OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Networks is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social balance-based centrality measure for directed signed networks	54
Interaction dynamics in classroom group work	48
Explaining contact patterns in acquaintanceship networks: A new covariate-based model	41
Networks of inclusion: Using teams and technology to create diverse social capital	31
Identifying stages in the lifespan of dynamic groups	28
Knowing me, knowing you: Socio-economic status and (segregation in) peer and parental networks in primary school	28
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	26
Same but different	23
Exponential random graph models and pendant-triangle statistics	23
Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures	23
Investigating the dynamics of yakuza violence using multilevel network analysis	21
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	20
Reprint of: What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents	20
Timing and networks: Embedding patterns of Peruvian migrants in Switzerland	19
Dimensions of social networks: A taxonomy and operationalization	18
Does “network closure” beef up firms’ performance?	18
How many friends do youth nominate? A meta-analysis of gender, age, and geographic differences in average outdegree centrality	18
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	18
Corrigendum to “Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures” [Soc. Netw. 29 (2007) 300–315]	18
An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel	17
Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study	16
Diffusion in small worlds with homophily and social reinforcement: A theoretical model	16
On the structural equivalence of coresidents and the measurement of village social structure	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	15
From attitudes to social networks: National gender-role attitudes and gender differences in late-life social relationships	15

Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface: Climate policy networks in Germany and Japan	15
Editorial Board	15
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility	15
Brokerage activity, exclusivity and role diversity: A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks	15
Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts	14
Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks	14
Multilevel integrated healthcare: The evaluation of Project ECHO® networks to integrate children’s healthcare in Australia	14
Coming into relations: How communication reveals and persuades relational decisions	13
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	13
Connecting for success: Egocentric network types among underrepresented minority students at college	13
Editorial Board	13
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	13
Emergence of social support networks among breast cancer survivors through a community-based physical activity program in Colombia	12
Reprint of: Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite	12
Flattening the curve? The structure of the natural resource exchange network and CO2 emissions	12
Symbolic association networks: A case study of orchestral programming’s effect on the reputation of composers	12
A clan detector algorithm to identify independent clans in the kinship networks of elite family dynasties	12
Does syndicating bring syndicating ?An exploration targeting ECF based on social structure by complex network analysis	12
A time to give and a time to receive: Role switching and generalized exchange in a financial market	12
Writing into relationships	12
Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being	12
Leadership and contagion by COVID-19 among residence hall students: A social network analysis approach	12
Adolescent network positions and memory performance in adulthood: Evidence from sibling fixed effects models with sociometric network data	12
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	12
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools	12
Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction	12
Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions	11
Gender bias in the classroom: A network study on self and peer ability attribution	11
Editorial Board	11
Measuring particularized trust: A name generator approach	11
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
In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope	10
The effect of perceptions of exploration and exploitation work activities on dynamic organizational knowledge networks	10
Gender homophily and gender distribution in social networks: The case of older adults in long term care settings	9
The cultural construction of personal relationships	9
Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space	9
Friendship network formation in Chinese middle schools: Patterns of inequality and homophily	9
Party Nexus Position Generator	9
Routine action networks: An architectural study of spatial layouts and performativity in outpatient clinics	9
A first look at justice-involved women’s egocentric social networks	9
The social ecology of intergenerational closure in school class networks. Socio-spatial conditions of parents’ norm generation and their effects on students’ interpersonal conflicts	9
Migration, mixedness, and the partner’s role in core discussion networks	9
Deviations from cultural consensus about occupations: The duality of occupation meanings and Americans’ meaning communities	9
Value creation framework for tourist destinations based on designable evaluation network	8
She Must Be Seeing Things! Gender disparity in camera department networks	8
An extended family of measures for directed networks	8
Network ties, institutional roles and advocacy tactics:Exploring explanations for perceptions of influence in climate change policy networks	8
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults	8
Mobilizing personal networks into concert audiences: The differential multilevel effects in an art convention	8
Local Majority-with-inertia Rule Can Explain Global Consensus Dynamics in A Network Coordination Game	8

Generators or diffusers? Examining differences in the dynamic coupling of context and social ties across multiple types of foci	8
Let it go or let it grow? – Personal network development and the mobilization of intra-organizational social capital	8
Duality, dissimilarity, and diversity: The use of ecological approaches to cross-nested affiliation data	8
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
Too many options: How to identify coalitions in a policy network?	8
Editorial Board	8
Effects of smartphone use and recall aids on network name generator questions	8
Birds of a feather sign together: Co-ratification patterns in the International environmental agreement network	8