The science of science (SOS) is a rapidly develo** field which aims to understand,
quantify and predict scientific research and the resulting outcomes. The problem is …

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Internet greatly increases the necessity of effective
recommender systems for filtering the abundant information. Extensive research for …

The analogies and differences between biological and cultural evolution have been
explored by evolutionary biologists, historians, engineers and linguists alike. Two well …

We explore how ideas from infectious disease and genetics can be used to uncover patterns
of cultural inheritance and innovation in a corpus of 591 national constitutions spanning …

The rapid proliferation of scientific and technological works has highlighted the necessity to
effectively identify the significant achievements in more and more complex citation networks …

Evolution is marked by well-defined events involving profound innovations that are known
as 'major evolutionary transitions'. They involve the integration of autonomous elements into …

Conventional approaches to predict the future popularity of products are mainly based on
extrapolation of their current popularity, which overlooks the hidden microscopic information …

Networking encompasses a variety of tasks related to the communication of information on
networks; it has a substantial economic and societal impact on a broad range of areas …

This chapter gives an overview of applications of random walks to information filtering,
focusing on the tasks of ranking and recommendation in particular. Despite the amount of …

Understanding the structure and dynamics of scientific research, ie, the science of science
(SciSci), has become an important area of research in order to address imminent questions …