Selected papers by SCNC members: 

2025

• Brazil, Noli, Jennifer Candipan, Brian L. Levy, and Thalia Tom. “Beyond the residential neighborhood: A scoping review of research on urban neighborhood networks.” Social Science & Medicine 372. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117945.
• Candipan, Jennifer, Karl Vachuska, and Brian L. Levy. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Child Health: The Role of Neighborhood Mobility Networks.” Health & Place 91: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103402.

2024

• Fitch, Kate Vinita, Molly Copeland, and jimi adams. “What Predicts Romantic Tie Reciprocation among a Sample of Adolescents?” Social Networks. (forthcoming)

2023

• Adams, jimi & Michał Bojanowski. “Do NBA Teams Avoid Trading Players within their Division?” Network Science. doi: 10.1017/nws.2023.18
• Adams, jimi & Kate Vinita Fitch. “Who’s Social Capital? Visualizing Citation & Co-Citation Patterns of a Fragmented Concept.” Socius 9:1-4. doi: 10.1177/23780231231184766
• Adams, jimi & Miranda J. Lubbers. “Social Network Data Collection: Principles and Modalities.” Chapter 40 in McLevey J, Carrington P, & Scott J (eds.) Handbook of SNA, 2nd Edition. SAGE.
• Harder, Nicolas L. & Matthew E. Brashears. “An improved approach for ecological modeling of social phenomena in Blau space.” PLoS ONE 18(8): e0289934.
• Harrell, Ashley & Joseph Quinn. “Shared Identities and the Structure of Exchange Distinctly Shape Cooperation.” Social Forces, 102: 223-241. DOI: 10.1093/sf/soad011
• Landry, Nicholas W. & jimi adams. “On limitations of uniplex networks for modeling multiplex contagion.” PLoS One 18(1):e0279345. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279345
• Money, Victoria L. “Demonstrating anticipatory deflection and a preemptive measure to manage it: An extension of Affect Control Theory.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(2):151-169.

2022

• Adams, jimi, Elizabeth Lawrence, Joshua Goode, David R. Schaefer, & Stefanie Mollborn. “Peer Network Dynamics of Adolescents’ Health Lifestyles.” Journal of Health & Social Behavior 63(1): 125-141. doi: 10.1177/00221465211054394
• Levy, Brian L., Karl Vachuska, S.V. Subramanian, and Robert J. Sampson. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Inequality based on Everyday Mobility Predicts COVID-19 Infection in San Francisco, Seattle, and Wisconsin.” Science Advances 8(7): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl3825.

2021

• Buchwald, Andrea, Jude Bayham, jimi adams, David Bortz, Katie Colburn, Olivia Zarella, Meghan Buran, Jonathan Samet, Debashis Ghosh, Rachel Herlihy, & Elizabeth J. Carlton. “Estimating the Impact of State-Wide Policies to Reduce Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Real Time.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 27(9): 2312-2322. doi: 10.3201/eid2709.204167
• Phillips, Nolan, Brian L. Levy, Robert J. Sampson, Mario L. Small, and Ryan Q. Wang. “The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility Across Neighborhoods.” Sociological Methods and Research 50(3): 1110-49.
• Sun, Hui, Matthew E. Brashears, Edward Bishop Smith. “Network Representation Capacity: How Social Relationships are Represented in the Human Mind.” Personal Networks: Frontiers of Ego Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
• Wilson, Travis, and Jun Zhao. “Coolness and Admiration Diverge in Early Adolescence Among African-American Students in Low-income Urban Schools.” Journal of Educational Psychology. 113(2): 411-22.

2020

• Brashears, Matthew E., Laura Aufderheide Brashears & Nicolas L. Harder. “Where you are, what you want, and what you can do: The role of master statuses, personality traits, and social cognition in shaping ego network size, structure, and composition.” Network Science, 8: 356-380.
• Brashears, Matthew E. & Laura Aufderheide Brashears. “Compression Heuristics, Social Networks, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence.” In Network Science in Cognitive Psychology. Routledge: New York, NY.
• Harder, Nicolas L. & Matthew E. Brashears. “Predicting organizational recruitment using a hybrid cellular model: new directions in Blau space analysis.” Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 26: 320-349.
• Levy, Brian L., Nolan Phillips, and Robert J. Sampson. “Triple Disadvantage: Neighborhood Networks of Everyday Urban Mobility and Violence in U.S. Cities.” American Sociological Review 85(6): 925-956.
• Quinn, Joseph M. & James W Moody. “Computational Modeling” in SAGE Research Methods Foundations. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd. DOI: 10.4135/9781526421036945708
• Rözer, Jesper J., Bas Hofstra, Matthew E. Brashears & Beate Volker. “Does unemployment lead to isolation? The consequences of unemployment for social networks.” Social Networks, 63: 100-111.
• Sampson, Robert J. and Brian L. Levy. “Beyond Residential Segregation: Mobility-Based Connectedness and Rates of Violence in Large Cities.” Race and Social Problems 12: 77-86.
• Zhao, Jun, Dawn T. Robinson, and Chyi-In Wu. “Isolation but Contagion? A Structural Account to Depression Homophily.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 83: 363-382.

2019

• Adams, jimi. Gathering Social Network Data #180 in QASS Series. SAGE.

2018

• Brashears, Matthew E. & Eric Quintane. “The Weakness of Tie Strength.” Social Networks, 55: 104-115.
• Rozer, Jesper & Matthew E. Brashears. “Partner selection and social capital in the status attainment process.” Social Science Research, 73: 63-79.

2016

• Brashears, Matthew E. & Laura Aufderheide Brashears. “The Enemy of my Friend is Easy to Remember: Balance as a Compression Heuristic.” Advances in Group Processes, 1-31. Emerald Insight.

2015

• Brashears, Matthew E. & Laura Aufderheide Brashears. “Do Contemporary People Have Fewer Friends than they Used To?” in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley and Sons.

2014

• Brashears, Matthew E. “’Trivial’ Topics and Rich Ties: The Relationship Between Discussion Topic, Alter Role, and Resource Availability Using the ‘Important Matters’ Name Generator.” Sociological Science, 1: 493-511.

2013

• Brashears, Matthew E. “Humans use Compression Heuristics to Improve the Recall of Social Networks.” Nature Scientific Reports, 3: 1513.

2011

• Brashears, Matthew E. “Small networks and high isolation?: A reexamination of American discussion networks.” Social Networks. 33: 331-341.