Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers

Summary: Proposes systems for mass collaboration between investigative journalists and citizens to support evidence aggregation, provenance, privacy-aware sharing, and scalable ingestion. Casts these as concrete database research challenges and a social-impact call to arms for the DB community. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 148
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.3997218e-05
Overall Rank: 4,157 | 71.09%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,981	Efficient Spatial Sampling of Large Geographical Tables	2012	SIGMOD	7.7809306e-05
3,340	Toward Computational Fact-Checking	2014	VLDB	7.2030091e-05
5,450	Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective	2011	VLDB	5.5003491e-05
5,934	Perturbation Analysis of Database Queries	2016	VLDB	5.266698e-05
7,094	Data In, Fact Out: Automated Monitoring of Facts by FactWatcher	2014	VLDB	4.8366704e-05
7,314	Efficient Evaluation of Object-Centric Exploration Queries for Visualization	2015	VLDB	4.7648346e-05
7,586	Maverick: Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	4.7036704e-05
8,268	Learned Data-aware Image Representations of Line Charts for Similarity Search	2023	SIGMOD	4.5456668e-05
9,133	Maverick: A System for Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs	2018	VLDB	4.3895822e-05
9,137	Combating Fake News: A Data Management and Mining Perspective	2019	VLDB	4.3881065e-05
11,465	To Intervene or Not To Intervene: Cost based Intervention for Combating Fake News	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,973	iCheck: Computationally Combating "Lies, D-ned Lies, and Statistics"	2014	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
692	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00018083948

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