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Geographic constraints on social network groups
Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Samuel Arbesman, Marta C. González +2
Social groups are fundamental building blocks of human societies. While our social interactions have always been constrained by geography, it has been impossible, due to practical…
A Scientometric Prediction of the Discovery of the First Potentially Habitable Planet with a Mass Similar to Earth
Samuel Arbesman, Gregory Laughlin
The search for a habitable extrasolar planet has long interested scientists, but only recently have the tools become available to search for such planets. In the past decades, the…
Quantifying the Ease of Scientific Discovery
Samuel Arbesman
It has long been known that scientific output proceeds on an exponential increase, or more properly, a logistic growth curve. The interplay between effort and discovery is clear, a…
The Structure of Phonological Networks Across Multiple Languages
Samuel Arbesman, Steven H. Strogatz, Michael S. Vitevitch
The network characteristics based on the phonological similarities in the lexicons of several languages were examined. These languages differed widely in their history and linguist…
Superlinear Scaling for Innovation in Cities
Samuel Arbesman, Jon M. Kleinberg, Steven H. Strogatz
Superlinear scaling in cities, which appears in sociological quantities such as economic productivity and creative output relative to urban population size, has been observed but n…
A Monte Carlo Approach to Joe DiMaggio and Streaks in Baseball
S. Arbesman, S. H. Strogatz
We examine Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and look at its likelihood, using a number of simple models. And it turns out that, contrary to many people's expectations, an extr…