Stance and influence of Twitter users regarding the Brexit referendum

Computational Social Networks

Table 6 The top 12 retweet communities ordered by the mean stance score

Central	Community		User centrality		h-index
Twitter user	Size	Stance score	Indegree	Outdegree	June 23
@vote_leave	73,541	−0.79	252	39,841	284
@PrisonPlanet	19,689	−0.46	6	13,718	79
@iVoteLeave	9357	−0.35	9461	0	0
@missingfaktor	6586	−0.04	1	6485	1
@PlayBuddMansion	37,087	−0.01	5	10,000	2
@EmWatson	12,986	0.08	0	11,861	2
@BBCNews	47,789	0.11	27	19,502	88
@NicolaSturgeon	14,780	0.12	7	3251	12
@GOVUK	21,677	0.12	0	2263	5
@bengoldacre	56,660	0.15	4	7296	14
@TheEconomist	40,861	0.24	9	16,855	103
@jeremycorbyn	111,455	0.36	3	9130	34

Each community is identified by its central Twitter user in terms of degree centrality. Columns 2 and 3 characterize communities; columns 4 and 5 show user in- and outdegree centrality, and the last column gives the user Hirsch index until June 23, 2016