Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

INTRODUCTION The role of transmission heterogeneities in severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) dynamics remains unclear, particularly those …

With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

The constituents of many complex systems are characterized by non-trivial connectivity
patterns and dynamical processes that are well captured by network models. However, most …

During COVID-19, governments and the public are fighting not only a pandemic but also a
co-evolving infodemic—the rapid and far-reaching spread of information of questionable …

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many countries implemented containment measures
to reduce disease transmission. Studies using digital data sources show that the mobility of …

In the last two decades, network science has blossomed and influenced various fields, such
as statistical physics, computer science, biology and sociology, from the perspective of the …

For the first time in history, on March 17, 2020, the European Union closed all its external
borders in an attempt to contain the spreading of the coronavirus 2019, COVID-19 …