5 papers
Forsaking your own: unveiling the delayed recognition of Garfield's work on the "delayed recognition" phenomenon
Tariq Ahmad Mir, Marcel Ausloos
Delayed recognition (DR) implies that the full scholarly potential of certain scientific papers is recognized belatedly many years after their publication. Such papers are initiall…
On (Newcomb-)Benford's law: a tale of two papers and of their disproportionate citations. How citation counts can become biased
Tariq Ahmad Mir, Marcel Ausloos
The first digit (FD) phenomenon i.e., the significant digits of numbers in large data are often distributed according to a logarithmically decreasing function was first reported by…
Environmental Performance, Financial Constraint and Tax Avoidance Practices: Insights from FTSE All-Share Companies
Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Marcel Ausloos, Polina Khrennikova
Through its initiative known as the Climate Change Act (2008), the Government of the United Kingdom encourages corporations to enhance their environmental performance with the sign…
Hybrid Galam--Bass Model for Technology Innovation
Giulia Rotundo, Roy Cerqueti, Gurjeet Dhesi +3
This work proposes a hybrid model that combines the Galam model of opinion dynamics with the Bass diffusion model used in technology adoption on Barabasi-Albert complex networks. T…
Should one (be allowed to) replace the Cippolini's?
Marcel Ausloos
One examines and discusses proposals on whether riders could be replaced in a team during multi-stage races, and how much a team final time at the end of the race would change (be…