This is a special list. Some papers are published in good journals, some are (I think) a good piece of science and some others are the result of a great time with some friends and colleagues. Although it's always satisfactory to end a paper (specially if it gets published) the paper itself is just a shadow of what you have learnt and the excitation that it generated. In some cases we walked on paths that no one else have explored before (and sometimes we got nowhere). Some papers on this list are also the outcome of long (I mean *really* long) nigths of hard work and many failures. But most of them share a common trait: they were made by people that truly enjoyed science.
Order and Chaos in a 2D Lotka-Volterra Coupled Map Lattice
Ricard V. Solé and Joaquim Valls, Phys. Lett. A 153 (1991) 330-336
Spiral Waves, Chaos and Multiple Attractors in Lattice Models
of Interacting Populations
Ricard V. Solé , Joaquim Valls and Jordi Bascompte, Phys. Lett. A 166
(1992) 123-128
Stability and Complexity in Spatially Extended Two-species Competition
Ricard V. Solé , Jordi Bascompte and Joaquim Valls, J. Theor. Biol.
159 (1993) 469-480
Spatially-Induced Bifurcations in Single Species Population Dynamics
Jordi Bascompté and Ricard V. Sole, J. Anim Ecol. 63 (1994) 256-264
Rethinking Complexity: Modelling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Ecology
Jordi Bascompte and Ricard V. Solé, Trends Ecol.Evol. 10 (1995) 361-366
Are Rainforests Selforganized in a Critical State?
Ricard V. Solé and Susanna C. Manrubia, Journal of Theoretical
Biology 173 (1995) 31-40
Habitat Fragmentation and Extinction Thresholds in spatialy explicit
models
Jordi Bascompte and Ricard V. Solé, J. of Anim. Ecol. 65 (1996) 465
Oscillations and Chaos in Ant Societies
Ricard V. Solé, Octavio Miramontes and Brian C. Goodwin, J.
Theor.Biol. 161 (1993) 343-357
This work was featured in: NEW SCIENTIST 13 June 1998
Information at the edge of chaos in Fluid Neural Networks
Ricard V. Solé and Octavio Miramontes, Physica D80 (1995) 171-180
Extinctions: Bad Genes or Weak Chaos?
Ricard V. Sole, Jordi Bascompte and Susanna C. Manrubia,
Proc. Roy. Soc. London B263 (1996) 1407-1413
Self-similarity of extinction statistics in the fossil record
Ricard V. Solé, Susanna C. Manrubia, Michael Benton and Per Bak,
Nature 388 (1997) 764-767
Featured in: THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 2, 1997)
Featured in: NEW SCIENTIST, November 8, 1997
Collective-induced computation
Jordi Delgado and Ricard V. Solé, Phys. Rev. E 55 (1997) 2338-2344
Phase Transitions in random Networks: simple analytic determination
of critical points
Bartolo Luque and Ricard V. Solé, Phys. Rev. E55 (1997) 257-262
Red Queen dynamics, competition and critical points in a model
of RNA virus quasispecies
Ricard V. Solé, Ramon Ferrer, Isabel Gonzalez-Garcia, Josep Quer
and Esteban Domingo, J. Theor. Biol. 198 (1999) 47-59
Criticality and Scaling in Evolutionary Ecology
Ricard V. Solé, Susanna C. Manrubia, Stuart Kauffman,
Michael Benton and Per Bak, Trends Ecol. Evol. 14 (1999) 156-160
Bifurcations and chaos in ecology: Lynx returns revisited
Javier G. P. Gamarra and Ricard V. Solé, Ecology Letters 3 (2000) 114-121
Connectivity and Scaling in S-species Model Ecosystems
Ricard V. Solé, David Alonso and Alan McKane, Physica A 286 (2000) 337-344
Gene networks capable of pattern formation: from induction
to reaction-diffusion
Isaac Salazar, Jordi Garcia-Fernandez and Ricard V. Solé, J. Theor. Biol. 205 (2000) 587-603
Information transfer and phase transitions in a model of Internet
Traffic
Ricard V. Solé and Sergi Valverde, Physica A 289 (2001) 595-605
Phenotypic and dynamical transitions in model
genetic networks I. Emergence of patterns and genotype-phenotype
relationships
Isaac Salazar-Ciudad, Stuart A. Newman and Ricard V. Solé
Evolution and Development 3, 84-94 (2001)
This paper was featured in:
NATURE (News and Views)
10 May 2001 (Comment by Eors SZATHMARY)
Small World patterns in Food Webs
Jose M. Montoya and Ricard V. Solé, J. Theor. Biol.214, 405-412
(2002).
