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Authors & Citation

Donghyeok Choi

Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST

Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University

Writing, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization

Javier Cha

Department of History, The University of Hong Kong

Supervision, Writing — review & editing

Juyong M. ParkCorresponding

Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST

School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Writing, Supervision, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Conceptualization

Citation

Choi, D., Cha, J., & Park, J. M. (2026). Total Success Index and the Longitudinal Dynamics of Bureaucratic Stratification in Joseon Korea. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications (in press).

doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2026.131353

BibTeX

@article{choi2026tsi,
  title   = {Total Success Index and the Longitudinal
             Dynamics of Bureaucratic Stratification
             in Joseon Korea},
  author  = {Choi, Donghyeok and Cha, Javier
             and Park, Juyong M.},
  journal = {Physica A: Statistical Mechanics
             and Its Applications},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {In press},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.physa.2026.131353}
}

Data Availability

All data and code are freely available on GitHub.

github.com/dhchoi02/JoseonTSI

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2023-00245361, NRF-2020S1A5C2A03093177, BK21 Four Program for Content Science), Korea Creative Content Agency (RS-2023-00270043), and KAIST Post-AI Research Institute.