Most cited papers in Complex Network Analysis Techniques
What are the most cited papers in Complex Network Analysis Techniques?
The most cited paper in Complex Network Analysis Techniques is "The Strength of Weak Ties" (Mark S. Granovetter, 1973), with 39,087 citations. Next come "Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks" (36,811) and "Fast unfolding of communities in large networks" (21,858).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 2,708 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Strength of Weak Ties Mark S. Granovetter · American Journal of Sociology | May 1973 | 39,087 |
| 2 | Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Réka Albert · Science | 15 Oct 1999 | 36,811 |
| 3 | Fast unfolding of communities in large networks Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment | Oct 2008 | 21,858 |
| 4 | Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman · Scientometrics | 30 Dec 2009 | 21,265 |
| 5 | Statistical mechanics of complex networks Réka Albert, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Reviews of Modern Physics | 30 Jan 2002 | 20,746 |
| 6 | The Structure and Function of Complex Networks Michael E. Newman · SIAM Review | 2003 | 18,932 |
| 7 | Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications Stanley S. Wasserman, Katherine A. Faust | 1994 | 18,166 |
| 8 | Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification Linton C. Freeman · Social Networks | 1978 | 17,222 |
| 9 | Community structure in social and biological networks Michelle Girvan, Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Jun 2002 | 15,819 |
| 10 | Finding and evaluating community structure in networks Michelle Gayle Newman, Michelle Girvan · Physical Review E | 26 Feb 2004 | 14,307 |
| 11 | Modularity and community structure in networks Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 May 2006 | 12,522 |
| 12 | Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks Mathieu Bastian, Sébastien Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | 19 Mar 2009 | 11,573 |
| 13 | Community detection in graphs Santo Fortunato · Physics Reports | 18 Nov 2009 | 11,474 |
| 14 | Complex networks: Structure and dynamics Stefano Boccaletti, Vito Latora, Yamir Moreno et al. · Physics Reports | 11 Jan 2006 | 11,156 |
| 15 | A tutorial on spectral clustering Ulrike von Luxburg · Statistics and Computing | 21 Aug 2007 | 10,505 |
| 16 | Data clustering: 50 years beyond K-means Anil Kumar Jain · Pattern Recognition Letters | 10 Sep 2009 | 9,458 |
| 17 | Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment Jon Kleinberg · Journal of the ACM | Sep 1999 | 9,110 |
| 18 | Exploring Network Structure, Dynamics, and Function using NetworkX Aric A. Hagberg, Dan Schult, Pieter J. Swart · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences | 28 Jun 2008 | 7,702 |
| 19 | Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks Ron Milo, Shai S. Shen-Orr, Shalev Itzkovitz et al. · Science | 24 Oct 2002 | 7,594 |
| 20 | Finding community structure in very large networks Aaron J. Clauset, Mark E. J. Newman, Cristopher Moore · Physical Review E | 6 Dec 2004 | 7,574 |
| 21 | Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos | 24 Aug 2003 | 7,434 |
| 22 | Error and attack tolerance of complex networks Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong, Albert-László Barabási · Nature | 27 Jul 2000 | 7,387 |
| 23 | What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park et al. | 26 Apr 2010 | 6,728 |
| 24 | CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature Chaomei Chen · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | 14 Dec 2005 | 6,438 |
| 25 | Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. Franz Urban Pappi, James G. Scott · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 1993 | 6,044 |
| 26 | Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law MEJ Newman · Contemporary Physics | Sep 2005 | 5,876 |
| 27 | Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani · Physical Review Letters | 2 Apr 2001 | 5,853 |
| 28 | Estimating Psychological Networks and their Accuracy: A Tutorial Paper Sacha Epskamp, Denny Borsboom, Eiko I. Fried · arXiv (Cornell University) | 28 Apr 2016 | 5,796 |
| 29 | From Louvain to Leiden: guaranteeing well-connected communities V. A. Traag, L. Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck · Scientific Reports | 26 Mar 2019 | 5,618 |
| 30 | Joint effect of ageing and multilayer structure prevents ordering in the voter model Oriol Artime, Juan Fernández-Gracia, José J. Ramasco et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) | 17 Mar 2017 | 5,609 |
| 31 | Fast algorithm for detecting community structure in networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review E | 18 Jun 2004 | 5,527 |
| 32 | Uncovering the overlapping community structure of complex networks in nature and society Gergely Palla, Imre Derényi, Illés J. Farkas et al. · Nature | Jun 2005 | 5,479 |
| 33 | CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA danah boyd, Kate Crawford · Information Communication & Society | 10 May 2012 | 5,459 |
| 34 | On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version) Will E. Leland, Murad S. Taqqu, Walter Willinger et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1994 | 5,273 |
| 35 | Spin glasses: Experimental facts, theoretical concepts, and open questions Kurt Binder, Alan P Young · Reviews of Modern Physics | Oct 1986 | 5,231 |
| 36 | Translating Embeddings for Modeling Multi-relational Data Antoine Bordes, Nicolas Usunier, Alberto Garcia-Duran et al. | 5 Dec 2013 | 5,185 |
| 37 | Assortative Mixing in Networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review Letters | 28 Oct 2002 | 5,121 |
| 38 | The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler · New England Journal of Medicine | 25 Jul 2007 | 5,103 |
| 39 | A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality* Ulrik Brandes · Journal of Mathematical Sociology | Jun 2001 | 5,024 |
| 40 | Finding community structure in networks using the eigenvectors of matrices Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review E | 11 Sep 2006 | 4,927 |
| 41 | Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure Martin Rosvall, Carl T. Bergstrom · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 23 Jan 2008 | 4,772 |
| 42 | LINE Jian Tang, Meng Qu, Mingzhe Wang et al. | 18 May 2015 | 4,765 |
| 43 | The emerging field of signal processing on graphs: Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains David I Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard et al. · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | 5 Apr 2013 | 4,577 |
| 44 | The structure of scientific collaboration networks Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 Jan 2001 | 4,550 |
| 45 | Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks Sergey V. Buldyrev, Roni Parshani, Gerald Paul et al. · Nature | Apr 2010 | 4,511 |
| 46 | Solvable Model of a Spin-Glass David C. Sherrington, Scott Kirkpatrick · Physical Review Letters | 29 Dec 1975 | 4,332 |
| 47 | From Louvain to Leiden: guaranteeing well-connected communities Traag, V.A., Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck · Leiden Repository (Leiden University) | 2019 | 4,331 |
| 48 | The architecture of complex weighted networks Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8 Mar 2004 | 4,319 |
| 49 | Network Analysis in the Social Sciences Stephen P. Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass et al. · Science | 12 Feb 2009 | 4,309 |
| 50 | Diameter of the World-Wide Web Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Nature | Sep 1999 | 4,302 |
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