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Table 3 Articles selected from the Scopus repository (ordered by number of citations)

From: Fraud, corruption, and collusion in public procurement activities, a systematic literature review on data-driven methods

No

Title/Author/Year

Citation

Journal/Conference

1

An Objective Corruption Risk Index Using Public Procurement Data (Fazekas et al. 2016)

47

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

2

From Corruption to State Capture: A New Analytical Framework with Empirical Applications from Hungary (Fazekas & Tóth 2016)

41

Political Research Quarterly

3

Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Objective Corruption Risk Indicators Using Public Procurement Data (Fazekas & Kocsis 2017)

35

British Journal of Political Science

4

Internet auction fraud detection using social network analysis and classification tree approaches (Chiuet al. 2011)

34

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

5

Bid-rigging networks and state-corporate crime in the construction industry (Reeves-Latour & Morselli 2017)

32

Social Networks

6

The impact of inter-organizational relationships on contractors' success in winning public procurement projects: The case of the construction industry in the Veneto region (Sedita & Apa 2015)

28

International Journal of Project Management

7

Combining ranking concept and social network analysis to detect collusive groups in online auctions (Lin et al. 2012)

23

Expert Systems With Applications

8

Finding the needle: A risk-based ranking of product listings at online auction sites for non-delivery fraud prediction (Almendra 2013)

19

Expert Systems With Applications

9

Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks (Luna-Pla & Carlock 2020)

18

Applied Network Science

10

Fuzzy rule optimization for online auction frauds detection based on genetic algorithm (Yu & Lin 2013)

15

Electronic Commerce Research

11

A network approach to cartel detection in public auction markets (Wachs & Kertesz 2019)

14

Scientific Reports

12

Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns (Wachs et al. 2019)

13

Royal Society Open Science

13

Leveraging social networks to combat collusion in reputation systems for peer-to-peer networks (Li et al. 2013)

13

IEEE Transactions on Computers

14

Distinguishing Characteristics of Corruption Risks in Iranian Construction Projects: A Weighted Correlation Network Analysis (Hosseini et al. 2019)

12

Science and Engineering Ethics

15

Network similarity and collusion (Morselli & Ouellet 2018)

12

Social Networks

16

Machine learning with screens for detecting bid-rigging cartels (Huber & Imhof 2019)

9

International Journal of Industrial Organization

17

Online Detection of Shill Bidding Fraud Based on Machine Learning Techniques (Ganguly & Sadaoui 2018)

8

31st International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE)

18

A decision support system for fraud detection in public procurement (Velasco et al. 2021)

7

International Transactions in Operational Research

19

Prediction of public procurement corruption indices using machine learning methods (Rabuzin & Modrusan 2019)

7

11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems (KMIS)

20

Comparison of ANN Classifier to the Neuro-Fuzzy System for Collusion Detection in the Tender Procedures of Road Construction Sector (Anysz et al. 2018)

7

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium (WMCAUS)

21

Using Self-Organizing Maps for fraud prediction at online auction sites (Almendra & Enachescu 2014)

7

15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC

22

Detection of feedback reputation fraud in Taobao using social network theory (Zhu et al. 2011)

7

Proceedings—2011 International Joint Conference on Service Sciences, IJCSS 2011

23

Corruption risk in contracting markets: a network science perspective (Wachs, Fazekas, & Kertész, 2021)

6

International Journal of Data Science and Analytics

24

Corruption and the network structure of public contracting markets across government change (Fazekas & Wachs 2020)

5

Politics and Governance

25

Mapping Corruption Risks in Public Procurement: Uncovering Improvement Opportunities and Strengthening Controls (Sharma et al. 2019)

5

Public Performance & Management Review

26

Big data system for analyzing risky procurement entities (Dhurandhar et Al. 2015)

5

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

27

Online hybrid model for online fraud prevention and detection (Mundra & Rakesh 2014)

5

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

28

Uncovering the structure of public procurement transactions (Popa 2019)

4

Business and Politics

29

Preventing rather than punishing: An early warning model of malfeasance in public procurement (Gallego et al. 2021)

3

International Journal of Forecasting

30

Clustering and Labeling Auction Fraud Data (Alzahrani & Sadaoui 2020)

3

International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI)

31

Trust model based on Islamic business ethics and social network analysis (Lei et al. 2018a, b)

3

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

32

How do strategic networks influence awarding contract? Evidence from French public procurement (Mamavi et al. 2017)

3

International Journal of Public Sector Management

33

Detecting fraudsters in online auction using variations of neighbor diversity (Khomnotai & Lin 2015)

3

International Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation

34

Incremental collusive fraud detection in large-scale online auction networks (Dadfarnia et al. 2020)

2

Journal of Supercomputing

35

Bidder Network Community Division and Collusion Suspicion Analysis in Chinese Construction Projects (Zhu et al. 2020)

2

Advances in Civil Engineering

36

Detecting the collusive bidding behavior in below average bid auction (Lei et al. 2018a, b)

2

13th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD)

37

Analysis on bidding behaviours for detecting shill bidders in online auctions (Majadi et al. 2017)

2

Proceedings—2016 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 2016, 2016 6th International

38

Network Analysis for Fraud Detection in Portuguese Public Procurement (Carneiro et al. 2020)

1

International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning

39

Improving fraudster detection in online auctions by using neighbor-driven attributes (Lin & Khomnotai 2016)

1

Entropy

40

Characterization of the firm–firm public procurement co-bidding network from the State of Ceará (Brazil) municipalities (Lyra et al. 2021a, b.2)

0

Applied Network Science

41

Tackling corruption in urban infrastructure procurement: Dynamic evaluation of the critical constructs and the anti-corruption measures (Owusu et al. 2021)

0

Cities

42

A social network-based examination on bid riggers’ relationships in the construction industry: A case study of China (Xiao et al. 2021)

0

Buildings

43

Conspiracy of Corporate Networks in Corruption Scandals (Nicolás-Carlock & Luna-Pla 2021)

0

Frontiers in Physics

44

The extra-legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement (Fazekas et al. 2021)

0

Governance

45

Networked Corruption Risks in European Defense Procurement (Czibik et al. 2021)

0

Understanding Complex Systems

46

Corruption in the Implementation of Public Procurement from Small and Medium Businesses (Perevezentceva, et al. 2021)

0

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

47

Real-Time Shill Bidding Fraud Detection Empowered with Fussed Machine Learning (Abidi et al. 2021)

0

IEEE Access

48

Adaptation of cluster analysis methods in respect to vector space of social network analysis indicators for revealing suspicious government contracts (Davydenko et al. 2017)

0

IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)