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Based on the detected friendship network, this paper further aims to explore how the considered network effects (i.e. friend numbers (<jats:italic>FNs<\/jats:italic>), structural holes (<jats:italic>SHs<\/jats:italic>) and friendship homophily) influence students\u2019 GPA ranking.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The authors collected the campus smart card data of 8,917 sophomores registered in one Chinese university during one academic year, uncovered the inner relationship between the daily behaviour data with the friendship to infer the friendship network among students, and further adopted the ordered probit regression model to test the relationship between network effects with GPA rankings by controlling several influencing variables.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The data-driven approach of detecting friendship network is demonstrated to be useful and the empirical analysis illustrates that the relationship between GPA ranking and<jats:italic>FN<\/jats:italic>presents an inverted \u201cU-shape\u201d, richness in<jats:italic>SHs<\/jats:italic>positively affects GPA ranking, and making more friends within the same department will benefit promoting GPA ranking.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The proposed approach can be regarded as a new information technology for detecting friendship network from the real behaviour data, which is potential to be widely used in many scopes. 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