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7 papers

physics.soc-ph2025

The networks of ingredient combinations as culinary fingerprints of world cuisines

Claudio Caprioli, Saumitra Kulkarni, Federico Battiston +3

Investigating how different ingredients are combined in popular dishes is crucial to uncover the principles behind food preferences. Here, we use data from public food repositories…

physics.soc-ph2025

The relationship between episcopal genealogy and ideology in the Roman Catholic Church

Marta Baratto, Ivan Casanovas, Ivan Decostanzi +7

In this study we investigate how hierarchical structures within the Roman Catholic Church shape the ideological orientation of its leadership. The full episcopal genealogy dataset…

physics.soc-ph2025

Disentangling the role of heterogeneity and hyperedge overlap in explosive contagion on higher-order networks

Federico Malizia, Andrés Guzmán, Iacopo Iacopini +1

We introduce group-based compartmental modeling (GBCM), a mean-field framework for irreversible contagion in higher-order networks that captures structural heterogeneity and correl…

physics.soc-ph2024

The dynamics of higher-order novelties

Gabriele Di Bona, Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo +3

Studying how we explore the world in search of novelties is key to understand the mechanisms that can lead to new discoveries. Previous studies analyzed novelties in various explor…

physics.soc-ph2024

Exploring the interplay of individual traits and interaction dynamics in preschool social networks

Gülşah Akçakır, Amina Azaiez, Alberto Ceria +5

Several studies have investigated human interaction using modern tracking techniques for face-to-face encounters across various settings and age groups. However, little attention h…

physics.soc-ph2024

The temporal dynamics of group interactions in higher-order social networks

Iacopo Iacopini, Márton Karsai, Alain Barrat

Representing social systems as networks, starting from the interactions between individuals, sheds light on the mechanisms governing their dynamics. However, networks encode only p…