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Safe Leads and Lead Changes in Competitive Team Sports
A. Clauset, M. Kogan, S. Redner
We investigate the time evolution of lead changes within individual games of competitive team sports. Exploiting ideas from the theory of random walks, the number of lead changes w…
Rounding Effects in Record Statistics
G. Wergen, D. Volovik, S. Redner +1
We analyze record-breaking events in time series of continuous random variables that are subsequently discretized by rounding down to integer multiples of a discretization scale $Δ…
On the meaning of the h-index
S. Redner
The h-index -- the value for which an individual has published at least h papers with at least h citations -- has become a popular metric to assess the citation impact of scientist…
Community Structure of the Physical Review Citation Network
P. Chen, S. Redner
We investigate the community structure of physics subfields in the citation network of all Physical Review publications between 1893 and August 2007. We focus on well-cited publica…
Pearson Walk with Shrinking Steps in Two Dimensions
C. A. Serino, S. Redner
We study the shrinking Pearson random walk in two dimensions and greater, in which the direction of the Nth is random and its length equals lambda^{N-1}, with lambda<1. As lambda i…
Finding Scientific Gems with Google
P. Chen, H. Xie, S. Maslov +1
We apply the Google PageRank algorithm to assess the relative importance of all publications in the Physical Review family of journals from 1893--2003. While the Google number and…