TY - JOUR AU - Domínguez-García, Virginia AU - Pigolotti, Simone AU - Muñoz Martínez, Miguel Ángel PY - 2014 SN - 2045-2322 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/34877 AB - We explore the hypothesis that the relative abundance of feedback loops in many empirical complex networks is severely reduced owing to the presence of an inherent global directionality. Aimed at quantifying this idea, we propose a simple... LA - eng PB - Nature Publishing Group KW - Complexity KW - Computational science TI - Inherent directionality explains the lack of feedback loops in empirical networks DO - 10.1038/srep07497 ER -