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most citedVisibility of minorities in social networks

133 citations · 683 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.SI2017★ 90 cited

Why We Read Wikipedia

Philipp Singer, Florian Lemmerich, Robert West +4

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to under…

cs.SI2017★ 46 cited

Sampling from Social Networks with Attributes

Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer, Fariba Karimi +2

Sampling from large networks represents a fundamental challenge for social network research. In this paper, we explore the sensitivity of different sampling techniques (node sampli…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 133 cited

Visibility of minorities in social networks

Fariba Karimi, Mathieu Génois, Claudia Wagner +2

Homophily can put minority groups at a disadvantage by restricting their ability to establish links with people from a majority group. This can limit the overall visibility of mino…

cs.SI2016★ 9 cited

MixedTrails: Bayesian hypothesis comparison on heterogeneous sequential data

Martin Becker, Florian Lemmerich, Philipp Singer +2

Sequential traces of user data are frequently observed online and offline, e.g., as sequences of visited websites or as sequences of locations captured by GPS. However, understandi…

cs.SI2016★ 27 cited

What Makes a Link Successful on Wikipedia?

Dimitar Dimitrov, Philipp Singer, Florian Lemmerich +1

While a plethora of hypertext links exist on the Web, only a small amount of them are regularly clicked. Starting from this observation, we set out to study large-scale click data…

cs.SI2016★ 36 cited

Evidence of Online Performance Deterioration in User Sessions on Reddit

Philipp Singer, Emilio Ferrara, Farshad Kooti +2

This article presents evidence of performance deterioration in online user sessions quantified by studying a massive dataset containing over 55 million comments posted on Reddit in…