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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by National Natural Science foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71263045, 61662070, 61379050, 91224008, 61532010, 61532016), Research Funds of Renmin University of China (Grant No. 11XNL010), and Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20130004130001).

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  1. School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Yong Li & Xiaofeng Meng

  2. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730070, China

    Yong Li & Qiang Zhang

  3. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Jiang Zhang

  4. DNSLAB, China Internet Network Information Center, Beijing, 100190, China

    Changqing Wang

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Li, Y., Meng, X., Zhang, Q. et al. Common patterns of online collective attention flow. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 059102 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-015-0567-9

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