Individuals vary in their access to resources, social connections and phenotypic traits, and a
central goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how this variation arises and influences …

Living in the era of “big-data” information, we are ubiquitously inundated by
overabundances of sizes—non-negative numerical values representing count, score, length …

" The book deals with the empirical characterization and dynamics of income distribution
and its related quantities from the epistemological and practical perspectives of …

Citations measure the importance of a publication, and may serve as a proxy for its
popularity and quality of its contents. Here we study the distributions of citations to …

Socio-economic inequality is characterized from data using various indices. The Gini (g)
index, giving the overall inequality is the most common one, while the recently introduced …

Statistical physicists and social scientists both extensively study some characteristic features
of the unequal distributions of energy, cluster, or avalanche sizes and of income, wealth …

The importance of the Pietra index in socioeconomic systems and econophysics has been
highlighted by Eliazar and Sokolov (2010). In this paper, we obtain closed expressions for …

In this paper, we study the inequality indices for some models of wealth exchange. We
calculated Gini index and newly introduced k-index and compare the results with reported …

In this article, we propose a new approach for studying the patterns of size distribution in
settlement systems, based on the analysis of the shape of the Pareto curve (PC). To study …

Given the cumulative consequences of climate change, global concentration of greenhouse
gases (GHGs) must be reduced; being inequality in per-capita emissions levels a problem to …