| 2016 | WSDM | Serving a Billion Personalized News Feeds. | Lars Backstrom |
| 2014 | CSCW | Romantic partnerships and the dispersion of social ties: a network analysis of relationship status on facebook. | Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2013 | KDD | Graph cluster randomization: network exposure to multiple universes. | Johan Ugander, Brian Karrer, Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2013 | WWW | Subgraph frequencies: mapping the empirical and extremal geography of large graph collections. | Johan Ugander, Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2013 | WSDM | Characterizing and curating conversation threads: expansion, focus, volume, re-entry. | Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil |
| 2013 | WSDM | Balanced label propagation for partitioning massive graphs. | Johan Ugander, Lars Backstrom |
| 2011 | ICWSM | Center of Attention: How Facebook Users Allocate Attention across Friends. | Lars Backstrom, Eytan Bakshy, Jon M. Kleinberg, Thomas M. Lento, Itamar Rosenn |
| 2011 | WWW | Social media: source of information or bunch of noise. | Amr El Abaddi, Lars Backstrom, Soumen Chakrabarti, Alejandro Jaimes, Jure Leskovec, Andrew Tomkins |
| 2011 | WWW | Network bucket testing. | Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2011 | WSDM | Supervised random walks: predicting and recommending links in social networks. | Lars Backstrom, Jure Leskovec |
| 2010 | ICWSM | ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks. | Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cameron Marlow |
| 2010 | WWW | Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity. | Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun, Cameron Marlow |
| 2009 | KDD | Optimizing web traffic via the media scheduling problem. | Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar |
| 2009 | KDD | Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle. | Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2009 | WWW | Mapping the world's photos. | David J. Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2008 | KDD | Microscopic evolution of social networks. | Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, Ravi Kumar, Andrew Tomkins |
| 2008 | WWW | Spatial variation in search engine queries. | Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak |
| 2008 | WSDM | Preferential behavior in online groups. | Lars Backstrom, Ravi Kumar, Cameron Marlow, Jasmine Novak, Andrew Tomkins |
| 2007 | WWW | Wherefore art thou r3579x?: anonymized social networks, hidden patterns, and structural steganography. | Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork, Jon M. Kleinberg |
| 2006 | IJCNN | C2FS: An Algorithm for Feature Selection in Cascade Neural Networks. | Lars Backstrom, Rich Caruana |
| 2006 | KDD | Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution. | Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kleinberg, Xiangyang Lan |