As part of my scholarly work, I have authored several articles published in national and international journals within the fields of communication and social sciences, including top-ranked outlets such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, and Social Media + Society. As of September 2025, my Google Scholar profile reports over 800 citations of my work, an h-index of 15, and an i10-index of 24. My scholarly output also includes open-source research software, such as CooRTweet, an R package for network analysis that has received 46 stars on GitHub.
Below is my list of publications, including journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, books, conference proceedings, research reports, and software.
Publication list
[58] Righetti, N. (Forthcoming). Computational Methods for Communication Networks, in Bastos, M., & Rossi, L. (Editors), Handbook of Social and Communication Networks, Edward Elgar Publishing. [Book Chapter]
[57] Rossi, L., & Righetti, N. (Forthcoming). Network Analysis of Transnational Communication on Social Media. A Case Study of Climate Activism and Counter-Activism on Facebook, in Bastos, M., & Rossi, L. (Editors), Handbook of Social and Communication Networks, Edward Elgar Publishing. [Book Chapter]
[56] Waldherr, A., Tolochko, P., Righetti, N. (Forthcoming). Issue Networks, in Bastos, M., & Rossi, L. (Editors), Handbook of Social and Communication Networks, Edward Elgar Publishing. [Book Chapter]
[55] Giglietto, F., Graham, T., Righetti, N. (Forthcoming). Navigating Coordination and Inauthentic behaviour: Challenges and Innovations in Social Media Detection, in Bruns, A. (Editor), Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics. [Book Chapter]
[54] Boccia Artieri, G., Brilli, S., Donato, V., Righetti, N., Zurovac, E. (2025). The fringification of funding: monetization strategies within the Italian anti-mainstream Telegramsphere. New Media & Society (DOI: 10.1177/14614448251391738/ ID: NMS-25-0939.R1).
[53] Rogers, R., & Righetti, N. (2025). Coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Facebook? A typology of manufactured attention. Platforms & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251369784 [Journal Article].
[52] Waldherr, A., Righetti, N., Gallagher, R. J., Klinger, K., Stoltenberg, D., Kumar, S., Ridley, D., & Welles, B. F. (2025). Waves of attention to racial injustice on social media: Extrajudicial police killings in the United States as focusing events. Social Science Computer Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251364290. [Journal Article]
[51] Righetti, N. (2025). Anti-Gender Fundamentalist Traditionalism and Vulnerability to Misinformation. Journal of Media and Religion, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2025.2541098. [Journal Article]
[50] Righetti, N., Balluff, P. (2025). CooRTweet: A Comprehensive R Package for Identifying Coordinated Behavior On and Across Diverse Social Media Platform. Computational Communication Research, Volume 7, Issue 1, Jan 2025, p. 1. https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2025.1.7.RIGH. [Journal Article]
[49] Righetti, N., Kulichkina, A., Almeida Paroni, B., Cseri, Z. F., Aguirre, S. I., & Maikovska, K. (2025). Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO. Information, Communication & Society, 1–24. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2470229. [Journal Article]
[48] Righetti, N. (2025). The Multiple Nuances of Online Firestorms: The Case of a Pro-Vietnam Attack on the Facebook Digital Embassy of China in Italy Amidst the Pandemic. Italian Sociological Review, 15(1), 1. [Journal Article]
[47] Righetti, N. (2024). A. Bruns (2024). È vero che internet ci chiude in una bolla? Una prospettiva critica su filter bubble ed echo chamber. Comunicazione politica, Quadrimestrale dell’Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica 3/2024, pp. 466-469, doi: 10.3270/115254. [Journal Article]
[46] Kulichkina, A., Righetti, N., Waldherr, A. (2024). Protest and Repression on Social Media: Pro-Navalny and Pro-Government Mobilization Dynamics and Coordination Patterns on Russian Twitter. New Media & Society. [Journal Article]
[45] Righetti, N., & Bertuzzi, N. (2024). Rethinking Veganism in the Digital Age. Innovating Methodology and Typology to Explore a Decade of Facebook Discourses. Sociological Research Online, 30(1), 96-115. [Journal Article]
[44] Locatelli, E., Lovari, A., Righetti, N. (2024). When Public Health Communication Intertwines With Social Media Logic. A Focus on the Early Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy. Comunicazioni sociali, 2024, n. 1, 21-36. Published online June 2024. [Journal Article]
[43] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Stanziano, A. (2024). Analisi Computazionale del Parallelismo Politico in Italia: Il Caso delle Elezioni 2022 (Computational Analysis of Political Parallelism in Italy: The Case of 2022 Elections), in Bentivegna, S., Boccia Artieri, G. (eds.), “Analisi di una vittoria annunciata. Trasformazioni dell’agenda pubblica e campagna elettorale 2022”. Il Mulino, Bologna. [Book Chapter]
