Journal article
Narrative structure of A Song of Ice and Fire creates a fictional world with realistic measures of social complexity
- Abstract:
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Network science and data analytics are used to quantify static and dynamic structures in George R. R. Martin’s epic novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, works noted for their scale and complexity. By tracking the network of character interactions as the story unfolds, it is found that structural properties remain approximately stable and comparable to real-world social networks. Furthermore, the degrees of the most connected characters reflect a cognitive limit on the number of concurrent social c...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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European Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal website
- Volume:
- 117
- Issue:
- 46
- Pages:
- 28582-28588
- Publication date:
- 2020-11-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1091-6490
- ISSN:
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0027-8424
- Pmid:
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33139549
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1140877
- Local pid:
- pubs:1140877
- Deposit date:
- 2021-05-04
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- Copyright holder:
- T Gessey-Jones et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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