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physics.soc-ph2026

Criticality and reduced dynamical resilience in PM2.5 pollution systems

Yuan Chen, Yongwen Zhang, Xu Li +5

Concentration-based metrics underpin air-quality assessment, while dynamical persistence and recovery describe how rapidly high-PM2.5 episodes dissipate and how strongly they retai…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 7 cited

Teleconnections among Tipping Elements in the Earth System

Teng Liu, Dean Chen, Lan Yang +10

Tipping elements of the Earth system may shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another at tipping points, resulting in a growing threat to our society. Yet, it is not f…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 15 cited

Network approach reveals the spatiotemporal influence of traffic to air pollution under the COVID-19

Weiping Wang, Saini Yang, Kai Yin +3

Air pollution causes widespread environmental and health problems and severely hinders the life quality of urban residents. Traffic is a critical for human life and its emissions a…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 3 cited

Emergence of scaling in dockless bike-sharing systems

Ruiqi Li, Ankang Luo, Fan Shang +6

Fundamental laws of human mobility have been extensively studied, yet we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding of the mobility patterns of sharing conveyances. Since trav…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 43 cited

Revealing spatio-temporal interaction patterns behind complex cities

Chenxin Liu, Yu Yang, Bingsheng Chen +4

Cities are typical dynamic complex systems that connect people and facilitate interactions. Revealing universal collective patterns behind spatio-temporal interactions between resi…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 649 cited

Social physics

Marko Jusup, Petter Holme, Kiyoshi Kanazawa +12

Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their traditio…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 169 cited

Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Josef Ludescher +5

Global climate change, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying natural disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear feedbacks, strategi…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 18 cited

Scaling Laws in Earthquake Memory for Interevent Times and Distances

Yongwen Zhang, Jingfang Fan, Warner Marzocchi +4

Over the past decades much effort has been devoted towards understanding and forecasting natural hazards. However, earthquake forecasting skill is still very limited and remains a…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 2 cited

A combined network and machine learning approaches for product market forecasting

Jingfang Fan, Keren Cohen, Louis M. Shekhtman +4

Sustainable financial markets play an important role in the functioning of human society. Still, the detection and prediction of risk in financial markets remain challenging and dr…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 19 cited

Percolation Framework of the Earth's Topography

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Abbas Ali Saberi

Self-similarity and long-range correlations are the remarkable features of the Earth's surface topography. Here we develop an approach based on percolation theory to study the geom…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 63 cited

Climate network percolation reveals the expansion and weakening of the tropical component under global warming

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Yosef Ashkenazy +2

Global climate warming poses a significant challenge to humanity; it is associated with, e.g., rising sea level and declining Arctic sea ice. Increasing extreme events are also con…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 19 cited

Resilience of spatial networks with inter-links behaving as an external field

Jingfang Fan, Gaogao Dong, Louis M. Shekhtman +4

Many real systems such as, roads, shipping routes, and infrastructure systems can be modeled based on spatially embedded networks. The inter-links between two distant spatial netwo…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 129 cited

Resilience of networks with community structure behaves as if under an external field

Gaogao Dong, Jingfang Fan, Louis M. Shekhtman +6

Detecting and characterizing community structure plays a crucial role in the study of networked systems. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how community structure…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 1 cited

Abrupt transitions in collaborative social networks

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Yimin Ding +6

Despite the wide use of networks as a versatile tool for exploring complex social systems, little is known about how to detect and forecast abrupt changes in social systems. In thi…

physics.soc-ph2017

Statistical properties of random clique networks

Yi-Min Ding, Jun Meng, Jing-Fang Fan +2

In this paper, a random clique network model to mimic the large clustering coefficient and the modular structure that exist in many real complex networks, such as social networks,…