Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Understanding the collective dynamics behind the success of ideas, products, behaviors,
and social actors is critical for decision-making across diverse contexts, including hiring …

Luck is considered a crucial ingredient to achieve impact in all creative domains, despite
their diversity. For instance, in science, the movie industry, music, and art, the occurrence of …

The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical
analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic …

Creative industries produce many one-hit wonders who struggle to repeat their initial
success and fewer hit makers who sustain success over time. To develop theory on the role …

Reading remains a preferred leisure activity fueling an exceptionally competitive publishing
market: among more than three million books published each year, only a tiny fraction are …

Nutritional decisions may be important for health, and yet identifying trustworthy sources of
advice can be difficult to achieve. Many people turn to books for nutritional advice, making …

A new predictive support tool for the publishing industry is presented in this note. It consists
of a combined model of Artificial Intelligence techniques (CAIT) that seeks the most optimal …

The impact of recommendation systems (RSs) on the diversity of consumption is not
transparent or well understood. Available studies, whether experimental or theoretical, show …

While the term'bestseller'explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are
also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the …