Fig. 1

On the left, an example from Kitsak et al. (2010) can be seen. Nodes within the core of the network, i.e. with a high k-Shell index, were found to be good spreaders. On the right, the same network is shown, but clustered with the Link Communities approach by Ahn et al. (2010). Nodes with grey borders are nodes which are hypothesized to exhibit a high spreading capability