Júlia Koltai

Júlia Koltai
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Selected Publications

Five selected publications of the last five years

 

2025. Koltai, J., Rakovics, Z., Kmetty, Z., Számel, K., Ungvari, B., Váradi, B., & Huszar, A.: Classifying social position with social media behavioral data. EPJ Data Science, 14(1), 60. [Journal IF: 2.5 (Q1)] https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00578-2

 

2025. Számel, K., Huszár, Á., Horváth, M., Rudas, S., Rakovics, Z., & Koltai, J.: Social Class and Digital Divide: Analyzing Digital Inequalities on Census and Digital Behavioral Data. Socius, 11, 23780231251357646. [Journal IF: 2.0 (D1)] https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251357646

 

2025. Kmetty, Z., Stefkovics, Á., Számely, J., Deng, D., Kellner, A., Pauló, E., ... & Koltai, J.: Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms. Information, Communication & Society, 28(7), 1324-1349. [Journal IF: 3.3 (D1)] https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2340995

 

2024. Manna, A., Koltai, J., & Karsai, M.: Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics. Nature Communications, 15(1), 4137. [Journal IF: 15.7 (D1)] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48332-y

 

2024. Stefkovics, Á., Krekó P., Koltai J.: When reality knocks on the door. The effect of conspiracy beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the moderating role of experience with the virus. Social Science & Medicine 356, 117149 [Journal IF: 5.0 (D1)] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117149

 

Five further selected publications:

 

2021. Fodor, É., Gregor, A., Koltai, J., & Kováts, E.: The impact of COVID-19 on the gender division of childcare work in Hungary. European Societies, 23(S1), S95-S110. [Journal IF: 8.1 (Q1)] https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1817522

 

2021. Kmetty, Z., Koltai, J., & Rudas, T.: The presence of occupational structure in online texts based on word embedding NLP models. EPJ Data Science, 10(1), 55. [Journal IF: 2.5 (Q1)] https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00311-9

 

2021. Tofalvy, T., & Koltai, J.: “Splendid Isolation”: The reproduction of music industry inequalities in Spotify’s recommendation system. New Media & Society, 25(7), 1580-1604. [Journal IF: 5.31 (D1)] https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211022161

 

2021. B Ságvári, A Gulyás, J Koltai: Attitudes towards participation in a passive data collection experiment. Sensors 21 (18), 6085 [Journal IF: 3.5 (Q1)]. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21186085

 

2019. Lőrincz, L., Koltai, J., Győr, A. F., & Takács, K.: Collapse of an online social network: Burning social capital to create it?. Social Networks, 57, 43-53. [Journal IF: 2.4 (D1)] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.11.004

 
Research Projects

2022-2027 Principal investigator

 “Momentum” Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Title of the research: Social Structure and Inequalities Through the Lens of Digital Data. Name of the research group: MTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification (DS4 Momentum Research Group)

2022-2026 Principal investigator

National Laboratory Program of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary (RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00006) Name of the research group: Social Science Research Group, National Laboratory for Health Security

2022-2025 Co-applicant

Grant of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). Title of the research: Humanized Algorithms: Identifying and Mitigating Algorithmic Biases in Social Networks. Principal investigator: Fariba Karimi (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna), co-applicant: Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen)

2019-2024 Principal investigator

Grant of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary (FK131826). Title of the research: Social History Analysis of the Press between 1945 and 1989 with the Methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP)

2019-2022 Principal investigator

Premium Postdoctoral Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Title of the research: Application of Big Data and Natural Language Processing Methods in the Social Sciences.