Scaling of prosocial behavior in cities

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2155-2159

  Arbesman, Samuel ^a   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities; Innovation; Prosocial; Scaling

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CITIES; ORGAN DONATIONS; PER CAPITA; POPULATION SIZES; PROSOCIAL; SCALING; SUPERLINEAR;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 79953294123     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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