Word statistics in Blogs and RSS feeds: Towards empirical universal evidence

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-286

  Lambiotte, R ^a   Ausloos, M ^a   Thelwall, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Information networks; Time statistics; Zipf law

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848834796     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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