As the total value of the global financial market outgrew the value of the real economy,
financial institutions created a global web of interactions that embodies systemic risks …

In the past 15 years, statistical physics has been successful as a framework for modelling
complex networks. On the theoretical side, this approach has unveiled a variety of physical …

Abstract Nowadays, Social Media are a privileged channel for news spreading, information
exchange, and fact checking. Unexpectedly for many users, automated accounts, known as …

With the ever-increasing popularity of social software, we can easily establish a signed
social n etwork (SSN) by capturing users' attitudes (ie, trust/distrust, friend/enemies …

In recent years, parallel developments in disparate disciplines have focused on what has
come to be termed connectivity; a concept used in understanding and describing complex …

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on every human activity and, because of the
urgency of finding the proper responses to such an unprecedented emergency, it generated …

Recent empirical evidence has shown that in many real-world systems, successfully
represented as networks, interactions are not limited to dyads, but often involve three or …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic came alongside with an “infodemic”, with online social
media flooded by often unreliable information associating the medical emergency with …

We show that the space in which scientific, technological and economic activities interplay
with each other can be mathematically shaped using techniques from statistical physics of …

Indirect interactions play an essential role in governing population, community and
coevolutionary dynamics across a diverse range of ecological communities. Such …