{
  "id": "cond-mat/0201476",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2002-01-25T16:41:30.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-02-12T14:07:47.000Z",
  "title": "Scale-free topology of e-mail networks",
  "authors": [
    "Holger Ebel",
    "Lutz-Ingo Mielsch",
    "Stefan Bornholdt"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages RevTeX, 4 figures PostScript (extended version)",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 66 (2002) 035103(R)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.66.035103",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the topology of e-mail networks with e-mail addresses as nodes and e-mails as links using data from server log files. The resulting network exhibits a scale-free link distribution and pronounced small-world behavior, as observed in other social networks. These observations imply that the spreading of e-mail viruses is greatly facilitated in real e-mail networks compared to random architectures.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2002-02-12T14:07:47.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "scale-free topology",
      "server log files",
      "scale-free link distribution",
      "e-mail viruses",
      "random architectures"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}