Complexity and fragility in ecological networks
Ricard V. Solé and Jose M. Montoya, Proceedings of the Royal Society
268, 2039-2045 (2001)
Both papers featured in:
The NEW YORK TIMES, 26 December 2000
Featured in:
EL PAIS, 24 January 2001
Featured in:NEW
SCIENTIST,18 August 2001
Featured in:Physics World,
July 2001
The small world of human language
Ramon Ferrer Cancho and Ricard V. Solé,
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268 (2001) 2261-2266
Topology of Technology Graphs: Small World Patterns in Electronic
Circuits
Ramon Ferrer, Christiaan Janssen and Ricard V. Solé, Physical Review E 63 (2001) 32767
Featured in:
NATURE Science Update, 10 October 2001
Featured in: Technology research News , November 21, 2001
Field theory for a reaction-diffusion model of quasispecies
dynamics
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Ricard V. Solé
Physical Review E 64 (2001) 051909
Recovery from Mass Extinction: Evolutionary Assembly in Large-Scale Biosphere Dynamics
Ricard V. Solé, Jose M. Montoya and Douglas H. Erwin, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 357, 697-707 (2002)
Selforganized Instability in complex ecosystems
Ricard V. Solé, David Alonso and Alan McKane, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 357, 667-681 (2002)
A model of large-scale proteome evolution
Ricard V. Solé, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Eric D. Smith and Thomas Kepler,
Advances in Complex Systems 5 (2002) 43-54.
Spatial Patterns in Ant Colonies
In collaboration with Guy Theraulaz et al.,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 (2002) 9645-9649.
Featured in:
NATURE Science Update, 9 July 2002
Featured in:
NATURE (News and Views), 11 July 2002
Scale free networks from optimal design
Sergi Valverde,Ramon Ferrer Cancho and Ricard V.Solé
Europhysics Letters 60 (2002) 512-517
Selection, Tinkering, and Emergence in Complex Networks
Ricard V. Solé, Ramon Ferrer Cancho, Sergi Valverde, and Jose M. Montoya,
Complexity, 8(1) (2002) 20-33.
Metapopulation dynamics and spatial heterogeneity in cancer
Isabel González-García, Ricard V. Solé and Josep Costa,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 (2002) 13085-13089.
Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language
Ramon Ferrer Cancho and Ricard V. Solé
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100 (2003) 788-791.
We received the PREMI CIUTAT DE BARCELONA 2003 award for this work, 11 February 2004
Featured in:
NATURE Science Update, January 2002
Featured in:
SCIENCE Now22 January 2003
Featured in:
PNAS onlineJanuary 24, 2003
Phase transitions in unstable cancer cell populations
Ricard V. Solé,
European Physics Journal B35, 117-124 (2003)
Adaptive walks in a gene network model of morphogenesis: insights into the Cambrian explosion
Ricard V. Sole, Pau Fernandez and Stuart Kauffman, Int. J. Dev. Biol. 47, 693-701(2003)
An error catastrophe in cancer?
Ricard V. Solé and Thomas Deisboeck, J. Theor. Biol. 228, 47-54 (2004)
The large-scale organization of chemical reaction networks in astrophysics
Ricard V. Solé and Andreea Munteanu Europhysics Letters. 68(2), 170-176