OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Networks is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Timing and networks: Embedding patterns of Peruvian migrants in Switzerland	57
Social balance-based centrality measure for directed signed networks	52
Interaction dynamics in classroom group work	47
Reprint of: What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents	41
Exponential random graph models and pendant-triangle statistics	38
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	33
Does “network closure” beef up firms’ performance?	28
Confidentiality, power relations and evaluation of potential harm in the study of the personal and organizational networks of travel agents in Moscow	27
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	27
Same but different	23
Knowing me, knowing you: Socio-economic status and (segregation in) peer and parental networks in primary school	23
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	22
Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures	22
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility	22
On the structural equivalence of coresidents and the measurement of village social structure	21
Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface: Climate policy networks in Germany and Japan	20
Corrigendum to “Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures” [Soc. Netw. 29 (2007) 300–315]	20
Brokerage activity, exclusivity and role diversity: A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks	20
Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study	18
Editorial Board	18
An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel	17
From attitudes to social networks: National gender-role attitudes and gender differences in late-life social relationships	17
Diffusion in small worlds with homophily and social reinforcement: A theoretical model	17
How many friends do youth nominate? A meta-analysis of gender, age, and geographic differences in average outdegree centrality	16
Dimensions of social networks: A taxonomy and operationalization	16

Network formation in organizational settings: Exploring the importance of local social processes and team-level contextual variables in small groups using bayesian hierarchical ERGMs	16
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools	15
Flattening the curve? The structure of the natural resource exchange network and CO2 emissions	15
Connecting for success: Egocentric network types among underrepresented minority students at college	15
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	15
Leadership and contagion by COVID-19 among residence hall students: A social network analysis approach	14
Writing into relationships	14
A concluding comment: Toward a critical social network analysis	13
Editorial Board	13
Coming into relations: How communication reveals and persuades relational decisions	13
Symbolic association networks: A case study of orchestral programming’s effect on the reputation of composers	12
The increasing importance of friends: Changes in core discussion network composition in post-communist Hungary between 1997 – 2015	12
Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks	12
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	12
Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction	12
Multilevel integrated healthcare: The evaluation of Project ECHO® networks to integrate children’s healthcare in Australia	12
Revisiting the accuracy problem in network analysis using a unique dataset	12
A clan detector algorithm to identify independent clans in the kinship networks of elite family dynasties	11
The presentation of the networked self: Ethics and epistemology in social network analysis	11
Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions	11
A time to give and a time to receive: Role switching and generalized exchange in a financial market	11
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	11
Adolescent network positions and memory performance in adulthood: Evidence from sibling fixed effects models with sociometric network data	11
Reprint of: Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite	11
Emergence of social support networks among breast cancer survivors through a community-based physical activity program in Colombia	11
Does syndicating bring syndicating ?An exploration targeting ECF based on social structure by complex network analysis	11
Editorial Board	10
Networks are a lens for power: A commentary on the recent advances in the ethics of social networks special issue	10
Party Nexus Position Generator	10
Measuring particularized trust: A name generator approach	10
Positive, negative, and ambivalent dyads and triads with family and friends: A personal network study on how they are associated with young adults’ well-being	10
Friendship network formation in Chinese middle schools: Patterns of inequality and homophily	10
Gender bias in the classroom: A network study on self and peer ability attribution	10
The social ecology of intergenerational closure in school class networks. Socio-spatial conditions of parents’ norm generation and their effects on students’ interpersonal conflicts	10
Gender homophily and gender distribution in social networks: The case of older adults in long term care settings	10
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults	9
Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field	9
Moral bureaucracies and social network research	9
Routine action networks: An architectural study of spatial layouts and performativity in outpatient clinics	9
Let it go or let it grow? – Personal network development and the mobilization of intra-organizational social capital	9
Effects of smartphone use and recall aids on network name generator questions	9
A first look at justice-involved women’s egocentric social networks	9
Migration, mixedness, and the partner’s role in core discussion networks	9
The role of network communication in mediating the effect of a social network intervention on HIV seroconversion among people who inject drugs in Ukraine	8
Reprint of: Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research	8
Local Majority-with-inertia Rule Can Explain Global Consensus Dynamics in A Network Coordination Game	8
Network ties, institutional roles and advocacy tactics:Exploring explanations for perceptions of influence in climate change policy networks	8
Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research	8
Endogeneity and permeation in an organizational communication network	8
She Must Be Seeing Things! Gender disparity in camera department networks	8

Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space	8
An extended family of measures for directed networks	8
The civic elite: A network perspective on elite consolidation among community-based organizations, 1998–2016	8
