Alvaro Franco Martins
Alvaro Franco Martins
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An AI assistant on global organized crime
A knowledge graph of 4,504 criminal organizations and 10,935 relationships extracted from 1,418 Wikipedia articles across four languages. A GraphRAG AI answers questions about the global organized crime network. Every claim cites a specific Wikipedia source.
Alvaro Franco Martins
Aug 22, 2026
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organized_crime
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The global network of organized crime
I built CRIMENET, an open-source network of 1,890 criminal organizations and 3,354 alliances and rivalries between them, extracted from 771 Wikipedia articles with an LLM pipeline.
Alvaro Franco Martins
Apr 28, 2026
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organized_crime
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artificial_intelligence
Structural roles and gender disparities in corruption networks
Women are underrepresented in corruption networks in Brazil and Spain, but play similar roles to men except at the top. Gender doesn’t affect network resilience, and most differences are explained by their lower presence.
Alvaro Franco Martins
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Arthur A. B. Pessa
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Mônica V. prates
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Sebastian Goncalves
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Cristina Masoller
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Matjaz Perc
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Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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Unveiling the hidden patterns of corruption networks
Deep dive into the inner workings of worldwide political corruption networks
Alvaro Franco Martins
Apr 15, 2022
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