Social Networks

1.5k papers and 92.6k indexed citations i.

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The 1.5k papers published in Social Networks in the last decades have received a total of 92.6k indexed citations. Papers published in Social Networks usually cover Sociology and Political Science (805 papers), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (727 papers) and Communication (156 papers) specifically the topics of Complex Network Analysis Techniques (627 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (463 papers) and Social Capital and Networks (415 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Social Networks are Linton C. Freeman, Stephen P. Borgatti, Ronald S. Burt, Martin G. Everett, David Krackhardt, M. E. J. Newman, Phillip Bonacich, Tore Opsahl, Peter V. Marsden and Tom A. B. Snijders.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Social Networks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Social Networks. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Social Networks.

Countries where authors publish in Social Networks

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Social Networks. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Social Networks with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Social Networks more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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