Dynamics of information diffusion and its applications on complex networks

ZK Zhang, C Liu, XX Zhan, X Lu, CX Zhang, YC Zhang - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

What's in a github star? understanding repository starring practices in a social coding platform

H Borges, MT Valente - Journal of Systems and Software, 2018 - Elsevier
Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding
features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or …

[HTML][HTML] Anatomy of an online misinformation network

C Shao, PM Hui, L Wang, X Jiang, A Flammini… - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media
before and after the 2016 US Presidential Elections despite intense fact-checking efforts …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of Twitter sentiment on stock price returns

G Ranco, D Aleksovski, G Caldarelli, M Grčar… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Social media are increasingly reflecting and influencing behavior of other complex systems.
In this paper we investigate the relations between a well-known micro-blogging platform …

[HTML][HTML] Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines

F Shi, J Evans - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

Understanding the factors that impact the popularity of GitHub repositories

H Borges, A Hora, MT Valente - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who
constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining …

[图书][B] Searchable talk: Hashtags and social media metadiscourse

M Zappavigna - 2018 - books.google.com
Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication.
Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there …

[HTML][HTML] Virality prediction and community structure in social networks

L Weng, F Menczer, YY Ahn - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
How does network structure affect diffusion? Recent studies suggest that the answer
depends on the type of contagion. Complex contagions, unlike infectious diseases (simple …

[HTML][HTML] Competition among memes in a world with limited attention

L Weng, A Flammini, A Vespignani, F Menczer - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
The wide adoption of social media has increased the competition among ideas for our finite
attention. We employ a parsimonious agent-based model to study whether such a …

Sensing trending topics in Twitter

LM Aiello, G Petkos, C Martin, D Corney… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online social and news media generate rich and timely information about real-world events
of all kinds. However, the huge amount of data available, along with the breadth of the user …