briatte/awesome-network-analysis

Books

Method-specific

Multilayer Social Networks, by Mark E. Dickison, Matteo Magnani and Luca Rossi (2016).

Software

Python

uunet - Tools for multilayer social networks.

• Related book and data. See multinet for the R version.

Software

R

multinet - Tools for multilayer social networks.

• Related book and data, and presentation article. See uunet for the Python version.

Datasets

Interaction Web Database - Ecological species interactions.

Software

Python

graspologicstars255 - Python package for statistical algorithms, models, and visualization for single and multiple networks.

• Tutorials on algorithms and models.

Books

Method-specific

The Book of Trees. Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, by Manuel Lima - Hundreds of beautiful tree diagrams, from all periods of history (2014).

Software

Python

littleballoffurstars594 - Python package for sampling from graph structured data with a scikit-learn like API.

Software

R

dodgr - Computes distances on dual-weighted directed graphs, such as street networks, using priority-queue shortest paths.

neo4rstars95 - Neo4J driver for R.

networkD3 - Create d3.js network graphs from R.

brainGraph - Tools for performing graph theory analysis of brain MRI data.

Software

JavaScript

Oligrapherstars80 - Library initially developed to visualise "networks of influence" among U.S. elites.

Software

JavaScript

NetworkCubestars87 - "Dynamic Network Visualizations [for] Domain Scientists." For demo examples, see The Vistorian.

Journals

Journal of Social Structure (INSNA). Older archives.

Software

Python

karateclubstars1.6k - Python package for unsupervised learning on graph structured data with a scikit-learn like API.

Software

R

backbone - Provides methods for binarizing a weighted network retaining only significant edges.

• Introduction to the backbone package

networkdatastars127 - Includes 979 network datasets containing 2135 networks.

signnetstars20 Methods to analyse signed networks (structural balance, blockmodeling, centrality, etc.)

snahelper - RStudio addin which provides a GUI to visualize and analyse networks

• Introduction to snahelper (Part 1)
• Introduction to snahelper (Part 2)

Software

Tutorials

Static and Dynamic Network Visualization with R - Covers the igraph, network, ggraph, network, networkD3, ndtv, threejs and visNetwork packages (2019).

Varia

Awesome graph classificationstars4.4k - Comprehensive list of graph embedding papers with title, authors, link to the paper and reference implementation.

Books

Software-specific

A User’s Guide to Network Analysis in R, by Douglas A. Luke (2015).

Datasets

Animal Social Network Repository - Large “multi-species repository of social networks.”

Colorado Index of Complex Networks (ICON) - Large collection of networks described and indexed by Aaron Clauset’s research group.

Network Science Book - Network Datasets - Network data sets from Albert-László Barabási’s Network Science book. Includes data on IMDB actors, arXiv scientific collaboration, network of routers, the US power grid, protein-protein interactions, cell phone users, citation networks, metabolic reactions, e-mail networks, and nd.edu Web pages.

Philosophers Networks from Randall Collins’s The Sociology of Philosophies.

Manlio De Domenico’s Complex Multilayer Networks.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab - Non-profit study group of ecological networks (“food webs”).

Network Dynamics Group at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Twitter: @NDGannenberg.

Social Network Analysis Group at Stanford.

Review Articles

Archeological and Historical Networks

Analyse de réseaux et histoire, in French (Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2005).

Analyser les réseaux du passé en archéologie et en histoire, in French (Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2014).

Introduction : où en est l’analyse de réseaux en histoire ? [Introducción: ¿en qué punto se encuentra el análisis de redes en Historia?], in French (also in Spanish; REDES, 2011).

Networks in Historical Research (in The Historian’s Macroscope, 2013).

Review Articles

Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks

Self-Citations, Co-Authorships and Keywords: A New Approach to Scientists’ Field Mobility? (Scientometrics, 2007).

Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies (Annual Review of Sociology, 2015).

Dynamic Scientific Co-Authorship Networks (Models of Science Dynamics, 2012).

Review Articles

Social, Economic and Political Networks

A propos de la notion de rôle dans l’analyse des relations sociales (Mathématiques et sciences humaines, 2011).

Networks and Trade (Annual Review of Economics, 2018).

Social Networks and Crime: Pitfalls and Promises for Advancing the Field (Annual Review of Criminology, 2019).

Selected Papers

Deux traditions d’analyse des reseaux sociaux, by Michael Eve (English version; Réseaux, 2002).

Topics in Social Network Analysis and Network Science, by A. James O’Malley and Jukka-Pekka Onnela - 50-page introduction to network analysis, with just the right amount of detail on all aspects of it (The Handbook of Health Services Research, forthcoming 2017).

Software

Node Overlap and Segregation Software - Web-based tool to compute Strona and Veech’s node overlap and segregation measures.

SparklingGraph - Cross-platform tool to perform large-scale, distributed network computations with Apache Spark’s GraphX module; written in Java and Scala.

Software

R

tidygraph - ‘Tidy’ approach to building graph structures. See also: ggraph R package.

• Introducing tidygraph
• Tidying up your network analysis with tidygraph and ggraph

Varia

Blog Series

TNT: The Network Thinkers - Valdis Krebs’ blog.

Under Roquentin’s Chestnut Tree - Moses Boudourides’ blog on analyzing (mostly) networks with Python.

