Scholars@Duke
James Moody

James Moody

Professor in the Department of Sociology
Sociology
james.moody@duke.edu
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
268 Soc/Psych Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

The effect of a social network-based intervention to promote HIV testing and linkage to HIV services among fishermen in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · April 2025 BackgroundIn sub-Saharan Africa, highly mobile men such as fishermen have a low uptake of HIV testing, prevention, and treatment. This study aimed to examine whether a HIV status-neutral, social network-based intervention could improve testing and ... Full text Cite

Considerations for Social Networks and Health Data Sharing: An Overview.

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · February 2025 The use of network analysis as a tool has increased exponentially as more clinical researchers see the benefits of network data for modeling of infectious disease transmission or translational activities in a variety of areas, including patient-caregiving ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of a social network-based intervention on adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and HIV viral suppression among Kenyan fishermen.

Journal Article AIDS (London, England) · February 2025 ObjectiveSocial networks may play a vital role in shaping health behaviors, including engagement in HIV prevention and treatment. We evaluated the impact of an HIV status-neutral, social-network-based HIV self-testing and linkage intervention on p ... Full text Cite

Racial and Ethnic (In)equity in Development of Power Through Place-Based Initiatives.

Journal Article Healthcare (Basel) · December 9, 2024 Background: Place-based initiatives (PBIs) invest in a geographic area and often build community power to improve well-being. However, there can be differences in results for different groups within a community. Methods: In six communities, we measured dif ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disentangling social, environmental, and zoonotic transmission pathways of a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) in northeast Madagascar.

Journal Article American journal of biological anthropology · November 2024 ObjectivesUnderstanding disease transmission is a fundamental challenge in ecology. We used transmission potential networks to investigate whether a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) is spread through social, environmental, and/or zoo ... Full text Cite

Network Ecology: Introduction to the Special Issue

Journal Article Social Networks · May 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Social networks and HIV treatment adherence among people with HIV initiating treatment in rural Uganda and peri-urban South Africa.

Journal Article SSM - population health · March 2024 Timely initiation of and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical for improving HIV outcomes and reducing HIV transmissibility. Social networks, or the social relationships individuals have with each other, have been linked with positive healt ... Full text Cite

Network ecology: Tie fitness in social context(s).

Journal Article Social networks · January 2024 Social relations are embedded in material, cultural, and institutional settings that affect network dynamics and the resulting topologies. For example, romantic entanglements are subject to social and cultural norms, interfirm alliances are constrained by ... Full text Cite

Homophily and social mixing in a small community: Implications for infectious disease transmission.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2024 Community mixing patterns by sociodemographic traits can inform the risk of epidemic spread among groups, and the balance of in- and out-group mixing affects epidemic potential. Understanding mixing patterns can provide insight about potential transmission ... Full text Link to item Cite

Peer and Social Correlates of Smoking among Saudi Youth

Journal Article Socius · January 1, 2024 Smoking declines are uneven around the world, and we have few studies on the correlates of youth smoking in contexts like Saudi Arabia, where declines have been slowest. Using a broadly socio-ecological framework and network data, we report on one of the f ... Full text Cite

Network determinants of relationship influence on HIV prevention decision-making among people in the social networks of women who have experienced incarceration in the US.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2024 BackgroundMany cisgender women in the US who have experienced incarceration are at substantial risk for HIV acquisition after they return to the community. Various network interventions have been leveraged for HIV prevention in this population. Th ... Full text Cite

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

Journal Article Network Science · January 1, 2024 One of the goals of open science is to promote the transparency and accessibility of research. Sharing data and materials used in network research is critical to these goals. In this paper, we present recommendations for whether, what, when, and where netw ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of multidrug resistance in Enterobacterales.

Journal Article Infection control and hospital epidemiology · December 2023 We examined the association between multidrug resistance and socioeconomic status (SES), analyzing microbiological and ZIP-code-level socioeconomic data. Using generalized linear models, we determined that multidrug resistance is significantly and persiste ... Full text Cite

A New Paradigm for Pandemic Preparedness.

Journal Article Curr Epidemiol Rep · December 2023 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Preparing for pandemics requires a degree of interdisciplinary work that is challenging under the current paradigm. This review summarizes the challenges faced by the field of pandemic science and proposes how to address them. RECENT FIN ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Sociodemographic Variables Can Guide Prioritized Testing Strategies for Epidemic Control in Resource-Limited Contexts.

Journal Article The Journal of infectious diseases · November 2023 BackgroundTargeted surveillance allows public health authorities to implement testing and isolation strategies when diagnostic resources are limited, and can be implemented via the consideration of social network topologies. However, it remains un ... Full text Cite

Scalable Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Augment Public Health Activities During Epidemic Peaks.

