New England Complex Systems Institute

Recent papers from New England Complex Systems Institute

1. Sigmoid-Parameterized Lifepaths: A Dynamic Framework for Analyzing Research Trajectories in Scholarly EcosystemsQuantitative Science Studies · 2026
2. A net social propagation index for blood pressure: evidence from a randomized trialScientific Reports · 2026
3. A Call for the Universal Use of Respirators in HealthcareNEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy · 2026
4. Disparities in survival after hip fractures in Chile in patients above 60 years: the impact of the operating room managementFrontiers in Health Services · 2026
5. Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societiesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025
6. Unraveling the Complexity of Carbon Footprint Research: A Framework of Sigmoid‐Based Lifepaths, Regime Classification, and Topic ModelingProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2025
7. TEMPORARY REMOVAL: COVID-19 Is Airborne AIDS: Provocative Oversimplification, Emerging Science, or Something in Between?AJPM Focus · 2025
8. Behavioral dynamics of social propagation for weight loss: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in a low-income Appalachian communityPLOS complex systems. · 2025
9. Predicting system dynamics of pervasive growth patterns in complex systemsScientific Reports · 2025
10. A Formal Definition of Scale-Dependent Complexity and the Multi-Scale Law of Requisite VarietyEntropy · 2025
11. “Follow-the-Leader” domino weight loss effects in low-income Middle Eastern refugee communities: Disentangling macro average peer versus micro leader-driven effects in a randomized trialPLOS complex systems. · 2025
12. Complex interrelationships among respiratory diseases and chronic multimorbidity: a longitudinal network analysis and implications for future viral respiratory pandemic preparednessFrontiers in Epidemiology · 2025
13. Text speaks louder: Insights into personality from natural language processingPLoS ONE · 2025
14. Long COVID clinical evaluation, research and impact on society: a global expert consensusAnnals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials · 2025
15. HIV Social-network intervention more effective in older populations in KenyaBMC Public Health · 2024
16. Social Induction via a Social Behavioral Intervention on Changes in Metabolic Risk FactorsMayo Clinic Proceedings · 2024
17. Review of organ damage from COVID and Long COVID: a disease with a spectrum of pathologyMedical Review · 2024
18. An SMS chatbot digital educational program to increase healthy eating behaviors in adolescence: A multifactorial randomized controlled trial among 7,890 participants in the Danish National Birth CohortPLoS Medicine · 2024
19. From a false sense of safety to resilience under uncertaintyFrontiers in Psychology · 2024
20. Social network enhanced behavioral interventions for diabetes and obesity: A 3 arm randomized trial with 2 years follow-up in JordanPLOS Global Public Health · 2024