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55
Citations
28739
World Ranking
1951
National Ranking
933

Overview

Peter V. Marsden is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science. They have contributed extensively to subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Health, and Communication.

Their published work addresses a range of main topics such as Social Capital and Networks, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, Social Media and Politics, as well as Survey Methodology and Nonresponse.

Frequent venues where their research appears include Social Networks, with two publications, as well as single contributions to The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Annual Review of Sociology, Environment International, and Social Science Research.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty, 2020, Annual Review of Sociology
  • Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data, 2022, Social Science Research

Other notable coauthors often collaborating with Peter V. Marsden include Derick S. Baum, Ranju T. Dhawan, Deepa Gopalan, Luke Howard, and Angelito Vicente.

Their work has examined various themes such as the collection and analysis of egocentric network data, social survey methodologies, social change measurement over time, as well as interdisciplinary inquiries touching on health-related topics within social contexts.

Best Publications

  • NETWORK DATA AND MEASUREMENT

    Peter V. Marsden

  • Core Discussion Networks of Americans

    Peter V. Marsden

  • Measuring Tie Strength

    Peter V. Marsden;Karen E. Campbell

  • Network studies of social influence

    Peter V. Marsden;Noah E. Friedkin

  • Social Structures: A Network Approach.

    Peter V. Marsden;Barry Wellman;S. D. Berkowitz

  • Community Structure as Interorganizational Linkages

    Edward O. Laumann;Joseph Galaskiewicz;Peter V. Marsden

  • Social structure and network analysis

    Peter V. Marsden;Nan Lin

  • Homogeneity in confiding relations

    Peter V. Marsden

  • SOCIAL RESOURCES AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

    Karen E. Campbell;Peter V. Marsden;Jeanne S. Hurlbert

  • Egocentric and sociocentric measures of network centrality

    Peter V Marsden

  • Social Resources and Mobility Outcomes: A Replication and Extension

    Peter V. Marsden;Jeanne S. Hurlbert

  • Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment: Influences of Work Positions and Family Roles

    Peter V. Marsden;Arne L. Kalleberg;Cynthia R. Cook

  • Institutions and Organizations.

    Peter V. Marsden;W. Richard Scott

  • Social Networks, Job Changes, and Recruitment

    Peter V. Marsden;Elizabeth H. Gorman

  • Externalizing employment: Flexible staffing arrangements in US organizations

    Arne L Kalleberg;Jeremy Reynolds;Peter V Marsden

  • Organizations in America : analyzing their structures and human resource practices

    Larry W. Hunter;Arne L. Kalleberg;David Knoke;Peter Marsden

  • Restricted Access in Networks and Models of Power

    Peter V. Marsden

  • The Analysis of Social Networks

    A. James O’Malley;Peter V. Marsden

  • Survey Research Methods

    David Knoke;Peter V. Marsden;Arne L. Kalleberg

  • Handbook of Survey Research

    Peter V. Marsden

  • Applied Network Analysis: A Methodological Introduction.@@@Social Structure and Network Analysis.

    Mark S. Mizruchi;Ronald S. Burt;Michael J. Minor;Peter V. Marsden

  • The Power Structure of American Business.

    Peter V. Marsden;Beth Mintz;Michael Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Knoke
David Knoke University of Minnesota
Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Lisa R. Hirschhorn Northwestern University
Edward O. Laumann
Edward O. Laumann University of Chicago
Joseph Galaskiewicz
Joseph Galaskiewicz University of Arizona
Noah E. Friedkin
Noah E. Friedkin University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University
William C. Cockerham
William C. Cockerham University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edward J. Lawler
Edward J. Lawler Cornell University
Glenna Spitze
Glenna Spitze University at Albany, State University of New York

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