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Why Scientists Chase Big Problems: Individual Strategy and Social Optimality
Carl T. Bergstrom, Jacob G. Foster, Yangbo Song
Scientists pursue collective knowledge, but they also seek personal recognition from their peers. When scientists decide whether or not to work on a big new problem, they weigh the…
Tradition and Innovation in Scientists' Research Strategies
Jacob G. Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky, James A. Evans
What factors affect a scientist's choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science suggests that this choice is shaped by an "e…
Clustering Drives Assortativity and Community Structure in Ensembles of Networks
David V. Foster, Jacob G. Foster, Peter Grassberger +1
Clustering, assortativity, and communities are key features of complex networks. We probe dependencies between these attributes and find that ensembles with strong clustering displ…
Edge direction and the structure of networks
Jacob G. Foster, David V. Foster, Peter Grassberger +1
Directed networks are ubiquitous and are necessary to represent complex systems with asymmetric interactions---from food webs to the World Wide Web. Despite the importance of edge…