Before revision: Measuring preferential attachment in growing networks is an important topic in network science, since the experimental confirmation of assumptions about the generative processes that give rise to heavy-tail degree distributions characteristic of real-world networks depends on it.
After revision: Measuring preferential attachment in growing networks is an important topic in network science, since the experimental confirmation of assumptions about the generative processes that give rise to heavy-tail degree distributions emerge in real-world networks depends on it.