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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using social network analysis to study crime: Navigating the challenges of criminal justice records	42
Connecting mobile social media with psychosocial well-being: Understanding relationship between WeChat involvement, network characteristics, online capital and life satisfaction	42
What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents	36
Networks in lockdown: The consequences of COVID-19 for social relationships and feelings of loneliness	32
Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures	27
Exponential random graph models for little networks	27
Network brokerage and the perception of leadership	27
The presentation of the networked self: Ethics and epistemology in social network analysis	24
Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite	24
Social network research in health care settings: Design and data collection	23
Whom do we lose? The case of dissimilarity in personal networks	22
Innovation capability: A sociometric approach	21
Collecting survey-based social network information in work organizations	20
Dynamic network analysis of contact diaries	19
Collecting large personal networks in a representative sample of Dutch women	19
Key aspects of covert networks data collection: Problems, challenges, and opportunities	17
Crowdfunding digital platforms: Backer networks and their impact on project outcomes	17
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields	17
Social network analysis: New ethical approaches through collective reflexivity. Introduction to the special issue of Social Networks	17
“I’m not an antivaxxer, but…”: Spurious and authentic diversity among vaccine critical activists	17
Whose results are these anyway? Reciprocity and the ethics of “giving back” after social network research	16
Identifying individuals associated with organized criminal networks: A social network analysis	16
Network structure influence on simulated network interventions for behaviour change	16
What kinds of social networks protect older adults’ health during a pandemic? The tradeoff between preventing infection and promoting mental health	16
Homophily in collaborations among US House Representatives, 1981–2018	15

How does the behaviour of the core differ from the periphery? – An international trade network analysis	15
Adoption and adaptation: A computational case study of the spread of Granovetter's weak ties hypothesis	15
Worth the weight: Conceptualizing and measuring strong versus weak tie homophily	15
Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions	15
Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies	15
Social network and family business: Uncovering hybrid family firms	14
Networks never rest: An investigation of network evolution in three species of animals	14
Does the spatial distribution of social ties impact neighborhood and city attachment? Differentials among urban/rural contexts	13
Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field	13
Exploratory social-spatial network analysis of global migration structure	13
Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research	12
The ties that bind global governance: Using media-reported events to disentangle the global interorganizational network in a global pandemic	12
Building a structural typology of personal networks: Individual differences in the cohesion of interpersonal environment	12
Gender inequalities in research funding: Unequal network configurations, or unequal network returns?	12
Actors and issues in climate change policy: The maturation of a policy discourse in the national and international context	12
Kudos make you run! How runners influence each other on the online social network Strava	11
How new is “New”? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks?	11
Multiplexity as a lens to investigate the cultural meanings of interpersonal ties	11
A community matching based approach to measuring layer similarity in multilayer networks	11
Friends, family, and family friends: Predicting friendships of Dutch women	11
Let it go or let it grow? – Personal network development and the mobilization of intra-organizational social capital	11
Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus	11
Exploring the role of network diversity and resources in relationship to generalized trust in Norway	11
More than one’s negative ties: The role of friends’ antipathies in high school gossip	10
Drivers of tie formation in the Canadian climate change policy network: Belief homophily and social structural processes	10
You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports	10
Positive and negative tie perceptual accuracy: Pollyanna principle vs. negative asymmetry explanations	9
The network of interfamily marriages in ’Ndrangheta	9
Moral bureaucracies and social network research	9
Network integration within a prison-based therapeutic community	9
Identifying relationships between personal social networks and spatial mobility: A study using smartphone tracing and related surveys	9
Dynamics of social capital in Urban China, 1999 to 2014: An age-period-cohort analysis	9
Teammate invitation networks: The roles of recommender systems and prior collaboration in team assembly	9
Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks	9
Networks of context: Three-layer socio-cultural mapping for a Verstehende network analysis	8
Ethical implications of network data in business and management settings	8
Anagraphical relationships and crime specialization within Cosa Nostra	8
Who benefits from network intervention programs? TERGM analysis across ten Philippine low-income communities	8
Bridging in network organisations. The case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	8
Friendship network formation in Chinese middle schools: Patterns of inequality and homophily	8
Hubs and Authorities in the Koch Brothers Network	8
Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents’ romantic networks	8
Dynamics and disruption: Structural and individual changes in two Dutch Jihadi networks after police interventions	7
Trust, quality, and the network collection experience: A tale of two studies on the Democratic Republic of the Congo	7
Digital networks: Elements of a theoretical framework	7
From networked students centrality to student networks density: What really matters for student performance?	7
Re-evaluating standards of human subjects protection for sensitive health data in social media networks	7
A first look at justice-involved women’s egocentric social networks	7
EM-based smooth graphon estimation using MCMC and spline-based approaches	7
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research	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
A network-based explanation of inequality perceptions	7
Network recall among older adults with cognitive impairments	7
Avoidance, antipathy, and aggression: A three-wave longitudinal network study on negative networks, status, and heteromisos	7
Lost in translation: Collecting and coding data on social relations from audio-visual recordings	7
Functional differentiation in governance networks for sea level rise adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area	7