The structure of online social networks mirrors those in the offline world

Social Networks

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 39-47

  Dunbar, R I M ^a   Arnaboldi, Valerio ^a,b   Conti, Marco ^b   Passarella, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ego centric social networks; Facebook; Network scaling; Network structure; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929001583     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2015.04.005     Document Type: Article

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