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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Timing and networks: Embedding patterns of Peruvian migrants in Switzerland	60
Investigating the dynamics of yakuza violence using multilevel network analysis	44
Same but different	40
Networks of inclusion: Using teams and technology to create diverse social capital	34
Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures	34
Knowing me, knowing you: Socio-economic status and (segregation in) peer and parental networks in primary school	30
Explaining contact patterns in acquaintanceship networks: A new covariate-based model	27
Exponential random graph models and pendant-triangle statistics	26
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	25
Interaction dynamics in classroom group work	25
Does “network closure” beef up firms’ performance?	23
Identifying stages in the lifespan of dynamic groups	22
Reprint of: What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents	22
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	21
Social balance-based centrality measure for directed signed networks	18
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	18
Brokerage activity, exclusivity and role diversity: A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks	18
On the structural equivalence of coresidents and the measurement of village social structure	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	17
A hostile reputation: A social network approach to interstate hostility	16
Dimensions of social networks: A taxonomy and operationalization	16
Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study	16
Corrigendum to “Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures” [Soc. Netw. 29 (2007) 300–315]	16
Editorial Board	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	15
Multilevel integrated healthcare: The evaluation of Project ECHO® networks to integrate children’s healthcare in Australia	15
An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel	15
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
Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface: Climate policy networks in Germany and Japan	15
Connecting for success: Egocentric network types among underrepresented minority students at college	14
Writing into relationships	14
Editorial Board	14
Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks	14
Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being	14
Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts	14
Flattening the curve? The structure of the natural resource exchange network and CO2 emissions	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	13
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	12
From mapping to action: Social network analysis as a strategic tool in cross-national community interventions	12
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	12
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools	12
A time to give and a time to receive: Role switching and generalized exchange in a financial market	11
A clan detector algorithm to identify independent clans in the kinship networks of elite family dynasties	11
Reprint of: Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite	11
Does syndicating bring syndicating ?An exploration targeting ECF based on social structure by complex network analysis	11
Emergence of social support networks among breast cancer survivors through a community-based physical activity program in Colombia	11
Leadership and contagion by COVID-19 among residence hall students: A social network analysis approach	11
Editorial Board	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	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
Measuring particularized trust: A name generator approach	10
Party Nexus Position Generator	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
In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope	10
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	10
Gender bias in the classroom: A network study on self and peer ability attribution	10
Adolescent network positions and memory performance in adulthood: Evidence from sibling fixed effects models with sociometric network data	10
The cultural construction of personal relationships	10
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
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
Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space	9
Routine action networks: An architectural study of spatial layouts and performativity in outpatient clinics	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
Effects of smartphone use and recall aids on network name generator questions	9
Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling	9
A first look at justice-involved women’s egocentric social networks	9
Editorial Board	9
Mobilizing personal networks into concert audiences: The differential multilevel effects in an art convention	8
Value creation framework for tourist destinations based on designable evaluation network	8

Building trust and co-designing a study of trust and co-operation: Observations from a network study in a high-risk, high-security environment	8
R&D cooperation in collaborative consumption of research equipment: An ERGM approach	8
Birds of a feather sign together: Co-ratification patterns in the International environmental agreement network	8
An extended family of measures for directed networks	8
She Must Be Seeing Things! Gender disparity in camera department networks	8
The rise of #climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis	8
Generators or diffusers? Examining differences in the dynamic coupling of context and social ties across multiple types of foci	8
Duality, dissimilarity, and diversity: The use of ecological approaches to cross-nested affiliation data	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
Measuring structural HIV stigma	8
Methods for interventions using networks to improve health: A narrative synthesis of methodological research on network data collection, visualisation and intervention	7
More than one’s negative ties: The role of friends’ antipathies in high school gossip	7
Predicting network members from partial contact records on social media: A machine learning approach	7
Too many options: How to identify coalitions in a policy network?	7
Revising the Borgatti-Everett core-periphery model: Inter-categorical density blocks and partially connected cores	7
Persistence and change in structural signatures of tie formation over time	7
The gears in network dynamics: The alter-trajectory approach	7
Robust network scale-up method estimators	7
Structure in context: A morphological view of whole network performance	7
Insurgency as complex network: Image co-appearance and hierarchy in the PKK	7
Similarity and differences in age, gender, ethnicity, and education as explanatory factors of tie loss in the core discussion network	7
Network interventions to improve search and facilitate research-practice transfer	7
Reprint of: Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field	7
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research	7
Occupational selection and the reliability of position generator measures of social capital	7
Beyond weak ties in prison: An investigation of core support networks of incarcerated persons	7
How do youth choose activities? Assessing the relative importance of the micro-selection mechanisms behind adolescent extracurricular activity participation	7
Editorial Board	6
Investigating the role of multilevel social capital in ethnic income inequality in the Chinese labour market	6
Clouding climate science: A comparative network and text analysis of consensus and anti-consensus scientists	6
“Defriending” in a polarized age: Political and racial homophily and tie dissolution	6
Stable or dynamic? Explaining the development of Muslim and non-Muslim boys’ and girls’ friendship-making across adolescence	6
Suicide bomber mobilization and kin and peer ties	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
Chronic illness and social network bridging in later life	6
Editorial Board	6
Modeling the duality of content niches and user interactions on online social media platforms	6
Networks and institutions in sustainable forest use: Evidence from South-East Tanzania	6
Cross-border credit networks, banking risk contagion and suppression effects	6
Double agency and co-evolution for two-mode networks, with an application to corporate interlocks and firms’ environmental performance	6
Assessing the dynamics of PrEP adoption in a national-scale physician network	6
Editorial Board	6
Alter composition with overlapping group memberships	6
Lost in translation: Collecting and coding data on social relations from audio-visual recordings	5
Class inequalities in access to social capital in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires	5
Separating the wheat from the chaff: Bayesian regularization in dynamic social networks	5
Keep around, drop, or revise? exploring what becomes of difficult ties in personal networks	5
Multilevel network interventions: Goals, actions, and outcomes	5
Functional differentiation in governance networks for sea level rise adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area	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
Urban environmental stewardship networks: How organizations collaborate, share resources, and exchange knowledge within Baltimore, Maryland	5
Structure of personal networks and cognitive abilities: A study on a sample of Italian older adults	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
Weighting the transitivity of undirected weighted social networks with triadic edge dissimilarity scores	5
How adolescents’ popularity perceptions change: Measuring interactions between popularity and friendship networks	5
Using geographical data and rolling statistics for diagnostics of respondent-driven sampling	4
Reprint of: Using social network analysis to study crime: Navigating the challenges of criminal justice records	4
Shortest path-based centrality metrics in attributed graphs with node-individual context constraints	4
Social network connectivity and food insecurity among single parents: Findings from a representative survey in Ghana	4
The evolution of k-shell in syndication networks reveals financial performance of venture capital institutions	4
Estimating policy effects in a social network with independent set sampling	4
Understanding networks with exponential-family random network models	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Charting the hidden City: Collecting prison social network data	4
Choosing isolation in the face of stigma: Relational work in tie severance among Korean unwed mothers	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
From warnings to bans: The role of social networks in the severity of sanctions	4
“Offending with the accomplices of my accomplices”: Evidence and implications regarding triadic closure in co-offending networks	4
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
Getting lonely and isolated? Transitions in social isolation profiles over time and factors associated with them among older adults	4