Social science: Computational social science

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5915, 2009, Pages 721-723

  Lazer, David ^a   Pentland, Alex ^b   Adamic, Lada ^c   Aral, Sinan ^b,d   Barabási, Albert László ^e   Brewer, Devon ^f   Christakis, Nicholas ^a   Contractor, Noshir ^g   Fowler, James ^h   Gutmann, Myron ^c   Jebara, Tony ⁱ   King, Gary ^a   Macy, Michael ^j   Roy, Deb ^b   Van Alstyne, Marshall ^b,k  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Interdisciplinary Scientific Research   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ New York NY ^*  (United States)

^j Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^k BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; GROUP BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOLOGY;

DATA COLLECTION; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PRIVACY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 59849122652     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167742     Document Type: Short Survey

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19. Additional resources in computational social science can be found in the supporting online material.