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Computer Science

D-Index
41
Citations
37521
World Ranking
8549
National Ranking
3654

Best Publications

  • Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

    Aaron Clauset;Aaron Clauset;Cosma Rohilla Shalizi;M. E. J. Newman

  • Finding community structure in very large networks.

    Aaron Clauset;M. E. J. Newman;Cristopher Moore

  • A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

    Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Jon G. Sanders;Daniel McDonald;Amnon Amir

  • Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks

    Aaron Clauset;Cristopher Moore;Cristopher Moore;M. E. J. Newman;M. E. J. Newman

  • Scale-free networks are rare

    Anna D. Broido;Aaron Clauset

  • Performance of modularity maximization in practical contexts

    Benjamin H. Good;Benjamin H. Good;Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye;Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye;Aaron Clauset

  • Finding local community structure in networks.

    Aaron Clauset

  • Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks

    Aaron Clauset;Samuel Arbesman;Daniel B. Larremore

  • The ground truth about metadata and community detection in networks

    Leto Peel;Leto Peel;Daniel B. Larremore;Aaron Clauset;Aaron Clauset

  • Structure and inference in annotated networks

    Mark E. J. Newman;Aaron Clauset

  • Learning latent block structure in weighted networks

    Christopher Aicher;Abigail Z. Jacobs;Aaron Clauset

  • Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest

    Barbara J. Mills;Jeffery J. Clark;Matthew A. Peeples;W. R. Haas

  • On the bias of traceroute sampling: Or, power-law degree distributions in regular graphs

    Dimitris Achlioptas;Aaron Clauset;David Kempe;Cristopher Moore

  • Power-law distributions in binned empirical data

    Yogesh Virkar;Aaron Clauset

  • Efficiently inferring community structure in bipartite networks.

    Daniel B. Larremore;Aaron Clauset;Abigail Z. Jacobs

  • Detecting change points in the large-scale structure of evolving networks

    Leto Peel;Aaron Clauset

  • EIGENVECTOR-BASED CENTRALITY MEASURES FOR TEMPORAL NETWORKS.

    Dane Taylor;Sean A. Myers;Aaron Clauset;Mason A. Porter

  • Scale invariance in road networks.

    Vamsi Kalapala;Vishal Sanwalani;Aaron Clauset;Cristopher Moore

  • Persistence and periodicity in a dynamic proximity network.

    Aaron Clauset;Nathan Eagle

  • Structural inference of hierarchies in networks

    Aaron Clauset;Cristopher Moore;Mark E. J. Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristopher Moore
Cristopher Moore Santa Fe Institute
Mark Newman
Mark Newman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jennifer K. Richer
Jennifer K. Richer University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
David Kempe
David Kempe University of Southern California
Dimitris Achlioptas
Dimitris Achlioptas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nathan Eagle
Nathan Eagle Aerie Ventures
Chaouki T. Abdallah
Chaouki T. Abdallah Georgia Institute of Technology
Mason A. Porter
Mason A. Porter University of California, Los Angeles
Sean M. Gibbons
Sean M. Gibbons University of Washington
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego

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