Assortative mixing in networks.

A network is said to show assortative mixing if the nodes in the network that have many connections tend to be connected to other nodes with many connections. Here we measure mixing patterns in a variety of networks and find that social networks are mostly assortatively mixed, but that technological and biological networks tend to be disassortative. We propose a model of an assortatively mixed network, which we study both analytically and numerically. Within this model we find that networks percolate more easily if they are assortative and that they are also more robust to vertex removal.

• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2002-05-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.208701arXiv cond-mat/0205405PMID 12443515
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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