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This work analyses the practice of sister city pairing. We investigate structural properties of the resulting city and country networks and present rankings of the most central nodes in these networks. We identify different country clusters and find that the practice of sister city pairing is not influenced by geographical proximity but results in highly assortative networks.
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Kaltenbrunner, A., Aragón, P., Laniado, D., Volkovich, Y. (2014). Not All Paths Lead to Rome: Analysing the Network of Sister Cities. In: Elmenreich, W., Dressler, F., Loreto, V. (eds) Self-Organizing Systems. IWSOS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54140-7_14
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