Identifying influential neighbors in animal flocking

• Li Jiang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France

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• Luca Giuggioli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, Department of Engineering Mathematics and School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Andrea Perna,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Life Sciences, Roehampton University, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8985-3920

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• Ramón Escobedo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France

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• Valentin Lecheval,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Centre for Life Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6041-2718

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• Clément Sire,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS & Université de Toulouse (UPS), Toulouse, France

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• Zhangang Han,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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• Guy Theraulaz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guy.theraulaz@univ-tlse3.fr

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3062-4215

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