Varia

Two-Mode Networks

L’analyse des graphes bipartis, in French (2013).

Review Articles

Complex and Multilayer Networks

Multilayer Networks in a Nutshell (Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2019).

Review Articles

Network Modeling

Basic Models and Questions in Statistical Network Analysis (Statistics Surveys, 2017).

Professional Groups

APSA Political Networks - Organized Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Twitter: @PolNetworks.

ECPR Political Networks SG - Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research. Twitter: @politicalnets.

INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis (SOCNET mailing-list).

Varia

(@) Network Fact - Twitter account on networks, graph theory, and related topics.

(@) Network Science - A thematic list of Twitter accounts, curated by Katherine Ognyanova.

Courses

Network Science (Physics), by Albert-László Barabási, Sean Cornelius and Roberta Sinatra (Northeastern University, 2015).

Review Articles

Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks

Biological Networks (Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization, 2014).

Software

Algorithms

Linkcomm - Link Communities in Complex Networksstars85 - Community detection algorithms, available in C++, Python and R.

Software

Python

webweb - MATLAB/Python library to produce interactive network visualizations with d3.js.

Software

JavaScript

greuler - Visualization library to build and manipulate graphs through a simple API. Powered by d3.js and WebCola.

Courses

Networks (Economics), by Mardavij Roozbehani and Evan Sadler (MIT, 2018).

• Networks (Economics), by Daron Acemoglu and Asu Ozdaglar (MIT, 2009).

Journals

Online Social Networks and Media (Elsevier, gated).

Books

Classics

A Novitiate in a Period of Change: An Experimental and Case Study of Social Relationships, by Samuel F. Sampson (unpublished PhD dissertation, 1968).

Software

R

netrankr - Up-to-date collection of network centrality indices, with lots of documentation.

• Network Centrality in R: An Introduction - Includes a review of relevant R packages.
• Network Centrality in R: Neighborhood Inclusion.
• Network Centrality in R: New Ways of Measuring Centrality (2018).

ggraph - Grammar of graph graphics built in the spirit of ggplot2. See also: tidygraph R package.

bipartite - Functions to visualize bipartite (two-mode) networks and compute indices commonly used in ecological research. See also: levelnet R package.

levelnetstars8 - Experimental package to analyze one-mode projections of bipartite (two-mode) networks. See also: bipartite R package.

graphlayouts - Layout algorithms based on the concept of stress majorization.

• Introducing graphlayouts with Game of Thrones.
• Network Visualizations in R using ggraph and graphlayouts.

Varia

Psych Networks - Website with news, references and tutorials about network modeling for psychological data.

Software

Python

dash-cytoscapestars443 - Interactive network visualization library in Python, powered by Cytoscape.js and Dash

Varia

Awesome community detectionstars2k - Comprehensive list of community detection papers with title, authors, link to the paper and reference implementation.

Review Articles

Archeological and Historical Networks

Graph Theory and Networks in Biology (preprint; IET Systems Biology, 2007).

Varia

The Small World of Psychopathology - Paper on how psychiatric symptoms connec to each other (code, data and graphs).

Books

Dissemination

Linked: The New Science of Networks, by Albert-László Barabási (2002).

Network Literacy: Essential Concepts and Core ideas, by the NetSciEd team (c. 2016) - Available in several languages (paper).

Datasets

Connectome - Comprehensive maps of neural connections.

Journals

Journal of Complex Networks (Oxford, gated).

NETCOM. Networks and Communication Studies, in English and in French (Revues.org).

Professional Groups

AFS RT 26 “Réseaux sociaux” - Thematic Network of the French Sociological Association (AFS), in French (old website).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Large Graphs and Networks - Research group at the Catholic University of Louvain (official page).

Murata Laboratory - Tokyo-based research group, studying bi-, tri- and k-partite (hyper)networks.

Review Articles

Network Modeling

Positional Analysis and Blockmodeling (Computational Complexity, 2012).

Social Network Evolution and Actor Oriented Models (Mathematics & Social Sciences, 1997).

Review Articles

Social, Economic and Political Networks

Networks in Social Psychology, Beginning with Kurt Lewin (Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2014).

Positions and Roles (The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis, 2011).

Urban Social Networks: Some Methodological Problems and Possibilities (The Small World, 1989).

Selected Papers

Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency, by Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (American Journal of Sociology, 1994), and Manifesto for a Relational Sociology, by Mustafa Emirbayer (American Journal of Sociology, 1997) - Sociological foundations for a science of social ties.

Aux sources des grands réseaux d’interactions. Retour sur quelques propriétés déterminantes des réseaux sociaux issus de corpus documentaires, by Pascal Cristofoli, in French - Reviews the current state of relational sociology and network analysis in light of the large-scale and online data (Réseaux, 2008).

La notion de réseau complexe : du réseau comme abstraction et outil à la masse de données des réseaux sociaux en ligne, by Alain Barrat, in French - Accessible introduction to the study of complex networks (Communication & Organisation, 2013).

Software

Algorithms

CONGA and CONGO - Algorithms to detect overlapping communities in networks, written in Java.

Software

C / C++

OpenOrd: Large-scale Graph Layout (formerly DrL) - C++ algorithm, also available as a Gephi plugin.

