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physics.soc-ph2013★ 22 cited
The Metabolism and Growth of Web Forums
Lingfei Wu, Jiang Zhang, Min Zhao
We view web forums as virtual living organisms feeding on user's attention and investigate how these organisms grow at the expense of collective attention. We find that the "body m…
q-bio.PE2013★ 16 cited
Allometry and Dissipation of Ecological Flow Networks
Jiang Zhang, Lingfei Wu
An ecological flow network is a weighted directed graph in which nodes are species, edges are "who eats whom" relationships and weights are rates of energy or nutrients transfer be…