The World Wide Web journal gratefully acknowledges the editorial work of the following scholars on this special section “Web Information Management in the Big Data Era”:

Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA

Enhong Chen, Uni. of Science and Technology, China

The three papers in this section include:

  • Correlation range query for effective recommendations, Wenjun Zhou, Hao Zhang

  • Finding critical blocks of information diffusion in social networks, Ende Zhang, Guoren Wang, Kening Gao, Ge Yu

  • K-core-based attack to the internet: Is it more malicious than degree-based attack? Jichang Zhao, Junjie Wu, Mingming Chen, Zhiwen Fang, Xu Zhang, Ke Xu