Collective dynamics behind success

MS Mariani, F Battiston, EÁ Horvát, G Livan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the collective dynamics behind the success of ideas, products, behaviors,
and social actors is critical for decision-making across diverse contexts, including hiring …

Using a model of domain learning to understand the development of creativity

D Dumas, B Forthmann, P Alexander - Educational Psychologist, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Creative thinking is a process through which individuals generate ideas that are
simultaneously novel and meaningful within a given social context. Historically …

[PDF][PDF] Early career wins and tournament prestige characterize tennis players' trajectories

C Zappalà, S Sousa, T Cunha, A Pluchino… - EPJ Data Science, 2024 - Springer
Success in sports is a complex phenomenon that has only garnered limited research
attention. In particular, we lack a deep scientific understanding of success in sports like …

Hot streaks in the music industry: Identifying and characterizing above-average success periods in artists' careers

GP Oliveira, MO Silva, DB Seufitelli, GRG Barbosa… - Scientometrics, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we reveal fundamental patterns that appear in individual musical careers. Such
careers may go through ups and downs depending on the current market moment and …

How failure to falsify in high-volume science contributes to the replication crisis

SM Rajtmajer, TM Errington, FG Hillary - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The number of scientific papers published every year continues to increase, but scientific
knowledge is not progressing at the same rate. Here we argue that a greater emphasis on …

The modified lottery: Formalizing the intrinsic randomness of research funding

S De Peuter, S Conix - Accountability in Research, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Competition for research funds has, in the recent decade, become hypercompetitive.
Commonly, to determine which proposals receive funding, a system of peer review is used …

Quantifying human performance in chess

S Chowdhary, I Iacopini, F Battiston - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
From sports to science, the recent availability of large-scale data has allowed to gain
insights on the drivers of human innovation and success in a variety of domains. Here we …

Seller-buyer networks in NFT art are driven by preferential ties

G Colavizza - Frontiers in Blockchain, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have recently surged to mainstream attention by allowing the
exchange of digital assets via blockchains. NFTs have also been adopted by artists to sell …

Reach for the stars: disentangling quantity and quality of inventors' productivity in a multifaceted latent variable model

F Caviggioli, B Forthmann - Scientometrics, 2022 - Springer
Star inventors generate superior innovation outcomes. Their capacity to invent high-quality
patents might be decisive beyond mere productivity. However, the relationship between …

[PDF][PDF] Structural gender imbalances in ballet collaboration networks

Y Herrera-Guzmán, E Lee, H Kim - EPJ Data Science, 2023 - Springer
Ballet, a mainstream performing art predominantly associated with women, exhibits
significant gender imbalances in leading positions. However, the collaboration's structural …