Formation of homophily in academic performance: Students change their friends rather than performance

• Ivan Smirnov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

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• Stefan Thurner

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

  * E-mail: stefan.thurner@meduniwien.ac.at

  Affiliations Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstr. 39, A-1080, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2495-6819

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