Arnout van de Rijt

Seminars & Workshops

Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative Methods, together with Juho Härkönen (Autumn 2020)

Seminar: Social and political Networks (Autumn 2020)

Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative Methods, together with Juho Härkönen (Autumn 2019)

Seminar: Foundations of Computational Social Science (Autumn 2019)

Recent Publications

• On the wisdom of the crowd: Social influence undermines the wisdom of the crowd in sequential decision-making
• On inequality in science: The Matthew effect in science funding 
• On inequality in fame: Fifteen minutes only? The social stratification of fame in printed news. 
• On cumulative advantage: Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics

Recent media coverage

• Covid-19 et "supercontaminateurs": ciblons les personnes très sociables, L'Express (November 2020)

• 14-Day Quarantines Should Keep You Home, Bloomberg Opinion (July 2020)

• Covid-19 Science Update: A Second Peak Is Coming, Bloomberg Opinion (April 2020)

• The formula - the new science of success (podcast)

• Training fellowship recipients are more likely to get future funding, Science (April 2018)

• Scientists’ early grant success fuels further funding, Nature (April 2018)