Varia

Convert Between Graph Formats - Online service to convert from/to many different common graph formats.

Varia

Network Science

The ‘New’ Science of Networks - Review of network science books published in 2002-2003.

Editing a Normal Science Journal in Social Science - Reflections on the Social Networks journal by its founding editor.

Varia

Two-Mode Networks

Fitting Large Signed Two-mode Blockmodels: Problems and Prospects.

Partitioning Signed Two-Mode Networks.

Books

Method-specific

Network Analysis in Archaeology, edited by Carl Knappett (2013; review in French).

Software

Java

Mixerstars1 - Prototype showing how to use Apache Fluo to continuously merge multiple large graphs into a single derived one.

Datasets

Movie galaxies - A databse of movie characters interaction graphs.

Books

Topic-specific

Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis, by Alex Fornito, Andrew Zalesky and Edward Bullmore (2016).

Books

General Overviews

Network Science, by Albert-László Barabási - Full book online (2016).

Journals

REDES. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales, in Spanish (INSNA).

Software

Python

SnapVXstars61 - A convex optimization solver for problems defined on a graph.

Snap.py - A Python interface for SNAP (a general purpose, high performance system for analysis and manipulation of large networks).

Books

Topic-specific

The Chessboard and the Web. Strategies of Connection in a Networked World, by Anne-Marie Slaughter (2017); applies network science to world politics.

Software

Graph Commons - Collaborative platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data-networks.

Metamaps - Free, open-source platform to draw networks, currently in beta.

Datasets

igraphdata - R data-centric package.

Software

R

amen - Additive and multiplicative effects models for relational data.

Bergm - Tools to analyse Bayesian exponential random graph models (BERGM).

blockmodeling - Implementats generalized blockmodeling for valued networks.

bnlearn - Tools for Bayesian network learning and inference (related Shiny app).

btergm - Tools to fit temporal ERGMs by bootstrapped pseudolikelihood. Also provides MCMC maximum likelihood estimation, goodness of fit for ERGMs, TERGMs, and stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOMs), and tools for the micro-level interpretation of ERGMs and TERGMs.

ergm - Estimation of Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM).

• ERGM: edgecov and dyadcov Specifications.

GERGM - Estimation and diagnosis of the convergence of Generalized Exponential Random Graph Models (GERGM).

geomnet - Single-geometry approach to network visualization with ggplot2.

ggnetwork - Multiple-geometries approach to plot network objects with ggplot2.

hergm - Estimate and simulate hierarchical exponential-family random graph models (HERGM) with local dependence.

hierformR – Determine paths and states that social networks develop over time to form social hierarchies.

influenceR - Compute various node centrality network measures by Burt, Borgatti and others.

keyplayer - Implements several network centrality measures.

latentnet - Latent position and cluster models for network objects.

ndtv - Tools to construct animated visualizations of dynamic network data in various formats.

netdiffuseR - Tools to analyze the network diffusion of innovations.

network - Basic tools to manipulate relational data in R.

networkDynamic - Support for dynamic, (inter)temporal networks.

networksis - Tools to simulate bipartite networksgraphs with the degrees of the nodes fixed and specified.

PAFit - Nonparametric estimation of preferential attachment and node fitness in temporal complex networks.

PCIT - Implements Partial Correlation with Information Theory in order to identify meaningful correlations in weighted networks, such as gene co-expression networks.

qgraph - Tools to model and visualize psychometric networks; also aimed at weighted graphical models).

• Network Model Selection Using qgraph 1.3 (2014).
• qgraph Examples.
• qgraph: Network Visualizations of Relationships in Psychometric Data (2012).

relevent - Tools to fit relational event models (REM).

• informR - Tools to create sequence statistics from event lists to be used in relevent.

rem - Estimate endogenous network effects in event sequences and fit relational event models (REM), which measure how networks form and evolve over time.

rgexf - Export network objects from R to GEXF for manipulation with software like Gephi or Sigma.

sna - Basic network constructors, measures and visualization tools.

SocialMediaLab - Tools for collecting social media data and generating networks from it (companion website, github repo).

spnet - Methods for dealing with spatial social networks.

tergm - Fit, simulate and diagnose models for temporal exponential-family random graph models (TERGM).

tnam - Tools to fit temporal and cross-sectional network autocorrelation models (TNAM).

tnet - Network measures for weighted, two-mode and longitudinal networks.

tsna - Tools for temporal social network analysis.

xergm - Extensions of exponential random graph models (ERGM, GERGM, TERGM, TNAM and REM).

Varia

Tutorial Paper on New Methods for Estimating Psychological Networks.

Software

Java

GraphStream - Java library for the modeling and analysis of dynamic graphs.

Software

Python

hiveplot - Python utility for drawing networks as hive plots on matplotlib, a more comprehensive network visualization.

Software

Linkage - Online tool to visualize and model networks with textual edges.

Books

Dissemination

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler (2009).

Books

General Overviews

Encyclopedia of Social Networks, edited by George A. Barnett - Covers all sorts of network-related themes (many of them not formal) as well as social network analysis (2011).

Books

Graph Theory

Combinatorics and Graph Theory, by John Harris, Jeffry L. Hirst and Michael Mossinghoff (2008).

Books

Method-specific

Bayesian Networks in R with Applications in Systems Biology, by Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Marco Scutari and Sophie Lèbre (website; 2013).

