2026 James Moody: 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	42	4578	4231	2178	1976	121	15452

Overview

James Moody is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as sociology and political science, general health professions, statistical and nonlinear physics, epidemiology, and modeling and simulation.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, including:

COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Complex network analysis techniques
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
Health disparities and outcomes
Mental health research topics
Opinion dynamics and social influence
Social capital and networks

James Moody has authored several recent papers, including:

"Harnessing the Power of Smart and Connected Health to Tackle COVID-19: IoT, AI, Robotics, and Blockchain for a Better World" (2021) published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
"A Guide for Choosing Community Detection Algorithms in Social Network Studies: The Question Alignment Approach" (2020) published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine
"Provider Bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical Records at a Hospital Emergency Department" (2021) published in BMC Public Health
"Reproducibility in the Social Sciences" (2022) published in Annual Review of Sociology
"Network sampling coverage III: Imputation of missing network data under different network and missing data conditions" (2021) published in Social Networks

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Moody include Dana K. Pasquale, Charles L. Nunn, Lisa A. Keister, Alison B. Comfort, and Carol S. Camlin.

Their publications appear often in venues such as:

Social Networks
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
BMC Public Health
Social Forces

James Moody has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, with a title "Network Analysis" released by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America1

James Moody

1763
Citations
Structural cohesion and embeddedness: A hierarchical concept of social groups

James Moody;Douglas R. White

1531
Citations
The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network: Disciplinary Cohesion from 1963 to 1999

James Moody

1369
Citations
Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes

Linda A. Renzulli;Howard Aldrich;James Moody

1102
Citations
Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks

Peter Shawn Bearman;James Moody;Katherine Stovel

1065
Citations
Suicide and Friendships Among American Adolescents

Peter Shawn Bearman;James Moody

989
Citations
Dynamic Network Visualization.

James Moody;Daniel McFarland;Skye Bender‐deMoll

621
Citations
Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance

Arne L. Kalleberg;James W. Moody

448
Citations
Foregone health care among adolescents.

Carol A. Ford;Peter S. Bearman;James Moody

425
Citations
Concurrent Partnerships and HIV Prevalence Disparities by Race: Linking Science and Public Health Practice

Martina Morris;Ann E. Kurth;Deven T. Hamilton;James Moody

385
Citations
Peer influence groups: identifying dense clusters in large networks

James Moody

384
Citations
Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure

Daniel A. McFarland;James Moody;James Moody;David Diehl;Jeffrey A. Smith

325
Citations
Peers and the Emergence of Alcohol Use: Influence and Selection Processes in Adolescent Friendship Networks

D. Wayne Osgood;Daniel T. Ragan;Lacey Wallace;Scott D. Gest

302
Citations
The Importance of Relationship Timing for Diffusion

James Moody

281
Citations
THE STRUCTURE OF CRITICAL CARE TRANSFER NETWORKS

Theodore J. Iwashyna;Jason D. Christie;James Moody;Jeremy M. Kahn

250
Citations
Structural effects of network sampling coverage I: Nodes missing at random

Jeffrey A. Smith;James Moody

239
Citations
Data Visualization in Sociology

Kieran Healy;James Moody

211
Citations
DELINQUENCY AND THE STRUCTURE OF ADOLESCENT PEER GROUPS

Derek A. Kreager;Kelly Rulison;James Moody

208
Citations
Blocking the Future: New Solutions for Old Problems in Historical Social Science

Peter S. Bearman;Robert Faris;James Moody

197
Citations
The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration

Stuart R. Borrett;Stuart R. Borrett;James Moody;Achim Edelmann

168
Citations
Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings

Douglas R. White;Jason Owen-Smith;James Moody;Walter W. Powell

165
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Feinberg Pennsylvania State University

D. Wayne Osgood Pennsylvania State University

Scott D. Gest University of Virginia

Peter Shawn Bearman Columbia University

Martina Morris University of Washington

Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin

Scott A. Huettel Duke University

Alexander C. Tsai Harvard University

Suzanne Maman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

Personal website of James Moody Google Scholar page

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