Dr. José R. Nicolás-Carlock

Dr. José R. Nicolás-Carlock

E-mail: nico.carlock at gmail

Dr. José R. Nicolás-Carlock

About

I am a researcher interested in the study of nature and society from the perspective of complexity science. Currently, I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Complex Systems at the Institute of Physics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Publication Highlights

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Crime, Corruption & Violence

corruption

 

  • (2023) Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform. J.R. Nicolás-Carlock & I. Luna-Pla, Trends in Organized Crime [Open Access]

  • (2021) Corruption Networks: Concepts and Applications. O.M. Granados & J.R. Nicolás-Carlock (Eds), Understanding Complex Systems Series, Springer [Online]

  • (2020) Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks. I. Luna-Pla & J.R. Nicolás-Carlock, in Structure and Dynamics of Crime, Applied Network Science [Open Access]

Complexity in Social Systems

social

  • (2024) Spatial scales of COVID-19 transmission in Mexico. Klein, B., Hartle, H., Shrestha, M, Zenteno, A.C., Barros-Sierra, D., Nicolas-Carlock, J.R., Bento, A.I., Althouse, B.M., Gutierrez, B., Escalera-Zamudio, M., Reyes-Sandoval, A., Pybus, O.G., Vespignani, A., Diaz-Quiñonez, J.A., Scarpino, S., Kraemer, M., PNAS Nexus [Open Access]

  • (2024) Strength of minority ties: the role of homophily and group composition in a weighted social network. J.R. Nicolás-Carlock, D. Boyer, S.E. Smith-Aguilar & G. Ramos-Fernández, Journal of Physics: Complexity [Open Access]

Complexity in Physical Systems

fractals

 

  • (2023) Network efficiency of spatial systems with fractal morphology: a geometric graphs approach. A.C. Flores-Ortega, J.R. Nicolás-Carlock & J.L. Carrillo-Estrada. Scientific Reports [Open Access]

  • (2023) Diffusion limited aggregation, resetting and large deviations of Brownian motion. U. Villanueva-Alacalá, J.R. Nicolás-Carlock & D. Boyer. Molecular Physics [Online]

  • (2019) A universal dimensionality function for the fractal dimensions of Laplacian growth. J.R. Nicolás-Carlock & J.L. Carrillo-Estrada. Scientific Reports [Open Access]

  • (2016) Fractality à la carte: a general particle aggregation model. J.R. Nicolás-Carlock, V. Dossetti & J.L. Carrillo-Estrada. Scientific Reports [Open Access]