Structure of growing networks with no preferential attachment

Based on the formation of triad junctions, the proposed mechanism generates growing networks that exhibit extended power law behavior and strong neighborhood clustering. The asymptotic behavior of both properties is of interest in the study of networks in which (i) the formation of links cannot be described according to the principle of preferential attachment; (ii) the in-degree distribution fits a power law for nodes with a high degree and an exponential form otherwise; and (iii) the degree of clustering depends on both the number of links that newly added nodes establish and the probability of forming triads.