3.3k citations · 17.6k across the 141 of their papers we have counts for
4 papers · 2 filters
The price of a vote: diseconomy in proportional elections
Hygor Piaget M. Melo, Saulo D. S. Reis, André A. Moreira +2
The increasing cost of electoral campaigns raises the need for effective campaign planning and a precise understanding of the return of such investment. Interestingly, despite the…
A worldwide model for boundaries of urban settlements
Erneson A. Oliveira, Vasco Furtado, José S. Andrade +1
The shape of urban settlements plays a fundamental role in their sustainable planning. Properly defining the boundaries of cities is challenging and remains an open problem in the…
Theories for influencer identification in complex networks
Sen Pei, Flaviano Morone, Hernán A. Makse
In social and biological systems, the structural heterogeneity of interaction networks gives rise to the emergence of a small set of influential nodes, or influencers, in a series…
Inferring Personal Economic Status from Social Network Location
Shaojun Luo, Flaviano Morone, Carlos Sarraute +2
It is commonly believed that patterns of social ties affect individuals' economic status. Here, we translate this concept into an operational definition at the network level, which…