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| Title |
Inferring Tie Strength from Online Directed Behavior
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0052168 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jason J. Jones, Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Cameron Marlow, James H. Fowler |
| Abstract |
Some social connections are stronger than others. People have not only friends, but also best friends. Social scientists have long recognized this characteristic of social connections and researchers frequently use the term tie strength to refer to this concept. We used online interaction data (specifically, Facebook interactions) to successfully identify real-world strong ties. Ground truth was established by asking users themselves to name their closest friends in real life. We found the frequency of online interaction was diagnostic of strong ties, and interaction frequency was much more useful diagnostically than were attributes of the user or the user's friends. More private communications (messages) were not necessarily more informative than public communications (comments, wall posts, and other interactions). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 61 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 22 | 36% |
| Spain | 3 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| Italy | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 21 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 39 | 64% |
| Scientists | 17 | 28% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 203 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4 | 2% |
| France | 3 | 1% |
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 3 | 1% |
| Unknown | 182 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 61 | 30% |
| Student > Master | 34 | 17% |
| Researcher | 28 | 14% |
| Professor | 14 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 34 | 17% |
| Unknown | 21 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 55 | 27% |
| Social Sciences | 52 | 26% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 12 | 6% |
| Psychology | 12 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 38 | 19% |
| Unknown | 27 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 115. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 July 2023.
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#358,231
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#5,082
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#2,475
of 294,058 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#95
of 4,793 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 218,640 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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