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Nicholas A. Christakis
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 315
Citations - 52685
Nicholas A. Christakis is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Social network. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 307 publications receiving 48235 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas A. Christakis include Mount Auburn Hospital & University of Notre Dame.
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Modeling the role of networks and individual differences in inter-group violence
TL;DR: The role of individual variation and of network structure within a population in promoting and inhibiting group violence towards other populations is explored and a particularly effective control strategy relies on exploiting network degree.
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Perish and publish: non-heart-beating organ donation and unduly iterative ethical review.
TL;DR: Concerns about the implicit support and credibility that professional publications give to organ procurement policies are raised, and restraint in publishing articles about non-heart-beating organ donation as well as in devising such policies is strongly advocated.
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Collective communication and behaviour in response to uncertain 'Danger' in network experiments.
TL;DR: This work performs experiments involving a novel scenario simulating an unpredictable situation faced by a group in which 2480 subjects in 108 groups had to both communicate information and decide whether to ‘evacuate’.
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Pay-it-forward gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial
Tiange P Zhang,Tiange P Zhang,Fan Yang,Weiming Tang,Weiming Tang,Marcus Alexander,Laura Forastiere,Navin Kumar,Katherine T. Li,Fei Zou,Ligang Yang,Guodong Mi,Yehua Wang,Wenting Huang,Amy S. Lee,Weizan Zhu,Peter Vickerman,Dan Wu,Bin Yang,Nicholas A. Christakis,Joseph D. Tucker,Joseph D. Tucker +21 more
TL;DR: The protocol of a randomized controlled trial is reported to evaluate dual gonorrhea/chlamydia test uptake and other outcomes among Chinese men who have sex with men in three arms – a pay-it-forward arm, apay-what-you-want arm, and a standard of care arm.