Abstract
Advancements in web technologies in conjunction with the advent of social media facilitate online users to share contents and interact on a shared platform. Social media mining allows users to visualize, evaluate, analyze, and extract meaningful patterns and trends over the social network. Numerous methods and algorithms have been presented for the massive investigation of social media data. Community detection over social media is the most attracting field of interest for researchers in the area of social media mining. Community detection is a process of identifying densely connected network nodes and forming a group or community based on the density of interconnection among them. Detection of such communities is very crucial for a variety of applications in order to analyze the social network. A number of algorithms have been proposed in literature to discover and analyze the potential communities over the social media. Recently, identification of influential-users in social media ha