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most citedReproducing scientists' mobility: A data-driven model

32 citations · 110 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

econ.GN2023★ 20 cited

Adapting to Disruptions: Flexibility as a Pillar of Supply Chain Resilience

Ambra Amico, Luca Verginer, Giona Casiraghi +2

Supply chain disruptions cause shortages of raw material and products. To increase resilience, i.e., the ability to cope with shocks, substituting goods in established supply chain…

cs.SI2022★ 5 cited

Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities

Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Giona Casiraghi +1

The proliferation of radical online communities and their violent offshoots has sparked great societal concern. However, the current practice of banning such communities from mains…

cs.SI2022★ 28 cited

Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning

Giuseppe Russo, Luca Verginer, Manoel Horta Ribeiro +1

Online platforms face pressure to keep their communities civil and respectful. Thus, the bannings of problematic online communities from mainstream platforms like Reddit and Facebo…

econ.GN2022

Network embeddedness indicates the innovation potential of firms

Giacomo Vaccario, Luca Verginer, Antonios Garas +2

Firms' innovation potential depends on their position in the R&D network. But details on this relation remain unclear because measures to quantify network embeddedness have been co…

cs.DL2021

When standard network measures fail to rank journals: A theoretical and empirical analysis

Giacomo Vaccario, Luca Verginer

Journal rankings are widely used and are often based on citation data in combination with a network perspective. We argue that some of these network-based rankings can produce misl…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 1 cited

Should the government reward cooperation? Insights from an agent-based model of wealth redistribution

Frank Schweitzer, Luca Verginer, Giacomo Vaccario

In our multi-agent model agents generate wealth from repeated interactions for which a prisoner's dilemma payoff matrix is assumed. Their gains are taxed by a government at a rate…

cs.SI2019★ 24 cited

The Mobility Network of Scientists: Analyzing Temporal Correlations in Scientific Careers

Giacomo Vaccario, Luca Verginer, Frank Schweitzer

The mobility of scientists between different universities and countries is important to foster knowledge exchange. At the same time, the potential mobility is restricted by geograp…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 32 cited

Reproducing scientists' mobility: A data-driven model

Giacomo Vaccario, Luca Verginer, Frank Schweitzer

High skill labour is an important factor underpinning the competitive advantage of modern economies. Therefore, attracting and retaining scientists has become a major concern for m…

physics.soc-ph2014

The role of network embeddedness on the selection of collaboration partners: An agent-based model with empirical validation

Frank Schweitzer, Antonios Garas, Mario V. Tomasello +2

We use a data-driven agent-based model to study the core-periphery structure of two collaboration networks, R&D alliances between firms and co-authorship relations between scientis…