Journal Article J Public Health Manag Pract · November 2023 OBJECTIVE: Scalable strategies to reduce the time burden and increase contact tracing efficiency are crucial during early waves and peaks of infectious transmission. DESIGN: We enrolled a cohort of SARS-CoV-2-positive seed cases into a peer recruitment stu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clouding climate science: A comparative network and text analysis of consensus and anti-consensus scientists

Journal Article Social Networks · October 1, 2023 There is a clear consensus among climate scientists about the reality and serious consequences of anthropogenic climate change. However, a vocal minority challenges this consensus. While some research has drawn attention to how conservative foundations sup ... Full text Cite

Our Friends Keep Us Together: The Stability of Adolescents' Cross-Race Friendships.

Journal Article Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · September 2023 Substantive racial integration depends on both access to cross-race friendship opportunities (demographic integration) and the development of stable and rewarding social relations (social integration). Yet, we know little about the relative s ... Full text Cite

Demography's Changing Intellectual Landscape: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Leading Anglophone Journals, 1950-2020.

Journal Article Demography · June 2023 Much of what we know about the intellectual landscape of anglophone demography comes from two sources: subjective narratives authored by leaders in the field, whose reviews and observations are derived from their research experience and field-specific know ... Full text Cite

Associations of peer generational status on adolescent weight across Hispanic immigrant generations: A social network analysis.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · April 2023 BackgroundChildhood obesity disproportionately impacts Hispanics in the United States (US), the nation's largest ethnic minority population. However, even among Hispanic children, those born in the US are at increased risk of developing obesity th ... Full text Cite

Predicting primate-parasite associations using exponential random graph models.

Journal Article The Journal of animal ecology · March 2023 Ecological associations between hosts and parasites are influenced by host exposure and susceptibility to parasites, and by parasite traits, such as transmission mode. Advances in network analysis allow us to answer questions about the causes and consequen ... Full text Cite

Models for Networks

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Networks and Culture

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Cohesion and Groups

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Positions and Roles

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Network ecology: Tie fitness in social context(s)

Journal Article Social Networks · January 1, 2023 Social relations are embedded in material, cultural, and institutional settings that affect network dynamics and the resulting topologies. For example, romantic entanglements are subject to social and cultural norms, interfirm alliances are constrained by ... Full text Cite

Is That True? Critical Thinking for Sociologists

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews · November 2022 Full text Cite

Targeted maximum likelihood estimation of causal effects with interference: A simulation study.

Journal Article Statistics in medicine · October 2022 Interference, the dependency of an individual's potential outcome on the exposure of other individuals, is a common occurrence in medicine and public health. Recently, targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) has been extended to settings of interfere ... Full text Cite

100 Years of Social Forces as seen through Bibliometric Publication Patterns

Journal Article Social Forces · September 1, 2022 The 100th anniversary of Social Forces provides a rich opportunity to reflect on the history of the journal and changes to sociology as a whole. Using a series of formal text-analytic methods, we describe the shifting intellectual landscape of Social Force ... Full text Cite

The role of informational support from women's social networks on antenatal care initiation: qualitative evidence from pregnant women in Uganda.

Journal Article BMC pregnancy and childbirth · September 2022 BackgroundEarly and appropriate use of antenatal care services is critical for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. Yet most women in sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda, do not seek antenatal care until later during pregnancy. ... Full text Cite

Reproducibility in the Social Sciences.

Journal Article Annual review of sociology · July 2022 Concern over social scientists' inability to reproduce empirical research has spawned a vast and rapidly growing literature. The size and growth of this literature make it difficult for newly interested academics to come up to speed. Here, we provide a for ... Full text Cite

Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century.

Journal Article Journal of health and social behavior · June 2022 The study of social networks is increasingly central to health research for medical sociologists and scholars in other fields. Here, we review the innovations in theory, substance, data collection, and methodology that have propelled the study of social ne ... Full text Cite

Do social capital and networks facilitate community participation?

Journal Article International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy · May 10, 2022 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find theoretical and practical linkages between social capital, network and community participation. The study examines the role of popular social capital and its forms in shaping community participation under the i ... Full text Cite

Rural Kids and Wealth.

Journal Article The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · May 2022 Wealth ownership is a critical component of economic well-being, and wealth in early adulthood provides important clues about the trajectories along which individuals move throughout their lives. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescen ... Full text Cite

A Comparison of Peer Influence Estimates from SIENA Stochastic Actor–based Models and from Conventional Regression Approaches

Journal Article Sociological Methods and Research · February 1, 2022 The current study compares estimates of peer influence from an analytic approach that explicitly address network processes with those from traditional approaches that do not. Using longitudinal network data from the PROmoting School–community–university Pa ... Full text Cite

Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions.