Books

Software-specific

Algorithmic Graph Theory and Sage, by David Joyner, Minh Van Nguyen, and David Phillips - Full book online (2013).

Books

Topic-specific

Communities and Networks: Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies, by Katherine Giuffre (2013).

Conferences

ASONAM - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.

• SNAA - Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications.

Courses

Complex Networks, by Peter Sheridan Dodds (University of Vermont, 2016; Twitter: @networksvox).

• Tarot Cards for Principles of Complex Systems and Complex Networks.

Journals

Applied Network Science (Springer Open).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Annenberg Networks Network (ANN) - Research group studying social networks at the University of Southern California.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Cambridge Networks Network (CNN) - Research network on complex networks.

Review Articles

Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks

Assessing Impact and Quality from Local Dynamics of Citation Networks (Journal of Informetrics, 2012).

Review Articles

Complex and Multilayer Networks

The Architecture of Complexity - From network theory to complexity theory (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2007).

Review Articles

Ethics of Network Analysis

A Cautionary Note on Data Inputs and Visual Outputs in Social Network Analysis (SNA) (preprint; British Journal of Management, 2014).

Review Articles

Network Modeling

A Brief History of Statistical Models for Network Analysis and Open Challenges (Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2012).

Review Articles

Network Visualization

Explorations into the Visualization of Policy Networks (Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1999).

Software

ArcGIS Network Analyst - Network-based spatial analysis software for solving complex routing problems.

Software

Algorithms

algo.graphstars15 - Basic graph theory algorithms written in Clojure.

Software

C / C++

Benchmark Graphs to Test Community Detection Algorithms - C++ code to generate weighted and unweighted graphs.

Software

JavaScript

Cytoscape.js - Network analysis and visualization library.

Software

Julia

BayesNets.jlstars196 - Package to work with Bayesian networks.

• Smile.jlstars2 - Julia wrapper for the Smile C++ library, which covers Bayesian networks and influence diagrams.

Software

MATLAB

Brain Connectivity Toolbox - Toolbox for complex-network analysis of structural and functional brain-connectivity data, with links to many related projects.

Software

Python

graph-tool - Python module for network manipulation and analysis, written mostly in C++ for speed.

Software

Stata

nwcommands: Network Analysis Using Stata (discussion, tutorials and slides).

Software

Syntaxes

DOT - Graph drawing syntax used by the Graphviz software.

Software

Tutorials

Basic and Advanced Network Visualization with Gephi and R (2016).

Varia

+100 herramientas para el análisis de redes sociales - Long list of diverse applications of network analysis, with shorts descriptions in Spanish.

(Psychological) Network Analysis Workshops - 3-day workshop on psychological network analysis using R.

Varia

Blog Series

Archaeological Networks - Tom Brughmans’ blog, aimed at archaeologists and historians.

Varia

Fictional Networks

Analyzing Networks of Characters in Love Actually - Features a cluster analysis and a Shiny app (using R + Shiny).

Varia

Small Worlds

The Erdös Number Project - Research project on the collaborative ties and network distance between mathematicians.

How Small is the World, Really? - Discussion of “x degrees of separation” small-world experiments.

The Oracle of Bacon - Based on an online game that resulted in a charity.

Panel: Six Degrees of Separation - Video of a conference at Cornell University, featuring Duncan J. Watts, Steven H. Strogatz, Jon Kleinberg and other speakers.

Patterns in the Ivy: The Small World of Metal - Example of a two-mode network analysis based on metal artists and bands.

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon - Interactive visualization of a well-documented early modern historical network.

Six Degrees of Separation - Wikipedia English entry.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Network Interdependence in Social Systems (NISS Lab) - Led by Skyler J. Cranmer at Ohio State University.

Review Articles

Social, Economic and Political Networks

Network Analysis for International Relations (International Organization, 2009).

Varia

Open Graph protocol - A proposed standard to turn any Web page into a “social graph object.”

Centrality Measures as a Signature of Roles in Rousseau’s Les Confessions - Analysis of a real-world character network.

Journals

ARCS – Analyse de réseaux pour les sciences sociales / Network Analysis for the Social Sciences, in English and in French (GDR ARSHS).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

GDR Analyse de réseaux en sciences humaines et sociales – French research group with funds to support training and workshops on network analysis for social scientists.

Software

JavaScript

Graphology - Specification and reference implementation for a robust and multipurpose JavaScript Graph object.

Courses

Social Networks, by Dennis M. Feehan (University of Berkeley, 2017).

Review Articles

Social, Economic and Political Networks

The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research (PSC Working Paper Series, 2013).

Selected Papers

Revisiting the Foundations of Network Analysis, by Carter T. Butts - On choosing the right network representation to frame a research problem.

Varia

Network Science

The Emergence of Network Science - Video documentary, featuring Steven H. Strogatz and many others.

A Twenty-First Century Science - Essay by Duncan J. Watts.

Varia

Cheat Sheet: Social Network Analysis for Humanists - Basic notions to remember when assembling and manipulating network data.

Review Articles

Archeological and Historical Networks

From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources (Programming Historian, 2015).

Software

PUCK - Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship data - Cross-platform Java program for genealogical network analysis.

