An overview of the science of success

Xindi Wang; Alexander J. Gates; Albert László Barabási

doi:10.4337/9781802207309.00058

An overview of the science of success

Xindi Wang
, Alexander J. Gates
, Albert László Barabási

Department of Network and Data Science

Northeastern University
University of Virginia
Harvard Medical School, Boston

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The goal of the science of success is to explore in a quantitative manner the processes and behaviors through which some individuals attain success. The central tenet of the discipline is the distinction between performance, an individual measure of behavior, and success, a collective measure capturing the societal acknowledgement of an individual's performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Computational Social Science
Editors	Taha Yasseri
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Pages	592-608
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781802207309
ISBN (Print)	9781802207293
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207309.00058
State	Published - Dec 2025

Keywords

Behavior
Fame
Performance
Recognition
Success
Visibility

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