Rethinking centrality: Methods and examples

The Strength of Weak Ties

1973 • 36,856 citations

Outline of a Theory of Practice

1977 • 24,720 citations

Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification

1978 • 15,559 citations

Outline of a Theory of Practice.

1980 • 14,832 citations

Outline of a Theory of Practice

2007 • 5,941 citations

Power and Centrality: A Family of Measures

1987 • 4,803 citations

Factoring and weighting approaches to status scores and clique identification

1972 • 2,889 citations

The centrality index of a graph

1966 • 2,243 citations

Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions

1976 • 2,012 citations

Managing the flow of technology: technology transfer and the dissemination of technological information within the R & D organization

1977 • 1,451 citations

Sociological methodology, 1981

1982 • 1,411 citations

The Distribution of Power in Exchange Networks: Theory and Experimental Results

1983 • 939 citations

Friends of Friends: Networks, Manipulators and Coalitions

1977 • 924 citations

A Mathematical Model for Group Structures

1948 • 874 citations

Models of Network Structure

1980 • 817 citations

Social Structure from Multiple Networks. II. Role Structures

1976 • 792 citations

Contacts and influence

1978 • 644 citations

A graph‐theoretic definition of a sociometric clique†

1973 • 494 citations

Social networks and the spread of infectious diseases: The AIDS example

1985 • 474 citations

Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission From Heterosexual Adults With Transfusion-Associated Infections

1988 • 363 citations

Technique for Analyzing Overlapping Memberships

1972 • 351 citations

Graph Theory and Its Applications.

1970 • 325 citations

On the centrality in a graph

1974 • 322 citations

Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments

1999 • 302 citations

Cohesion Versus Structural Equivalence as a Basis for Network Subgroups

1978 • 267 citations

Structural Models in Anthropology

1984 • 260 citations

Optimal attack and reinforcement of a network

1985 • 255 citations

Social Networks

1974 • 249 citations

The gatekeeper, pair-dependency and structural centrality

1980 • 223 citations

Sociological Methodology 1971

1973 • 221 citations

Social dynamics of gelada baboons.

1975 • 214 citations

Cluster of cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome

1984 • 203 citations

Network Analysis in Organizational Settings

1979 • 203 citations

Structural Dynamics within and between Organizations

1986 • 198 citations

Beyond Process and Structure: Social Exchange Networks

1987 • 180 citations

Network Analysis: Studies in Human Interaction.

1974 • 177 citations

The design and analysis of experiments

1952 • 150 citations

Family and social networks

1994 • 141 citations

Applied Anthropology in America

1987 • 141 citations

Social Dynamics of Gelada Baboons

1976 • 127 citations

6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis

1973 • 108 citations

Influence in Corporate Networks: An Examination of Four Measures

1981 • 90 citations

Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments.

1972 • 83 citations

Risk of human immunodeficiency virus transmission from heterosexual adults with transfusion-associated infections

1988 • 73 citations

Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology

2020 • 68 citations

Graph Theoretic Methods in the Management Sciences

1959 • 58 citations

Classification of art into style periods; a factor‐analytical approach

1974 • 58 citations

On the evolution of group and network structure

1979 • 55 citations

Longitudinal non-euclidean networks: Applying Galileo

1985 • 43 citations

Toward a Theory of Practice

1985 • 41 citations

The ties that bind: The effect of clustering on dyadic relationships

1982 • 32 citations

Graph Theory as a Structural Model in Cultural Anthropology

1979 • 25 citations

The identification of interlock groups in large corporate networks: convergent validation using divergent techniques

1982 • 17 citations

Toward a theory of disintegration in communication networks

1985 • 16 citations

The distribution of centrality in social networks

1986 • 14 citations

Interlock groups, cliques, or interest groups? Comment on Allen

1984 • 8 citations

Structural Models in Anthropology

1986 • 4 citations

“Region” and ‘subgroup”: Organizing concepts in social network analysis

1982 • 2 citations