Network analysis of the Íslendinga sögur – the Sagas of Icelanders
- P. M. Carron, R. Kenna
- ArtArXiv
- 24 September 2013
A network analysis of the Íslendinga sögur is performed in an attempt to gather quantitative information on interrelationships between characters and to compare saga society to other social networks.
Critical phenomena: 150 years since Cagniard de la Tour
Critical phenomena were discovered by Cagniard de la Tour in 1822, who died 150 years ago. In order to mark this anniversary, the context and the early history of his discovery is reviewed. We then…
Universal properties of mythological networks
- P. M. Carron, R. Kenna
- LinguisticsArXiv
- 19 May 2012
As in statistical physics, the concept of universality plays an important, albeit qualitative, role in the field of comparative mythology. Here we apply statistical mechanical tools to analyse the…
Predicting results of the Research Excellence Framework using departmental h-index
- O. Mryglod, R. Kenna, Y. Holovatch, B. Berche
- BusinessScientometrics
- 7 November 2014
It is demonstrated that a version of the departmental h-index is better correlated with the actual results of that peer-review exercise than a competing metric known as the normalised citation-based indicator.
Temporal Network Analysis of Literary Texts
- S. D. Prado, S. Dahmen, A. Bazzan, P. M. Carron, R. Kenna
- ArtAdvances in Complex Systems
- 22 February 2016
It is shown that temporal networks are more appropriate than static ones for studying stories, as they capture features that the time-independent approaches fail to yield.
Managing research quality: critical mass and optimal academic research group size
We use a simple, sociophysical, agent-based model to gain insight into the relationship between the strength of academic research groups and the researchers they contain and to investigate the…
Role of Fourier Modes in Finite-Size Scaling above the Upper Critical Dimension.
- Emilio J. Flores-Sola, B. Berche, R. Kenna, M. Weigel
- PhysicsPhysical Review Letters
- 13 November 2015
This work addresses the roles played by Fourier modes for finite-size, statistical-physics systems with free boundaries and above d_{c} and shows that the current phenomenological picture is not supported for all thermodynamic observables with either free or periodic boundaries.
A quantitative approach to comparative mythology
- P. M. Carron, R. Kenna
- Education
- 2013
A new, quantitative approach to comparative mythology is introduced using methods developed in theoretical physics. The broad concept of universality has long been relevant to comparative mythology,…
The two-point resistance of a resistor network: a new formulation and application to the cobweb network
- N. Izmailian, R. Kenna, F. Y. Wu
- Computer Science
- 4 October 2013
The results prove a recently proposed conjecture on the resistance between the center node and a node on the network boundary and solve the spanning tree problem on the cobweb network.
Critical mass and the dependency of research quality on group size
A consequence of this analysis is that overall research performance of a given discipline is improved by supporting medium-sized groups over large ones, while small groups must strive to achieve critical mass.
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