The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements.

Each month we highlight the month’s download numbers and a few of the most-downloaded articles in the collection, and we feature stats and comments from a particular country.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center, or find more reader comments and global statistics.

Top downloaded articles for March:

Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change, Abdullah Almaatouq, Laura Radaelli, Alex Pentland, Erez Shmueli

The Power of Optimization Over Randomization in Designing Experiments Involving Small Samples, Dimitris Bertsimas, Mac Johnson, Nathan Kallus

A Vacuum-driven Origami “Magic-ball” Soft Gripper, Shuguang Li, John J. Stampfli, Helen J. Xu, Elian Malkin, Evelin Villegas Diaz, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood

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