“…The names proposed so far are (i) backbone of a network [10], and (ii) statistically validated network [11]. Selection of nodes or links not consistent with a null hypothesis have been investigated in studies focusing on classic examples of networks [10,11], trading decisions of investors [12,13,14,15], criminal career of a large set of suspects [16], mobile phone calls of large set of users [17,18], financial credit transactions occurring in an Interbank market [19], intraday lead-lag relationships of returns of financial assets traded in major financial markets [20], the Japanese credit market [22], the socio-technical system of air traffic management [23], the core of communities observed in projected networks originating from bipartite networks [24], the international trade [25], and temporal social ties observed in face to face interactions [26].…”