Modeling blogger influence in a community

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-162

  Agarwal, Nitin ^a   Liu, Huan ^b   Tang, Lei ^c   Yu, Philip S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogosphere; Evaluation; Influence; Influential bloggers; Social network

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLOGGERS; BLOGGING; BLOGOSPHERES; EVALUATION; INFLUENCE; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

BLOGS;

EID: 84947269051     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-011-0039-3     Document Type: Article

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