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Community Structure

Community Structure is a fundamental ecological concept denoting the composition, relative abundance, and spatial organization of species or functional groups within a biological community, distinguished by its focus on the distributional patterns and interactive arrangements of organisms in a defined environment across scales.

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The Strength of Weak Ties

Mark Granovetter · American Journal of Sociology · 1973 · 38.5K citations

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Fast unfolding of communities in large networks

Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2008 · 21.2K citations · Full text

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Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification

Linton C. Freeman · Social Networks · 1978 · 16.9K citations

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Finding and evaluating community structure in networks

Michelle G. Newman, Michelle Girvan · Physical Review E · 2004 · 14.1K citations · Full text

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Modularity and community structure in networks

M. E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 12.3K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. ME
    M. E. J. Newman

    University of Michigan, United States

    41 publications · 52.5K citations

    34

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  2. JL
    Jure Leskovec

    Stanford University, United States

    32 publications · 16.2K citations

    28

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  3. DJ
    Di Jin

    Tianjin University, China

    51 publications · 2.6K citations

    27

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  4. DH
    Dongxiao He

    Tianjin University, China

    39 publications · 2K citations

    25

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  5. LJ
    Licheng Jiao

    Xidian University, China

    38 publications · 2.1K citations

    25

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3.8K

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    61 h-index

    267 publications

    29.1K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    59 h-index

    428 publications

    59.8K citations

  3. Santa Fe Institute

    Santa Fe, United States

    56 h-index

    125 publications

    62K citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    52 h-index

    170 publications

    45.2K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    51 h-index

    154 publications

    70.9K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    49 h-index

    261 publications

    22K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    49 h-index

    134 publications

    47.5K citations

  8. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    46 h-index

    125 publications

    32.4K citations

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  1. Physical Review E

    PRE · 217 publications · 73.3K citations

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  2. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

    361 publications · 20.4K citations

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  3. PLoS ONE

    184 publications · 11.3K citations

    56

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  4. Scientific Reports

    158 publications · 15.3K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 63 publications · 44K citations

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