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physics.soc-ph2021★ 32 cited

Become a better you: correlation between the change of research direction and the change of scientific performance

Xiaoyao Yu, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tao Jia

It is important to explore how scientists decide their research agenda and the corresponding consequences, as their decisions collectively shape contemporary science. There are stu…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 21 cited

The evolution of polarization in the legislative branch of government

Xiaoyan Lu, Jianxi Gao, Boleslaw K. Szymanski

The polarization of political opinions among members of the U.S. legislative chambers measured by their voting records is greater today than it was thirty years ago. Previous resea…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 175 cited

Quantifying patterns of research interest evolution

Tao Jia, Dashun Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Our quantitative understanding of how scientists choose and shift their research focus over time is highly consequential, because it affects the ways in which scientists are traine…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 64 cited

The Impact of Heterogeneous Thresholds on Social Contagion with Multiple Initiators

Panagiotis D. Karampourniotis, Sameet Sreenivasan, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +1

The threshold model is a simple but classic model of contagion spreading in complex social systems. To capture the complex nature of social influencing we investigate numerically a…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 12 cited

An Analysis of the Matching Hypothesis in Networks

Tao Jia, Robert F. Spivey, Boleslaw Szymanski +1

The matching hypothesis in social psychology claims that people are more likely to form a committed relationship with someone equally attractive. Previous works on stochastic model…