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In this paper, we propose a multiple salient features-based user identification across social media (MSF-UI), which extracts and fuses the rich redundant features contained in user display name, network topology, and published content. According to the differences between users\u2019 different features, a multi-module calculation method is used to obtain the similarity between various redundant features. Finally, the bidirectional stable marriage matching algorithm is used for user identification across social media. Experimental results show that: (1) Compared with single-attribute features, the multi-dimensional information generated by users is integrated to optimize the universality of user identification; (2) Compared with baseline methods such as ranking-based cross-matching (RCM) and random forest confirmation algorithm based on stable marriage matching (RFCA-SMM), this method can effectively improve precision rate, recall rate, and comprehensive evaluation index (F1).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24040495","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,1]],"date-time":"2022-04-01T21:22:39Z","timestamp":1648848159000},"page":"495","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Multiple Salient Features-Based User Identification across Social Media"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3614-3321","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yating","family":"Qu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automotive and Rail Transportation, Luoyang Polytechnic, Luoyang 471099, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0291-3001","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huahong","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0209-4488","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Honghai","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3503-2574","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automotive and Rail Transportation, Luoyang Polytechnic, Luoyang 471099, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1123-6978","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaikai","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science (National Pilot Software Engineering School), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, Y.T., Tang, J., Yang, Z.L., Pei, J., and Yu, P.S. 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