12 papers
Charting the life of Billboard hits through memory, turnover, and predictability
Arthur A. B. Pessa, Angelo A. Flores, Matjaz Perc +1
The paper analyzes several decades of Billboard song and album charts to compare how long hits persist, how often they re‑enter the charts, and how predictable their rank trajector…
Gender shapes the relationship between productivity and journal prestige in science
Vitor H. Ribeiro, Andre S. Sunahara, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi +2
Gender disparities in academia manifest and persist in various aspects of the scientific enterprise, yet their influence on the interplay between research productivity and journal…
Interpretable liquid crystal phase classification via two-by-two ordinal patterns
Leonardo G. J. M. Voltarelli, Natalia Osiecka-Drewniak, Marcin Piwowarczyk +4
Liquid crystal textures encode rich structural information, yet mapping these images to mesophase identity remains challenging because visually similar patterns can arise from dist…
Evolving spatiotemporal patterns and urban scaling of deaths from external causes
Cesar I. N. Sampaio Filho, Humberto A. Carmona, Antonio S. Lima Neto +4
Urban scaling theory posits that urban indicators follow power-law relations with population, yet the evolution of these patterns - and the role of regional differences in settings…
Bipartite structure and dynamics of political corruption networks
Monica V. Prates, Arthur A. B. Pessa, Sebastian Goncalves +2
Political corruption is inherently an affiliation process linking agents to corruption cases; yet it is often studied via one-mode projections that connect co-offenders within the…
Comprehensive indicators and fine granularity refine density scaling laws in rural-urban systems
Jack Sutton, Quentin S. Hanley, Gerri Mortimore +5
Density scaling laws complement traditional population scaling laws by enabling the analysis of the full range of human settlements and revealing rural-to-urban transitions with br…