A New Method of Identifying Influential Users in the Micro-Blog Networks

Micro-blog services have become popular tools in the social networks. Online users discuss various topics in the micro-blog and some influential users can affect the opinions, attitudes, behaviors, or emotions of others. This paper proposes a user influence rank (UIRank) algorithm to identify the in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhao Jianqiang, Gui Xiaolin, Tian Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7862120/