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by atemerev 4059 days ago
How about Vespignani's result on epidemic thresholds?

http://works.bepress.com/avespignani/13/

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You may have meant to cite http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86...., and for a discussion about that paper see this by Robert May http://www.sciencemag.org/content/292/5520/1316

What other papers do you consider to be hallmarks of the success of network science from the stat. phys. point of view? The largest critique from non-stat. phys. researchers is that context seems more important than network topology in most applications. Indeed it is important to understand why there is degree heterogeneity. Without understanding the technology surrounding the network however you can not only make incorrect predictions, instead you might be predicting the opposite of reality. http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/this-man-wants-to-contr...