Location determines social network influence, CCNY-led team finds
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 03:42
in Mathematics & Economics
A team of researchers led by Dr Hernan Makse, professor of physics at The City College of New York (CCNY), has shed new light on the way that information and infectious diseases proliferate across complex networks. Writing in Nature Physics, they report that, contrary to conventional wisdom, persons with the most connections are not necessarily the best spreaders...