Publications (25)
Interdisciplinarity: A Nobel Opportunity
Michael Szell, Yifang Ma, Roberta Sinatra
Interdisciplinary collaborations now sweep most fields of the natural and life sciences, necessary to tackle the world's most challenging problems. Yet, the scientific enterprise c…
An analysis of visitors' behavior in the Louvre Museum: A study using Bluetooth data
Yuji Yoshimura, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Carlo Ratti +4
Museums often suffer from so-called "hyper-congestion", wherein the number of visitors exceeds the capacity of the physical space of the museum. This can potentially deteriorate th…
The Chaperone Effect in Scientific Publishing
Vedran Sekara, Pierre Deville, Sebastian Ahnert +3
Experience plays a critical role in crafting high impact scientific work. This is particularly evident in top multidisciplinary journals, where a scientist is unlikely to appear as…
Networks of motifs from sequences of symbols
Roberta Sinatra, Daniele Condorelli, Vito Latora
We introduce a method to convert an ensemble of sequences of symbols into a weighted directed network whose nodes are motifs, while the directed links and their weights are defined…
Success and luck in creative careers
Milan Janosov, Federico Battiston, Roberta Sinatra
Luck is considered to be a crucial ingredient to achieve impact in all creative domains, despite their diversity. For instance, in science, the movie industry, music, and art, the…
Emergence of good conduct, scaling and Zipf laws in human behavioral sequences in an online world
Stefan Thurner, Michel Szell, Roberta Sinatra
We study behavioral action sequences of players in a massive multiplayer online game. In their virtual life players use eight basic actions which allow them to interact with each o…