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The efficiency of traditional user-based collaborative filtering (user-based CF) recommendation algorithm is reduced with data increasing. This paper proposes a recommendation algorithm based on community detection (RACD) in bipartite networks by introducing bipartite network community detection theory into user-based CF recommendation algorithm. Firstly， the user-item rating matrix is mapped into user-item bipartite network. Then， the community information of each user is obtained by using RACD to divide the user-item network. Finally， the items are recommended to the target user according to other users in the same community. Experiments on real-world classic network datasets show that the RACD can effectively improve real-time recommendation efficiency of the recommendation system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]