About the Authors

Serguei Saavedra

Affiliations Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jordi Duch

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Brian Uzzi

uzzi@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS JD BU. Performed the experiments: SS JD. Analyzed the data: SS JD BU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BU. Wrote the paper: SS JD BU.