Journal Article Social networks · January 2022 Missing data is a common, difficult problem for network studies. Unfortunately, there are few clear guidelines about what a researcher should do when faced with incomplete information. We take up this problem in the third paper of a three-paper series on m ... Full text Cite

Comparing transmission potential networks based on social network surveys, close contacts and environmental overlap in rural Madagascar.

Journal Article Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · January 2022 Social and spatial network analysis is an important approach for investigating infectious disease transmission, especially for pathogens transmitted directly between individuals or via environmental reservoirs. Given the diversity of ways to construct netw ... Full text Open Access Cite

Visualizing COVID Restrictions: Activity Patterns Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdowns in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Journal Article Socius · 2022 Globally, restrictions implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19 have highlighted deeply rooted social divisions, raising concerns about differential impacts on members of different groups. Inequalities among households of different castes are ubiquitous ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Assortativity and Bias in Epidemiologic Studies of Contagious Outcomes: A Simulated Example in the Context of Vaccination.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · November 2021 Assortativity is the tendency of individuals connected in a network to share traits and behaviors. Through simulations, we demonstrated the potential for bias resulting from assortativity by vaccination, where vaccinated individuals are more likely to be c ... Full text Cite

Predictions of primate-parasite coextinction.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · November 2021 Future biodiversity loss threatens the integrity of complex ecological associations, including among hosts and parasites. Almost half of primate species are threatened with extinction, and the loss of threatened hosts could negatively impact parasite assoc ... Full text Open Access Cite

Relational processes in heart failure care transitions: A data-driven case report.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · September 2021 BackgroundEffective patient care transitions require consideration of social and clinical context, yet how these factors and relational processes in care coordination relate remains poorly described. This case report aims to describe provider netw ... Full text Cite

Harnessing the Power of Smart and Connected Health to Tackle COVID-19: IoT, AI, Robotics, and Blockchain for a Better World.

Journal Article IEEE Internet Things J · August 15, 2021 As COVID-19 hounds the world, the common cause of finding a swift solution to manage the pandemic has brought together researchers, institutions, governments, and society at large. The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI)-including machin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social and provider networks and women's contraceptive use: Evidence from Madagascar.

Journal Article Contraception · August 2021 ObjectivesWomen may differ by whether they rely on health providers and/or social ties for seeking information and advice about family planning. It is unknown whether these differences matter for contraceptive outcomes. This study assessed the ass ... Full text Cite

Provider Bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical Records at a Hospital Emergency Department.

Journal Article BMC public health · August 2021 BackgroundPhysicians do not prescribe opioid analgesics for pain treatment equally across groups, and such disparities may pose significant public health concerns. Although research suggests that institutional constraints and cultural stereotypes ... Full text Cite

When Friends Bring You Down: Peer Stress Proliferation and Suicidality.

Journal Article Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research · July 2021 Peers play a significant role in adolescent mental well-being and suicidality. While social integration among peers is often assumed to benefit mental health, a growing literature recognizes that peer relationships can increase suicidality. Conceptualizing ... Full text Cite

Tipping point: Perceptions of diversity in black and white

Journal Article Education Sciences · May 1, 2021 By 2044, the USA is projected to be a majority-minority nation. Research suggests that when people of color reach 40–60% of the population, a tipping point occurs in which white individuals experience a collective existential threat and threat to their sta ... Full text Cite

The association between men's family planning networks and contraceptive use among their female partners: an egocentric network study in Madagascar.

Journal Article BMC public health · January 2021 BackgroundEnsuring women have information, support and access to family planning (FP) services will allow women to exercise their reproductive autonomy and reduce maternal mortality, which remains high in countries such as Madagascar. Research sho ... Full text Cite

Homophily in risk and behavior complicate understanding the COVID-19 epidemic curve

Journal Article · 2021 New COVID-19 diagnoses have dropped faster than expected in the United States. Interpretations of the decrease have focused on changing factors (e.g. mask-wearing, vaccines, etc.), but predictive models largely ignore heterogeneity in behaviorally-driven e ... Full text Cite

Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines.

Journal Article Socius · 2021 Recent controversies about wearing masks and getting vaccinated to slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 highlight the potential for individual rights and decision making to create widespread community-level outcomes. There is little work demonstrati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trusty Ally or Faithless Snake: Modeling the Role of Human Memory and Expectations in Social Exchange

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) · January 1, 2021 Exchange is a foundational form of human interaction underlying more complex forms of cooperation and collaboration. Exchange scholars have demonstrated that both the structure of exchange relationships, and the cultural logics that govern them influence t ... Full text Cite

A Guide for Choosing Community Detection Algorithms in Social Network Studies: The Question Alignment Approach.

