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Dr. Claudio Castellano SMC, INFM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma Mailing address: Claudio Castellano Gruppo PIL, Dipartimento di Fisica, Edificio Fermi "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy Tel: +39 06 4993 7511 Fax: +39 06 4993 7440 
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I am a research scientist at the Center for Statistical Mechanics of Complexity, part of CNR-INFM, the italian National Institute for the Physics of Matter.
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A paper on citation analysis and a fair comparison of citation counts among different disciplines
F. Radicchi, S. Fortunato and C. Castellano
Universality of citation distributions: towards an objective measure of scientific impact
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 17268 (2008). [arXiv:0806.0974]
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A review article on the fast-growing field of applications
of statistical physics to social phenomena.
C. Castellano S. Fortunato and V. Loreto
Statistical physics of social dynamics
Rev. Mod. Phys 81, 591 (2009). [arXiv:0710.3256]
It includes:- opinion dynamics
- cultural dynamics
- language evolution and competition
- crowd behavior
- formation of hierarchies
- human dynamics
- social spreading phenomena
- coevolution of states and topology
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The theory of finite size scaling on networks sometimes involves
an anomalous dependence on the upper cutoff of the degree distribution.
M. Boguna, C. Castellano and R. Pastor-Satorras
Langevin approach for the dynamics of the contact process on annealed scale-free networks
Phys. Rev. E 79, 036110 (2009). [arXiv:0810.3000]
C. Castellano and R. Pastor-Satorras
Routes to thermodynamic limit on scale-free networks
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148701 (2008). [arXiv:0710.2784]
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A review on the identification of communities in complex networks.
S. Fortunato and C. Castellano
Community structure in graphs.
Springer's Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science (2009). [arXiv:0712.2716]