Books

Graph Theory

The Fascinating World of Graph Theory, by Arthur Benjamin, Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang (2015).

Graph Theory, by John A. Bondy and Uppaluri S.R. Murty (2008).

Graph Theory, by Reinhard Diestel - Full book online, also in Chinese and German (2016).

Graph Theory, by Frank Harary - Full book online (1969).

Graphs & Digraphs, by Gary Chartrand, Linda Lesniak and Ping Zhang (2016).

Introduction to Combinatorics and Graph Theory, by Daniel Guichard - Full book online (2016).

Modern Graph Theory, by Belá Bollobás (1998).

Books

Classics

Social Network Analysis, by John Scott (2017).

Books

Software-specific

Analyzing Social Networks (using UCINET), by Stephen P. Borgatti, Martin G. Everett and Jeffrey C. Johnson (2013).

Software

SageMath - Free open-source mathematics software with extensive graph capabilities.

UNISoN - Cross-platform program to download and visualize Usenet data. Developed for a Masters degree.

Tulip - Cross-platform network analysis and visualization framework built on top of a C++ library, with plugins dedicated to specific biological and physical networks. Also available through its Python package.

Software

R

RCy3 - Interface between R and recent versions of Cytoscape.

RCyjs - Interface between R and Cytoscape.js.

Professional Groups

Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Network Science Research Centre, Swansea University.

Software

Julia

EcologicalNetwork.jlstars63 - Package to compute measures of ecological network structures.

EvolvingGraphsstars48 - Package to create, manipulate and study time-dependent networks.

• Dynamic Network Analysis in Julia.

MatrixNetworks.jlstars92 - A method to handle graph/matrix/network structures.

NetworkFlows.jlstars3 - Package of network flows algorithms.

NetworkViz.jlstars28 - Package to visualize graphs produced with LightGraphs.jl, using ThreeJS.jlstars53.

• Video presentation of the package by its author at JuliaCon 2016.

PhyloNetworks.jlstars121 - Package to manipulate, analyze and visualize phylogenetic networks.

TikzGraphsstars69 - Package to create graph layouts using the TikZ graphics language.

Varia

Network Map of Knowledge and Art - DBPedia-derived networks of who-was-influenced-by-whom directed ties, using SPARQL and Gephi.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Northeastern University Center for Complex Network Research - Led by Albert-László Barabási.

Review Articles

Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks

Interactome Networks and Human Disease (Cell, 2011).

Network Biology: Understanding the Cell’s Functional Organization - Accessible introduction to (cellular) network analysis (Nature Reviews Genetics, 2004).

Network Medicine: A Network-based Approach to Human Disease (Nature Review Genetics, 2011).

Review Articles

Complex and Multilayer Networks

Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks (Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002).

Selected Papers

Scale-Free Networks, by Albert-László Barabási and Eric Bonabeau - Early, accessible formulation of the “networks are everywhere” argument (Scientific American, 2003).

Varia

Network Science

From Albert-László Barabási’s review articles:

• Taming Complexity.
• The Network Takeover.

Books

Topic-specific

Network Analysis Literacy. A Practical Approach to the Analysis of Networks, by Katharina A. Zweig (2016).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Digital Humanities - Interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, with many network science projects.

Review Articles

Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks

Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact (Science, 2013).

On Bibliographic Networks (Scientometrics, 2013).

Books

Software-specific

Data Science and Complex Networks: Real Case Studies with Python, by Guido Caldarelli and Alessandro Chessa (2016).

Software

R

NetSim - Simulate and combine micro-models to research their impact on the macro-features of social networks.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Northeastern University Network Science Institute - Features a PhD in Network Science program.

Review Articles

Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks

Network Analysis: An Integrative Approach to the Structure of Psychopathology (Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2013).

Books

Topic-specific

Dynamical Networks in Psychology: More Than A Pretty Picture?, by Laura Bringmann (2016; PhD dissertation).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Center for Applied Network Analysis (CANA) - Research group based at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.

Software

EgoWeb - Server-side software for social network data collection and processing.

Network Canvas - Set of tools to collect personal network data (in early development).

Selected Papers

Node Centrality in Weighted Networks: Generalizing Degree and Shortest Paths, by Tore Opsahl, Filip Agneessens and John Skvoretz - Explores the generalization of network centrality and distance measures to (positively) valued graphs (Social Networks, 2010; companion website).

Software

JavaScript

GoJS - Visualization library to draw diagrams and several types of network layouts.

Software

Python

PyGraphistrystars1.6k - Python library to extract, transform, and visually explore big graphs.

Journals

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IEEE).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Network Dynamics - Research Lab at McGill University, led by Derek Ruths

Software

Python

metaknowledge - Python package to turn bibliometrics data into authorship and citation networks.

Software

Vizster - Cross-platform Java program to visualize online social networks.

Varia

Periodic Table of Network Centrality - Interactive periodic table of centrality indices.

Software

JavaScript

GENSI - JavaScript graphical tool to collect ego-centered network data (paper).

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Duke Network Analysis Center.

Books

Method-specific

Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization, edited by Roberto Tamassia (chapter proofs; 2013).

Datasets

Network Repository - Fully searchable database containing hundreds of real-world networks.

Nexus - Repository of network datasets in GraphML and igraph formats.