Journal Article American journal of preventive medicine · October 2020 IntroductionCommunity detection, the process of identifying subgroups of highly connected individuals within a network, is an aspect of social network analysis that is relevant but potentially underutilized in prevention research. Guidance on usin ... Full text Cite

The Influence of Social Networks on Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Therapy-Naive Youth in Rural Kenya and Uganda.

Journal Article Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · January 2020 BackgroundHIV-infected youth in sub-Saharan Africa are less likely to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) than older adults.Setting and methodsAdult (≥15 years) residents enumerated during a census in 32 communities in rural Kenya and U ... Full text Cite

Can Social Capital and Network Homophily Facilitate Community Participation?

Journal Article Duke Global Working Paper Series Paper · December 19, 2019 Cite

Concurrency and reachability in treelike temporal networks.

Journal Article Physical review. E · December 2019 Network properties govern the rate and extent of various spreading processes, from simple contagions to complex cascades. Recently, the analysis of spreading processes has been extended from static networks to temporal networks, where nodes and links appea ... Full text Cite

Social Ties Cut Both Ways: Self-Harm and Adolescent Peer Networks.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · August 2019 Peers play an important role in adolescence, a time when self-harm arises as a major health risk, but little is known about the social networks of adolescents who cut. Peer network positions can affect mental distress related to cutting or provide direct s ... Full text Cite

Visualizing faculty development impact: A social network analysis.

Journal Article Perspectives on medical education · June 2019 Faculty development programs have tended to focus on low levels of evaluation such as participant satisfaction rather than assess the actual changes that training has brought about in the workplace. This has prompted scholars to suggest using social networ ... Full text Cite

Cohorts and wealth transfers: Generational changes in the receipt of inheritances, trusts, and inter vivos gifts in the United States

Journal Article Research in Social Stratification and Mobility · February 1, 2019 The intergenerational transfer of assets helps create and maintain wealth inequality over time, and cohort differences in these wealth transfers provide unique insights into the changing mechanisms that lead to inequality. We examine cohort differences in ... Full text Cite

Our Buddies, Ourselves: The Role of Sexual Homophily in Adolescent Friendship Networks.

Journal Article Child development · January 2019 The present study tests the assumption that peers wield sufficient influence to induce sexual homophily (i.e., similarities in sexual experiences). Because girls face greater stigma for their sexual experiences than do boys, sexual homophily may be greater ... Full text Cite

Bibliometric review of ecological network analysis: 2010–2016

Journal Article Ecological Modelling · August 24, 2018 Ecological Network Analysis (ENA) combines modeling and analysis used to investigate the structure, function, and evolution of ecosystems and other complex systems. ENA is applied to network models that trace the movement of thermodynamically conserved ene ... Full text Cite

Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · August 2018 Social isolation is broadly associated with poor mental health and risky behaviors in adolescence, a time when peers are critical for healthy development. However, expectations for isolates' substance use remain unclear. Isolation in adolescence may signal ... Full text Cite

Changes in Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young Men Living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Journal Article AIDS and behavior · May 2018 Young men are important targets in HIV prevention in Tanzania and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Anxiety and depression are common among youth and may be important predictors of HIV risk behaviors; evidence of these relationships in high-risk populations i ... Full text Cite

Social Network Implications of Normative School Transitions in Non-Urban School Districts.

Journal Article Youth & society · May 2018 This article expands research on normative school transitions (NSTs) from elementary to middle school or middle to high school by examining the extent to which they disrupt structures of friendship networks. Social network analysis is used to quantify aspe ... Full text Cite

Peer norms moderate the association between mental health and sexual risk behaviors among young men living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · January 2018 BackgroundYoung men living in Dar es Salaam's informal settlements face environmental stressors that may expose them to multiple determinants of HIV risk including poor mental health and risky sexual behavior norms. We aimed to understand how thes ... Full text Cite

Epidemic potential by sexual activity distributions.

Journal Article Network science (Cambridge University Press) · December 2017 For sexually transmitted infections like HIV to propagate through a population, there must be a path linking susceptible cases to currently infectious cases. The existence of such paths depends in part on the degree distribution. Here, we use simula ... Full text Open Access Cite

Disparate foundations of scientists' policy positions on contentious biomedical research.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · June 2017 What drives scientists' position taking on matters where empirical answers are unavailable or contradictory? We examined the contentious debate on whether to limit experiments involving the creation of potentially pandemic pathogens. Hundreds of scientists ... Full text Cite

Most Likely to Succeed: Long-Run Returns to Adolescent Popularity.

