What better way to honor preferential attachment (also Matthew effect, "the rich get richer", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect) than by citing Newman's paper (23481 citations, https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=The+structure+and+function+of+complex+networks&btnG=) when talking about preferential attachment.