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Social Network Analysis: Bibliographic Network Analysis of the Field and its Evolution / Part 1. Basic Statistics and Citation Network Analysis
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Maltseva D., Batagelj V.
In this paper, we present the results of the study on the development of social network analysis (SNA) discipline and its evolution over time, using the analysis of bibliographic networks. The dataset consists of articles from the Web of Science Clarivate Analytics database and those published in the main journals in the field (70,000+ publications), created by searching for the key word "social network*." From the collected data, we constructed several networks (citation and two-mode, linking publications with authors, keywords and journals). Analyzing the obtained networks, we evaluated the trends in the field`s growth, noted the most cited works, created a list of authors and journals with the largest amount of works, and extracted the most often used keywords in the SNA field. Next, using the Search path count approach, we extracted the main path, key-route paths and link islands in the citation network. Based on the probabilistic flow node values, we identified the most important articles. Our results show that authors from the social sciences, who were most active through the whole history of the field development, experienced the "invasion" of physicists from 2000's. However, starting from the 2010's, a new very active group of animal social network analysis has emerged.
Maltseva D., Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2019 Vol. 121 No. 2 P. 1085-1128
In this paper, the results of a study on the development of social network analysis (SNA) and its evolution over time, using the analysis of bibliographic networks are presented. The dataset consists of articles from the Web of Science Clarivate Analytics database obtained by searching for the keyword “social network*” and those published in the ...
Added: October 19, 2018
Maltseva D., Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2020 No. 125 P. 313-359
Different research traditions have developed over time to study the quantitative aspects of information and knowledge production, such as scientometrics, bibliometrics, librametrics, informetrics, cybermetrics, webometrics, or altmetrics. These information metrics, or iMetrics, as they were labeled by Milojević and Leydesdorff in Scientometrics 95(1):141–157, 2013, are unified by the usage of quantitative data analysis, applying various statistical methods and techniques and are often used ...
Added: October 23, 2019
Maltseva D., Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2020 Vol. 123 No. 1 P. 357-382
This paper presents the results of the analysis of keywords used in Social Network Analysis (SNA) articles included in the WoS database and main SNA journals, from 1970 to 2018. 32,409 keywords were obtained from 70,792 works with complete descriptions. We provide a list of the most used keywords and show subgroups of keywords which ...
Added: October 22, 2019
Maltseva D., Батагель В., Scientometrics 2024 P. 1-40
This paper is a continuation of a project exploring the field of social network analysis (SNA),
which results have already been partly presented before (Maltseva & Batagelj, 2019, 2020, 2021,
2022). The project analyzes data on publications of authors writing articles in SNA published in
Web of Science indexed journals (70,792 articles) up to 2018. After the analysis ...
Added: December 7, 2023
Maltseva D., Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2023
This paper presents the study of the authors writing articles in the field of SNA and identifies their groups by means of the bibliographic networks analysis. The dataset consists of articles from theWeb of Science database obtained by searching for the query “social network*”, other works highly cited in the SNA field, and published in ...
Added: October 28, 2021
Maltseva D., Shirokanova A., Moiseev S. et al., Телескоп: журнал социологических и маркетинговых исследований 2017 № 1 С. 29-36
This paper deals with certain principles and examples of conducting network analysis of biographical interviews as a mixed-methods design. It reveals the general idea and special features of the network approach to studying the structure of an academic community based on a corpus of their biographical interviews. The paper focuses on the previous experience of ...
Added: February 1, 2017
Batagelj V., Ferligoj A., SQUAZZONI F., Scientometrics 2017 Vol. 113 No. 1 P. 503-532
This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016. By collecting all available sources from Web of Science, we built a dataset that included approximately 23,000 indexed records and reconstructed collaboration and citation networks over ...
Added: November 1, 2018
Maltseva D., Социологические исследования 2018 № 5 С. 154-156
Notes on School of Social Network Analysis of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). ...
Added: October 7, 2018
Barkhatova L., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 5 С. 204-221
The article analyzes structural features of communication in sociological online communities. The author considers communicative activity, social composition and rules of interaction between the members of the largest Russian sociological online community used as an ethnographic case study. The study design combines quantitative and qualitative methods: content analysis, network analysis and online observation. The findings ...
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Cugmas M., Ferligoj A., ŽIBERNA A., Plos One 2018 Vol. 13 No. 5 P. 1-24
This paper addresses the question of whether one can generate networks with a given global structure (defined by selected blockmodels, i.e., cohesive, core-periphery, hierarchical, and transitivity), considering only different types of triads. Two methods are used to generate networks: (i) the newly proposed method of relocating links; and (ii) the Monte Carlo Multi Chain algorithm ...
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Rykov Y., Koltsova O., Meylakhs P., Социологические исследования 2016 № 8 С. 30-42
With the rapid growth of online social network sites (SNS), the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral outcomes has become increasingly popular in Internet studies and sociology of health and medicine. This paper presents the results of the empirical study investigating the structure of the 'friendship' networks and participants' communicative activity ...