SocioPatterns Datasets - Network data obtained through the SocioPatterns sensing platform.

UCINET Datasets - Network data in UCINET format.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Data Science Group - Wroclaw-based research group that studies, among many things, complex networks and other network-related topics.

Software

GraphX - Apache Spark module to perform graph-related parallel computation.

Software

Polinode - Web-based platform to both analyze network data as well as collect network data via relationship-based surveys.

Software

Lynks - Web-based tool for simple network analysis and visualization.

OSoMe - Web-based platform to analyze social media data, including through Twitter-based and co-occurrence networks.

PARTNER - Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Networks to Enhance Relationships - Excel-based tool for building networks from surveys.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

ANR-Lab - International Laboratory for Applied Network Research - Russian group based at the National Research University in Moscow.

• Theory and Methods in Network Analysis (“TMSA”) Summer Schools.

Software

Julia

Graphs.jlstars209 - Package to manipulate graph objects in Julia.

• Creating Network Diagrams in Plotly from Julia.

JuliaGraphs - Suite of Julia packages for network analysis.

• GraphVisualize.jlstars4 - Graph visualization built on top of GLVisualize.jlstars245.
• LightGraphs.jlstars678 - Graph library with a focus on performance and simplicity.
• LightGraphsExtras.jlstars22 - Community detection and other functionalities for the LightGraphs.jl package.
• NetworkLayout.jlstars78 - Layout algorithms for graphs and trees.
• Networks.jlstars3 - Additional graph functions for the LightGraphs.jl package.
• GraphCentrality.jlstars4 - Adds network measures to the Graphs.jl package.

Review Articles

Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks

Socio-Semantic Frameworks (preprint; Advances in Complex Systems, 2013).

Socio-Semantic Modeling of Epistemic Communities (APSA, 2014).

Extracting Citation Networks from Publications in Classics (Digital Humanities Quarterly, forthcoming).

Review Articles

Ethics of Network Analysis

Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network Research (special issue of Social Networks, 2005).

Ethical and Strategic Issues in Organizational Social Network Analysis (The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2003).

Books

General Overviews

Understanding Social Networks. Theories, Concepts, and Findings, by Charles Kadushin (2012).

Review Articles

Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks

Social Networks and the Spread of Infectious Diseases: the AIDS Example (Social Networks, 1985).

Software

EgoNet - Cross-platform Java program for ego network analysis.

Contents

Contributing Guidelines

Books

• Classics
• Dissemination
• General Overviews
• Graph Theory
• Method-specific
• Software-specific
• Topic-specific

Conferences

Courses

Datasets

Journals

Professional groups

• Research Groups (USA)
• Research Groups (Other)

Review Articles

• Archeological and Historical Networks
• Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks
• Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks
• Complex Networks
• Ethics of Network Analysis
• Network Modeling
• Network Visualization
• Social, Economic and Political Networks

Selected Papers

Software

• Algorithms
• C / C++
• Java
• JavaScript
• Julia
• MATLAB
• Python
• R
• Stata
• Syntaxes
• Tutorials

Varia

• Blog Series
• Fictional Networks
• Network Science
• Small Worlds
• Two-Mode Networks

License

Conferences

PolNet - Annual Political Networks Workshops and Conference - Organized by the APSA Organized Section on Political Networks (PolNet).

• Videos from the Political Networks 2009 Conference.

NetSci - International School and Conference on Social Networks - Organized by the Network Science Society (NetSci).

• Large-scale Structures in Networks: Hidden Communities and Latent Hierarchies - Talk by Dan Larremore at NetSci 2019.

Sunbelt - Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis - Organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

CompleNet - International Workshop on Complex Networks.

GD - International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.

Courses

Graph Theory (Mathematics), by Christopher Griffin - Full lecture notes (Penn State University, 2012).

Network Analysis and Modeling (Computer Science), by Aaron Clauset - Full lecture slides and readings (University of Colorado, 2014).

Network Science (Computer Science), by Constantine Dovrolis - Mostly open access readings (Georgia Tech, 2015).

Social Network Analysis with Pajek, by Andrej Mrvar (University of Ljubljana, 2016).

Datasets

Bill Cosponsorship Networks in European Parliamentsstars12 - Legislative cosponsorship networks, in R format.

Eric D. Kolaczyk’s Network Datasets.

James H. Fowler’s Cosponsorship Network Data Page.

Linton Freeman’s Network Data - Over 300 datasets of all sorts, in UCINET format.

Mangal - Online platform to analyze, archive and share ecological network data (preprint, Python packagestars2, R packagestars11).

Mark E.J. Newman’s Network Data (example visualizations).

tnet Datasets - Weighted network data.

KONECT - The Koblenz Network Collection - Includes, among other things, networks of collaboration in DBpedia and Wikipedia, GitHub (companion handbook).

Norwegian Interlocking Directorate, 2002-2011 - Two-mode and one-mode data on gender representation in Norwegian firms.

Professional Groups

GDR ARSHS - GDR Analyse de réseaux en sciences humaines et sociales, in French - Research group based in Paris.

NetSci - Network Science Society.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (USA)

Channing Division of Network Medicine - Research division within the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Peter J. Mucha’s Research Group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Forschungscluster der Universitäten Trier und Mainz “Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke”, in German.

Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) - Research and software development project located at the Australian National University.

