OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Networks is 7. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Using social network analysis to study crime: Navigating the challenges of criminal justice records	41
Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction	39
NETWORK IMPACT OF SOCIAL INNOVATION INITIATIVES IN MARGINALISED RURAL COMMUNITIES	38
What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents	36
Missing data in cross-sectional networks – An extensive comparison of missing data treatment methods	33
Networks in lockdown: The consequences of COVID-19 for social relationships and feelings of loneliness	30
Does unemployment lead to isolation? The consequences of unemployment for social networks	26
Unpacking Burt’s constraint measure	25
Exponential random graph models for little networks	25
The duality of firms and directors in board interlock networks: A relational event modeling approach	25
The presentation of the networked self: Ethics and epistemology in social network analysis	24
Social network research in health care settings: Design and data collection	24
Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures	23
Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite	22
Network brokerage and the perception of leadership	22
Innovation capability: A sociometric approach	20
Gender, rank, and social networks on an enterprise social media platform	19
Triadic balance in the brain: Seeking brain evidence for Heider’s structural balance theory	18
Dynamic network analysis of contact diaries	18
Collecting survey-based social network information in work organizations	18
Whom do we lose? The case of dissimilarity in personal networks	18
Believe it when you see it: Dyadic embeddedness and reputation effects on trust in cryptomarkets for illegal drugs	17
Collecting large personal networks in a representative sample of Dutch women	17
“I’m not an antivaxxer, but…”: Spurious and authentic diversity among vaccine critical activists	17
Identifying individuals associated with organized criminal networks: A social network analysis	16

Network structure influence on simulated network interventions for behaviour change	16
Social network analysis: New ethical approaches through collective reflexivity. Introduction to the special issue of Social Networks	16
Key aspects of covert networks data collection: Problems, challenges, and opportunities	16
Whose results are these anyway? Reciprocity and the ethics of “giving back” after social network research	15
How social ties transcend class boundaries? Network variability as tool for exploring occupational homophily	15
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	15
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	15
What kinds of social networks protect older adults’ health during a pandemic? The tradeoff between preventing infection and promoting mental health	15
How does the behaviour of the core differ from the periphery? – An international trade network analysis	15
Crowdfunding digital platforms: Backer networks and their impact on project outcomes	15
Multilevel determinants of collaboration between organised criminal groups	14
Universal evolution patterns of degree assortativity in social networks	14
Networks never rest: An investigation of network evolution in three species of animals	14
Social network and family business: Uncovering hybrid family firms	14
Worth the weight: Conceptualizing and measuring strong versus weak tie homophily	14
Adoption and adaptation: A computational case study of the spread of Granovetter's weak ties hypothesis	13
Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions	13
Homophily in collaborations among US House Representatives, 1981–2018	13
Building a structural typology of personal networks: Individual differences in the cohesion of interpersonal environment	12
Lay theories of networking ability: Beliefs that inhibit instrumental networking	12
How new is “New”? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks?	11
Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field	11
Let it go or let it grow? – Personal network development and the mobilization of intra-organizational social capital	11
Does the spatial distribution of social ties impact neighborhood and city attachment? Differentials among urban/rural contexts	11
Multiplexity as a lens to investigate the cultural meanings of interpersonal ties	11
Friends, family, and family friends: Predicting friendships of Dutch women	10
Gender inequalities in research funding: Unequal network configurations, or unequal network returns?	10
More than one’s negative ties: The role of friends’ antipathies in high school gossip	10
Exploring the role of network diversity and resources in relationship to generalized trust in Norway	10
Exploratory social-spatial network analysis of global migration structure	10
Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research	10
Transitions of women’s substance use recovery networks and 12-month sobriety outcomes	9
The ties that bind global governance: Using media-reported events to disentangle the global interorganizational network in a global pandemic	9
Moral bureaucracies and social network research	9
Network integration within a prison-based therapeutic community	9
Dynamics of social capital in Urban China, 1999 to 2014: An age-period-cohort analysis	9
The embeddedness of social relations in inter-firm competitive structures	9
Who benefits from network intervention programs? TERGM analysis across ten Philippine low-income communities	8
Positive and negative tie perceptual accuracy: Pollyanna principle vs. negative asymmetry explanations	8
The potential of online social networking data for augmenting the study of high-risk personal networks among young men who have sex with men at-risk for HIV	8
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	8
Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents’ romantic networks	8
Identifying relationships between personal social networks and spatial mobility: A study using smartphone tracing and related surveys	8
Friendship network formation in Chinese middle schools: Patterns of inequality and homophily	8
Kudos make you run! How runners influence each other on the online social network Strava	8
Network recall among older adults with cognitive impairments	8
Teammate invitation networks: The roles of recommender systems and prior collaboration in team assembly	8
Ethical implications of network data in business and management settings	8
The network of interfamily marriages in ’Ndrangheta	8
Actors and issues in climate change policy: The maturation of a policy discourse in the national and international context	8

A community matching based approach to measuring layer similarity in multilayer networks	8
Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus	8
Hubs and Authorities in the Koch Brothers Network	8
Anagraphical relationships and crime specialization within Cosa Nostra	8
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	8
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	7
The political position generator—A new instrument for measuring political ties in China	7
The civic elite: A network perspective on elite consolidation among community-based organizations, 1998–2016	7
Group dynamics on multidimensional object threat appraisals	7
Avoidance, antipathy, and aggression: A three-wave longitudinal network study on negative networks, status, and heteromisos	7
Bridging in network organisations. The case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	7
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	7
Networks of context: Three-layer socio-cultural mapping for a Verstehende network analysis	7
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research	7
Re-evaluating standards of human subjects protection for sensitive health data in social media networks	7