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Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversations
Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani
Modern society's increasing dependency on online tools for both work and recreation opens up unique opportunities for the study of social interactions. A large survey of online exc…
Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale +2
Despite their importance for the spread of zoonotic diseases, our understanding of the dynamical aspects characterizing the movements of farmed animal populations remains limited a…
How citation boosts promote scientific paradigm shifts and Nobel Prizes
Amin Mazloumian, Young-Ho Eom, Dirk Helbing +2
Nobel Prizes are commonly seen to be among the most prestigious achievements of our times. Based on mining several million citations, we quantitatively analyze the processes drivin…
Phase transitions in contagion processes mediated by recurrent mobility patterns
Duygu Balcan, Alessandro Vespignani
Human mobility and activity patterns mediate contagion on many levels, including the spatial spread of infectious diseases, diffusion of rumors, and emergence of consensus. These p…
Social network dynamics of face-to-face interactions
Kun Zhao, Juliette Stehle, Ginestra Bianconi +1
The recent availability of data describing social networks is changing our understanding of the "microscopic structure" of a social tie. A social tie indeed is an aggregated outcom…
Aging in language dynamics
Animesh Mukherjee, Francesca Tria, Andrea Baronchelli +2
Human languages evolve continuously, and a puzzling problem is how to reconcile the apparent robustness of most of the deep linguistic structures we use with the evidence that they…