Fig. 6
From: Gender and collaboration patterns in a temporal scientific authorship network
The distributions of log effective resistance (log2Ω) and log contraction importance (log2 Ψ) provide information about the connectivity properties of the network. Peaks in the effective resistance at 3/4 and 2/3, correspond to the complete bipartite subgraphs K2,2 and K2,3 (i.e., two authors/publications connected to two or three publications/authors), respectively. Peaks in the contraction importance at \(n \in \mathbb {N}\), correspond to edges whose removal would separate n nodes from the bulk of the network. The counts of such edges in these integer peaks appears to approximately follow a power law (with exponent γ∼2)