Journal Article Social currents · February 2017 Sociological explanations for economic success tend toward measures of embeddedness in longstanding social institutions, such as race and gender, or personal skills represented mainly by educational attainment. In this paper we seek a distinctively social ... Full text Cite

Network dynamics

Journal Article · January 1, 2017 This article explores dynamic networks and diffusion, with particular emphasis on evolving traces of enacted social relations. It begins with a review of models for the evolution of networks over time - making a distinction between ‘node-based’ and ‘edge-b ... Full text Cite

Network sampling coverage II: The effect of non-random missing data on network measurement.

Journal Article Social networks · January 2017 Missing data is an important, but often ignored, aspect of a network study. Measurement validity is affected by missing data, but the level of bias can be difficult to gauge. Here, we describe the effect of missing data on network measurement across widely ... Full text Cite

Mapping rhetorical topologies in cognitive neuroscience

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Many tools that neuroscientists use to trace the complex topography of the human brain draw on the neuroscience literature to yield “metanalyses” or “syntheses of data.” These approaches conflate rhetorical connections in the literature with physical conne ... Full text Cite

Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks

Chapter · November 25, 2016 This chapter describes the structure of the adolescent romantic and sexual network in a population of over 800 adolescents residing in a midsized town in the midwestern United States. Precise images and measures of network structure are derived from report ... Full text Cite

Fast determination of structurally cohesive subgroups in large networks.

Journal Article Journal of computational science · November 2016 Structurally cohesive subgroups are a powerful and mathematically rigorous way to characterize network robustness. Their strength lies in the ability to detect strong connections among vertices that not only have no neighbors in common, but that may be dis ... Full text Cite

Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · September 2016 OBJECTIVES: To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. METHODS: We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healt ... Full text Link to item Cite

Friends First? The Peer Network Origins of Adolescent Dating.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · June 2016 The proximity of dating partners in peer friendship networks has important implications for the diffusion of health-risk behaviors and adolescent social development. We derive two competing hypotheses for the friendship-romance association. The first predi ... Full text Cite

Young Men's Social Network Characteristics and Associations with Sexual Partnership Concurrency in Tanzania.

Journal Article AIDS and behavior · June 2016 Social network influence on young people's sexual behavior is understudied in sub-Saharan Africa. Previous research identified networks of mostly young men in Dar es Salaam who socialize in "camps". This study describes network characteristics within camps ... Full text Cite

Interdependent effects of cohesion and concurrency for epidemic potential.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · April 2016 PurposeNetwork diffusion depends on both the pattern and timing of relations, but the relative effects of timing and structure remain unclear. Here, we first show that concurrency (relations that overlap in time) increases epidemic potential by op ... Full text Cite

Lifestyles through Expenditures: A Case-Based Approach to Saving.

Journal Article Sociological science · January 2016 Treating people as cases that are proximate in a behavior space-representing lifestyles-rather than as markers of single variables has a long history in sociology. Yet, because it is difficult to find analytically tractable ways to implement this idea, thi ... Full text Open Access Cite

Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China.

Journal Article Epidemiology · September 2015 We compare the performance of multiple respondent-driven sampling estimators under different sample recruitment conditions in hidden populations of female sex workers in the midst of China's ongoing epidemic of sexually transmitted infections. We first exa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sexual Mixing in Shanghai: Are Heterosexual Contact Patterns Compatible With an HIV/AIDS Epidemic?

Journal Article Demography · June 2015 China's HIV prevalence is low, mainly concentrated among female sex workers (FSWs), their clients, men who have sex with men, and the stable partners of members of these high-risk groups. We evaluate the contribution to the spread of HIV of China's regime ... Full text Cite

Physician Networks and Ambulatory Care-sensitive Admissions.

Journal Article Medical care · June 2015 BackgroundResearch on the quality and cost of care traditionally focuses on individual physicians or medical groups. Social network theory suggests that the care a patient receives also depends on the network of physicians with whom a patient's ph ... Full text Cite

Clustering and Cohesion in Networks: Concepts and Measures

Journal Article · March 26, 2015 Social networks are not homogeneous but typically grouped into subsets of strongly reconnected groups. Here we review the literature on structural cohesion and clustering in networks. We divide our review into sections based on overall measures of cohesion ... Full text Cite

Editorial

Journal Article Socius · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure.

