کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
658972 1458099 2012 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The physics of spreading ideas
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی شیمی جریان سیال و فرایندهای انتقال
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The physics of spreading ideas
چکیده انگلیسی

Here we show that the main features of citations history (S-shaped curve, increasing h index, decreasing m quotient) are predictable with the constructal law of how an idea flows over a populated territory. It flows in two ways: fast and long, as “convection” along established channels of researchers interested in the idea, and slow and short, sideways from channels, by “diffusion” to new users. The first regime accounts for the rising portion of the S curve, and the second for the slow-down. Tree-shaped established channels spread the idea faster than single channels over the same area. The complexity of the design of fast channels increases in time due to the evolution of communications technologies.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - Volume 55, Issue 4, 31 January 2012, Pages 802–807
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