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Our research on urban scaling, published in Science Advances, calls into question an influential theory of the self-reinforcing dynamics of city growth. We show that big cities feed on their hinterlands to sustain growth.

We created 16 independent online ecosystems in which participants could share true and false messages about society, science, politics. Results reveal that partisan sorting systematically undermines the veracity of information circulating.

The success of Hollywood movies depends a great deal on their genre assignments. How likable are films that span multiple cultural categories?

People with higher incomes also score higher on IQ-tests – up to a point. At high incomes the relationship plateaus and the top 1% score even slightly lower on the test than those whose incomes rank right below them, shows a new study from LiU.

Microdata from Swedish population registers provide new insights into cities' economic growth paths. The data reveal a surge in regional inequality, with more and more resources flowing to cities atop the urban hierarchy.

How do the public discourses on immigration form and change over time? What part does social media, traditional media and the political parties play and how do they interact with each other? That are the main questions for a research project at IAS.

Four LiU researchers will receive a total of SEK 18 million in project grants from the Swedish Research Council within humanities and social sciences. A further SEK 17 million has been awarded to a research environment in migration and integration.

In a study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers at Linköping University show that the higher-than-expected outputs of larger cities critically depend on the extreme outcomes of the successful few.

Researchers at LiU call into question an influential theory of the self-reinforcing dynamics of urban growth.