Why Are There Six Degrees of Separation in a Social Network?

A wealth of evidence shows that real-world networks are endowed with the small-world property, i.e., that the maximal distance between any two of their nodes scales logarithmically rather than linearly with their size. In addition, most social networks are organized so that no individual is more tha...

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Main Authors: I. Samoylenko, D. Aleja, E. Primo, K. Alfaro-Bittner, E. Vasilyeva, K. Kovalenko, D. Musatov, A. M. Raigorodskii, R. Criado, M. Romance, D. Papo, M. Perc, B. Barzel, S. Boccaletti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-05-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.021032