Journal Article American sociological review · December 2014 Adolescent societies-whether arising from weak, short-term classroom friendships or from close, long-term friendships-exhibit various levels of network clustering, segregation, and hierarchy. Some are rank-ordered caste systems and others are flat, cliquis ... Full text Cite

The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration

Journal Article Ecological Modelling · December 1, 2014 Network ecologists investigate the structure, function, and evolution of ecological systems using network models and analyses. For example, network techniques have been used to study community interactions (i.e., food-webs, mutualisms), gene flow across la ... Full text Cite

Sociological innovation through subfield integration

Journal Article Social Currents · October 1, 2014 Is domain-spanning beneficial? Can it promote innovation? Classic research on recombinant innovation suggests that domain-spanning fosters the accumulation of diverse information and can thus be a springboard for fresh ideas—most of which emanate from the ... Full text Cite

Mapping the semantic structure of cognitive neuroscience.

Journal Article J Cogn Neurosci · September 2014 Cognitive neuroscience, as a discipline, links the biological systems studied by neuroscience to the processing constructs studied by psychology. By mapping these relations throughout the literature of cognitive neuroscience, we visualize the semantic stru ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Data Visualization in Sociology.

Journal Article Annual review of sociology · July 2014 Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning, sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of visualization in sociology. Using examples throughout, we discuss recent ... Full text Cite

Moving beyond Stylized Economic Network Models: The Hybrid World of the Indian Firm Ownership Network.

Journal Article AJS; American journal of sociology · June 2014 A central theme of economic sociology has been to highlight the complexity and diversity of real world markets, but many network models of economic social structure ignore this feature and rely instead on stylized one-dimensional characterizations. Here, t ... Full text Cite

Friendship group position and substance use.

Journal Article Addictive behaviors · May 2014 This paper examines how an adolescent's position relative to cohesive friendship groups in the school-wide social network is associated with alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use. We extend prior research in this area by refining the categories of group posi ... Full text Cite

Challenges to recruiting population representative samples of female sex workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · April 2014 We explore the network coverage of a sample of female sex workers (FSWs) in China recruited through Respondent Drive Sampling (RDS) as part of an effort to evaluate the claim of RDS of population representation with empirical data. We take advantage of uni ... Full text Cite

Adolescent Societies - Their Form, Evolution, and Variation

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 2014 Cite

Structural Effects of Network Sampling Coverage I: Nodes Missing at Random1.

Journal Article Social networks · October 2013 Network measures assume a census of a well-bounded population. This level of coverage is rarely achieved in practice, however, and we have only limited information on the robustness of network measures to incomplete coverage. This paper examines the effect ... Full text Cite

Peers and the Emergence of Alcohol Use: Influence and Selection Processes in Adolescent Friendship Networks.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · September 2013 This study addresses not only influence and selection of friends as sources of similarity in alcohol use, but also peer processes leading drinkers to be chosen as friends more often than non-drinkers, which increases the number of adolescents subject to th ... Full text Cite

Effects of PROSPER on the influence potential of prosocial versus antisocial youth in adolescent friendship networks.

Journal Article The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · August 2013 ObjectivesWe test the hypothesis that an evidence-based preventive intervention will change adolescent friendship networks to reduce the potential for peer influence toward antisocial behavior. Altering adolescents' friendship networks in this way ... Full text Cite

An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Recruitment Patterns on RDS Estimates among a Socially Ordered Population of Female Sex Workers in China.

Journal Article Sociological methods & research · August 2013 Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for recruiting "hidden" populations through a network-based, chain and peer referral process. RDS recruits hidden populations more effectively than other sampling methods and promises to generate unbiased estima ... Full text Cite

Short-Run Prosocial Behavior in Response to Receiving Corrections and Affirmations in Three Therapeutic Communities

Journal Article Journal of Offender Rehabilitation · May 1, 2013 Therapeutic communities (TCs) have a strong record of maintaining high quality social climates in prison units. One possible reason for this is the system of mutual monitoring among TC residents, based on the assumption that peer affirmation of behavior in ... Full text Cite

Sex, drugs, and race: how behaviors differentially contribute to the sexually transmitted infection risk network structure.

Journal Article American journal of public health · February 2013 ObjectivesWe examined how risk behaviors differentially connect a population at high risk for sexually transmitted infections.MethodsStarting from observed networks representing the full risk network and the risk network among respondents ... Full text Cite

END NOTE Portrait of Political Party Polarization

Journal Article Network Science · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Portrait of Political Party Polarization-ERRATUM ERRATUM

Journal Article Network Science · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

NEURORHETORIC: MAPPING THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Conference JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE · January 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Quantifying the Benefits of Link-Tracing Designs for Partnership Network Studies.

