2026 Christian Steglich: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	41	4922	4562	202	190	99	10465

Overview

Christian Steglich is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences and psychology, focusing primarily on education, social networks, and psychosocial development.

Their recent publications reflect a strong interest in the dynamics of social relationships and their impact on educational and developmental outcomes. Notable papers include:

The development of peer networks and academic performance in learning communities in higher education, 2022, published in Learning and Instruction
Missing data in cross-sectional networks - An extensive comparison of missing data treatment methods, 2020, published in Social Networks
Identifying collaboration dynamics of bipartite author-topic networks with the influences of interest changes, 2020, published in Scientometrics
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co-evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks, 2023, published in Child Development
Networked solidarity economy: Gender in interorganizational networks. An evaluation with ERGMs, 2022, published in Applied Network Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Xingna Qin, Lydia Laninga-Wijnen, Yunyun Zhang, Ping Ren, and René Veenstra, each of whom has coauthored at least three publications with Steglich.

Steglich's work has been published across several venues, most prominently:

Learning and Instruction
Social Networks
Scientometrics
Child Development
Applied Network Science

Their primary fields of study include social sciences and psychology, with a focus on several subfields such as education, statistical and nonlinear physics, social psychology, statistics and probability, and economics and econometrics.

The main research topics addressed in Steglich's work cover:

Parental involvement in education
Complex network analysis techniques
Bullying, victimization, and aggression
Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
Higher education research studies
School choice and performance
Statistical methods and Bayesian inference

Best Publications

Introduction to stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics

Tom A. B. Snijders;Gerhard G. van de Bunt;Christian E. G. Steglich

2628
Citations
DYNAMIC NETWORKS AND BEHAVIOR: SEPARATING SELECTION FROM INFLUENCE

Christian Steglich;Tom A. B. Snijders;Tom A. B. Snijders;Michael Pearson

1283
Citations
Modeling the Co-Evolution of Networks and Behavior.

Thomas Snijders;Christian Steglich;Michael Schweinberger

624
Citations
Beyond dyadic interdependence: Actor-oriented models for co-evolving social networks and individual behaviors:

William J. Burk;Christian E. G. Steglich;Tom A. B. Snijders

403
Citations
Network–Behavior Dynamics

René Veenstra;Jan Kornelis Dijkstra;Christian Steglich;Maarten H. W. Van Zalk

373
Citations
Applying SIENA: An illustrative analysis of the co-evolution of adolescents’ friendship networks, taste in music, and alcohol consumption

Christian Steglich;Tom A. B. Snijders;Patrick West

343
Citations
Treatment of non-response in longitudinal network studies

Mark Huisman;Christian Steglich

320
Citations
Dynamics of adolescent friendship networks and smoking behavior

L. Mercken;Thomas Snijders;Christian Steglich;E. Vartiainen

300
Citations
Why are some more peer than others? Evidence from a longitudinal study of social networks and individual academic performance

Alessandro Lomi;Tom A.B. Snijders;Christian E.G. Steglich;Vanina Jasmine Torló

257
Citations
Friendship and Delinquency: Selection and Influence Processes in Early Adolescence

Andrea Knecht;Tom A. B. Snijders;Chris Baerveldt;Christian E. G. Steglich

234
Citations
Dynamics of adolescent friendship networks and smoking behavior: social network analyses in six European countries.

Liesbeth Mercken;Liesbeth Mercken;Tom A.B. Snijders;Tom A.B. Snijders;Christian Steglich;Hein de Vries;Hein de Vries

213
Citations
The co-evolution of gossip and friendship in workplace social networks

Lea Ellwardt;Christian Steglich;Rafael Wittek

203
Citations
A longitudinal social network analysis of peer influence, peer selection, and smoking behavior among adolescents in British schools

Liesbeth Mercken;Christian Steglich;Philip Sinclair;Jo Holliday

194
Citations
INFLUENCE AND SELECTION PROCESSES IN WEAPON CARRYING DURING ADOLESCENCE: THE ROLES OF STATUS, AGGRESSION, AND VULNERABILITY*

Jan Kornelis Dijkstra;Siegwart Lindenberg;René Veenstra;Christian E. G. Steglich

190
Citations
Homophily and assimilation among sportactive adolescent substance users

M Pearson;Christian Steglich;Thomas Snijders

180
Citations
Friendship and Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Multilevel Social Network Approach

Andrea B. Knecht;William J. Burk;Jeroen Weesie;Christian Steglich

175
Citations
Academic functioning and peer influences: A short-term longitudinal study of network-behavior dynamics in middle adolescence

J. Ashwin Rambaran;Andrea Hopmeyer;David Schwartz;Christian Steglich

162
Citations
Representing Micro-Macro Linkages by Actor-Based Dynamic Network Models.

Tom A. B. Snijders;Tom A. B. Snijders;Christian E. G. Steglich

146
Citations
Actor-based model for network and behavior dynamics

René Veenstra;Christian Steglich

137
Citations
First selection, then influence: Developmental differences in friendship dynamics regarding academic achievement

Mariola Claudia Gremmen;Jan Kornelis Dijkstra;Christian Steglich;René Veenstra

124
Citations
Homophily and assimilation among sport- active adolescent substance users 1

Michael Pearson;Christian Steglich;Tom Snijders

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom A. B. Snijders University of Groningen

Jan Kornelis Dijkstra University of Groningen

René Veenstra University of Groningen

Wilma A. M. Vollebergh Utrecht University

Hein de Vries Maastricht University

Laurence Moore University of Glasgow

Andreas Flache University of Groningen

Noshir Contractor Northwestern University

Allison M. Ryan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University

External Links

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