A replication and methodological critique of the study “Evaluating drug trafficking on the Tor Network”

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 35, Issue , 2016, Pages 92-96

  Munksgaard, Rasmus ^a   Demant, Jakob ^a   Branwen, Gwern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cryptomarkets; Digital analysis; Methodology; Reproducibility; Silk Road; Web crawling; Web o metrics: Dark web

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER NETWORK; CRYPTOMARKET; DRUG TRAFFIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOTE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION STUDY; SILK ROAD; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TOR NETWORK; WEB CRAWLING; WEB LINK; WEB O METRIC; WEB PAGE; INTERNET;

SILK;

DRUG TRAFFICKING; INTERNET; SILK;

EID: 84964378378     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: 18734758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.02.027     Document Type: Note

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