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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Timing and networks: Embedding patterns of Peruvian migrants in Switzerland	60
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	41
Identifying stages in the lifespan of dynamic groups	35
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	30
Does “network closure” beef up firms’ performance?	28
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	28
Same but different	25
Social balance-based centrality measure for directed signed networks	25
Interaction dynamics in classroom group work	23
Explaining contact patterns in acquaintanceship networks: A new covariate-based model	22
Exponential random graph models and pendant-triangle statistics	21
Knowing me, knowing you: Socio-economic status and (segregation in) peer and parental networks in primary school	18
Investigating the dynamics of yakuza violence using multilevel network analysis	18
How many friends do youth nominate? A meta-analysis of gender, age, and geographic differences in average outdegree centrality	18
Networks of inclusion: Using teams and technology to create diverse social capital	18
An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel	17
Diffusion in small worlds with homophily and social reinforcement: A theoretical model	17
Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface: Climate policy networks in Germany and Japan	16
Editorial Board	16
Dimensions of social networks: A taxonomy and operationalization	16
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility	16
Can an eye for an eye turn the whole world sanctioned?	16
From attitudes to social networks: National gender-role attitudes and gender differences in late-life social relationships	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
Multilevel integrated healthcare: The evaluation of Project ECHO® networks to integrate children’s healthcare in Australia	15

Corrigendum to “Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures” [Soc. Netw. 29 (2007) 300–315]	15
Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study	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
Connecting for success: Egocentric network types among underrepresented minority students at college	14
Editorial Board	14
Writing into relationships	14
Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks	14
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	14
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	13
Leadership and contagion by COVID-19 among residence hall students: A social network analysis approach	12
Flattening the curve? The structure of the natural resource exchange network and CO2 emissions	12
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	12
From mapping to action: Social network analysis as a strategic tool in cross-national community interventions	12
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools	12
Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being	11
A clan detector algorithm to identify independent clans in the kinship networks of elite family dynasties	11
A time to give and a time to receive: Role switching and generalized exchange in a financial market	11
Emergence of social support networks among breast cancer survivors through a community-based physical activity program in Colombia	11
Adolescent network positions and memory performance in adulthood: Evidence from sibling fixed effects models with sociometric network data	11
Editorial Board	11
Does syndicating bring syndicating ?An exploration targeting ECF based on social structure by complex network analysis	11
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	11
The cultural construction of personal relationships	10
The effect of perceptions of exploration and exploitation work activities on dynamic organizational knowledge networks	10
In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope	10
Measuring particularized trust: A name generator approach	10
Party Nexus Position Generator	10
Gender bias in the classroom: A network study on self and peer ability attribution	10
Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space	9
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults	9
Network ties, institutional roles and advocacy tactics:Exploring explanations for perceptions of influence in climate change policy 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
Deviations from cultural consensus about occupations: The duality of occupation meanings and Americans’ meaning communities	9
Routine action networks: An architectural study of spatial layouts and performativity in outpatient clinics	9
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
Gender homophily and gender distribution in social networks: The case of older adults in long term care settings	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
Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling	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
Duality, dissimilarity, and diversity: The use of ecological approaches to cross-nested affiliation data	8
Local Majority-with-inertia Rule Can Explain Global Consensus Dynamics in A Network Coordination Game	8
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research	8
Editorial Board	8
An extended family of measures for directed networks	8
Value creation framework for tourist destinations based on designable evaluation network	8
Methods for interventions using networks to improve health: A narrative synthesis of methodological research on network data collection, visualisation and intervention	8
Birds of a feather sign together: Co-ratification patterns in the International environmental agreement network	8

Mobilizing personal networks into concert audiences: The differential multilevel effects in an art convention	8
