gdelt_outlinks — GDELT news outlink domain network (2016-2019)

Description

The hyperlink network of the world's online news outlets, from the Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) of the GDELT Project, which records the hyperlinks in the body text of every news article that it monitors (links in headers, footers, insets and ads are excluded). From April 22, 2016 to January 28, 2019, GDELT recorded 1.78 billion links in 304 million articles, which it aggregated to a network of web domains: a directed edge from domain u to domain v means that articles of the news outlet u linked to pages of v (a registered domain, collapsed with BigQuery's NET.REG_DOMAIN(); the outlet is GDELT's SourceCommonName), weighted by the number of days with at least one such link, and by the total number of links. Links of an outlet to its own domain are left out. The network has 4,407,927 domains, of which 99,270 are news outlets with outgoing links. Domain names are as recorded, and are case-sensitive: domains that appear with different capitalizations are different nodes (138,884 of the nodes differ from others only in capitalization).

The network has the following properties:

(Node) domain: the web domain.
(Edge) num_days: the number of days on which articles of the source linked to the target.
(Edge) num_links: the total number of links (including repeated ones).

Tags

Informational Web graph Online Weighted

Added

2026-10-31

Citation

The GDELT Project, "Who Links To Whom? The 30M Edge GKG Outlink Domain Graph April 2016 To Jan 2019." GDELT Blog (2019) blog.gdeltproject.org
K. Leetaru, P. A. Schrodt, "GDELT: Global data on events, location, and tone, 1979-2012." International Studies Association Annual Convention (2013) www.gdeltproject.org

Upstream URL OK

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/who-links-to-whom-the-30m-edge-gkg-outlink-domain-graph-april-2016-to-jan-2019/
https://www.gdeltproject.org/data.html

Upstream license

GDELT terms of use: unlimited use and redistribution, with citation and a link to the GDELT Project, https://www.gdeltproject.org/about.html#termsofuse

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: Mean degree
$\sigma_k$: Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$: Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$: Random walk mixing time
$r$: Degree assortativity
$c$: Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$: (Pseudo-) diameter
$S$: Relative size of the largest component
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	EPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
gdelt_outlinks	4,407,927	30,072,787	6.82	288.82	2193.18	301.81	-0.11	0.04	11	1.00	Directed	Unipartite	domain	num_days num_links	126.8 MiB	223.6 MiB	211.6 MiB	181.9 MiB