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      Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure.

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
      Bibliometrics, Biomedical Research, instrumentation, methods, statistics & numerical data, Information Theory, Markov Chains, Periodicals as Topic, Science

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          To comprehend the multipartite organization of large-scale biological and social systems, we introduce an information theoretic approach that reveals community structure in weighted and directed networks. We use the probability flow of random walks on a network as a proxy for information flows in the real system and decompose the network into modules by compressing a description of the probability flow. The result is a map that both simplifies and highlights the regularities in the structure and their relationships. We illustrate the method by making a map of scientific communication as captured in the citation patterns of >6,000 journals. We discover a multicentric organization with fields that vary dramatically in size and degree of integration into the network of science. Along the backbone of the network-including physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and medicine-information flows bidirectionally, but the map reveals a directional pattern of citation from the applied fields to the basic sciences.

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          18216267
          2234100
          10.1073/pnas.0706851105

          Chemistry
          Bibliometrics,Biomedical Research,instrumentation,methods,statistics & numerical data,Information Theory,Markov Chains,Periodicals as Topic,Science

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