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physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited

Probability-turbulence divergence: A tunable allotaxonometric instrument for comparing heavy-tailed categorical distributions

P. S. Dodds, J. R. Minot, M. V. Arnold +4

Real-world complex systems often comprise many distinct types of elements as well as many more types of networked interactions between elements. When the relative abundances of typ…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 47 cited

The Distribution of the Asymptotic Number of Citations to Sets of Publications by a Researcher or From an Academic Department Are Consistent With a Discrete Lognormal Model

João A. G. Moreira, Xiao Han T. Zeng, Luís A. Nunes Amaral

How to quantify the impact of a researcher's or an institution's body of work is a matter of increasing importance to scientists, funding agencies, and hiring committees. The use o…

physics.soc-ph2014

Correlations between user voting data, budget, and box office for films in the Internet Movie Database

Max Wasserman, Satyam Mukherjee, Konner Scott +3

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is one of the most-visited websites in the world and the premier source for information on films. Like Wikipedia, much of IMDb's information is u…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 1 cited

A model for generating tunable clustering coefficients independent of the number of nodes in scale free and random networks

Vijay K Samalam

Probabilistic networks display a wide range of high average clustering coefficients independent of the number of nodes in the network. In particular, the local clustering coefficie…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 405 cited

Memory in network flows and its effects on spreading dynamics and community detection

Martin Rosvall, Alcides V. Esquivel, Andrea Lancichinetti +2

Random walks on networks is the standard tool for modelling spreading processes in social and biological systems. This first-order Markov approach is used in conventional community…

physics.soc-ph2012★ 260 cited

The Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on Gender Differences in Publication Rate and Impact

Jordi Duch, Xiao Han T. Zeng, Marta Sales-Pardo +4

Many studies demonstrate that there is still a significant gender bias, especially at higher career levels, in many areas including science, technology, engineering, and mathematic…

physics.soc-ph2012★ 101 cited

A reverse engineering approach to the suppression of citation biases reveals universal properties of citation distributions

Filippo Radicchi, Claudio Castellano

The large amount of information contained in bibliographic databases has recently boosted the use of citations, and other indicators based on citation numbers, as tools for the qua…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 70 cited

Testing the fairness of citation indicators for comparison across scientific domains: the case of fractional citation counts

Filippo Radicchi, Claudio Castellano

Citation numbers are extensively used for assessing the quality of scientific research. The use of raw citation counts is generally misleading, especially when applied to cross-dis…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 37 cited

Rationality, irrationality and escalating behavior in lowest unique bid auctions

Filippo Radicchi, Andrea Baronchelli, Luis A. N. Amaral

Information technology has revolutionized the traditional structure of markets. The removal of geographical and time constraints has fostered the growth of online auction markets,…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 1.2k cited

Finding statistically significant communities in networks

Andrea Lancichinetti, Filippo Radicchi, Jose' Javier Ramasco +1

Community structure is one of the main structural features of networks, revealing both their internal organization and the similarity of their elementary units. Despite the large v…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 97 cited

Information filtering in complex weighted networks

Filippo Radicchi, José J. Ramasco, Santo Fortunato

Many systems in nature, society and technology can be described as networks, where the vertices are the system's elements and edges between vertices indicate the interactions betwe…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 182 cited

The role of mentorship in protege performance

R. Dean Malmgren, Julio M. Ottino, Luis A. N. Amaral

The role of mentorship on protege performance is a matter of importance to academic, business, and governmental organizations. While the benefits of mentorship for proteges, mentor…

physics.soc-ph2009★ 195 cited

On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity

R. Dean Malmgren, Daniel B. Stouffer, Andriana S. L. O. Campanharo +1

Identifying and modeling patterns of human activity has important ramifications in applications ranging from predicting disease spread to optimizing resource allocation. Because of…