most citedHow to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests

56 citations · 74 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SI201612 cited

Online Actions with Offline Impact: How Online Social Networks Influence Online and Offline User Behavior

Tim Althoff, Pranav Jindal, Jure Leskovec

Many of today's most widely used computing applications utilize social networking features and allow users to connect, follow each other, share content, and comment on others' post…

cs.CY20161 cited

Influence of Pokémon Go on Physical Activity: Study and Implications

Tim Althoff, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz

Physical activity helps people maintain a healthy weight and reduces the risk for several chronic diseases. Although this knowledge is widely recognized, adults and children in man…

cs.SI20142 cited

Analysis and Forecasting of Trending Topics in Online Media Streams

Tim Althoff, Damian Borth, Jörn Hees +1

Among the vast information available on the web, social media streams capture what people currently pay attention to and how they feel about certain topics. Awareness of such trend…

cs.MM20143 cited

Detection Bank: An Object Detection Based Video Representation for Multimedia Event Recognition

Tim Althoff, Hyun Oh Song, Trevor Darrell

While low-level image features have proven to be effective representations for visual recognition tasks such as object recognition and scene classification, they are inadequate to…

cs.CL201456 cited

How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests

Tim Althoff, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky

Requests are at the core of many social media systems such as question & answer sites and online philanthropy communities. While the success of such requests is critical to the suc…