Kandiah, Vivek; Shepelyansky, Dima L. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 22, pp. 5779-5793
We propose the PageRank model of opinion formation and investigate its rich properties on real directed networks of the … with their PageRank probability. Such a probability is used by the Google search engine for ranking of web pages. We find … that the society elite, corresponding to the top PageRank nodes, can impose its opinion on a significant fraction of the …