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 2021-06-01 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
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility	22
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
On the structural equivalence of coresidents and the measurement of village social structure	21
Brokerage activity, exclusivity and role diversity: A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks	20
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
Editorial Board	18
Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study	18
Diffusion in small worlds with homophily and social reinforcement: A theoretical model	17
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
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
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
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	15
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
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
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
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
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
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
Migration, mixedness, and the partner’s role in core discussion networks	9
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
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
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