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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Community First Theory: How Collective Organization Generates Individual Diversity.

Takashi Ikegami, Hiroki Kojima, Akiko Kashiwagi

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Takashi IkegamiGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2850-4844
Hiroki KojimaGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8894-1694
Akiko KashiwagiFaculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Bunkyo-cho 3, Hirosaki 030-8561, Aomori, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4231-6727

Funding

the JSPS Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid 21H04885 and 24H00707.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Collective systems often exhibit emergent behaviors that cannot be reduced to the properties of individual components. A central question is whether individuality itself is a precondition for collective organization, or whether it arises

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communityindividual trackingNTICTetrahymena

Identifiers

PMID42187938
PMCPMC13206037

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