Value creation framework for tourist destinations based on designable evaluation network	8
Mobilizing personal networks into concert audiences: The differential multilevel effects in an art convention	8
Exploring the role of network diversity and resources in relationship to generalized trust in Norway	8
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research	7
Predicting network members from partial contact records on social media: A machine learning approach	7
Generators or diffusers? Examining differences in the dynamic coupling of context and social ties across multiple types of foci	7
Building trust and co-designing a study of trust and co-operation: Observations from a network study in a high-risk, high-security environment	7
Tolerable disagreements: Collective action capacity & shape of coalitions	7
Non-parametric estimation of reciprocity and triadic effects in relational event networks	7
R&D cooperation in collaborative consumption of research equipment: An ERGM approach	7
Measuring structural HIV stigma	7
The rise of #climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis	7
Too many options: How to identify coalitions in a policy network?	7
Chronic illness and social network bridging in later life	6
Occupational selection and the reliability of position generator measures of social capital	6
The evolution of roles	6
Revising the Borgatti-Everett core-periphery model: Inter-categorical density blocks and partially connected cores	6
Perceived friendship network of socially anxious adolescent girls	6
“Defriending” in a polarized age: Political and racial homophily and tie dissolution	6
Suicide bomber mobilization and kin and peer ties	6
Clouding climate science: A comparative network and text analysis of consensus and anti-consensus scientists	6
Structure in context: A morphological view of whole network performance	6
You're all I need to get by? Analyzing young entrepreneurs’ networks in Morocco from a “quantified narratives” method	6
Assessing the dynamics of PrEP adoption in a national-scale physician network	6
Persistence and change in structural signatures of tie formation over time	6
Editorial Board	6
Investigating the role of multilevel social capital in ethnic income inequality in the Chinese labour market	6
More than one’s negative ties: The role of friends’ antipathies in high school gossip	6
Insurgency as complex network: Image co-appearance and hierarchy in the PKK	6
Reprint of: Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field	6
Editorial Board	6
Similarity and differences in age, gender, ethnicity, and education as explanatory factors of tie loss in the core discussion network	6
Configuration to conviction: Network structures of political judiciary in the Austrian Corporate State	6
How do youth choose activities? Assessing the relative importance of the micro-selection mechanisms behind adolescent extracurricular activity participation	6
How adolescents’ popularity perceptions change: Measuring interactions between popularity and friendship networks	5
Corrigendum to “Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure” [Soc. Netw. 79 (2024) 122–132]	5
Cross-border credit networks, banking risk contagion and suppression effects	5
Networks and institutions in sustainable forest use: Evidence from South-East Tanzania	5
Does the spatial distribution of social ties impact neighborhood and city attachment? Differentials among urban/rural contexts	5
Validation of interaction-based egocentric elicitation using ecological momentary assessment with young adults currently or formerly homeless	5
The interplay of misperceptions and willingness to share opinions in full classroom networks: The case of opinions towards homosexuality	5
Lost in translation: Collecting and coding data on social relations from audio-visual recordings	5
Editorial Board	5
Functional differentiation in governance networks for sea level rise adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area	5
Re-evaluating standards of human subjects protection for sensitive health data in social media networks	5
Weighting the transitivity of undirected weighted social networks with triadic edge dissimilarity scores	5
Structure of personal networks and cognitive abilities: A study on a sample of Italian older adults	5
Keep around, drop, or revise? exploring what becomes of difficult ties in personal networks	5
Identifying relationships between personal social networks and spatial mobility: A study using smartphone tracing and related surveys	5
Class inequalities in access to social capital in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires	5
Imaginary network motifs: Structural patterns of false positives and negatives in social networks	5
Corrigendum to “An efficient counting method for the colored triad census” [Soc. Netw. 58 (2019) 136–142]	5
Shortest path-based centrality metrics in attributed graphs with node-individual context constraints	5
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Choosing isolation in the face of stigma: Relational work in tie severance among Korean unwed mothers	4
Trust, quality, and the network collection experience: A tale of two studies on the Democratic Republic of the Congo	4
Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing: The importance of the meso level	4
Embedded performers: The relational foundations of record production	4
Older adults’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: The association with social networks	4
Editorial Board	4
Separating the wheat from the chaff: Bayesian regularization in dynamic social networks	4
“Offending with the accomplices of my accomplices”: Evidence and implications regarding triadic closure in co-offending networks	4
Understanding networks with exponential-family random network models	4
Editorial Board	4
Estimating policy effects in a social network with independent set sampling	4
The evolution of k-shell in syndication networks reveals financial performance of venture capital institutions	4
Integrated molecular and affiliation network analysis: Core-periphery social clustering is associated with HIV transmission patterns	4
Multilevel network interventions: Goals, actions, and outcomes	4
A statistical model for the analysis of mobility tables as weighted networks with an application to faculty hiring networks	4
Reprint of: Using social network analysis to study crime: Navigating the challenges of criminal justice records	4
Adoption and adaptation: A computational case study of the spread of Granovetter's weak ties hypothesis	4
Using geographical data and rolling statistics for diagnostics of respondent-driven sampling	4
Charting the hidden City: Collecting prison social network data	4
Cross-national variation in political network size, distribution, and prediction	4