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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Social balance-based centrality measure for directed signed networks	57
Interaction dynamics in classroom group work	51
Timing and networks: Embedding patterns of Peruvian migrants in Switzerland	41
Does “network closure” beef up firms’ performance?	31
Knowing me, knowing you: Socio-economic status and (segregation in) peer and parental networks in primary school	29
Identifying stages in the lifespan of dynamic groups	29
Exponential random graph models and pendant-triangle statistics	28
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	24
Investigating the dynamics of yakuza violence using multilevel network analysis	24
Reprint of: What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents	24
Explaining contact patterns in acquaintanceship networks: A new covariate-based model	23
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	22
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	21
Same but different	21
Networks of inclusion: Using teams and technology to create diverse social capital	21
Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures	20
An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel	19
Corrigendum to “Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures” [Soc. Netw. 29 (2007) 300–315]	19
Editorial Board	18
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility	18
Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study	18
Can an eye for an eye turn the whole world sanctioned?	17
How many friends do youth nominate? A meta-analysis of gender, age, and geographic differences in average outdegree centrality	17
Dimensions of social networks: A taxonomy and operationalization	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	17

Brokerage activity, exclusivity and role diversity: A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks	17
Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface: Climate policy networks in Germany and Japan	17
Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks	15
From attitudes to social networks: National gender-role attitudes and gender differences in late-life social relationships	15
Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts	15
On the structural equivalence of coresidents and the measurement of village social structure	15
Multilevel integrated healthcare: The evaluation of Project ECHO® networks to integrate children’s healthcare in Australia	15
Diffusion in small worlds with homophily and social reinforcement: A theoretical model	15
Connecting for success: Egocentric network types among underrepresented minority students at college	14
Flattening the curve? The structure of the natural resource exchange network and CO2 emissions	14
Editorial Board	14
Symbolic association networks: A case study of orchestral programming’s effect on the reputation of composers	14
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools	14
Coming into relations: How communication reveals and persuades relational decisions	13
Writing into relationships	13
Does syndicating bring syndicating ?An exploration targeting ECF based on social structure by complex network analysis	13
Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction	13
Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being	13
Reprint of: Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite	13
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	13
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	13
Leadership and contagion by COVID-19 among residence hall students: A social network analysis approach	13
Adolescent network positions and memory performance in adulthood: Evidence from sibling fixed effects models with sociometric network data	12
Emergence of social support networks among breast cancer survivors through a community-based physical activity program in Colombia	12
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	12
Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions	12
Editorial Board	12
A clan detector algorithm to identify independent clans in the kinship networks of elite family dynasties	12
A time to give and a time to receive: Role switching and generalized exchange in a financial market	12
Measuring particularized trust: A name generator approach	11
Gender homophily and gender distribution in social networks: The case of older adults in long term care settings	11
The effect of perceptions of exploration and exploitation work activities on dynamic organizational knowledge networks	11
Gender bias in the classroom: A network study on self and peer ability attribution	11
Party Nexus Position Generator	11
Friendship network formation in Chinese middle schools: Patterns of inequality and homophily	10
In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope	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
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	9
Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space	9
Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling	9
Routine action networks: An architectural study of spatial layouts and performativity in outpatient clinics	9
An extended family of measures for directed networks	9
Let it go or let it grow? – Personal network development and the mobilization of intra-organizational social capital	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
The role of network communication in mediating the effect of a social network intervention on HIV seroconversion among people who inject drugs in Ukraine	9
Network ties, institutional roles and advocacy tactics:Exploring explanations for perceptions of influence in climate change policy networks	9
The cultural construction of personal relationships	9
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults	9
A first look at justice-involved women’s egocentric social networks	9

Effects of smartphone use and recall aids on network name generator questions	9
Editorial Board	9
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
The gears in network dynamics: The alter-trajectory approach	8
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research	8
Reprint of: Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research	8
Birds of a feather sign together: Co-ratification patterns in the International environmental agreement network	8
Duality, dissimilarity, and diversity: The use of ecological approaches to cross-nested affiliation data	8
Network interventions to improve search and facilitate research-practice transfer	8
Value creation framework for tourist destinations based on designable evaluation network	8
She Must Be Seeing Things! Gender disparity in camera department networks	8
Too many options: How to identify coalitions in a policy network?	8
Measuring structural HIV stigma	8
Mobilizing personal networks into concert audiences: The differential multilevel effects in an art convention	8