[42] Ducci, G., Lovari, A., Righetti, N. (2024). Challenges in Communicating Public Health Data An Analysis of Italian Regions’ Social Media Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic on Facebook. European Journal of Health Communication vol. 2 n. 5 “Aarhus Best Papers Special Issue”. [Journal Article]
[41] Lovari, A., Righetti, N. (2023). Pandemic Communication and Problematic Information. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities. [Encyclopedia Article]
[40] Righetti N, Balluff P (2023). CooRTweet: Coordinated Networks Detection on Social Media. R package version 1.3, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=CooRTweet. [Software]
[39] Righetti, N., Rossi, L., Marino, G. (2022). Geographic and Disciplinary Boundaries in Researching Problematic COVID-19 Information at the Onset of the Pandemic. First Monday, Volume 27, Number 7 – 4 July 2022. [Journal Article]
[38] Marchetti, R., Righetti, N., Pagiotti, S., Stanziano, A. (2022). Right-wing populism and political instrumentalization of religion: the Italian debate on Salvini’s use of religious symbols on Facebook. Journal of Religion in Europe, special issue Populism and Religion (eds. Dieckhoff, A., & Portier, P.). [Journal Article]
[37] Giglietto, F., Valeriani, A., Righetti, N., Marino, G. (2022). “Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign”, in Walker, S., Mercea, D., Bastos, M., Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms, pp. 80-99, Routledge, Taylor & Francis. [Book Chapter]
[36] Righetti, N., Giglietto, F., Kakavand, A.E., Kulichkina, A., Marino, G., Terenzi, M. (2022). Political Advertisement and Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in the Lead-Up to the 2021 German Federal Elections. Also in German language: Politische Werbung und Koordiniertes Verhalten in Sozialen Medien im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2021. Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein Westfalen. [Research Report]
[35] Giglietto, F., Rossi, L., Righetti, N. (2022) Unexpected consequences of a simple threshold: the effect of the 100 public shares on Meta’s URL Shares Dataset. [Research Report]
[34] Rossi, L., Righetti, N., Marino, G. (2021). (Nearly) ten years of social media and political elections in Italy: Questions, platforms, and methods. Social Media & Society. [Journal Article]
[33] Righetti, N. (2021). The Anti-Gender Debate on Social Media. A Computational Communication Science Analysis of Networks, Activism, and Misinformation. Comunicazione Politica 2/2021, 223-250. [Journal Article]
[32] Righetti, N. (2021). Four Years of Fake News. A Quantitative Analysis of the Scientific Literature. First Monday, 26(6-7), June 2021. [Journal Article]
[31] Righetti, N. (2021). The Impact of the Politicization of Health on Online Misinformation and Quality Information on Vaccines. Italian Sociological Review, 11(2), pp. 443-466. [Journal Article]
[30] Lovari, A., Ducci, G., Righetti, N. (2021). “Responding to Fake News: The use of Facebook for public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy”. In Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. [Book Chapter]
[29] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Rossi, L., & Marino, G. (2021). CooRnet: An Integrated Approach to Surface Problematic Content, Malicious Actors, and Coordinated Networks. In AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. [Conference Proceedings]
[28] Lovari, A., Righetti, N. (2021). La comunicazione pubblica della salute alla sfida dell’infodemia e delle fake news. In Boccia Artieri, G., Farci, M. (eds.), Shockdown. Media, cultura, comunicazione e ricerca nel Covid-19. Meltemi editore. [Book Chapter]
[27] Righetti, N., Rossi, L., & Marino, G. (2021). Into the Belly of the Beast: The Research on Covid-19 and Minsinformation in 2020. In AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. [Conference Proceedings]
[26] Righetti, N., Bertuzzi, N. (2020). Digital Animal Advocacy: A Study on Facebook Communication Styles of Italian Animal Rights Organizations and their Followers’ Reactions. Mediascapes Journal, 16/2020, pp. 128-150. [Journal Article]
[25] Lovari, A., Righetti, N. (2020). La comunicazione pubblica della salute tra infodemia e fake news: il ruolo della pagina Facebook del Ministero della Salute nella sfida social al Covid-19. Mediascapes Journal, 15/2020, pp. 156-173. [Journal Article]
[24] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Rossi, L., Marino, G. (2020). It Takes a Village to Manipulate the Media: Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior During 2018 and 2019 Italian elections. Information, Communication & Society. [Journal Article]
[23] Lovari, A., Martino, V., & Righetti, N. (2020). Blurred Shots: Investigating the Information Crisis Around Vaccination in Italy. American Behavioral Scientist. [Journal Article]
[22] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Rossi, L., & Marino, G. (2020, July). Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior as a Signal to Surface Sources of Problematic Information on Facebook. In International Conference on Social Media and Society (pp. 85-91). https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400817 [Conference Proceedings]
[21] Giglietto F., Righetti, N., Marino, G., (2020). Detecting Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior on Facebook during the Italian Coronavirus Outbreak. In AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020. [Conference Proceedings]
