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50
Citations
7998
World Ranking
2822
National Ranking
1362

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

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
Peter Ghazal
Peter Ghazal Cardiff University
Stanley Wasserman
Stanley Wasserman Indiana University
Brian Francis
Brian Francis Lancaster University
Linton C. Freeman
Linton C. Freeman University of California, Irvine
Ronald S. Burt
Ronald S. Burt University of Chicago
Luc Anselin
Luc Anselin University of Chicago

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