Critical transitions in social network activity

Journal of Complex Networks

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 141-152

  Kuehn, Christian ^a   Martens, Erik A ^b,c   Romero, Daniel M ^d,e  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical transition; Scaling law; Social networks; Tipping point; Warning signs; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CORRELATION DETECTORS; ECOLOGY; SCALING LAWS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CRITICAL TRANSITION; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; NETWORK ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; TIPPING POINT; WARNING SIGNS; WORD FREQUENCIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84904164328     PISSN: 20511310     EISSN: 20511329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comnet/cnt022     Document Type: Article

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