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Dynamics of ranking
Gerardo Iñiguez, Carlos Pineda, Carlos Gershenson +1
Virtually anything can be and is ranked; people, institutions, countries, words, genes. Rankings reduce complex systems to ordered lists, reflecting the ability of their elements t…
Rank-frequency distribution of natural languages: a difference of probabilities approach
Germinal Cocho, R. F. Rodríguez, Sergio Sánchez +3
The time variation of the rank of words for six Indo-European languages is obtained using data from Google Books. For low ranks the distinct languages behave differently, maybe…
Rank dynamics of word usage at multiple scales
José A. Morales, Ewan Colman, Sergio Sánchez +6
The recent dramatic increase in online data availability has allowed researchers to explore human culture with unprecedented detail, such as the growth and diversification of langu…
Universal temporal features of rankings in competitive sports and games
José A. Morales, Sergio Sánchez, Jorge Flores +5
Many complex phenomena, from the selection of traits in biological systems to hierarchy formation in social and economic entities, show signs of competition and heterogeneous perfo…