in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media before and after the 2016 US Presidential Elections despite intense fact-checking efforts. How do the spread of misinformation and fact-checking compete? What are the structural and dynamic characteristics of the core of the misinformation diffusion network, and who are its main purveyors? How to reduce the ov...

Supply chain network enables the enterprises to achieve the purpose of knowledge diffusion complementary. Based on the complex network theory, using the method of combining qualitative analysis and model deduction, we established a knowledge diffusion network model that view staff of supply chain as network node, discussed the mechanism of knowledge diffusion, analysed the main control paramete...

Social media data have been increasingly used to assess the impact of scholarly research. Such data provide complementary metrics (often called altmetrics) to traditional impact indicators. This paper provides a summary on the diffusion of scholarly content in social media, based on a collection of tweets citing papers from a set of 27 academic publishers within various fields between 2011 and ...