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Large Variance and Fat Tail of Damage by Natural Disaster
Hang-Hyun Jo, Yu-li Ko
In order to account for large variance and fat tail of damage by natural disaster, we study a simple model by combining distributions of disaster and population/property with their…
Editorial: Statistical Mechanics and Social Sciences
Santo Fortunato, Michael Macy, Sidney Redner
This editorial opens the special issues that the Journal of Statistical Physics has dedicated to the growing field of statistical physics modeling of social dynamics. The issues in…
How important tasks are performed: peer review
T. Hartonen, M. J. Alava
The advancement of various fields of science depends on the actions of individual scientists via the peer review process. The referees' work patterns and stochastic nature of decis…
The case for caution in predicting scientists' future impact
Orion Penner, Raj K. Pan, Alexander M. Petersen +1
We stress-test the career predictability model proposed by Acuna et al. [Nature 489, 201-202 2012] by applying their model to a longitudinal career data set of 100 Assistant profes…
Universality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis
Arnab Chatterjee, Marija Mitrović, Santo Fortunato
Election data represent a precious source of information to study human behavior at a large scale. In proportional elections with open lists, the number of votes received by a cand…
Physics peeks into the ballot box
Santo Fortunato, Claudio Castellano
Electoral results show universal features, such as statistics of candidates' performance and turnout rates, in different countries and over time. Are voters as predictable as atoms…