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Renormalizing individual performance metrics for cultural heritage management of sports records
Alexander M. Petersen, Orion Penner
Individual performance metrics are commonly used to compare players from different eras. However, such cross-era comparison is often biased due to significant changes in success fa…
The case for caution in predicting scientists' future impact
Orion Penner, Raj K. Pan, Alexander M. Petersen +1
We stress-test the career predictability model proposed by Acuna et al. [Nature 489, 201-202 2012] by applying their model to a longitudinal career data set of 100 Assistant profes…
Is Europe Evolving Toward an Integrated Research Area?
Alessandro Chessa, Andrea Morescalchi, Fabio Pammolli +3
An integrated European Research Area (ERA) is a critical component for a more competitive and open European R&D system. However, the impact of EU-specific integration policies aime…
Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words
Alexander M. Petersen, Joel N. Tenenbaum, Shlomo Havlin +2
We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages…