Six degrees of separation (English Wikipedia)

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Reza Bakhshandeh, Mehdi Samadi, Zohreh Azimifar, Jonathan Schaeffer, "Degrees of Separation in Social Networks Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine", Fourth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2011
Reza Bakhshandeh, Mehdi Samadi, Zohreh Azimifar, Jonathan Schaeffer Degrees of Separation in Social Networks. Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine Fourth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2011

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"MR: Collaboration Distance". ams.org.

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"MIKAMAI participates with Zuck in London Facebook Hackathon | Unconventional Everything - MIKAMAI UK". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2010-09-11.

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Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz (April 2008). Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network. Proceedings of WWW 2008, Beijing, China. arXiv:0803.0939. Bibcode:2008arXiv0803.0939L.
Backstrom, Lars; Boldi, Paolo; Rosa, Marco; Ugander, Johan; Vigna, Sebastiano (2011-11-19). "Four Degrees of Separation". arXiv:1111.4570 [cs.SI].
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BBC News: More Or Less: Connecting With People In Six Steps 13 July 2006, "Judith Kleinfeld ... told us, that 95% of the letters sent out had failed to reach the target."

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Judith S. Kleinfeld, University of Alaska Fairbanks (January–February 2002). "The Small World Problem" (PDF). Society (Springer), Social Science and Public Policy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2014-03-03.

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"What's Your 'Bacon Number?' Just Ask Google". CNBC. 13 September 2012.

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de Sola Pool, Ithiel; Kochen, Manfred (January 1978). "Contacts and influence". Social Networks. 1 (1): 5–51. doi:10.1016/0378-8733(78)90011-4. hdl:2027.42/23764.
Travers, Jeffrey; Milgram, Stanley (1969). "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem" (PDF). Sociometry. 32 (4): 425–443. doi:10.2307/2786545. ISSN 0038-0431. JSTOR 2786545.
Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Muhamad, Roby; Watts, Duncan J. (2003). "An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks". Science. 301 (5634): 827–829. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..827D. doi:10.1126/science.1081058. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12907800.
Duncan J Watts, Steven H Strogatz (1998). "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks". Nature. 393 (6684): 440–442. Bibcode:1998Natur.393..440W. doi:10.1038/30918. PMID 9623998. S2CID 4429113.
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de Sola Pool, Ithiel; Kochen, Manfred (January 1978). "Contacts and influence". Social Networks. 1 (1): 5–51. doi:10.1016/0378-8733(78)90011-4. hdl:2027.42/23764.

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"Six Degrees on Facebook - Facebook". facebook.com.

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"Three and a half degrees of separation – Facebook Research". 4 February 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2017.

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"Six degrees of separation' theory tested on Facebook". Telegraph. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
"Actor's Hollywood career spawned 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon'". Telegraph. 6 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
Titcomb, James (4 February 2016). "Facebook says there are only 3.57 degrees of separation". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
Barnett, Emma (22 November 2011). "Facebook cuts six degrees of separation to four". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 7 May 2012.

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"ABC TV Shows, Specials & Movies - ABC.com". ABC.

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Gurevitch, Michael (1961). The social structure of acquaintanceship networks (Ph. D. thesis). Cambridge, MA.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/11312.
de Sola Pool, Ithiel; Kochen, Manfred (January 1978). "Contacts and influence". Social Networks. 1 (1): 5–51. doi:10.1016/0378-8733(78)90011-4. hdl:2027.42/23764.

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Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Muhamad, Roby; Watts, Duncan J. (2003). "An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks". Science. 301 (5634): 827–829. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..827D. doi:10.1126/science.1081058. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12907800.
Duncan J Watts, Steven H Strogatz (1998). "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks". Nature. 393 (6684): 440–442. Bibcode:1998Natur.393..440W. doi:10.1038/30918. PMID 9623998. S2CID 4429113.
Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz (April 2008). Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network. Proceedings of WWW 2008, Beijing, China. arXiv:0803.0939. Bibcode:2008arXiv0803.0939L.

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"Six Degrees of Separation (1993) - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-06-15.

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"Facebook Removing 24 Hour Caching Policy on User Data for Developers". insidefacebook.com. Archived from the original on 2014-12-09. Retrieved 2010-09-11.

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Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz (April 2008). Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network. Proceedings of WWW 2008, Beijing, China. arXiv:0803.0939. Bibcode:2008arXiv0803.0939L.

