Abstract

Network Science is a new journal for a new 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 new discipline. The journal welcomes contributions from researchers in all areas working on network theory, methods, and data.

Date

September 10, 2025

Authors

Lada Adamic, Ulrik Brandes, Noshir Contractor, Sanjeev Goyal, Garry Robins, Thomas Valente, Alessandro Vespignani, Stanley Wasserman, Sinan Aral, Alain Barrat, Yann Bramoulle, Dirk Brockmann, Nicholas Christakis, Jonathon Cummings, Padraig Cunningham, Matthew Elliott, Christos Faloutsos, Katherine Faust, James Fowler, Andrea Galeotti, David Hunter, Yoshihisa Kashima, Peter Key, Laura Koehly, Eric Kolaczyk, David Krackhardt, David Lazer, Roger Leenders, Kristina Lerman, Mark Lubell, Winter Mason, Filippo Menczer, James Moody, Sue Moon, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Bernice Pescosolido, Richard Rothenberg, Olaf Sporns, Jaideep Srivastava, Douglas Steinley, Adam Szeidl, Zoltan Toroczkai, Marco van der Leij, Fernando Vega-Redondo, Ann McCranie