Enron Email Network
A Enron dataset of 1,148,072 emails, collected by Network Repository. Each record contains email communication. Enron email network from the 1999-2002 period. Suitable for organizational communication, network analysis.
Cite this dataset at
enron.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 87,273 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
enron- Authors
- Klimt, Bryan; Yang, Yiming
- Year
- 2004
- Source paper
- The Enron Corpus: A New Dataset for Email Classification Research
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_22
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 1,148,072
- Nodes
- 87,273
- Edges
- 321,918 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- email communication
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1999-2002 (1990s, 2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://networkrepository.com/enron.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 24.7 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
The Enron Corpus: A New Dataset for Email Classification Research
Bryan Klimt, Yi-Ming Yang
Journal Article · European Conference on Machine Learning · 2004
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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}
}
@inbook{Klimt_2004,
title = {The Enron Corpus: A New Dataset for Email Classification Research},
isbn = {9783540301158},
issn = {1611-3349},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_22},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_22},
booktitle = {Machine Learning: ECML 2004},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
author = {Klimt, Bryan and Yang, Yiming},
year = {2004},
pages = {217–226}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Klimt, B., & Yang, Y. (2004). Enron Email Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_22
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Klimt, Bryan, and Yiming Yang. Enron Email Network. 2004, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_22.