The Matthew effect describes the phenomenon that in societies, the rich tend to get richer
and the potent even more powerful. It is closely related to the concept of preferential …

The interest in modeling and analyzing human language with complex networks is on the
rise in recent years and a considerable body of research in this area has already been …

The growth of social media over the last decade has revolutionized the way individuals
interact and industries conduct business. Individuals produce data at an unprecedented rate …

Social media are, on the one hand, a highly beneficial environment for word-of-mouth
(WOM) propagation of new ideas and products, and this has increasingly made them a focus …

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the
behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science …

Persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) is a bereavement-specific syndrome
characterized by prolonged and impairing grief. Most research on this syndrome rests on the …

This Perspective presents a personal overview of the current status of the theory of chemical
kinetics and mechanisms for complex processes. We attempt to assess the status of the field …

For decades, the spatial approach to network analysis has principally focused on planar and
technical networks from a classic graph theory perspective. Reference to models and …

The importance of network structures for the transmission of knowledge and the diffusion of
technological change has been recently emphasized in economic geography. Since …

Online communities bring together individuals with shared interest in joint action or
sustained interaction. Power law distributions of user popularity appear ubiquitous in online …