Quantify the role of superspreaders -opinion leaders- on COVID-19 information propagation in the Chinese Sina-microblog

• Fulian Yin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Information and Communication Engineering, Communication University of China, Beijing, PR China

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• Xinyu Xia,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Information and Communication Engineering, Communication University of China, Beijing, PR China

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• Nan Song,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Information and Communication Engineering, Communication University of China, Beijing, PR China

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• Lingyao Zhu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Information and Communication Engineering, Communication University of China, Beijing, PR China

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• Jianhong Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wujhhida@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Fields-CQAM Laboratory of Mathematics for Public Health, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-7154

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