The pattern appeared on Leo Mercer's screen at 2:33 on a Thursday morning, and for a moment he thought it was a glitch.
He had been running a network analysis on ten thousand academic citation records—data he had scraped from university databases, cleaned, and structured over the course of three sleepless weeks. The goal had been simple: map the citation networks of a particular research field and identify clusters of related work. A routine graduate student exercise, or at least that is what his advisor had...
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