Barry Wellman
Impact in
- Communication top 0.01%
- Social Media and Politics
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Sociology and Political Science top 0.02%
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Capital and Networks
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Papers in
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- Impact of Technology on Adolescents 31
- Social Capital and Networks 29
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies 14
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- Social Media and Politics 43
- Knowledge Management and Sharing 22
- Co-authors
- Caroline Haythornthwaite (9 shared papers)Keith N. Hampton (8 shared papers)Scot Wortley (3 shared papers)Lee Rainie (5 shared papers)Anabel Quan‐Haase (9 shared papers)Anatoliy Gruzd (6 shared papers)James C. Witte (2 shared papers)Yuri Takhteyev (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- American Behavioral Scientist (18 papers)Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (13 papers)Information Communication & Society (9 papers)Social Networks (9 papers)American Journal of Sociology (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- CanadaUnited StatesChile
In The Last Decade
Barry Wellman
168 papers receiving 18.6k citations
Barry Wellman's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 185
- Communication 6.7k
- Sociology and Political Science 11.8k
- Health 1.3k
- Transportation 1.2k
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 2.2k
Countries citing papers authored by Barry Wellman
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Barry Wellman, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1361 |
| 2 | Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 1128 |
| 3 | The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers Hit paper breakdown → | 1979 | 928 |
| 4 | Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 824 |
| 5 | Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 736 |
| 6 | The Internet in Everyday Life Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 722 |
| 7 | Networked Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 715 |
| 8 | Social Structures: A Network Approach Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 676 |
| 9 | Social Structures: A Network Approach. Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 584 |
| 10 | Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 565 |
| 11 | Networked: The New Social Operating System Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 561 |
| 12 | Structural analysis: From method and metaphor to theory and substance. Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 551 |
| 13 | Studying Online Social Networks Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 551 |
| 14 | Computer Networks As Social Networks Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 524 |
| 15 | Social Support, Life Events, and Depression Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 492 |
| 16 | The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 461 |
| 17 | 2002 | 439 | |
| 18 | 2002 | 428 | |
| 19 | 1997 | 420 | |
| 20 | 1979 | 417 |
About Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, General Health Professions and Social Psychology, having authored 179 papers that have together received 21.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social Media and Politics (43 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (31 papers), Social Capital and Networks (29 papers), Knowledge Management and Sharing (22 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (18 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (17 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (14 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (6.7k citations), Sociology and Political Science (11.8k citations), Health (1.3k citations), Transportation (1.2k citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2.2k citations). Barry Wellman has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Chile. Frequent co-authors include Caroline Haythornthwaite, Keith N. Hampton, Scot Wortley, Lee Rainie, Anabel Quan‐Haase, Anatoliy Gruzd, James C. Witte, Yuri Takhteyev, Juan Antonio Carrasco and S. D. Berkowitz. Their work appears in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Information Communication & Society, Social Networks and American Journal of Sociology.
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