About the Authors

Federico Battiston

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Battiston, Jacopo Iacovacci

f.battiston@qmul.ac.uk (FB); j.iacovacci@qmul.ac.uk (JI)

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Jacopo Iacovacci

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Battiston, Jacopo Iacovacci

f.battiston@qmul.ac.uk (FB); j.iacovacci@qmul.ac.uk (JI)

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Vincenzo Nicosia

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Ginestra Bianconi

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Vito Latora

Affiliations School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom, Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università di Catania and INFN, I-95123 Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB JI VN GB VL. Performed the experiments: FB JI. Analyzed the data: FB JI VN GB VL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB JI VN GB VL. Wrote the paper: FB JI VN GB VL.