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Table 1 Previous research on information diffusion

From: Epidemic model for information diffusion in web forums: experiments in marketing exchange and political dialog

Key papers

Model specification

Applications

Contributions

Goffman and Newill (1964)

SIR, SIS

Scientific theory

The first analogy development between information and disease diffusion

Kawachi (2008)

SIR-variants

Rumor

The novel model with offsetting effect

Fan (1985)

SIR

Financial information

The novel model with content characteristics ideodynamics model

Shive (2010)

SIR

WOM of stock

Novel model with corporate financial information

Shtatland and Shtatland (2008)

SIR

Financial information

Outbreak detection using the diffusion model

Goldenberg et al. (2001)

SIR

Word of mouth (WOM)

The network effects on WOM

Bampo et al. (2008)

ICM

WOM

The network effects on WOM

Gruhl et al. (2004)

ICM

Blog

The empirical test

Saito et al. (2008)

ICM

 

The method to estimate infection rate

Leskovec et al. (2007)

Network SIS

Blog

The empirical test

Kubo et al. (2007)

SIR

Web forum

The analogy development between topic diffusion in the web forum and disease spread

Toole et al. (2012)

Network SIS

Twitter

The novel model with geolocation information, the empirical test

Myers et al. (2012)

ICM

Twitter

The novel model with external effect

Tang et al. (2014)

Network SI

Chinese Twitter

The empirical test

Liu and Zhang (2014)

ICM

Syntactic data

The novel model with rewiring friendship

Wang et al. (2015)

Network SI

 

The novel model, emotion-based spreaderignorantstifler (ESIS) model