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Scaling and universality in proportional elections
Santo Fortunato, Claudio Castellano
A most debated topic of the last years is whether simple statistical physics models can explain collective features of social dynamics. A necessary step in this line of endeavour i…
Resolution limit in community detection
Santo Fortunato, Marc Barthelemy
Detecting community structure is fundamental to clarify the link between structure and function in complex networks and is used for practical applications in many disciplines. A su…
Is the intrinsic disorder of proteins the cause of the scale-free architecture of protein-protein interaction networks?
Santiago Schnell, Santo Fortunato, Sourav Roy
In protein-protein interaction networks certain topological properties appear to be recurrent: networks maps are considered scale-free. It is possible that this topology is reflect…
Scale-free network growth by ranking
Santo Fortunato, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Network growth is currently explained through mechanisms that rely on node prestige measures, such as degree or fitness. In many real networks those who create and connect nodes do…