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Rare and everywhere: Perspectives on scale-free networks

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  • Petter Holme

    (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

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Are scale-free networks rare or universal? Important or not? We present the recent research about degree distributions of networks. This is a controversial topic, but, we argue, with some adjustments of the terminology, it does not have to be.

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  • Petter Holme, 2019. "Rare and everywhere: Perspectives on scale-free networks," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-3, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-09038-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09038-8
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