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Scale-free Networks

Scale-Free Networks is a class of complex networks whose node-degree distribution follows a power law \(P(k) \sim k^{-\gamma}\) at least asymptotically, thereby lacking a characteristic degree scale and exhibiting a small number of highly connected hubs.

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Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks

Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Réka Albert · Science · 1999 · 36.4K citations · Full text

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Statistical mechanics of complex networks

Réka Albert, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Reviews of Modern Physics · 2002 · 20.6K citations · Full text

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Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks

Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani · Physical Review Letters · 2001 · 5.8K citations · Full text

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Evolution of networks

S. N. Dorogovt︠s︡ev, J. F. F. Mendes · Advances In Physics · 2002 · 3.2K citations · Full text

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Classes of small-world networks

Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, Antonio Scala, Marc Barthélemy et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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    Shlomo Havlin

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    38 publications · 6.6K citations

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    B. Kahng

    Seoul National University, South Korea

    35 publications · 4.6K citations

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    Bing-Hong Wang

    University of Science and Technology of China, China

    41 publications · 3.3K citations

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    Zhongzhi Zhang

    Fudan University, China

    50 publications · 2.1K citations

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    H. Eugene Stanley

    Boston University, United States

    30 publications · 5.8K citations

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  1. University of Science and Technology of China

    Hefei, China

    38 h-index

    223 publications

    17.9K citations

  2. Bar-Ilan University

    Ramat Gan, Israel

    34 h-index

    77 publications

    13.5K citations

  3. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    31 h-index

    150 publications

    23.4K citations

  4. Fudan University

    Shanghai, China

    30 h-index

    171 publications

    7.3K citations

  5. Seoul National University

    Seoul, South Korea

    29 h-index

    109 publications

    15.1K citations

  6. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    Barcelona, Spain

    28 h-index

    54 publications

    20.4K citations

  7. City University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    26 h-index

    71 publications

    9.6K citations

  8. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

    Trieste, Italy

    22 h-index

    29 publications

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  1. Physical Review E

    PRE · 352 publications · 27.8K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 86 publications · 27K citations

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  4. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

    160 publications · 11.8K citations

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  5. Europhysics Letters (EPL)

    74 publications · 5K citations

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