Long tail kinetics in biophysics?

Challenging the Long Tail Recommendation

The success of “infinite-inventory” retailers such as Amazon.com and Netflix has been largely attributed to a “long tail” phenomenon. Although the majority of their inventory is not in high demand, these niche products, unavailable at limited-inventory competitors, generate a significant fraction of total revenue in aggregate. In addition, tail product availability can boost head sales by offer...

Trials trail a long tail

Background Systematic reviews are an important conduit for the findings of clinical trials. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the world’s largest collection of full-text reviews of interventions and provides an opportunity to investigate this. However, access data often focuses on the top 20 or 50 reviews, revealing nothing about several thousand more. Therefore, it might be...

Should You Invest in the Long Tail?

Shelf space strategy in long-tail markets

The Internet is known to have had a powerful impact on on-line retailer strategies in markets characterised by long-tail distribution of sales [1]. Such retailers can exploit the long tail of the market, since they are effectively without physical limit on the number of choices on offer. Here we examine two extensions of this phenomenon. First, we introduce turnover into the long-tail distribut...

On the Long-Tail Entities in News

Long-tail entities represent unique challenges for state-ofthe-art entity linking systems since they are under-represented in general knowledge bases. This paper studies long-tail entities in news corpora. We conduct experiments on a large news collection of one million articles, where we devise an approach for measuring the volume of such entities in news and we uncover insights on the challen...