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How large should academic departments be?
Jan Bachmann, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Fariba Karimi +3
Academic departments are the primary unit of scholarship and education at universities, and they vary vastly in their sizes. However, the consequences and natural dynamics of depar…
Consensus and fragmentation in academic publication preferences
Ian Van Buskirk, Marilena Hohmann, Ekaterina Landgren +3
Academic publishing requires solving a collective coordination problem: among thousands of possible publication venues, which deserve a community's attention? A clear consensus hel…
Misere Connect Four is Solved
Robert Steele, Daniel B. Larremore
Connect Four is a two-player game where each player attempts to be the first to create a sequence of four of their pieces, arranged horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, by drop…
Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: lessons from COVID-19
Marc Lipsitch, Mary T. Bassett, John S. Brownstein +27
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to upgrade systems for infectious disease surveillance and forecasting and modeling of the spread of infection, both of which inform…
Scientific productivity as a random walk
Sam Zhang, Nicholas LaBerge, Samuel F. Way +2
The expectation that scientific productivity follows regular patterns over a career underpins many scholarly evaluations. However, recent studies of individual productivity pattern…
A model for efficient dynamical ranking in networks
Andrea Della Vecchia, Kibidi Neocosmos, Daniel B. Larremore +2
We present a physics-inspired method for inferring dynamic rankings in directed temporal networks - networks in which each directed and timestamped edge reflects the outcome and ti…