Journal Article Field methods · May 2012 Difficult-to-reach populations are frequently sampled through various link-tracing based designs, which rely on interpersonal networks to identify members of the population. This article examines the substantive returns to one such multiple-link tracing de ... Full text Cite

Do peers' parents matter? A new link between positive parenting and adolescent substance use.

Journal Article Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · May 2012 ObjectiveAlthough studies have demonstrated that an adolescent's parents and friends both influence adolescent substance use, it is not known whether the parenting experienced by one's friends also affects one's own use. Drawing on conceptions of ... Full text Cite

Dynamic Building blocks for science

Journal Article Quality & Quantity · December 2011 Cite

Strengthening prevention program theories and evaluations: contributions from social network analysis.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · December 2011 A majority of school-based prevention programs target the modification of setting-level social dynamics, either explicitly (e.g., by changing schools' organizational, cultural or instructional systems that influence children's relationships), or implicitly ... Full text Cite

Dynamic building blocks for science: Comment on Kronegger, Ferligoj, and Doreian

Journal Article Quality and Quantity · August 1, 2011 There are two very good reasons to study the social organization of science, and Kronegger, Ferligoj and Doreian's paper exemplify both (henceforth K, F, D). First, we rarely have such rich and detailed data in most other areas of social life. Because scie ... Full text Cite

Popularity Trajectories and Substance Use in early Adolescence.

Journal Article Social networks · May 2011 This paper introduces new longitudinal network data from the "Promoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience" or "PROSPER" peers project. In 28 communities, grade-level sociometric friendship nominations were collected from two co ... Full text Cite

DELINQUENCY AND THE STRUCTURE OF ADOLESCENT PEER GROUPS.

Journal Article Criminology : an interdisciplinary journal · February 2011 Gangs and group-level processes were once central phenomena for criminological theory and research. By the mid-1970's, however, gang research was primarily displaced by studies of individual behavior using randomized self-report surveys, a shift that also ... Full text Cite

Mining the network: peers and adolescent health.

Journal Article The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · October 2010 Full text Cite

Continuing to build bridges: More on linking social capital and social networks

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · August 1, 2009 Full text Cite

The structure of critical care transfer networks.

Journal Article Medical care · July 2009 RationaleMoving patients from low-performing hospitals to high-performing hospitals may improve patient outcomes. These transfers may be particularly important in critical care, where small relative improvements can yield substantial absolute chan ... Full text Cite

Concurrent partnerships and HIV prevalence disparities by race: linking science and public health practice.

Journal Article American journal of public health · June 2009 Concurrent sexual partnerships may help to explain the disproportionately high prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among African Americans. The persistence of such disparities would also require strong assortative mixing by race. We ... Full text Cite

Network Dynamics

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Social Capital and Social Networks

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · 2009 Cite

Social Capital and Social Networks

Other American Behavioral Scientist · 2008 Cite

Methods for Meaning in a Multi-World Sociology

Book Review American Journal of Sociology · 2008 Cite

The sexual organization of the city

Journal Article SOCIAL NETWORKS · May 1, 2007 Full text Link to item Cite

The Sexual Organization of the City

Book Review Social Networks · 2007 Cite

To tell the truth: Measuring concordance in multiply reported network data

Journal Article Social Networks · January 1, 2007 Social network data must accurately reflect actors' relationships to properly estimate network features. Here, we examine multiple reports of sexual, drug-sharing and social tie data on high-risk networks in Colorado Springs. By comparing multiple reports ... Full text Cite

Features of Groups and Status Hierarchies in Girls’ and Boys’ Early Adolescent Peer Networks

Journal Article New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development · 2007 Cite

A view from above: The evolving sociological landscape

Journal Article American Sociologist · June 1, 2006 How has sociology evolved over the last 40 years? In this paper, we examine networks built on thousands of sociology-relevant papers to map sociology's position in the wider social sciences and identify changes in the most prominent research fronts in the ... Full text Cite

Trends in sociology titles

Journal Article American Sociologist · March 1, 2006 Recent reflections on the state of publications in sociology (Becker, 2003) suggest that article titles are getting longer. I test this hypothesis with data from ASR since inception and a wider sample of papers from Sociological Abstracts between 1963 and ... Full text Cite

Fighting a Hydra: A Network Scale-up Model of the War on Terror

Journal Article Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences · 2006 Cite

Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings

Journal Article Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory · 2006 Cite

To tell the truth: informant accuracy in sexual networks

Journal Article Social Networks · 2006 Cite

Markets From Networks

Journal Article Social Forces · 2006 Cite

Network Exchange Theory

Journal Article Social Forces · 2006 Cite

Dynamic network visualization

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · January 1, 2005 Increased interest in longitudinal social networks and the recognition that visualization fosters theoretical insight create a need for dynamic network visualizations, or network "movies." This article confronts theoretical questions surrounding the tempor ... Full text Cite

Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · July 1, 2004 This article describes the structure of the adolescent romantic and sexual network in a population of over 800 adolescents residing in a midsized town in the midwestern United States. Precise images and measures of network structure are derived from report ... Full text Cite

Suicide and friendships among American adolescents.

