Can we ‘feel’ the temperature of knowledge? Modelling scientific popularity dynamics via thermodynamics

• Luoyi Fu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luoyi Fu, Dongrui Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7796-9168

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• Dongrui Lu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luoyi Fu, Dongrui Lu

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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• Qi Li,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8089-8348

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• Xinbing Wang ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xwang8@sjtu.edu.cn (XW); zhouch@lreis.ac.cn (CZ)

  Affiliation Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0357-8356

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• Chenghu Zhou

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: xwang8@sjtu.edu.cn (XW); zhouch@lreis.ac.cn (CZ)

  Affiliation Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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