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Social network analysis: A methodological introduction
Author(s) -
Butts Carter T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2007.00241.x
Subject(s) - social network analysis , network analysis , field (mathematics) , organizational network analysis , psychology , data collection , social network (sociolinguistics) , data science , covariate , social analysis , network science , social psychology , computer science , sociology , complex network , knowledge management , social science , machine learning , social media , world wide web , mathematics , organizational learning , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Social network analysis is a large and growing body of research on the measurement and analysis of relational structure. Here, we review the fundamental concepts of network analysis, as well as a range of methods currently used in the field. Issues pertaining to data collection, analysis of single networks, network comparison, and analysis of individual‐level covariates are discussed, and a number of suggestions are made for avoiding common pitfalls in the application of network methods to substantive questions.