43 citations · 269 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for
36 papers
Estimating the number of serial killers that were never caught
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
Many serial killers commit tens of murders. At the same time inter-murder intervals can be decades long. This suggests that some serial killers can die of an accident or a disease,…
The correlation coefficient between citation metrics and winning a Nobel or Abel Prize
M. V. Simkin
Computing such correlation coefficient would be straightforward had we had available the rankings given by the prize committee to all scientists in the pool. In reality we only hav…
Stochastic modeling of scientific impact
M. V. Simkin
Recent research has found that select scientists have a disproportional share of highly cited papers. Researchers reasoned that this could not have happened if success in science w…
Statistical study of time intervals between murders for serial killers
E. Yaksic, M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We study the distribution of 2,837 inter-murder intervals (cooling off periods) for 1,012 American serial killers. The distribution is smooth, following a power law in the region o…
Chess players' fame versus their merit
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We investigate a pool of international chess title holders born between 1901 and 1943. Using Elo ratings we compute for every player his expected score in a game with a randomly se…
A mathematical theory of fame
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We study empirically how the fame of WWI fighter-pilot aces, measured in numbers of web pages mentioning them, is related to their achievement, measured in numbers of opponent airc…