Physicists are especially prominently represented among the participants, though people from other backgrounds attend as well.
The study of networks expanded at the end of the twentieth century, with increasing citation of some seminal papers.
[1] Following this increase in interest from the scientific community, network science was examined by the National Research Council (NRC), the arm of the US National Academies in charge of offering policy recommendations to the US government.
The NetSci conference series was set up in 2006 to address the need of the new and emerging highly interdisciplinary network science community to meet and exchange ideas.
The Erdös-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded annually at the NetSci meeting,[10]