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20132020
most citedMeasuring Political Polarization: Twitter shows the two sides of Venezuela

221 citations · 412 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

User behavior and token adoption on ERC20

Alfredo J. Morales, Shahar Somin, Yaniv Altshuler +1

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain-based technologies are disrupting all markets. While the potential of such technologies remains to be seen, there is a current need to understand em…

physics.soc-ph2019

How connected is too connected? Impact of network topology on systemic risk and collapse of complex economic systems

Aymeric Vié, Alfredo J. Morales

Economic interdependencies have become increasingly present in globalized production, financial and trade systems. While establishing interdependencies among economic agents is cru…

cs.SI2019★ 5 cited

Segregated interactions in urban and online space

Xiaowen Dong, Alfredo J. Morales, Eaman Jahani +6

Urban income segregation is a widespread phenomenon that challenges societies across the globe. Classical studies on segregation have largely focused on the geographic distribution…

physics.soc-ph2019

Segregation Dynamics with Reinforcement Learning and Agent Based Modeling

Egemen Sert, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Alfredo J. Morales

Societies are complex. Properties of social systems can be explained by the interplay and weaving of individual actions. Incentives are key to understand people's choices and decis…

physics.soc-ph2018

U.S. Social Fragmentation at Multiple Scales

Leila Hedayatifar, Rachel A. Rigg, Yaneer Bar-Yam +1

Despite global connectivity, societies seem to be increasingly polarized and fragmented. This phenomenon is rooted in the underlying complex structure and dynamics of social system…

q-bio.TO2017

The Case for Pyriproxyfen as a Potential Cause for Microcephaly; From Biology to Epidemiology

Yaneer Bar-Yam, H. Frederik Nijhout, Raphael Parens +2

The Zika virus has been found in individual cases but has not been confirmed as the cause of in the large number of cases of microcephaly in Brazil in 2015-6. Indeed, disparities b…