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D-Index
50
Citations
7998
World Ranking
2822
National Ranking
1362

Patrick Doreian publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Doreian sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 178 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Patrick Doreian D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Doreian sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrick Doreian is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within social sciences and physics and astronomy. Their work intersects several subfields including statistical and nonlinear physics, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and communication.

Their research topics cover a range of areas focused on complex social and physical systems. These topics include:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception

Doreian has contributed to academic literature with several recent papers. These include:

  • "Police recruit narratives and publicly oriented vocabularies of motive" (2023), published in the International Journal of Police Science & Management
  • "Public issues, policy proposals, social movements, and the interests of the Koch Brothers network of allies" (2021), published in Quality & Quantity
  • "Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks" (2021), published in the Journal of Social Structure

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Doreian include:

  • Andrej Mrvar
  • Jesse Wozniak
  • Norman Conti

Their work has appeared in journals including the International Journal of Police Science & Management, Quality & Quantity, and the Journal of Social Structure.

Best Publications

  • A partitioning approach to structural balance

    Patrick Doreian;Andrej Mrvar

  • Linear Models with Spatially Distributed Data: Spatial Disturbances or Spatial Effects?

    Patrick Doreian

  • Some dynamics of social balance processes: bringing Heider back into balance theory

    Norman P Hummon;Patrick Doreian

  • Generalized blockmodeling of two-mode network data

    Patrick Doreian;Vladimir Batagelj;Anuška Ferligoj

  • Partitioning signed social networks

    Patrick Doreian;Andrej Mrvar

  • Estimating Linear Models with Spatially Distributed Data

    Patrick Doreian

  • Measuring Patterns of Acquaintanceship [and Comments and Reply]

    Peter D. Killworth;H. Russell Bernard;Christopher McCarty;Patrick Doreian

  • Fixed list versus snowball selection of social networks

    Patrick Doreian;Katherine L Woodard

  • Direct and indirect methods for structural equivalence

    Vladimir Batagelj;Anuška Ferligoj;Patrick Doreian

  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF BALANCE THROUGH TIME

    Patrick Doreian;Roman Kapuscinski;David Krackhardt;Janusz Szczypula

  • Social context, spatial structure and social network structure

    Patrick Doreian;Patrick Doreian;Norman Conti

  • An optimizational approach to regular equivalence

    Vladimir Batagelj;Patrick Doreian;Anuška Ferligoj

  • Structural equivalence in a psychology journal network

    Patrick Doreian

  • Collaboration structures in Slovenian scientific communities

    Luka Kronegger;Franc Mali;Anuška Ferligoj;Patrick Doreian

  • The dynamics and evolution of social networks

    Patrick Doreian;Frans N. Stokman

  • Causality in Social Network Analysis

    Patrick Doreian

  • With whom do researchers collaborate and why

    Hajdeja Igliăź;Patrick Doreian;Luka Kronegger;Anuška Ferligoj

  • Network Autocorrelation Models Some Monte Carlo Results

    Patrick Doreian;Klaus Teuter;Chi-Hsein Wang

  • On the dynamics of national scientific systems

    Luka Kronegger;Anuška Ferligoj;Patrick Doreian;Patrick Doreian

  • Defining and locating cores and boundaries of social networks

    Patrick Doreian;Katherine L. Woodard

  • Analyzing the Structure of the Centrality-Productivity Literature Created Between 1948 and 1979

    Norman P. Hummon;Patrick Doreian;Linton C. Freeman

  • The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models

    Patrick Doreian;Thomas J. Fararo

  • Spatial Statistics: Past, Present, and Future

    Brian Ripley;J. Keith Ord;Luc Anselin;Robert P. Haining

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir Batagelj
Vladimir Batagelj University of Ljubljana
Michael J. Brusco
Michael J. Brusco Florida State University
David Krackhardt
David Krackhardt Carnegie Mellon University
Ramayya Krishnan
Ramayya Krishnan Carnegie Mellon University
Tom A. B. Snijders
Tom A. B. Snijders University of Groningen
Sylvia Richardson
Sylvia Richardson University of Cambridge
Linton C. Freeman
Linton C. Freeman University of California, Irvine
Brian Francis
Brian Francis Lancaster University
Stanley Wasserman
Stanley Wasserman Indiana University
Peter Ghazal
Peter Ghazal Cardiff University

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