Journal Article American journal of public health · January 2004 ObjectivesWe investigated the relationship between friendships and suicidality among male and female adolescents.MethodsWe analyzed friendship data on 13,465 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to explor ... Full text Cite

The structure of a social science collaboration network: Disciplinary cohesion from 1963 to 1999

Journal Article American Sociological Review · January 1, 2004 Has sociology become more socially integrated over the last 30 years? Recent work in the sociology of knowledge demonstrates a direct linkage between social interaction patterns and the structure of ideas, suggesting that scientific collaboration networks ... Full text Cite

Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups

Journal Article American Sociological Review · February 1, 2003 Although questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague and difficult to operationalize. Here, research on social cohesion and social embeddedness is linked by developing a concept of structural cohesion base ... Full text Cite

Structure and sentiment: Explaining emotional attachment to group

Journal Article Social Psychology Quarterly · January 1, 2003 Previous research suggests that network structure affects emotional attachment to groups, though few have identified this link in naturally occurring groups. Taking a conception of emotional attachment from the social identity tradition and a measure of at ... Full text Cite

Structural cohesion and embeddedness: A hierarchical concept of social groups

Journal Article American Sociological Review · January 1, 2003 Although questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague and difficult to operationalize. Here, research on social cohesion and social embeddedness is linked by developing a concept of structural cohesion base ... Full text Cite

The importance of relationship timing for diffusion

Journal Article Social Forces · January 1, 2002 Relationship timing can have dramatic effects on diffusion through a network, as relationship order determines transmission routes. Though past research has modeled diffusion through static networks or developed methods for modeling change in network patte ... Full text Cite

Networks and history

Journal Article Complexity · January 1, 2002 Events and event structures compose the constituent elements of history. In order to construct historical accounts of event sequences, historians have to make cases. This article proposes a method for casing historical events. We illustrate the analytic st ... Full text Cite

Markets From Networks

Book Review Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2002 Cite

Peer influence groups: Identifying dense clusters in large networks

Journal Article Social Networks · October 1, 2001 Sociologists have seen a dramatic increase in the size and availability of social network data. This represents a poverty of riches, however, since many of our analysis techniques cannot handle the resulting large (tens to hundreds of thousands of nodes) n ... Full text Cite

Race, school integration, and friendship segregation in America

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · January 1, 2001 Integrated schools may still be substantively segregated if friendships fall within race. Drawing on contact theory, this study tests whether school organization affects friendship segregation in a national sample of adolescent friendship networks. The res ... Full text Cite

Network Exchange Theory

Book Review Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2001 Cite

Access to health care for adolescents.

Journal Article JAMA · April 2000 Full text Cite

Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes

Journal Article Social Forces · January 1, 2000 In this article, we explore several factors that may have an effect on business start-ups, focusing on possible gender differences. We conceptualize social capital as inhering in people's relations with others and examine the association between men's and ... Full text Cite

Foregone health care among adolescents.

Journal Article JAMA · December 1999 ContextNo annual national population estimates exist of the numbers of adolescents who think they need but do not receive health care or their risk of health problems.ObjectiveTo describe the proportion of adolescents who report foregone ... Full text Cite

Health Care Utilization Among Adolescents

Journal Article Journal of the American Medical Association · 1999 Cite

Matrix methods for calculating the triad census

Journal Article Social Networks · January 1, 1998 The triad census, T, of a directed network summarizes much of the structural information in a network. Thus, it has been very useful in analyzing structural properties within social networks. This paper presents a set of simple matrix formulas for calculat ... Full text Cite

Managing risk--a priority in the Health Service.

Journal Article The Health service journal · April 1994 Cite

Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · January 1, 1994 The idea of a transformed or high-performance work system has attracted considerable attention in the United States as an alternative to traditional, mass-production forms of work organization. This article examines the relationships between indicators of ... Full text Cite

Towards an Intellectual Atlas of Scholars@Duke

Conference Our goal is to map scholarly production at Duke and use the distribution of scholarship as a frame for displaying relations amongst scholars. Since publications are the fundamental unit of scholarly production, we start by building a publication network ... Open Access Cite