The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

How difficult is it for an early career academic to climb the ranks of their discipline? We
tackle this question with a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of 57 disciplines, examining …

Abstract The Bitcoin Lightning Network (BLN) was launched in 2018 to scale up the number
of transactions between Bitcoin owners. Although several contributions concerning the …

Many social and biological systems are characterized by enduring hierarchies, including
those organized around prestige in academia, dominance in animal groups, and desirability …

Influential nodes in complex networks are typically defined as those nodes that maximize the
asymptotic reach of a spreading process of interest. However, for practical applications such …

Faculty hiring networks—who hires whose graduates as faculty—exhibit steep hierarchies,
which can reinforce both social and epistemic inequalities in academia. Understanding the …

This research explains the phenomenon of Gen-Z social climber behavior towards the
development of coffee shops in Palopo city. This research aims to find out the meaning of …

Social inequality is a topic of interest since ages, and has attracted researchers across
disciplines to ponder over it origin, manifestation, characteristics, consequences, and finally …

As new instances of nested organization—beyond ecological networks—are discovered,
scholars are debating the coexistence of two apparently incompatible macroscale …

The ability to learn from others (social learning) is often deemed a cause of human species
success. But if social learning is indeed more efficient (whether less costly or more accurate) …