Abstract Initiated in 2002, the International Environmental Agreements Data Base (IEADB)
catalogs the texts, memberships, and design features of over 3,000 multilateral and bilateral …

Advances in information technology have increased the availability of time-stamped
relational data, such as those produced by email exchanges or interaction through social …

Individuals with depressive symptoms are more likely to be isolated in their social networks,
which can further increase their symptoms. Although social interactions are an important …

Throughout the book, we use empirical examples to illustrate the material. Because social
networks are studied in a variety of traditional academic disciplines, we draw our examples …

Graph theory provides a language for studying the structure of relations, and it is often used
to study interactions over time too. However, it poorly captures the intrinsically temporal and …

Welcome to the world of social network analysis. This book is intended as a general
introduction to doing network research. The focus is on methodology, from research design …

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major
global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches …

Ample theoretical work on social networks is explicitly or implicitly concerned with the role of
interpersonal interaction. However, empirical studies to date mostly focus on the analysis of …

The temporal exponential random graph model (TERGM) and the stochastic actor-oriented
model (SAOM, eg, SIENA) are popular models for longitudinal network analysis. We …

Network studies of organized crime (OC) normally explore two key relational issues: the
internal structure of groups and the interactions among groups. The paper first discusses in …