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Table 1 Basic statistics of studied datasets. Temporal network data on calls and messages from the Copenhagen Network Study [51, 52] (calls & sms), online social network messages at the University of California, Irvine [53] (msg), emails at a European research institution [54] (email), and our crawl of keyword-restricted retweets and mentions in Twitter (retweets & mentions) (see Additional file 1 Section S2). Table shows the number of events E, links L, and nodes N, as well as the fraction of reciprocations over a link, \(p(E_{rec})\), and the fraction of links having at least one reciprocation, \(p(l_{rec})\) (see Additional file 1 Section S1). Most channels (apart from Twitter) show significant levels of temporal reciprocity

From: Temporal patterns of reciprocity in communication networks

dataset

E

L

N

\(p(E_{rec})\)

\(p(l_{rec})\)

calls

2430

181

252

0.44

0.95

sms

23,779

473

482

0.74

0.99

msg

40,600

3343

941

0.67

0.87

email

306,529

6864

753

0.45

0.90

retweets

57,899

3142

1156

0.10

0.33

mentions

226,774

8292

1609

0.11

0.40