Complex Networks - Research group based in Paris.

Netzwerkerei - Historical research project on the connections between Jewish intellectuals.

Redes-Sociales, in Spanish - Information network based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Historical Network Research (HNR) - Platform for scholars interested in network analysis for historical research.

• HNR Conferences, Workshops and Other Events.
• HNR Talks - Videos, in German.

MelNet Social Network Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology.

RES-HIST : Réseaux et histoire, in French - Blog posts from a research group on historical networks.

• RES-HIST Conferences.

SoNAR-C - Social Network Analysis Research Center, University of Italian Switzerland (USi).

Topographies of Entanglements. Mapping Medieval Networks - Research platform based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences that focuses on applying network theory and visualisation to medieval history.

Review Articles

Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks

Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Networks: A Novel Paradigm of Drug Discovery. A Comprehensive Review - Also includes an impressive list of network analysis software (Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2013).

Selected Papers

The Strength of Weak Ties, by Mark Granovetter - Arch-classic example of applying network analysis to a social issue: jobseeking (American Journal of Sociology, 1973).

Birds of a Feather, Or Friend of a Friend? Using Exponential Random Graph Models to Investigate Adolescent Social Networks, by Steven M. Goodreau, James A. Kitts and Martina Morris - Accessible introduction to the logic and application of exponential random graph modeling (Demography, 2001).

Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks, by Peter S. Bearman, James Moody and Katherine Stovel - Classic example of topological network analysis applied to a network of affective and sexual ties (American Journal of Sociology, 2004).

Coauthorship and Citation Patterns in the Physical Review, by Travis Martin et al. - Highly typical study of scientific publishing productivity and collaboration through temporal network analysis (preprint; Physical Review E, 2013).

The Convergence of Social and Technological Networks, by Jon Kleinberg - Discusses small-world effects and social contagion within the context of the Internet and social media (Communications of the ACM, 2008).

Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies, by Cosma R. Shalizi and Andrew C. Thomas - Makes a very important point for the analysis of network diffusion and influence (Sociological Methods and Research, 2011).

Network Theory, Plot Analysis, by Franco Moretti - Example applications of (fictional) network analysis in literary studies (New Left Review, 2011).

Social Networks and Causal Inference, by Tyler J. VanderWeele and Weihua An - Reviews the different ways in which network analysis can produce meaningful causal statements, as well as the inherent limits of network analysis for doing so (Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, 2013).

The Performativity of Networks, by Kieran Healy - Network analysis meets science studies: social networks, like financial markets, are highly subject to performativity, i.e. the possibility that reality might be altered by its theoretical inquiry (European Journal of Sociology, 2015).

Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434, by John F. Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell - Classic analysis of power relations in the Renaissance Florentine state (American Journal of Sociology, 1993).

The Ties that Divide: A Network Analysis of the International Monetary System, 1890–1910 (The Journal of Economic History, 2005) and The Empirics of International Currencies: Network Externalities, History and Persistence (The Economic Journal, 2009), both by Marc Flandreau and Clemens Jobst - Network analysis of the foreign exchange system in the late 19th century (data).

Software

PIGALE - Public Implementation of a Graph Algorithm Library and Editor - Windows program and C++ library to analyze planar graphs.

SoNIA - Social Network Image Animator - Tool to visualize dynamic or longitudinal network data. Formerly a Java program (example movies), now developed as the ndtv R package.

Pajek - Windows program for large network analysis, free for noncommercial use.

• Analyse des réseaux : une introduction à Pajek, in French (2011).
• La détection de communautés avec Pajek 3.6, in French (2012).

Uberlink - Software suite for online (hyperlink) network analysis, by the VOSON research project.

• VOSON System - Web-based software for the collection and analysis of online network data.
• VOSON Data Provider for NodeXL (quick tutorial; to be discontinued in 2016).
• vosonR - R client for the VOSON software (in development).

Segrada - Cross-platform tool to build and visualize semantic graph databases.

Circos - Cross-platform program to produce circular layouts of network data, written in Perl.

easyN - Online tool aimed at representing and sharing gene interaction networks as well as Petri net models.

SPaTo Visual Explorer - Cross-platform program for the visualization and exploration of complex networks.

Nodegoat - Web-based data management, network analysis and visualisation environment (blog).

Palladio - Web-based spatial network visualization tool by the Humanities + Design research lab at Stanford University.

CFinder - Cross-platform Java program to identify clusters and communities through the Clique Percolation Method (CPM).

SocNetV - Social Network Visualizer - Cross-platform program that includes a simple Web crawler to construct hyperlink networks.

StOCNET - Several Windows programs developed by the same team as Siena.

Mathematica - Cross-platform program with graph theory and network analysis functionalities.

• IGraph/Mstars71 - Interface to use the igraph library from within Mathematica, using standard Mathematica Graph objects.

Cytoscape - Cross-platform Java program to build, analyze and visualize networks. Also a JavaScript library.

• Network Analysis with Cytoscape Tutorial - Illustrated through an archaeological and geographical case study (2013).

E-Net - Windows program for ego network analysis.

PNet - Simulation and estimation of (one-mode and multilevel) exponential random graph models (ERGMs), written in Java for Windows.

VennMaker: An Actor-Centered Interactive Network Mapping Tool - Cross-platform Java program for ego network analysis.

