Hierarchical communities in the walnut structure of the Japanese production network.

This paper studies the structure of the Japanese production network, which includes one million firms and five million supplier-customer links. This study finds that this network forms a tightly-knit structure with a core giant strongly connected component (GSCC) surrounded by IN and OUT components...

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Main Authors: Abhijit Chakraborty, Yuichi Kichikawa, Takashi Iino, Hiroshi Iyetomi, Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoshi Fujiwara, Hideaki Aoyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6114793?pdf=render