Networks

Popular Writing

Introducing the human computer: How a circuit made of people could be the building block of a new field Boston Globe, June 17, 2012 (with Nicholas Christakis).

The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture. The Atlantic Cities, April 26, 2012.

The Social Networks of Superheroes The Atlantic Online, May 27, 2011.

Research

Egocentric Social Network Structure, Health, and Pro-Social Behaviors in a National Panel Study of Americans.
O’Malley AJ*, Arbesman S*, Steiger DM, Fowler JH, Christakis NA. 2012. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36250.

Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans.
Rand DG*, Arbesman S*, Christakis NA. PNAS. 2011. doi:10.1073/pnas.1108243108

Geographic constraints on social network groups.
Onnela J-P*, Arbesman S*, Gonzalez MC, Barabasi AL, Christakis NA. PLoS ONE 6(4):e16939. 2011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016939

Scaling of prosocial behavior in cities .
Arbesman S, Christakis NA. Physica A390(11):2155-2159. 2011.

Leadership Insularity: A New Measure of Connectivity Between Central Nodes in Networks.
Arbesman S and Christakis NA. Connections 30(1): 4-10. 2010. [Leadership Insularity code]

Comparative analysis of networks of phonologically similar words in English and Spanish.
Arbesman S, Strogatz SH and Vitevitch MS. Entropy 12(3): 327-337. 2010.

The Structure of Phonological Networks Across Multiple Languages.
Arbesman, S, S. Strogatz and M. Vitevitch. International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos 20(3):679-685. 2010. Available on the arXiv: 0903.0872 [Physics and Society].

Superlinear Scaling for Innovation in Cities.
Arbesman S, Kleinberg J, and Strogatz SH. Phys. Rev. E 79 (1). 2009. Available on the arXiv: 0809.4994 [Physics and Society]. Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 17 (3). 2009.

[* joint first authorship]