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rev_number: 12
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Catanzaro, Michele
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Pietronero, Luciano
creators_id: 
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: Assortative model for social networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA
subjects: QC
subjects: ZA
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: PACS: 89.65.Ef, 89.20.Hh, 89.75.Hc

abstract: In this Brief Report we present a version of a network growth model, generalized in order to describe the behavior of social networks. The case of study considered is the preprint archive at cul.arxiv.org. Each node corresponds to a scientist, and a link is present whenever two authors wrote a paper together. This graph is a nice example of degree-assortative network, that is, to say a network where sites with similar degree are connected to each other. The model presented is one of the few able to reproduce such behavior, giving some insight on the microscopic dynamics at the basis of the graph structure.
date: 2004-09
date_type: published
publication: Physical Review E
volume: 70
number: 3
publisher: American Physical Society
id_number: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.037101
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1539-3755
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.037101
related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308073
citation:   Catanzaro, Michele and Caldarelli, Guido and Pietronero, Luciano  Assortative model for social networks.  Physical Review E, 70 (3).   ISSN 1539-3755      (2004)