A large-scale community structure analysis in facebook

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-30

  Ferrara, Emilio ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AGGREGATION PATTERNS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSNS); SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84875863990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds9     Document Type: Article

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