Most cited papers in Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
What are the most cited papers in Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence?
The most cited paper in Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence is "The Strength of Weak Ties" (Mark S. Granovetter, 1973), with 39,087 citations. Next come "Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks" (36,811) and "Fast unfolding of communities in large networks" (21,858).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,241 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Strength of Weak Ties Mark S. Granovetter · American Journal of Sociology | May 1973 | 39,087 |
| 2 | Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Réka Albert · Science | 15 Oct 1999 | 36,811 |
| 3 | Fast unfolding of communities in large networks Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment | Oct 2008 | 21,858 |
| 4 | Statistical mechanics of complex networks Réka Albert, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Reviews of Modern Physics | 30 Jan 2002 | 20,746 |
| 5 | The Structure and Function of Complex Networks Michael E. Newman · SIAM Review | 2003 | 18,932 |
| 6 | Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications Stanley S. Wasserman, Katherine A. Faust | 1994 | 18,166 |
| 7 | Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification Linton C. Freeman · Social Networks | 1978 | 17,222 |
| 8 | The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Jul 1964 | 15,968 |
| 9 | Community structure in social and biological networks Michelle Girvan, Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Jun 2002 | 15,819 |
| 10 | Modularity and community structure in networks Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 May 2006 | 12,522 |
| 11 | Community detection in graphs Santo Fortunato · Physics Reports | 18 Nov 2009 | 11,474 |
| 12 | Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems Reza Olfati‐Saber, J.A. Fax, Richard M. Murray · Proceedings of the IEEE | 2007 | 10,551 |
| 13 | The spread of true and false news online Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Kumar Roy, Sinan Aral · Science | 8 Mar 2018 | 8,825 |
| 14 | Exploring Network Structure, Dynamics, and Function using NetworkX Aric A. Hagberg, Dan Schult, Pieter J. Swart · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences | 28 Jun 2008 | 7,702 |
| 15 | Finding community structure in very large networks Aaron J. Clauset, Mark E. J. Newman, Cristopher Moore · Physical Review E | 6 Dec 2004 | 7,574 |
| 16 | Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos | 24 Aug 2003 | 7,434 |
| 17 | Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory. David Willer, John C. Turner, Michael A. Hogg et al. · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Jul 1989 | 7,211 |
| 18 | What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park et al. | 26 Apr 2010 | 6,728 |
| 19 | Error and attack tolerance of complex networks Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási | 2000 | 6,534 |
| 20 | The Matthew Effect in Science Robert Κ. Merton · Science | 5 Jan 1968 | 6,530 |
| 21 | Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani · Physical Review Letters | 2 Apr 2001 | 5,853 |
| 22 | Joint effect of ageing and multilayer structure prevents ordering in the voter model Oriol Artime, Juan Fernández-Gracia, José J. Ramasco et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) | 17 Mar 2017 | 5,609 |
| 23 | Fast algorithm for detecting community structure in networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review E | 18 Jun 2004 | 5,527 |
| 24 | CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA danah boyd, Kate Crawford · Information Communication & Society | 10 May 2012 | 5,459 |
| 25 | Assortative Mixing in Networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review Letters | 28 Oct 2002 | 5,121 |
| 26 | A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality* Ulrik Brandes · Journal of Mathematical Sociology | Jun 2001 | 5,024 |
| 27 | Dynamic models of segregation† Thomas C. Schelling · Journal of Mathematical Sociology | Jul 1971 | 5,004 |
| 28 | Finding community structure in networks using the eigenvectors of matrices Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review E | 11 Sep 2006 | 4,927 |
| 29 | The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered. Robert Κ. Merton · PubMed | 5 Jan 1968 | 4,882 |
| 30 | The renormalization group: Critical phenomena and the Kondo problem Kenneth G. Wilson · Reviews of Modern Physics | Oct 1975 | 4,558 |
| 31 | Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks Sergey V. Buldyrev, Roni Parshani, Gerald Paul et al. · Nature | Apr 2010 | 4,511 |
| 32 | From Louvain to Leiden: guaranteeing well-connected communities Traag, V.A., Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck · Leiden Repository (Leiden University) | 2019 | 4,331 |
| 33 | The architecture of complex weighted networks Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8 Mar 2004 | 4,319 |
| 34 | Network Analysis in the Social Sciences Stephen P. Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass et al. · Science | 12 Feb 2009 | 4,309 |
| 35 | Diameter of the World-Wide Web Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Nature | Sep 1999 | 4,302 |
| 36 | Statistical physics of social dynamics Claudio Castellano, Santo Fortunato, Vittorio Loreto · Reviews of Modern Physics | 11 May 2009 | 4,225 |
| 37 | The Online Disinhibition Effect John R. Suler · CyberPsychology & Behavior | Jun 2004 | 4,185 |
| 38 | The Network Structure Of Social Capital Ronald S. Burt · Research in Organizational Behavior | 2000 | 4,127 |
| 39 | The concept of power Robert Alan Dahl · Systems Research and Behavioral Science | 17 Jan 2007 | 3,861 |
| 40 | Epidemic processes in complex networks Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Claudio Castellano, Piet Van Mieghem et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics | 31 Aug 2015 | 3,842 |
| 41 | Writing on dirty paper (Corresp.) Mónica Isabel Teixeira Costa · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | May 1983 | 3,826 |
| 42 | Node centrality in weighted networks: Generalizing degree and shortest paths Tore Opsahl, Filip Agneessens, John V. Skvoretz · Social Networks | May 2010 | 3,807 |
| 43 | Compliance, identification, and internalization three processes of attitude change Herbert C. Kelman · Journal of Conflict Resolution | Mar 1958 | 3,798 |
| 44 | Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, Jeffrey T. Hancock · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 Jun 2014 | 3,752 |
| 45 | Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications Mark E. J. Newman, Steven H. Strogatz, Duncan J. Watts · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 24 Jul 2001 | 3,743 |
| 46 | Reaching a Consensus Morris H. DeGroot · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Mar 1974 | 3,609 |
| 47 | Near linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks Usha Nandini Raghavan, Réka Albert, Soundar R. T. Kumara · Physical Review E | 11 Sep 2007 | 3,600 |
| 48 | The social psychology of telecommunications Genevieve Gray · Telecommunications Policy | Mar 1977 | 3,495 |
| 49 | Thermodynamical approach to the traveling salesman problem: An efficient simulation algorithm V. Černý · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 1985 | 3,448 |
| 50 | Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication Albert Bandura · Media Psychology | Aug 2001 | 3,398 |
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