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most citedThe Statistical Physics of Real-World Networks

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79 papers

cs.AI2026

Assessing the Carbon Emissions and Energy Consumption of U.S. Hyperscale Data Centers

Gianluca Guidi, Francesca Dominici, Tiziano Squartini +6

The rapid proliferation of hyperscale data centers (HDCs) in the US, mainly driven by the adoption of artificial intelligence, has raised concerns about this industry's environment…

econ.GN2026

Topology as information: Network effects in corporate lending

Anna Pirogova, Anna Mancini, Tiziano Squartini +1

A central challenge in financial economics is understanding how credit networks form under informational noise. We introduce the concept of topological capital, arguing that banks…

physics.soc-ph2026★ 1 cited

A Bayesian approach to out-of-sample network reconstruction

Mattia Marzi, Tiziano Squartini

Networks underpin systems that range from finance to biology, yet their structure is often only partially observed. Current reconstruction methods typically fit the parameters of a…

physics.soc-ph2026

Missing links prediction: comparing machine learning with physics-rooted approaches

Francesca Santucci, Giulio Cimini, Tiziano Squartini

An active research line within the broader field of network science is the one concerning link prediction. Close in scope to network reconstruction, link prediction targets specifi…

econ.GN2026

The hidden structure of innovation networks

Lorenzo Emer, Anna Gallo, Mattia Marzi +3

Innovation emerges from complex collaboration patterns - among inventors, firms, or institutions. However, not much is known about the overall mesoscopic structure around which inv…

physics.soc-ph2025

Assessing imbalance in signed brain networks

Marzio Di Vece, Emanuele Agrimi, Samuele Tatullo +3

Many complex systems - be they financial, natural, or social - are composed of units - such as stocks, neurons, or agents - whose joint activity can be represented as a multivariat…

physics.soc-ph2025

Reproducing the first and second moments of empirical degree distributions

Mattia Marzi, Francesca Giuffrida, Diego Garlaschelli +1

The study of probabilistic models for the analysis of complex networks represents a flourishing research field. Among the former, Exponential Random Graphs (ERGs) have gained incre…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 2 cited

Statistically validated projection of bipartite signed networks

Anna Gallo, Fabio Saracco, Tiziano Squartini

Bipartite networks provide a major insight into the organisation of many real-world systems. One of the most relevant issues encountered when modelling a bipartite network is that…

physics.soc-ph2024

Spectral signatures of structural change in financial networks

Valentina Macchiati, Emiliano Marchese, Piero Mazzarisi +2

The level of systemic risk in economic and financial systems is strongly determined by the structure of the underlying networks of interdependent entities that can propagate shocks…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Inferring firm-level supply chain networks with realistic systemic risk from industry sector-level data

Massimiliano Fessina, Giulio Cimini, Tiziano Squartini +3

Production networks constitute the backbone of every economic system. They are inherently fragile as several recent crises clearly highlighted. Estimating the system-wide consequen…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 4 cited

Patterns of link reciprocity in directed, signed networks

Anna Gallo, Fabio Saracco, Renaud Lambiotte +2

Most of the analyses concerning signed networks have focused on the balance theory, hence identifying frustration with undirected, triadic motifs having an odd number of negative e…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 5 cited

Assessing frustration in real-world signed networks: a statistical theory of balance

Anna Gallo, Diego Garlaschelli, Tiziano Squartini

According to the so-called strong version of structural balance theory, actors in signed social networks avoid establishing triads with an odd number of negative links. Generalisin…

physics.data-an2023★ 15 cited

Pattern detection in bipartite networks: a review of terminology, applications and methods

Zachary Neal, Annabel Cadieux, Diego Garlaschelli +7

Two dimensional matrices with binary (0/1) entries are a common data structure in many research fields. Examples include ecology, economics, mathematics, physics, psychometrics and…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 15 cited

Pattern-detection in the global automotive industry: a manufacturer-supplier-product network analysis

Massimiliano Fessina, Andrea Zaccaria, Giulio Cimini +1

Production networks arise from supply and customer relations among firms. These systems are gaining growing attention as a consequence of disruptions due to natural or man-made dis…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 6 cited

Tracing two decades of carbon emissions using a network approach

Gianluca Guidi, Rossana Mastrandrea, Angelo Facchini +2

Carbon emissions are currently attributed to producers although a consumption-aware accounting is advocated. After constructing the Carbon Trade Network, we trace the flow of emiss…

q-fin.ST2023★ 1 cited

Exploring the Bitcoin Mesoscale

Nicolò Vallarano, Tiziano Squartini, Claudio J. Tessone

The open availability of the entire history of the Bitcoin transactions opens up the possibility to study this system at an unprecedented level of detail. This contribution is devo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 3 cited

Description length of canonical and microcanonical models

Francesca Giuffrida, Tiziano Squartini, Peter Grünwald +1

The (non-)equivalence of canonical and microcanonical ensembles is a fundamental question in statistical physics, concerning whether the use of soft and hard constraints in the max…

cs.SI2023★ 6 cited

Inferring comparative advantage via entropy maximization

Matteo Bruno, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +2

We revise the procedure proposed by Balassa to infer comparative advantage, which is a standard tool, in Economics, to analyze specialization (of countries, regions, etc.). Balassa…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 29 cited

Testing structural balance theories in heterogeneous signed networks

Anna Gallo, Diego Garlaschelli, Renaud Lambiotte +2

The abundance of data about social relationships allows the human behavior to be analyzed as any other natural phenomenon. Here we focus on balance theory, stating that social acto…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 1 cited

Deterministic, quenched and annealed parameter estimation for heterogeneous network models

Marzio Di Vece, Diego Garlaschelli, Tiziano Squartini

At least two, different approaches to define and solve statistical models for the analysis of economic systems exist: the typical, econometric one, interpreting the Gravity Model s…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 3 cited

Reconciling econometrics with continuous maximum-entropy network models

Marzio Di Vece, Diego Garlaschelli, Tiziano Squartini

In the study of economic networks, econometric approaches interpret the traditional Gravity Model specification as the expected link weight coming from a probability distribution w…

cs.SI2022

Change my Mind: Data Driven Estimate of Open-Mindedness from Political Discussions

Valentina Pansanella, Virginia Morini, Tiziano Squartini +1

One of the main dimensions characterizing the unfolding of opinion formation processes in social debates is the degree of open-mindedness of the involved population. Opinion dynami…

cs.SI2022★ 7 cited

Entropy-based models to randomize real-world hypergraphs

Fabio Saracco, Giovanni Petri, Renaud Lambiotte +1

Network theory has often disregarded many-body relationships, solely focusing on pairwise interactions: neglecting them, however, can lead to misleading representations of complex…

q-fin.PM2021★ 3 cited

Mesoscopic Structure of the Stock Market and Portfolio Optimization

Sebastiano Michele Zema, Giorgio Fagiolo, Tiziano Squartini +1

The idiosyncratic (microscopic) and systemic (macroscopic) components of market structure have been shown to be responsible for the departure of the optimal mean-variance allocatio…