The devil is in the details: Differences in air traffic networks by scale, species, and season

Social Networks

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-73

  Neal, Zachary ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline; Community; Network; Scale free; Small world; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897040710     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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