The emergence of roles in large-scale networks of communication

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-16

  González Bailón, Sandra ^a   Wang, Ning ^b   Borge Holthoefer, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Bridges; Modularity; Online networks; Structural holes; Structural similarity

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES;

INFORMATION DIFFUSION; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MODULARITY; ON-LINE NETWORK; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES; STRUCTURAL HOLES; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84933523370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0032-y     Document Type: Article

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