Does Twitter Trigger Bursts in Signature Collections?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Yamaguchi, Rui ^a   Imoto, Seiya ^a   Kami, Masahiro ^a   Watanabe, Kenji ^b   Miyano, Satoru ^a   Yuji, Koichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INTERNET; MASS COMMUNICATION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC OPINION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNATURE COLLECTION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; JAPAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 84874611215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058252     Document Type: Article

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