Distance backbones optimize spreading dynamics and centrality ranks in the sparsification of complex networks

• Bernardo Pereira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bernardo Pereira, Felipe Xavier Costa

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Medical School, Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Felipe Xavier Costa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bernardo Pereira, Felipe Xavier Costa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fxcosta@ucp.pt (FXC); rocha@binghamton.edu (LMR)

  Affiliations Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Medical School, Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University (State University of New York), Binghamton, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6675-0355

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• Luís M. Rocha

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fxcosta@ucp.pt (FXC); rocha@binghamton.edu (LMR)

  Affiliations Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Medical School, Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University (State University of New York), Binghamton, New York, United States of America

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