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  1. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

    Tina Eliassi-Rad

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Eliassi-Rad, T. (2014). Social Order in Online Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_287

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