Scale-free networks: A decade and beyond

Albert László Barabási*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

For decades, we tacitly assumed that the components of such complex systems as the cell, the society, or the Internet are randomly wired together. In the past decade, an avalanche of research has shown that many real networks, independent of their age, function, and scope, converge to similar architectures, a universality that allowed researchers from different disciplines to embrace network theory as a common paradigm. The decade-old discovery of scale-free networks was one of those events that had helped catalyze the emergence of network science, a new research field with its distinct set of challenges and accomplishments.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)412-413
Number of pages2
JournalScience
Volume325
Issue number5939
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Jul 2009
Externally publishedYes

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