most citedHow Much is the Whole Really More than the Sum of its Parts? 1 + 1 = 2.5: Superlinear Productivity in Collective Group Actions

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How Much is the Whole Really More than the Sum of its Parts? 1 + 1 = 2.5: Superlinear Productivity in Collective Group Actions

Didier Sornette, Thomas Maillart, Giacomo Ghezzi

In a variety of open source software projects, we document a superlinear growth of production () as a function of the number of active developers , with $β\simeq 4/3…