Added: April 11, 2016
Springer, 2017
The book studies the existing and potential connections between Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) by showing how standard SNA techniques, usually based on graph theory, can be supplemented by FCA methods, which rely on lattice theory.
The book presents contributions to the following areas: acquisition of terminological knowledge from social networks, knowledge ...
Added: December 17, 2017
Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2020 Vol. 123 P. 621-633
In this paper, we present the outer product decomposition of a product of compatible linked networks. It provides a foundation for the fractional approach in network analysis. We discuss the standard and Newman’s normalization of networks. We propose some alternatives for fractional bibliographic coupling measures. ...
Added: December 10, 2019
Marjan C., Ferligoj A., Metodoloski Zvezki 2018 Vol. 15 No. 1 P. 1-21
Rand (1971) proposed what has since become a well-known index for comparing two partitions obtained on the same set of units. The index takes a value on the interval between 0 and 1, where a higher value indicates more similar partitions. Sometimes, e.g. when the units are observed in two time periods, the splitting and ...
Added: November 2, 2018
Maltseva D., Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2022 Vol. 127 No. 6 P. 3437-3470
This paper presents a study of authors writing articles in the field of SNA and groups them by means of bibliographic network analysis. The dataset consists of works from the Web of Science (WoS) database obtained by searching for “social network*”, works highly cited in the field, works published in the flagship SNA journals, and written ...
Added: October 28, 2021
Мальков Ю. А., Ponomarenko A., Plos One 2016 Vol. 11 No. 6 P. 1-14
Navigability, an ability to find a logarithmically short path between elements using only local information, is one of the most fascinating properties of real-life networks. However, the exact mechanism responsible for the formation of navigation properties remained unknown. We show that navigability can be achieved by using only two ingredients present in the majority of ...
Added: September 9, 2016
Semenov A., Natekin A., Nikolenko S. I. et al., Springer, 2015
In online social networks, high level features of user behavior such as character traits can be predicted with data from user profiles and their connections. Recent publications use data from online social networks to detect people with depression propensity and diagnosis. In this study, we investigate the capabilities of previously published methods and metrics applied to the Russian online social ...
Added: December 21, 2015
Maltseva D., Batagelj V., Scientometrics 2021 Vol. 126 No. 4 P. 3593-3620
This paper presents the analysis of journals publishing articles on Social Network Analysis (SNA). The dataset consists of articles from the Web of Science database obtained by searching for “social network*”, works intensively cited, written by the most prominent authors, and published in the main SNA journals up to July 2018. There were 8,943 journals ...
Added: December 5, 2018
Koltsova O., Koltsov S., Sinyavskaya Y., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2017 Vol. 10540 P. 431-442
Following the discussion on the role of Internet in the formation of ties across space, this paper seeks to supplement recent findings on prevalence of location-dependent preferential attachment online. We look at networks of online communities specifically aimed at development of location-independent ties. The paper focuses on the 25 largest communities of software developers in ...
Added: October 19, 2016
Sokolov M. M., Кнорре А. В., Safonova M., Университетское управление: практика и анализ 2014 Т. 90 № 2 С. 6-25
The article starts with reviewing of major sociological approaches to higher education (education as accumulation of professional capital, education as class distinction, education as age moratorium, etc.). We then derive hypotheses from each of the theories on how the process of choosing between specialties is organized. Each of the models of student choice is then ...
Added: August 13, 2014
Springer, 2017
Following the discussion on the role of Internet in the formation of ties across space, this paper seeks to supplement recent findings on prevalence of location-dependent preferential attachment online. We look at networks of online communities specifically aimed at development of location-independent ties. The paper focuses on the 25 largest communities of software developers in ...
Added: October 18, 2017
Ivaniushina V. A., Titkova V., Plos One 2021 Vol. 16 No. 4 P. 1-16
Objectives
To measure the effects of peer influence and peer selection on drinking behavior in adolescence through a rigorous statistical approach designed to unravel these interrelated processes.
Methods
We conducted systematic searches of electronic databases, thesis collections and conference proceedings to identify studies that used longitudinal network design and stochastic actor-oriented modeling to analyze drinking behavior in adolescents. ...
Added: May 14, 2021
Ivaniushina V. A., Titkova V., Alexandrov D. A., BMJ Open 2019 Vol. 9 No. 7 P. 1-5
Abstract
Introduction Alcohol consumption is a considerable public health problem that is especially harmful to young people. To develop effective prevention programmes targeted at adolescents, it is important to understand the social mechanisms triggering alcohol consumption. Among such mechanisms, peer influence plays an important role. The effects of peer influence are very difficult to evaluate because of ...
Added: August 23, 2019
Mikhaylova O., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 № 2 С. 28-47
Моральная паника возникает в результате веры в существование людей, поведение которых не согласуется с текущими моральными нормами, из-за чего они угрожают сохранности социума. Будучи предложенным С. Коэном в конце XX века, это понятие не нашло устойчивого места в лексиконе социальных наук, в том числе из-за трудностей его операционализации и последующего измерения. В статье мы обсуждаем ...
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