M. E. J. Newman

Network scientist at the University of Michigan specializing in the structure and dynamics of complex networks. Pioneer in applying network science to diverse real-world systems including social networks, the World Wide Web, biological networks, and information spreading. His foundational work on network properties, small-world effects, and scale-free networks established key concepts now widely used in studying information diffusion and misinformation dynamics.

Sources in this wiki

• The structure and function of complex networks

Topics

• Network science, Cascade dynamics and prediction, Epidemic Models, Scale-free networks

Notes

Newman's 2003 Reviews of Modern Physics review is among the most-cited papers in network science and is canonical reference material for researchers studying how information spreads through networks, including false information in social networks.