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Open AccessSymmetry breaking in optimal transport networks
Engineering multilayer networks that efficiently connect sets of points in space is a crucial task in all practical applications that concern the transport of people or the delivery of goods. Unfortunately, ou...
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Open AccessCollaboration and topic switches in science
Collaboration is a key driver of science and innovation. Mainly motivated by the need to leverage different capacities and expertise to solve a scientific problem, collaboration is also an excellent source of ...
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20 years of network community detection
A fundamental technical challenge in the analysis of network data is the automated discovery of communities — groups of nodes that are strongly connected or that share similar features or roles. In this Commen...
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Open AccessPsychology and morality of political extremists: evidence from Twitter language analysis of alt-right and Antifa
The recent rise of the political extremism in Western countries has spurred renewed interest in the psychological and moral appeal of political extremism. Empirical support for the psychological explanation us...
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Nobel laureates are almost the same as us
Data show that apart from their prize-winning work, the careers of Nobel laureates follow the same patterns as those of the majority of scientists.
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Open AccessA dataset of publication records for Nobel laureates
A central question in the science of science concerns how to develop a quantitative understanding of the evolution and impact of individual careers. Over the course of history, a relatively small fraction of i...
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Open AccessMultiresolution Consensus Clustering in Networks
Networks often exhibit structure at disparate scales. We propose a method for identifying community structure at different scales based on multiresolution modularity and consensus clustering. Our contribution ...
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Open AccessDetection of timescales in evolving complex systems
Most complex systems are intrinsically dynamic in nature. The evolution of a dynamic complex system is typically represented as a sequence of snapshots, where each snapshot describes the configuration of the s...
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Open AccessDetection of gene communities in multi-networks reveals cancer drivers
We propose a new multi-network-based strategy to integrate different layers of genomic information and use them in a coordinate way to identify driving cancer genes. The multi-networks that we consider combine...
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Open AccessQuantifying randomness in real networks
Represented as graphs, real networks are intricate combinations of order and disorder. Fixing some of the structural properties of network models to their values observed in real networks, many other propertie...
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Open AccessAuthor Impact Factor: tracking the dynamics of individual scientific impact
The impact factor (IF) of scientific journals has acquired a major role in the evaluations of the output of scholars, departments and whole institutions. Typically papers appearing in journals with large value...
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Growing time lag threatens Nobels
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Open AccessOn the Predictability of Future Impact in Science
Correctly assessing a scientist's past research impact and potential for future impact is key in recruitment decisions and other evaluation processes. While a candidate's future impact is the main concern for ...
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Erratum: Universality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis
Election data represent a precious source of information to study human behavior at a large scale. In proportional elections with open lists, the number of votes received by a candidate, rescaled by the averag...
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Open AccessUniversality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis
Election data represent a precious source of information to study human behavior at a large scale. In proportional elections with open lists, the number of votes received by a candidate, rescaled by the averag...
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Open AccessWorld citation and collaboration networks: uncovering the role of geography in science
Modern information and communication technologies, especially the Internet, have diminished the role of spatial distances and territorial boundaries on the access and transmissibility of information. This has ...
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Open AccessConsensus clustering in complex networks
The community structure of complex networks reveals both their organization and hidden relationships among their constituents. Most community detection methods currently available are not deterministic and the...
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Citation Networks
Bibliographic databases contain a huge amount of information on the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the relationships between papers, authors, and scientific work. Large-scale citation networks can b...
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