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Hi Jeff,

Hummon/Doreian (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(89)90017-8) have developed Depth First Search for directed networks. It was later applied to the citation networks of two journals (http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107554709301400406 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(93)90022-D).

This makes good sense to me for this application. Maybe for yours too...

Haiko


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I'm looking for literature that discusses the concept of a backbone for social networks. I know of one reference (below) and am looking for others.

Alternately, what are your thoughts on the concept of a 'backbone' in a social network? What kinds of elements ought such a concept contain?
How ought one measure it?

Thank you,
Jeff



Kossinets, G., Kleinberg, J., & Watts, D. (2008). The structure of information pathways in a social communication network. In 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data minin (pp. 435–443).


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