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Networked inequality: The role of changes in network heterogeneity and network size in attitudes towards inequality 网络不平等：网络异质性和网络规模变化对不平等态度的作用

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.008

Alejandro Plaza , Guillermo Beck , Julio Iturra-Sanhueza , Gabriel Otero , Benjamín Muñoz

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The co-evolution of informal social status and gossip in workplace social networks 职场社交网络中非正式社会地位与八卦的共同演化

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.006

Emily Kruidhof , Rense Corten , Lea Ellwardt , Rafael Wittek

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Accounting for correlation and censoring in Bayesian Network Scale-up Method Models 考虑贝叶斯网络放大方法模型的相关性和删减

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.005

Benjamin Vogel, Breschine Cummins, Ian Laga

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The cultural construction of personal relationships 人际关系的文化建构

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.001

Oscar Stuhler

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In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope 在秘密会议的网络中：社会关系和教皇的产生

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.003

Giuseppe Soda , Alessandro Iorio , Leonardo Rizzo

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The duality of network ties and attributes 网络关系和属性的二元性

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.002

Annabell Schüßler , Jan A. Fuhse

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Who’s in your extended network? Analysing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands 谁在你的扩展网络中？分析荷兰熟人网络的规模和同质性

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.05.007

Beate Völker , Bas Hofstra , Rense Corten , Frank van Tubergen

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Modeling the duality of content niches and user interactions on online social media platforms 对在线社交媒体平台上的内容利基和用户交互的二元性进行建模

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.05.001

Alvaro Uzaheta , Viviana Amati , Christoph Stadtfeld

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The Correspondence Analysis of two-mode networks revisited 再论双模网络的对应分析

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.06.001

Omar Lizardo

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Urban environmental stewardship networks: How organizations collaborate, share resources, and exchange knowledge within Baltimore, Maryland 城市环境管理网络：组织如何在马里兰州巴尔的摩市合作、共享资源和交换知识

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Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.05.002

Selena M. Livas , Dexter H. Locke , Nancy F. Sonti

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