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physics.soc-ph2007★ 10 cited
A theory of web traffic
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We analyze access statistics of several popular webpages for a period of several years. The graphs of daily downloads are highly non-homogeneous with long periods of low activity i…
physics.soc-ph2006
Theory of aces: high score by skill or luck?
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We studied the distribution of World War I fighter pilots by the number of victories they were credited with, along with casualty reports. Using the maximum entropy method we obtai…
physics.soc-ph2005
A mathematical theory of citing
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
Recently we proposed a model in which when a scientist writes a manuscript, he picks up several random papers, cites them and also copies a fraction of their references (cond-mat/0…