Information search is an essential behavior in our everyday lives. With the advent of the World Wide Web, the amount and variety of accessible information burst and brought us the prominent challenge of information overload. Crucially, efficiency in information search depends on the way knowledge is structured and on the strategy used to find the target information. In order to improve performance through the design of a better information space for humans to search and learn, it is important to understand what the influencing factors are in our searching behavior.

The Department of Network and Data Science expresses its solidarity with the maliciously attacked colleagues at the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with whom we have had a number of fruitful collaborations, which we hope to continue.