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Travers, Jeffrey; Milgram, Stanley (1969). "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem" (PDF). Sociometry. 32 (4): 425–443. doi:10.2307/2786545. ISSN 0038-0431. JSTOR 2786545.

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"Six Degrees: come in, your time is up". K! - the blog of Karl Bunyan. 24 June 2009. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2010.

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"Play Six Degrees of Wikipedia". Lifehacker. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

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Robin Good. "The Power Of Open Participatory Media And Why Mass Media Must Be Abandoned". Robin Good's Master New Media.

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Gurevitch, Michael (1961). The social structure of acquaintanceship networks (Ph. D. thesis). Cambridge, MA.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/11312.

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Barabási, Albert-László Archived 2005-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. 2003. Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. Archived 2007-01-03 at the Wayback Machine New York: Plume.

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Het Nieuwsblad, 25 September 2009 "Het Nieuwsblad - Alle wegen leiden naar Gustaaf". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2010-02-25."Het Nieuwsblad - Man bijt hond: 'We spelen niet vals'". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2010-02-25. (Dutch)

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Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Muhamad, Roby; Watts, Duncan J. (2003). "An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks". Science. 301 (5634): 827–829. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..827D. doi:10.1126/science.1081058. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12907800.
Duncan J Watts, Steven H Strogatz (1998). "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks". Nature. 393 (6684): 440–442. Bibcode:1998Natur.393..440W. doi:10.1038/30918. PMID 9623998. S2CID 4429113.

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"Six Degrees: Urban Myth? Replicating the small world of Stanley Milgram. Can you reach anyone through a chain of six people". Psychology Today. March 1, 2002.

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Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Muhamad, Roby; Watts, Duncan J. (2003). "An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks". Science. 301 (5634): 827–829. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..827D. doi:10.1126/science.1081058. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12907800.

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Duncan J Watts, Steven H Strogatz (1998). "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks". Nature. 393 (6684): 440–442. Bibcode:1998Natur.393..440W. doi:10.1038/30918. PMID 9623998. S2CID 4429113.

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"The concept of Six degrees of separation stretches back to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi". Smithsonian Institution. 27 June 2012. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012."Archives of American Art Presents "Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon"". Smithsonian Institution. June 2012. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020.

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"The concept of Six degrees of separation stretches back to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi". Smithsonian Institution. 27 June 2012. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012."Archives of American Art Presents "Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon"". Smithsonian Institution. June 2012. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020.

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telegraph.co.uk (Global: 30^th place; English: 24^th place)

"Six degrees of separation' theory tested on Facebook". Telegraph. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
"Actor's Hollywood career spawned 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon'". Telegraph. 6 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
Titcomb, James (4 February 2016). "Facebook says there are only 3.57 degrees of separation". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
Barnett, Emma (22 November 2011). "Facebook cuts six degrees of separation to four". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 7 May 2012.

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Ecksel, Robert (1 January 2005). "The Great John L. Sullivan". The Sweet Science. IBofP. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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Travers, Jeffrey; Milgram, Stanley (1969). "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem" (PDF). Sociometry. 32 (4): 425–443. doi:10.2307/2786545. ISSN 0038-0431. JSTOR 2786545.

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Karinthy, Frigyes, Jankó, Enikö (ed.), Chain-Links (PDF), translated by Makkai, Adam

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Barabási, Albert-László Archived 2005-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. 2003. Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. Archived 2007-01-03 at the Wayback Machine New York: Plume.
"The concept of Six degrees of separation stretches back to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi". Smithsonian Institution. 27 June 2012. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012."Archives of American Art Presents "Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon"". Smithsonian Institution. June 2012. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020.
Judith S. Kleinfeld, University of Alaska Fairbanks (January–February 2002). "The Small World Problem" (PDF). Society (Springer), Social Science and Public Policy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
Reza Bakhshandeh, Mehdi Samadi, Zohreh Azimifar, Jonathan Schaeffer, "Degrees of Separation in Social Networks Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine", Fourth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2011
"Six Degrees: come in, your time is up". K! - the blog of Karl Bunyan. 24 June 2009. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
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Travers, Jeffrey; Milgram, Stanley (1969). "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem" (PDF). Sociometry. 32 (4): 425–443. doi:10.2307/2786545. ISSN 0038-0431. JSTOR 2786545.
Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Muhamad, Roby; Watts, Duncan J. (2003). "An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks". Science. 301 (5634): 827–829. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..827D. doi:10.1126/science.1081058. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12907800.

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"Yahoo! Research Small World Experiment". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

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