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most citedMultirelational Organization of Large-scale Social Networks in an Online World

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physics.soc-ph2025★ 1 cited

Empirical validation of the polarization transition in a double-random field model of elections

Jan Korbel, Remah Dahdoul, Stefan Thurner

We model bipartisan elections where voters are exposed to two forces: local homophilic interactions and external influence from two political campaigns. The model is mathematically…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Inferring firm-level supply chain networks with realistic systemic risk from industry sector-level data

Massimiliano Fessina, Giulio Cimini, Tiziano Squartini +3

Production networks constitute the backbone of every economic system. They are inherently fragile as several recent crises clearly highlighted. Estimating the system-wide consequen…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 10 cited

Stress-testing the Resilience of the Austrian Healthcare System Using Agent-Based Simulation

Michaela Kaleta, Jana Lasser, Elma Dervic +6

Patients do not access physicians at random but rather via naturally emerging networks of patient flows between them. As retirements, mass quarantines and absence due to sickness d…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 35 cited

Loss of sustainability in scientific work

Niklas Reisz, Vito D. P. Servedio, Vittorio Loreto +3

For decades the number of scientific publications has been rapidly increasing, effectively out-dating knowledge at a tremendous rate. Only few scientific milestones remain relevant…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 10 cited

Meteorological factors and non-pharmaceutical interventions explain local differences in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Austria

Katharina Ledebur, Michaela Kaleta, Jiaying Chen +12

The drivers behind regional differences of SARS-CoV-2 spread on finer spatio-temporal scales are yet to be fully understood. Here we develop a data-driven modelling approach based…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 158 cited

Why are most COVID-19 infection curves linear?

Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek, Rudolf Hanel

Many countries have passed their first COVID-19 epidemic peak. Traditional epidemiological models describe this as a result of non-pharmaceutical interventions that pushed the grow…