Scale-free topology of e-mail networks.

We study the topology of e-mail networks with e-mail addresses as nodes and e-mails as links using data from server log files. The resulting network exhibits a scale-free link distribution and pronounced small-world behavior, as observed in other social networks. These observations imply that the spreading of e-mail viruses is greatly facilitated in real e-mail networks compared to random architectures.

• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

• Publication date

  2002-01-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.035103arXiv cond-mat/0201476PMID 12366171
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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