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The Butterfly Effect: Correlations Between Modeling in Nuclear-Particle Physics and Socioeconomic Factors

Computational Physics 2010-12-09 v1 Digital Libraries Physics and Society

Abstract

A scientometric analysis has been performed on selected physics journals to estimate the presence of simulation and modeling in physics literature in the past fifty years. Correlations between the observed trends and several social and economical factors have been evaluated.

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@article{arxiv.1012.1718,
  title  = {The Butterfly Effect: Correlations Between Modeling in Nuclear-Particle Physics and Socioeconomic Factors},
  author = {M. G. Pia and T. Basaglia and Z. W. Bell and P. V. Dressendorfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1718},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, to appear in proceedings of the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2010, Knoxville