An important puzzle in social network research is to explain how macro-level structures
emerge from micro-level network processes. Explaining the emergence and stability of …

Informal social relations, such as friendships, are crucial for the well-being and success of
students at all levels of education. Network interventions can aim at providing contact …

Important questions in the social sciences are concerned with the circumstances under
which individuals, organizations, or states mutually agree to form social network ties …

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 …

Background A central part of an animal's environment is its interactions with conspecifics.
There has been growing interest in the potential to capture these interactions in the form of a …

Recent developments have made model-based imputation of network data feasible in
principle, but the extant literature provides few practical examples of its use. In this paper, we …

Longitudinal social network studies can easily suffer from insufficient statistical power.
Studies that simultaneously investigate change of network ties and change of nodal …

This paper contributes to the growing literature on knowledge network evolution. It provides
an analysis of the role universities play in a network emerging from the joint participation of …

Land-use change is increasingly driven by global trade. The term “telecoupling” has been
gaining ground as a means to describe how human actions in one part of the world can …

Animals are embedded in dynamically changing networks of relationships with conspecifics.
These dynamic networks are fundamental aspects of their environment, creating selection …