And What Is Your Erdos Number?

Goffman, Casper

doi:10.2307/2317868

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“…Operationalizing and measuring social distance For the present exercise, I use the following operational definition of the social distance: social distance is the shortest path between the user and any creator of the content acted upon in the global scientific collaboration network: the same process that is used to calculate the well-known Erdös number of mathematicians (Goffman, 1969). If the user is the same individual as the content creator, the social distance is 0.…”

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Using social and topical distance to analyze information sharing on social media

Mongeon

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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The diversity of social media platforms, users and uses has long been a challenge for social media research. The difficulty of inferring meaning from social media acts is also, and perhaps more importantly, due to the fact the even identical acts that are in appearance identical and that occur on the same platforms and contexts can have diverse meanings. This paper proposes a model based on the concepts of social and topical distance that can help shed light on the possible meanings of a social media act. The model considers the social relationship between the content creator and the user, as well as the topical relationship between the content the user's main topics of interest. It is demonstrated by analyzing a set of papers published in JASIST that were tweeted by researchers. The results show that the model can help differentiate between different types of heterogeneous social media acts and users or be used to characterize the attention that a specific content has received on social media.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Using social and topical distance to analyze information sharing on social media

Mongeon

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…The Erdos number computation is necessary as they provide a meta hub to focus oneself conceptually. One can also refer [30][31][32] for more on Erdos numbers. In future we wish to widen our analysis of various domination numbers considered here to other data sets belonging to other social and biological networks.…”

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Computation of Various Domination Numbers of Rolf Nevanlinna (RNP) Collaboration Graph

Yegnanarayanan

Logeshwary

2017

Braz. arch. biol. technol.

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“…We shall use a generalization of the famous "Erdos graph" [4,9,141 to illustrate the usefulness of hyperedge-planarity and this type of hypergraph representation. Recall that the Erdos graph consists of a vertex for each researcher and an edge between two researchers if and only if they have coauthored a published paper.…”

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