Issue |
EPL
Volume 86, Number 1, April 2009
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Article Number | 18003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/18003 | |
Published online | 21 April 2009 |
Disassortative mixing in online social networks
Complex Networks and Control Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Shanghai 200240, China
Corresponding author: hbh@sjtu.edu.cn
Received:
5
November
2008
Accepted:
9
March
2009
The conventional wisdom is that social networks exhibit an assortative mixing pattern, whereas biological and technological networks show a disassortative mixing pattern. However, the recent research on the online social networks modifies the widespread belief, and many online social networks show a disassortative or neutral mixing feature. Especially, we found that an online social network, Wealink, underwent a transition from degree assortativity characteristic of real social networks to degree disassortativity characteristic of many online social networks, and the transition can be reasonably elucidated by a simple network model that we propose. The relations among network assortativity, clustering, and modularity are also discussed in the paper.
PACS: 89.65.-s – Social and economic systems / 87.23.Ge – Dynamics of social systems / 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees
© EPLA, 2009
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