title: Finding communities in directed networks.
abstract: To identify communities in directed networks, we propose a generalized form of modularity in directed networks by presenting the quantity LinkRank, which can be considered as the PageRank of links. This generalization is consistent with the original modularity in undirected networks and the modularity optimization methods developed for undirected networks can be directly applied to directed networks by optimizing our modified modularity. Also, a model network, which can be used as a benchmark network in further community studies, is proposed to verify our method. Our method is supposed to find communities effectively in citation- or reference-based directed networks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Youngdo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seung-Woo
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Son
authors.forename: Hawoong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jeong