Diffusion dynamics of influence in a social network of intellectuals

Abstract The history of intellectuals consists a complex web influences and interconnections philosophers, scientists, writers, their work, ideas. To understand how did these evolve over time, we mined network influence 12,500 intellectuals, enriched it with temporal dimension dividing the into six eras. We analyze time-sliced projections within-era, inter-era, accumulated-era networks, identify various patterns eras studied development in time. also construct cascades, properties: size, depth breadth, cascades consecutive find out that are clustered two categories, namely small- large cascades. An interesting finding here is fraction small increases, while larges decreases briefly community structure within scholars.