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This study proposes the usage of a method called VoteRank, created by Zhang et al. (2016), to identify influential nodes on patent citation networks. In addition, it proposes enhanced VoteRank algorithms, extending the Zhang et al. work.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 João C. S. Freitas , Rafael Barbastefano , Diego Carvalho

Identifying influential spreaders is crucial for understanding and controlling spreading processes on social networks. Via assigning degree-dependent weights onto links associated with the ground node, we proposed a variant to a recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-16 Qian Li , Tao Zhou , Linyuan Lv , Duanbing Chen

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks is a crucial problem which relates to wide applications. Many methods based on the global information such as $k$-shell and PageRank have been applied to rank spreaders. However, most of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 Duan-Bing Chen , Rui Xiao , An Zeng , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Spreading is a ubiquitous process in the social, biological and technological systems. Therefore, identifying influential spreaders, which is important to prevent epidemic spreading and to establish effective vaccination strategies, is full…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-17 Senbin Yu , Liang Gao , Yi-Fan Wang , Ge Gao , Congcong Zhou , Zi-You Gao

Identifying noteworthy spreaders in a network is essential for understanding the spreading process and controlling the reach of the spread in the network. The nodes that are holding more intrinsic power to extend the reach of the spread are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Samet Atdag , Haluk O. Bingol

Finding influential spreaders of information and disease in networks is an important theoretical problem, and one of considerable recent interest. It has been almost exclusively formulated as a node-ranking problem -- methods for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-14 Jain Gu , Sungmin Lee , Jari Saramäki , Petter Holme

Influence maximization is the problem of finding the set of nodes of a network that maximizes the size of the outbreak of a spreading process occurring on the network. Solutions to this problem are important for strategic decisions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 Sirag Erkol , Claudio Castellano , Filippo Radicchi

With great theoretical and practical significance, identifying the node spreading influence of complex network is one of the most promising domains. So far, various topology-based centrality measures have been proposed to identify the node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-27 Jian-Hong Lin , Jian-Guo Liu , Qiang Guo

How to identify influential nodes in social networks is of theoretical significance, which relates to how to prevent epidemic spreading or cascading failure, how to accelerate information diffusion, and so on. In this Letter, we make an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiang-Yu Zhao , Bin Huang , Ming Tang , Hai-Feng Zhang , Duan-Bing Chen

An efficient strategy for the identification of influential spreaders that could be used to control epidemics within populations would be of considerable importance. Generally, populations are characterized by its community structures and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Shi-Long Luo , Kai Gong , Li Kang

Identifying the most influential spreaders is an important issue in controlling the spreading processes in complex networks. Centrality measures are used to rank node influence in a spreading dynamics. Here we propose a node influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Tao Zhou , Younghae Do

Finding a small subset of influential nodes to maximise influence spread in a complex network is an active area of research. Different methods have been proposed in the past to identify a set of seed nodes that can help achieve a faster…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Abida Sadaf , Luke Mathieson , Piotr Bródka , Katarzyna Musial

Networks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most efficient "spreaders" in a network is an important step to optimize the use…

As an important type of dynamics on complex networks, spreading is widely used to model many real processes such as the epidemic contagion and information propagation. One of the most significant research questions in spreading is to rank…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye Sun , Long Ma , An Zeng , Wen-Xu Wang

The identification of the minimal set of nodes that maximizes the propagation of information is one of the most relevant problems in network science. In this paper, we introduce a new method to find the set of initial spreaders to maximize…

Identifying super-spreaders can be framed as a subtask of the influence maximisation problem. It seeks to pinpoint agents within a network that, if selected as single diffusion seeds, disseminate information most effectively. Multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bielak , Piotr Bródka

The identification of influential spreaders in complex networks is a popular topic in studies of network characteristics. Many centrality measures have been proposed to address this problem, but most have limitations. In this paper, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Tao Wen , Yong Deng

It is widely acknowledged that the initial spreaders play an important role for the wide spreading of information in complex networks. Thus, a variety of centrality-based methods have been proposed to identify the most influential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-15 Leyang Xue , Peng Zhang , An Zeng

Identifying the node spreading influence in networks is an important task to optimally use the network structure and ensure the more efficient spreading in information. In this paper, by taking into account the shortest distance between a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Jian-Guo Liu , Zhuo-Ming Ren , Qiang Guo

Identifying influential node groups in complex networks is crucial for optimizing information dissemination, epidemic control, and viral marketing. However, traditional centrality-based methods often focus on individual nodes, resulting in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü
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