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Scott L. Feld is a researcher affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Physics and Astronomy as well as Social Sciences. Within these broad fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science, Modeling and Simulation, and Communication.

Feld's research addresses a range of topics including Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Misinformation and Its Impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Social Media and Politics, and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

Their scholarly contributions are published in a variety of academic venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Nature
  • Network Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Preventive Medicine Reports
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Feld are:

  • "Egonets as systematically biased windows on society", 2020, Network Science
  • "On the friendship paradox and inversity: A network property with applications to privacy-sensitive network interventions", 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "You are only as safe as your riskiest contact: Effective COVID-19 vaccine distribution using local network information", 2022, Preventive Medicine Reports

Their co-authorship network includes collaborations with Alec McGail, David Krackhardt, Mirta Galešić, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, and Jonas Dalege, with multiple joint publications particularly with Alec McGail and David Krackhardt.

Best Publications

  • The Focused Organization of Social Ties

    Scott L. Feld

  • Social Structural Determinants of Similarity among Associates

    Scott L. Feld

  • Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do

    Scott L. Feld

  • Thirteen theorems in search of the truth

    Bernard Grofman;Bernard Grofman;Guiller Mo Owen;Guiller Mo Owen;Scott L. Feld;Scott L. Feld

  • ROUSSEAU'S GENERAL WILL: A CONDORCETIAN PERSPECTIVE

    Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • Escalation and desistance of wife assault in marriage

    Scott L. Feld;Murray A. Straus

  • Structural embeddedness and stability of interpersonal relations

    Scott L. Feld

  • Democratic Theory and the Public Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited.

    David M. Estlund;Jeremy Waldron;Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • Detecting measurement bias in respondent reports of personal networks

    Scott L. Feld;William C. Carter

  • The Structured Use of Personal Associates

    Scott L. Feld

  • Describing Changes in Personal Networks over Time

    Scott L. Feld;J. Jill Suitor;Jordana Gartner Hoegh

  • PROVING A DISTRIBUTION-FREE GENERALIZATION OF THE CONDORCET JURY THEOREM*

    Guillermo Owen;Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • Ideological Consistency as a Collective Phenomenon

    Scott L. Feld;Bernard Grofman

  • THE CORE AND THE STABILITY OF GROUP CHOICE IN SPATIAL VOTING GAMES

    Norman Schofield;Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • When a man hits a woman: moral evaluations and reporting violence to the police.

    Richard B. Felson;Scott L. Feld

  • America as a “Christian Nation”? Understanding Religious Boundaries of National Identity in the United States

    Jeremy Brooke Straughn;Scott L. Feld

  • The Geometry of Majority Rule

    Nicholas R. Miller;Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • The availability of low-nicotine cigarettes as a cause of cigarette smoking among teenage females.

    Brett Silverstein;Scott Feld;Lynn T. Kozlowski

  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Cycle? Evidence from 36 Elections

    Scott L. Feld;Bernard Grofman

  • Incumbency Advantage, Voter Loyalty and the Benefit of the Doubt:

    Scott L. Feld;Bernard Grofman

  • If you like the alternative vote (a.k.a. the instant runoff), then you ought to know about the Coombs rule

    Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Jill Suitor
J. Jill Suitor Purdue University West Lafayette
Richard B. Felson
Richard B. Felson Pennsylvania State University
Murray A. Straus
Murray A. Straus University of New Hampshire
Karl Pillemer
Karl Pillemer Cornell University
Lynn T. Kozlowski
Lynn T. Kozlowski University at Buffalo, State University of New York
David Krackhardt
David Krackhardt Carnegie Mellon University
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago

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