Sinatra et al. 2016 — three-page memo
A three-page memo on Sinatra, Wang, Deville, Song, and Barabási’s 2016 Science paper, Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact. Covers the Q-model, the random impact rule, and the supplementary-material co-authorship-asymmetry rule that the Coffee Shop project applies to infer mentor → mentee edges.
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Why this paper is in the project file
The Coffee Shop visualization uses Sinatra et al.’s co-authorship-asymmetry rule to infer mentor → mentee edges from publication data. About 99% of the lines in the live viz trace back to that rule. The memo lays out what the paper actually argues (the Q-model and the random impact rule), where the asymmetry rule lives (the supplementary materials), and where it shows its seams in practice.