She Must Be Seeing Things! Gender disparity in camera department networks	8
Generators or diffusers? Examining differences in the dynamic coupling of context and social ties across multiple types of foci	8
Clouding climate science: A comparative network and text analysis of consensus and anti-consensus scientists	7
Revising the Borgatti-Everett core-periphery model: Inter-categorical density blocks and partially connected cores	7
Similarity and differences in age, gender, ethnicity, and education as explanatory factors of tie loss in the core discussion network	7
Predicting network members from partial contact records on social media: A machine learning approach	7
R&D cooperation in collaborative consumption of research equipment: An ERGM approach	7
The gears in network dynamics: The alter-trajectory approach	7
Insurgency as complex network: Image co-appearance and hierarchy in the PKK	7
Occupational selection and the reliability of position generator measures of social capital	7
Chronic illness and social network bridging in later life	7
Network interventions to improve search and facilitate research-practice transfer	7
Robust network scale-up method estimators	7
Measuring structural HIV stigma	7
Structure in context: A morphological view of whole network performance	7
Beyond weak ties in prison: An investigation of core support networks of incarcerated persons	7
Double agency and co-evolution for two-mode networks, with an application to corporate interlocks and firms’ environmental performance	7
More than one’s negative ties: The role of friends’ antipathies in high school gossip	7
Too many options: How to identify coalitions in a policy network?	7
The rise of #climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis	7
Stable or dynamic? Explaining the development of Muslim and non-Muslim boys’ and girls’ friendship-making across adolescence	6
Assessing the dynamics of PrEP adoption in a national-scale physician network	6
Editorial Board	6
Suicide bomber mobilization and kin and peer ties	6
Cross-border credit networks, banking risk contagion and suppression effects	6
“Defriending” in a polarized age: Political and racial homophily and tie dissolution	6
Modeling the duality of content niches and user interactions on online social media platforms	6
Investigating the role of multilevel social capital in ethnic income inequality in the Chinese labour market	6
Networks and institutions in sustainable forest use: Evidence from South-East Tanzania	6
Functional differentiation in governance networks for sea level rise adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area	6
Persistence and change in structural signatures of tie formation over time	6
How do youth choose activities? Assessing the relative importance of the micro-selection mechanisms behind adolescent extracurricular activity participation	6
Corrigendum to “Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure” [Soc. Netw. 79 (2024) 122–132]	6
Editorial Board	6
Alter composition with overlapping group memberships	6
Weighting the transitivity of undirected weighted social networks with triadic edge dissimilarity scores	5
Shortest path-based centrality metrics in attributed graphs with node-individual context constraints	5
The interplay of misperceptions and willingness to share opinions in full classroom networks: The case of opinions towards homosexuality	5
Validation of interaction-based egocentric elicitation using ecological momentary assessment with young adults currently or formerly homeless	5
Keep around, drop, or revise? exploring what becomes of difficult ties in personal networks	5
How adolescents’ popularity perceptions change: Measuring interactions between popularity and friendship networks	5
Imaginary network motifs: Structural patterns of false positives and negatives in social networks	5
Separating the wheat from the chaff: Bayesian regularization in dynamic social networks	5
Corrigendum to “An efficient counting method for the colored triad census” [Soc. Netw. 58 (2019) 136–142]	5
Structure of personal networks and cognitive abilities: A study on a sample of Italian older adults	5
Multilevel network interventions: Goals, actions, and outcomes	5
Class inequalities in access to social capital in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires	5
Urban environmental stewardship networks: How organizations collaborate, share resources, and exchange knowledge within Baltimore, Maryland	5
Older adults’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: The association with social networks	4
Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance	4
Understanding networks with exponential-family random network models	4
Getting lonely and isolated? Transitions in social isolation profiles over time and factors associated with them among older adults	4
Conflict dynamics in collaborative knowledge production. A study of network gatekeeping on Wikipedia	4
Choosing isolation in the face of stigma: Relational work in tie severance among Korean unwed mothers	4
Editorial Board	4
The evolution of k-shell in syndication networks reveals financial performance of venture capital institutions	4
Embedded performers: The relational foundations of record production	4
Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing: The importance of the meso level	4
Social network connectivity and food insecurity among single parents: Findings from a representative survey in Ghana	4
“Offending with the accomplices of my accomplices”: Evidence and implications regarding triadic closure in co-offending networks	4
Editorial Board	4
Estimating policy effects in a social network with independent set sampling	4
The co-evolution of informal social status and gossip in workplace social networks	4