ArticleNature physics2020
Macroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement.
Article in Nature physics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Emergence of simple and complex contagion dynamics from weighted belief networks.Science advances · 2024Article
- Nonlinear bias toward complex contagion in uncertain transmission settings.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Assessing individual risk and the latent transmission of COVID-19 in a population with an interaction-driven temporal model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Threshold Cascade Dynamics in Coevolving Networks.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Lessons Learned From Interdisciplinary Efforts to Combat COVID-19 Misinformation: Development of Agile Integrative Methods From Behavioral Science, Data Science, and Implementation Science.JMIR infodemiology · 2023Article
- Cascades in capacity constrained agents.PloS one · 2023Article
- Modeling time evolving COVID-19 uncertainties with density dependent asymptomatic infections and social reinforcement.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Fundamental limitations on efficiently forecasting certain epidemic measures in network models.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Deep learning of contagion dynamics on complex networks.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Dynamical SEIR Model With Information Entropy Using COVID-19 as a Case Study.IEEE transactions on computational social systems · 2021Article
- Social Networks of Lexical Innovation. Investigating the Social Dynamics of Diffusion of Neologisms on Twitter.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021Article
- What processes must we understand to forecast regional-scale population dynamics?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
From fake news to innovative technologies, many contagions spread as complex contagions via a process of social reinforcement, where multiple exposures are distinct from prolonged exposure to a single source.
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