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Scaling Laws

Scaling Law is a mathematical relationship that specifies how a physical or systemic quantity changes with the scale of another variable, distinguished by its derivation from dimensional homogeneity, self-similarity, or critical phenomena across domains such as thermodynamics, percolation, and propulsion systems.

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Scaling Relations

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A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology

Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian J. Enquist · Science · 1997 · 5K citations

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The critical properties of the two-dimensional xy model

J. M. Kosterlitz · Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics · 1974 · 2.9K citations

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Relaxation processes in supercooled liquids

W. Götze, L. Sjögren · Reports on Progress in Physics · 1992 · 2.9K citations

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Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena. I. Renormalization Group and the Kadanoff Scaling Picture

Kenneth G. Wilson · Physical review. B, Solid state · 1971 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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The scaling laws of human travel

Dirk Brockmann, Lars Hufnagel, T. Geisel · Nature · 2006 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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  1. AM
    A. Murari

    National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy

    7 publications · 166 citations

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  2. MG
    Michele Garetto

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    7 publications · 238 citations

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  3. EL
    Emilio Leonardi

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    7 publications · 238 citations

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    Alfonso M. Gañán‐Calvo

    Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Zhong Luo

    Northeastern University, China

    7 publications · 159 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    47 h-index

    255 publications

    21.7K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    26 h-index

    91 publications

    6.3K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    61 publications

    4K citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    20 h-index

    71 publications

    3.3K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    52 publications

    5.9K citations

  6. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    70 publications

    5.3K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    18 h-index

    54 publications

    6K citations

  8. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    18 h-index

    51 publications

    8.2K citations

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 107 publications · 11.2K citations

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  2. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    40 publications · 3.5K citations

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  3. Physical Review E

    PRE · 61 publications · 2.5K citations

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  4. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    42 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 26 publications · 2.2K citations

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