[20] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., & Rossi, L. (2020). CooRnet. Detect coordinated link sharing behavior on social media. [Software]
[19] Farci, M., Righetti, N. (2019). Italian Men’s Rights Activism and the Online Backlash Against Feminism. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 4, 2019, ottobre-dicembre. [Journal Article]
[18] Righetti, N., Carradore, M. (2019). From robots to social robots. Trends, representation and Facebook engagement of robot-related news stories published by Italian online news media. Italian Sociological Review 9(3). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/isr.v9i3.298. [Journal Article]
[17] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Marino, G. (2019). Il sistema dei media digitali in Italia nei sei mesi precedenti le elezioni politiche 2018. Comunicazionepuntodoc. ISSN 2282-0140. [Journal Article]
[16] Giglietto, F., Valeriani, A., Righetti, N., Marino, G. (2019). Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign. Information, Communication & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1629692. [Journal Article]
[15] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Marino, G., Rossi, L. (2019). Multi-Party Media Partisanship Attention Score: estimating partisan attention of news media sources using Twitter data in the lead-up to 2018 Italian election. Comunicazione Politica, n.1/2019, pp. 85-108. DOI: 10.3270/93030. [Journal Article]
[14] Righetti, N., Giglietto, F., Marino, G. (2019). L’Europa fra casa e gabbia: tono, frame ed engagement delle notizie sulle istituzioni europee nei mesi precedenti le elezioni 2018 (Europe as home, Europe as cage. Tone, frames and engagement on European Union before 2018 Italian election). Problemi dell’Informazione, n. 1/Aprile 2019. DOI: 10.1445/92856. [Journal Article]
[13] Giglietto, F., Valeriani, A., Righetti, N., Marino, G. (2019). Ogni comunità è un’isola? Polarizzazione, amplificazione e re-framing dell’informazione sui social media durante la campagna delle elezioni politiche 2018, in Bentivegna, S., Boccia Artieri, G. (eds), Niente di nuovo sul fronte mediale. Agenda pubblica e campagna elettorale. Franco Angeli, Milano. ISBN: 9788891781901 (preprint available here). [Book Chapter]
[12] Giglietto F., Righetti, N., Marino, G., (2019). API and Beyond: Detecting Coordinated Behaviors in Facebook Interactions Around Political News Stories. In AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2019. [Conference Proceedings]
[11] Righetti, N. (2019). Sfide e limiti del veganismo. Vegefobia, mass media e mercato, in Bertuzzi N., Reggio M. (eds), Smontare la gabbia. Anticapitalismo e movimento di liberazione animale. Mimesis Editore, Milano. ISBN:9788857547169 (preprint available here). [Book Chapter]
[10] Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Marino, G. (2019, September 20). Understanding Coordinated and Inauthentic Link Sharing Behavior on Facebook in the Run-Up to 2018 General Election and 2019 European Election in Italy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/3jteh. [Reserach Report]
[9] Giglietto, F., Iannelli, L., Rossi, L., Valeriani, A., Righetti, N., Carabini, F., Marino, G., Zurovac, E (2018), Mapping Italian News Media Political Coverage in the Lead-Up to 2018 General Election. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3179930. [Research Report]
[8] Righetti, N. (2018). Il veganismo tra mainstream e controcultura (Veganism halfway between mainstream and counterculture). Micro & Macro Marketing, 1/2018, aprile, pp. 109-130. DOI: 10.1431/89486. [Journal Article]
[7] Righetti, N. (2018), Tra sacro e vegano, Ferrari Editore. ISBN: 9788899971663. [Book]
[6] Righetti, N. (2018), Le forme materiali della vita religiosa, Franco Angeli, Milano. ISBN:9788891754042 (preprint available here). [Book]
[5] Righetti, N. (2017), Lo spazio del sacro, in Baldin S., Zago M. (eds.), Luoghi dell’anima, anime in cammino. Riflessioni su eredità culturale e turismo religioso. FrancoAngeli, Milano, pp. 15-23. ISBN: 9788891757456 (preprint available here). [Book Chapter]
[4] Righetti, N. (2016). L’inchiostro digitale è vegano? La rappresentazione del veganismo sulla stampa (Is Digital Ink Vegan? The Representation of Veganism in the Italian Press). Cambio. Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali, Anno VI, Numero 11/Giugno 2016.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/cambio-18792 [Journal Article]
[3] Righetti, N. (2015). Watching over the Sacred Boundaries of the Family. Study on the Standing Sentinels and Cultural Resistance to LGBT Rights. Italian Sociological Review 6(2): 265-292 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/isr.v6i2.134 [Journal Article]
[2] Righetti, N. (2014). The Sacred in Current Social Sciences Research. Italian Sociological Review 4(1):133-163 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/isr.v4i1.77 [Journal Article]
[1] Righetti, N. (2013). Sacredness of the Book: an Exploratory Research. Italian Sociological Review 3(1): 1-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/isr.v3i1.4 [Journal Article]