
Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987 »
The original journal devoted to the science, mathematics and engineering of systems with simple components but complex overall behavior.


Complex Systems journal is included in the Web of Science (Clarivate) 2023 Journal Citation Reports with an Impact Factor of 1.2, ranking 11th in the category "Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Application - ESCI" and 5th by total citations.

Hundreds of published papers, encompassing three decades of leading-edge complex systems research, are available for free and immediate download.

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Volume 34, Issue 2

Dvarkesh Ghatol, Muhammad Alfas, Akshay Mattoo and Shaurya Shriyam
Grid-World Modeling of Area-Population Dynamics Based on Data for Indian Cities
Sudipta Paul, Fatemeh Sadjadi, Vicenç Torra and Julián Salas
Community Discovery on Dynamic Graphs with Edge-Local Differential Privacy
Daniel Maksimov, Pillot Benjamin and Gervet Carmen
Toward Human Mobility Pattern Detection through Sparse Data
Igor Lugo and Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras
Musical Composition and Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata Based on Music Intervals
Conor Houghton
Cooperation as Well as Learning: A Commentary on “How Learning Can Guide Evolution”

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