VIP-club phenomenon: Emergence of elites and masterminds in social networks

Social Networks

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 297-309

  Masuda, Naoki ^a   Konno, Norio ^b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Homophily; Scale free networks; Threshold graph; Vertex fitness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746216679     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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