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Title: Finding community structure in networks using the eigenvectors of matrices
Authors: M. E. J. Newman
Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections in this version
Subj-class: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability; Physics and Society; Statistical Mechanics
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 74, 036104 (2006)
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