Network structure and community evolution on Twitter: Human behavior change in response to the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lu, Xin ^a,b,c,d   Brelsford, Christa ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONVERSATION; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; TSUNAMI; HISTORY; INTERNET; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EARTHQUAKES; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNET; JAPAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORKING; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84939138198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06773     Document Type: Article

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