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| Title |
The Epidemics of Donations: Logistic Growth and Power-Laws
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0001458 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Frank Schweitzer, Robert Mach |
| Abstract |
This paper demonstrates that collective social dynamics resulting from individual donations can be well described by an epidemic model. It captures the herding behavior in donations as a non-local interaction between individual via a time-dependent mean field representing the mass media. Our study is based on the statistical analysis of a unique dataset obtained before and after the tsunami disaster of 2004. We find a power-law behavior for the distributions of donations with similar exponents for different countries. Even more remarkably, we show that these exponents are the same before and after the tsunami, which accounts for some kind of universal behavior in donations independent of the actual event. We further show that the time-dependent change of both the number and the total amount of donations after the tsunami follows a logistic growth equation. As a new element, a time-dependent scaling factor appears in this equation which accounts for the growing lack of public interest after the disaster. The results of the model are underpinned by the data analysis and thus also allow for a quantification of the media influence. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 50% |
| Germany | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2 | 4% |
| Turkey | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 50 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 28% |
| Researcher | 8 | 14% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 6 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 13 | 23% |
| Engineering | 9 | 16% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 12% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 5 | 9% |
| Mathematics | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 8 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 December 2014.
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#9,166
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#51
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