Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 52, 2014, Pages E5616-E5622

  Ronen, Shahar ^a   Gonҫalves, Bruno ^b,c,d   Hu, Kevin Z ^a   Vespignani, Alessandro ^b   Pinker, Steven ^e   Hidalgo, César A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Digital humanities; Fame; Languages; Networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; DEMOGRAPHY; GLOBAL CHANGE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84924291413     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410931111     Document Type: Article

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