Fields · Physical Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Complex Network Analysis Techniques

This cluster of papers focuses on the statistical mechanics and dynamics of complex networks, exploring topics such as community structure, social influence, scale-free networks, epidemic spreading, centrality measures, random graphs, influence maximization, and small-world networks.

119,663 works

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Most cited

  1. Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks

    Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Réka Albert · 1999 · Science · 36,702 citations

  2. Fast unfolding of communities in large networks

    Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte, Etienne Lefebvre · 2008 · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 21,683 citations

  3. Statistical mechanics of complex networks

    Réka Albert, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · 2002 · Reviews of Modern Physics · 20,713 citations

  4. The Structure and Function of Complex Networks

    Michael Newman · 2003 · SIAM Review · 18,889 citations

  5. Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification

    Linton C. Freeman · 1978 · Social Networks · 17,128 citations

  6. Community structure in social and biological networks

    Michelle Girvan, M. E. J. Newman · 2002 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 15,770 citations

Most recent

  1. Multi-scale local network structure critically impacts epidemic spread and interventions

    Omar Eldaghar, Michael W. Mahoney, David F. Gleich · 2026 · PLOS complex systems. · 1 citations

  2. Co-Opetitive Bridging Structure in Rumor Cascades: A Multilayer Overlapping Community Approach with Information-Theoretic Characterization

    Sijia Sun, Tian Liu · 2026 · Entropy · 0 citations

  3. Bridges of Königsberg to the Web: A Comparative Analysis Review of Graph Theory and the Mathematics of Networks

    Zen Revista, 10 MATH · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  4. Popularity-driven random walk graph convolutional networks

    Anonymous · 2026 · APS Open Science · 0 citations

  5. KSGR: An Influential Node Identification Algorithm for Directed Networks Integrating Reverse Reachability and Structural Enhancement Mechanisms

    Ziyue Zhao, Bo-Lin Hu · 2026 · Entropy · 0 citations

  6. Identifying critical nodes in complex networks via Semiclustering Weighted Leverage Centrality

    Rongrong Yin, Mengying Shen, Enyou Zhu, Y.‐Z. Wang · 2026 · Physica Scripta · 0 citations

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