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most citedModeling the origin of urban output scaling laws

30 citations · 60 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Social learning drives underprioritization of collective challenges

Russ Yoon, Vicky Chuqiao Yang

Societies often struggle to prioritize important challenges in a timely manner, with substantial costs from delayed action on issues like climate change and pandemic mitigation. A…

physics.soc-ph2023

What makes Individual I's a Collective We; Coordination mechanisms & costs

Jisung Yoon, Chris Kempes, Vicky Chuqiao Yang +3

The collective effort exceeds the sum of its parts when individuals coordinate and regulate their activities and behaviors. This holds true even in self-organizing systems with ope…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 5 cited

Scaling Laws for Function Diversity and Specialization Across Socioeconomic and Biological Complex Systems

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, James Holehouse, Hyejin Youn +4

Function diversity, the range of tasks individuals perform, and specialization, the distribution of function abundances, are fundamental to complex adaptive systems. In the absence…

physics.soc-ph2022

Mathematical model bridges disparate timescales of lifelong learning

Mingzhen Lu, Tyler Marghetis, Vicky Chuqiao Yang

Lifelong learning occurs on timescales ranging from minutes to decades. People can lose themselves in a new skill, practicing for hours until exhausted. And they can pursue mastery…

nlin.AO2022★ 1 cited

Collective Intelligence as Infrastructure for Reducing Broad Global Catastrophic Risks

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Anders Sandberg

Academic and philanthropic communities have grown increasingly concerned with global catastrophic risks (GCRs), including artificial intelligence safety, pandemics, biosecurity, an…

physics.soc-ph2021

Dynamical-System Model Predicts When Social Learners Impair Collective Performance

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Mirta Galesic, Harvey McGuinness +1

A key question concerning collective decisions is whether a social system can settle on the best available option when some members learn from others instead of evaluating the opti…

physics.soc-ph2021

Scaling of Urban Income Inequality in the United States

Elisa Heinrich Mora, Jacob J. Jackson, Cate Heine +3

Urban scaling analysis, the study of how aggregated urban features vary with the population of an urban area, provides a promising framework for discovering commonalities across ci…

q-bio.PE2020

Greetings from a Triparental Planet

Gizem Bacaksizlar, Stefani Crabtree, Joshua Garland +11

In this work of speculative science, scientists from a distant star system explain the emergence and consequences of triparentalism, when three individuals are required for sexual…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 22 cited

Why are U.S. Parties So Polarized? A "Satisficing" Dynamical Model

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Daniel M. Abrams, Georgia Kernell +1

Since the 1960s, Democrats and Republicans in U.S. Congress have taken increasingly polarized positions, while the public's policy positions have remained centrist and moderate. We…

physics.soc-ph2019

Falling Through the Cracks: Modeling the Formation of Social Category Boundaries

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Tamara van der Does, Henrik Olsson

Social categorizations divide people into "us" and "them," often along continuous attributes such as political ideology or skin color. This division results in both positive conseq…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 30 cited

Modeling the origin of urban output scaling laws

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Andrew V. Papachristos, Daniel M. Abrams

Urban outputs often scale superlinearly with city population. A difficulty in understanding the mechanism of this phenomenon is that different outputs differ considerably in their…

cs.OH2017★ 2 cited

Do two parties represent the US? Clustering analysis of US public ideology survey

Louisa Lee, Siyu Zhang, Vicky Chuqiao Yang

Recent surveys have shown that an increasing portion of the US public believes the two major US parties adequately represent the US public opinion and think additional parties are…

math.OC2016

Prediction and Optimal Scheduling of Advertisements in Linear Television

Mark J Panaggio, Pak-Wing Fok, Ghan S Bhatt +19

Advertising is a crucial component of marketing and an important way for companies to raise awareness of goods and services in the marketplace. Advertising campaigns are designed t…