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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

This work deals with the issue of assessing the influence of a node in the entire network and in the subnetwork to which it belongs as well, adapting the classical idea of vertex centrality. We provide a general definition of relative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-21 Roy Cerqueti , Gian Paolo Clemente , Rosanna Grassi

Understanding the network structure, and finding out the influential nodes is a challenging issue in the large networks. Identifying the most influential nodes in the network can be useful in many applications like immunization of nodes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Naveen Gupta , Anurag Singh , Hocine Cherifi

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

Identifying the most influential spreaders that maximize information flow is a central question in network theory. Recently, a scalable method called "Collective Influence (CI)" has been put forward through collective influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-08 Xian Teng , Sen Pei , Flaviano Morone , Hernán A. Makse

Evaluating node influence is fundamental for identifying key nodes in complex networks. Existing methods typically rely on generic indicators to rank node influence across diverse networks, thereby ignoring the individualized features of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bingyu Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Daqing Li

Social networks play a fundamental role in the diffusion of innovation through peers' influence on adoption. Thus, network position including a wide range of network centrality measures have been used to describe individuals' affinity to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Balázs R. Sziklai , Balázs Lengyel

How would admissions look like in a university program for influencers? In the realm of social network analysis, influence maximization and link prediction stand out as pivotal challenges. Influence maximization focuses on identifying a set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik , Raina Wu

We propose an efficient and accurate measure for ranking spreaders and identifying the influential ones in spreading processes in networks. While the edges determine the connections among the nodes, their specific role in spreading should…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-06 Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Younghae Do , Pak Ming Hui

The identification of influential nodes in complex network can be very challenging. If the network has a community structure, centrality measures may fail to identify the complete set of influential nodes, as the hubs and other central…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-23 J. Liebig , A. Rao

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

Complex contagion phenomena, such as the spread of information or contagious diseases, often occur among the population due to higher-order interactions between individuals. Individuals who can be represented by nodes in a network may play…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-02 Su-Su Zhang , Xiaoyan Yu , Gui-Quan Sun , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Experts from several disciplines have been widely using centrality measures for analyzing large as well as complex networks. These measures rank nodes/edges in networks by quantifying a notion of the importance of nodes/edges. Ranking aids…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Rishi Ranjan Singh

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

Recently an increasing amount of research is devoted to the question of how the most influential nodes (seeds) can be found effectively in a complex network. There are a number of measures proposed for this purpose, for instance,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Amir Sheikhahmadi , Mohammad A. Nematbakhsh , Arman Shokrollahi

In complex networks, each node has some unique characteristics that define the importance of the node based on the given application-specific context. These characteristics can be identified using various centrality metrics defined in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Akrati Saxena , Sudarshan Iyengar

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

Finding the important nodes in complex networks by topological structure is of great significance to network invulnerability. Several centrality measures have been proposed recently to evaluate the performance of nodes based on their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pengli Lu , Chen Dong , Yuhong Guo

The integrity and functionality of many real-world complex systems hinge on a small set of pivotal nodes, or influencers. In different contexts, these influencers are defined as either structurally important nodes that maintain the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-30 Sen Pei , Jiannan Wang , Flaviano Morone , Hernán A Makse

Spreading processes are fundamental to complex networks. Identifying influential spreaders with dual local and global roles presents a crucial yet challenging task. To address this, our study proposes a novel method, the Basic Cycle Ratio…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lv