Network Science

Aims & Scope

Network Science is an important journal for an important discipline - one using the network paradigm, focusing on actors and relational linkages, to inform research, methodology, and applications from many fields across the natural, social, engineering and informational sciences.

Given growing understanding of the interconnectedness and globalization of the world, network methods are an increasingly recognized way to research aspects of modern society along with the individuals, organizations, and other actors within it.

The discipline is ready for a comprehensive journal, open to papers from all relevant areas.

Network Science is a defining work, shaping this discipline.

The journal welcomes contributions from researchers in all areas working on network theory, methods, and data.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.5
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.533

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	27

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10905

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	136

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Clustering attributed graphs: Models, measures and methods

  Citation: 186

  Authors: CECILE, JUAN DAVID, MATTEO, BARBORA

• Data on face-to-face contacts in an office building suggest a low-cost vaccination strategy based on community linkers

  Citation: 184

  Authors: MATHIEU, CHRISTIAN L., JULIE, ANDRÉ, ISABELLE, ALAIN

• NetworKit: A tool suite for large-scale complex network analysis

  Citation: 179

  Authors: CHRISTIAN L., ALEKSEJS, HENNING

• What is network science?

  Citation: 178

  Authors: ULRIK, GARRY, ANN, STANLEY

• Multidimensional homophily in friendship networks

  Citation: 128

  Authors: PER, THOMAS

• Multi-scale community organization of the human structural connectome and its relationship with resting-state functional connectivity

  Citation: 113

  Authors: RICHARD F., ALESSANDRA, ANDREA, JOAQUÍN, JEAN-PHILIPPE, PATRIC, OLAF

• Engineering social contagions: Optimal network seeding in the presence of homophily

  Citation: 109

  Authors: SINAN, LEV, ARUN

• Uncovering the structure and temporal dynamics of information propagation

  Citation: 104

  Authors: MANUEL GOMEZ, JURE, DAVID, BERNHARD

• Diffusion and contagion in networks with heterogeneous agents and homophily

  Citation: 99

  Authors: MATTHEW O., DUNIA

• Gravity's Rainbow: A dynamic latent space model for the world trade network

  Citation: 90

  Authors: MICHAEL D., JOHN S., ARTURAS

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