Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Scale-free networks are rare

  • Anna D. Broido,
  • Aaron Clauset

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08746-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Real-world networks are often said to be ”scale free”, meaning their degree distribution follows a power law. Broido and Clauset perform statistical tests of this claim using a large and diverse corpus of real-world networks, showing that scale-free structure is far from universal.