Stack Exchange — chemistry.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (chemistry.stackexchange.com) dataset of 21,197 users, 43,218 answer-collaboration edges, 44,825 questions, 52,010 answers, collected by Stack Exchange, Inc. via the annual Stack Exchange Data Dump. Each record contains user nodes (reputation, badge counts, vote history), directed weighted edges (answerer→asker, weight=answer score, count=interactions, accepted=bool), post text, tag distribution. User collaboration network from chemistry.stackexchange.com — directed weighted graph where edges represent knowledge-sharing relationships (A answered B's question), with edge weight reflecting answer quality. Enables prestige hierarchy, community detection, and expertise flow analysis.. Suitable for expertise network analysis, reputation systems, community detection, knowledge flow, PageRank-based authority ranking, Q&A platform dynamics..

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The full graph has 21,197 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

21.2K
Nodes
43.2K
Edges
9.62e-05
Density
346
Components
-0.1349
Assortativity
0.5%
Reciprocity
12.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
50840.00694
339910.005
69250.00415
71590.00368
173680.00344
48050.00321
160350.00316
101040.00307
316970.00302
18880.00293
Content metrics

96,835 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 3.481 ± 5.725
min -18max 251
view countμ 1.5K ± 9.2K
min 0max 1.2M
answer countμ 0.537 ± 0.861
min 0max 11
comment countμ 1.915 ± 2.579
min 0max 43
10.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
mathrmwaterreactionenergyampacidbondelectronsfracsolutionlikeelectroncarbonhydrogentextquestiontemperatureknowatomsusemoleculemoleculesoxygenformgasorbitalsdifferentatomnumberexamplebondsequationstatedeltagrouprightchemicalanswerpressurechemistrycasepointwaymolorbitalconcentrationequilibriumstructuredonneed
Topic clusters

Topic 0

orbital
electron
bond
atom
energy
shell
pair
structure

Topic 1

acid
solution
base
strong
concentration
water
weak
ion

Topic 2

electrode
cell
water
battery
anode
ion
solution
copper

Topic 3

water
polymer
plastic
oil
glass
soap
chemical
clean

Topic 4

reaction
group
acid
resonance
carbocation
ring
carbonyl
product

Topic 5

chemistry
file
chemical
mass
book
use
want
like

Topic 6

group
carbon
isomer
chiral
enantiomer
molecule
compound
chain

Topic 7

nmr
spectrum
signal
light
peak
wavelength
coupling
energy

Topic 8

mass
element
mole
atomic
number
neutron
decay
atom

Topic 9

reaction
rate
equilibrium
concentration
constant
reactant
order
product

Topic 10

energy
enthalpy
entropy
gibbs
change
heat
constant
system

Topic 11

pressure
gas
volume
law
ideal
temperature
partial
liquid
Show all 13 topics

Topic 12

fuel
combustion
flame
burn
oxygen
explosive
produce
carbon
Top hashtags
#x3c0120
#198
#277
#x3c360
#p51
#x3b143
#3942
#c42
#ch28
#n27
#322
#o15
#x3b214
#511
#410
#v10
#84519
#x3b38
#x3ba8
#page5

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 328.2K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-chemistry-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2025
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by post date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
328,238
Nodes
21,197
Edges
43,218 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2012/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 120.3 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2025,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/download/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2025). Stack Exchange — chemistry.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-chemistry-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — chemistry.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-chemistry-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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