If you find the PAFit package useful, please consider citing Ref. 1. in your publication. Additionally, depending on which method you use, please consider citing more accordingly: if you jointly estimate the PA function and node fitnesses, please consider Ref. 2, or if you estimate the PA function in isolation, please consider Ref. 3.

Pham T, Sheridan P, Shimodaira H (2018). “PAFit: an R Package for the Non-Parametric Estimation of Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Temporal Complex Networks.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06017.

Pham T, Sheridan P, Shimodaira H (2016). “Joint Estimation of Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Growing Complex Networks.” Scientific Reports, 32558 EP. doi: 10.1038/srep32558, http://www.nature.com/articles/srep32558.

Pham T, Sheridan P, Shimodaira H (2015). “PAFit: A Statistical Method for Measuring Preferential Attachment in Temporal Complex Networks.” PLOS ONE, 1-18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137796, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137796.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {PAFit: an R Package for the Non-Parametric Estimation of
      Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Temporal Complex
      Networks},
    author = {Thong Pham and Paul Sheridan and Hidetoshi Shimodaira},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06017},
    year = {2018},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Thong Pham and Paul Sheridan and Hidetoshi Shimodaira},
    journal = {Scientific Reports},
    title = {Joint Estimation of Preferential Attachment and Node
      Fitness in Growing Complex Networks},
    year = {2016},
    month = {9},
    volumn = {6},
    pages = {32558 EP},
    publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
    doi = {10.1038/srep32558},
    url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/srep32558},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Thong Pham and Paul Sheridan and Hidetoshi Shimodaira},
    journal = {PLOS ONE},
    title = {PAFit: A Statistical Method for Measuring Preferential
      Attachment in Temporal Complex Networks},
    year = {2015},
    month = {9},
    volumn = {10},
    pages = {1-18},
    publisher = {Public Library of Science},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0137796},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137796},
  }