2021)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme : Crowd4SDG (pdf)

The Online Transition of the Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative SDG Summer School

Stephanie Chuah (2020)
GTI-CRI Internship Report (PDF)

Understanding how Teams Interact – An Analysis of Teams in an International Science and Engineering Competition

Rathin Jeyaram (2020)
Masters Theses (PDF)

Analyse des symptômes autodéclarés du COVID19 sur Twitter

Naïla EL HAOUARI (2020)
ENSAE Master’s thesis (PDF)