Wei Wang, an associate researcher of Cybersecurity Research Institute, Sichuan University, has published a long review paper entitled "Coevolution spreading in complex networks" in Physics Reports ( IF=28.2 ) in collaboration with the University of Electronic Science and Technology and Sun Yat-sen University. Wei Wang is the first author, and SCU Cybersecurity Research Institute is the first work unit. This is the first time that SCU has published a research paper inPhysics Reports.

From the perspective of network science and statistical physics, Wei Wang and others have elaborated the latest research progress of coevolution spreading. They classify coevolution spreading into four categories:biological contagions, social contagions, epidemic–awareness, and epidemic–resources.They focus on the corresponding theoretical research methods, critical phenomena, phase transition, interaction mechanism, and the impact of network structure on it. In the review, they indicate that “The theoretical methods, critical phenomena, phase transitions, interacting mechanisms, and effects of network topology for four representative types of coevolution spreading mechanisms, including the coevolution of biological contagions, social contagions, epidemic–awareness, and epidemic–resources, are presented in detail, and the challenges in this field as well as open issues for future studies are also discussed.” (Abstract)

Link of the research paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2019.07.001

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The latest impact factor ofPhysics Reportsis 28.295. Being one of the most influential journals in physics and cross-sciences in the world, it publishes review papers on researches in related fields. The editors invite leading researchers in their respective fields to write papers. The purpose is to publish summaries and reviews of current research hotspots, guiding the research and forecasting the direction of future development.