Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks based on entropy weight method and gravity law

Yan Xiao-Li^{1, 2, 3}, Cui Ya-Peng^{1, 2, 3}, Ni Shun-Jiang^{1, 2, 3, †}

Comparisons of ranking imprecision between various methods and SIR model over six real-world networks. Imprecision function ε is acquired by varying the fraction of network size p. Results are obtained by averaging over 300 independent realizations.