Networks of coupled dynamical systems have been used to model biological oscillators 1, 2,
3, 4, Josephson junction arrays 5, 6, excitable media 7, neural networks 8, 9, 10, spatial …

A central idea in marketing and diffusion research is that influentials—a minority of individuals
who influence an exceptional number of their peers—are important to the formation of …

The origin of large but rare cascades that are triggered by small initial shocks is a phenomenon
that manifests itself as diversely as cultural fads, collective action, the diffusion of norms …

The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered
an avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the …

The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against
misinformation in the internet age. Concern over the problem is global. However, much …

The small‐world phenomenon formalized in this article as the coincidence of high local
clustering and short global separation, is shown to be a general feature of sparse, decentralized …

Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that
“the best” alternatives are qualitatively different from “the rest”; yet experts routinely fail to …

Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised
to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of …

Social networks evolve over time, driven by the shared activities and affiliations of their
members, by similarity of individuals' attributes, and by the closure of short network cycles. We …

The lack of reproducibility of scientific studies has caused growing concern over the credibility
of claims of new discoveries based on ‘statistically significant’findings. There has been …