About the Authors

Delia Mocanu

Affiliation Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Baronchelli

Affiliation Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicola Perra

Affiliation Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bruno Gonçalves

Affiliation Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CPT, UMR 7332, Marseille, France

Qian Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alessandro Vespignani

alexves@gmail.com

Affiliations Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM AB NP BG AV. Performed the experiments: DM. Analyzed the data: DM AB NP BG AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM AB NP BG QZ AV. Wrote the paper: DM AB NP BG AV.