If you publish results based on this graph, please quote the references suggested in the
dataset page.
LiveJournal is a virtual-community social site started in 1999: nodes are
users and there is an arc from x to y if
x registered y among his friends. It is not
necessary to ask y permission, so the graph is directed). This
graph is the snapshot used by Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar, Silvio
Lattanzi, Michael Mitzenmacher, Alessandro Panconesi, and Prabhakar
Raghavan in “On compressing social networks”, KDD '09:
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge
discovery and data mining, pages 219−228, 2009, ACM press, and
was kindly provided by the authors.