This paper documents a study of the real-time Wikipedia edit stream containing over 6 million edits on 1.5 million English Wikipedia articles, during 2015. We focus on answering questions related to identification and use of information cascades between Wikipedia articles, based on author editing activity. Our findings show that by constructing information cascades between Wikipedia articles us...

In the months leading up to the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, there was a plethora of reports in leading biomedical journals about biological weapons and bioterrorism. The coverage seemed out of proportion to the public health importance of bioterrorism, which has claimed only a small number of lives worldwide. In 2002, there were many more articles on bioterrorism than there were articles on ...

background: micronutrient deficiency is one of the major public health problems in the middle east affecting economic, political and social development of countries. the three commonest micronutrient deficiencies belong to iron, iodine and vitamin a.  methods: we conducted a systematic review of published english articles in the middle east countries using databases from pubmed, world health or...

Do citations accumulate too slowly in the social sciences to be used to assess the quality of recent articles? I investigate whether this is the case using citation data for all articles in economics and political science published in 2006 and indexed in the Web of Science. I find that citations in the first two years after publication explain more than half of the variation in cumulative citat...

In this paper, I apply framing theory to the online newspaper opinion articles that were most shared and most liked in social media in 2014. The articles were published in two of Norway’s largest and most influential online newspapers; Dagbladet.no and Aftenposten.no. Frame analysis makes visible how people define and construct a given issue, and as such can provide valuable input on how to wri...

Managed care issues were volatile during the last 5 years and the related publications mirror that controversy. An important trait of the articles published on managed care was how quickly they outdated. Much of the literature published in 1999 focused on the source of the managed care backlash or was in response to proposed patients’ bill of rights legislation; for example, the October 1999 is...

Within the past decade, more than four hundred articles on policy diffusion have been published in political science journals. These articles have been spread fairly evenly across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics, and international relations. Analyzing the diffusion articles published in the top political science journals over the past fifty years, we find that the Ameri...

this article which is aimed at regulating the change of laws in legislative system of islamic republic of iran, intends to shed light over a significant change which has recently been taken place in the inheritance law of iran. (articles 946-949 of civl law of iran). this is analyzed from various view points such as historical, political, social, economic, legal and juridical aspect. the probab...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...