• VennMaker for Historians: Sources, Social Networks and Software (also available in Spanish; 2011).

Software

R

CCASstars4 - Statistical model for communication networks.

concoRstars8 - Implementation of the CONCOR network blockmodeling algorithm (blog post).

ContentStructurestars3 - Implements an extension to the Topic-Partitioned Multinetwork Embeddings (TPME) model.

spectralGOF - Computes the spectral goodness of fit (SGOF), a measure of how well a network model explains the structure of an observed network.

lpNet - Linear programming model aimed at infering biological (signalling, gene) networks.

Software

Syntaxes

JUNG - Java Universal Network/Graph Framework - Extensible library to represent network objects.

TLP - Tulip Software Graph Format - Graph syntax used by the Tulip software framework.

Cypher - Graph query language used by Neo4j.

GraphML - Comprehensive and easy-to-use file format for graphs (handbook chapter).

Software

Tutorials

Interactive and Dynamic Network Visualization in R and JavaScript libraries (2016).

Nodegoat and Palladio: Introductory Workshop - Aimed at humanists (2015).

Varia

David Knoke on Network Analysis - 20-minute interview that discusses the uses and benefits of network analysis, drawing upon Knoke’s research on terrorist networks.

Linton C. Freeman’s Social Network Research Publications, spanning from 1955 to today.

Social Network Analysis in DBpedia - Highly didactic Master’s dissertation, showing how to use SPARQL and Pajek.

NetSciEd - Network Science in Education - International initiative aimed at improving network literacy.

Computer Technologies for the Historical Research of Intellectual Networks - Series of videos by historians, featuring Marten Düring and Scott Weingart.

Mapping the Republic of Letters - Research project on early-modern scholarship (underlying software).

Visual Complexity. An Exploration on Mapping Complex Networks - Tons of beautiful network and tree visualizations (book, also in Chinese and French).

SNA-DE Mailing-List, in German.

SPARQL for R Tutorial - Hollywood Social Network Analysis - Also uses Gephi.

Glossary of Terms for Statistical Network Models.

The Networks Network - Mailing-list (mostly historians from the HNR network).

A Sociology Citation Network and A Co-citation Network for Philosophy - Examples of scientific co-citation networks.

Visualizing Historical Networks - Historical network research projects at Harvard University.

• Angoulême in 1764.
• Economists in Cambridge.
• The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth Century History.

Should I do Social Network Analysis?.

Varia

Blog Series

Cosma R. Shalizi’s Notebooks on network-related topics, definitely worth listing in (selective) detail:

• Analysis of Network Data.
• Assortative Social Networks and Neutral Cultural Evolution.
• Biochemical Network Evolution.
• Citations and Citation Networks.
• Community Discovery Methods for Complex Networks.
• Complex Networks.
• Experiments on Social Networks.
• Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs).
• Graph Sampling Algorithms.
• Graph Theory.
• Homophily and Influence in Social Networks.
• Inferring Networks from Non-Network Data.
• Joint Modeling of Texts and Networks.
• Network Comparison.
• Networks of Political Actors.
• Relational Learning.
• Social Contagion, Information Cascades, Diffusion of Innovations, Etc.
• Social Networks.
• Stochastic Block Models.
  • See also: An Annotated Bibliography on Stochastic Blockmodels (2019).

Daniel Little’s blog posts on the philosophy of social science:

• Networks.
• Social Networks.

Martin Grandjean’s blog posts about (mostly) network visualization, in English and French:

• Network Analysis.
• Social Networks.

Yannick Rochat’s blog posts about digital humanities, in English and French:

• Character Networks.
• Network Analysis.

Blog Posts About Networks by Cosma R. Shalizi.

Blog posts about networks on R-Bloggers, an aggregator of R blogs:

• Networks.
• Social Network Analysis.

Blog Posts About Networks by Aaron Clauset.

Netze und Netzwerke, in English and German - Blog on the history of network analysis, by Sebastian Gießmann (old blog).

Varia

Fictional Networks

Character Co-Occurrences in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, plotted as an adjacency matrix, written in Python (+ Javascript).

Lessons on Exponential Random Graph Modeling from Grey’s Anatomy hook-ups (using R).

Network Analysis of Shakespeare’s Macbeth (using Python).

The Network and Trajectories of Transitions among Sentential Co-Occurrences of Characters of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet (using Python; code).

Network Visualization: Mapping Shakespeare’s Tragedies.

Social Network Analysis of Alice in Wonderland.

Universal Properties of Mythological Networks (preprint).

Star Wars Social Networks: The Force Awakens - Also an example of a social network analysis written in F#.

Events in the Game of Thrones and Places in the Game of Thrones - Networked chronologies of character alliances, kills and travels in the book series, drawn with d3.js.

Varia

Network Science

Isolated Social Networkers, Networks and Netwars and The Inter-Disciplinary Politics of Interdisciplinary Research or, “Hey, That Was My Idea First.” - Series of blog posts that predate the advent of “network science” as a buzzword, but that touch upon the same issues as those now being discussed under that heading.

The Invasion of the Physicists - How “network science” came up.

Software

Algorithms

MixNet - Erdös-Rényi Mixture Model for Networks - Community detection method, available in C++ and R.

OSLOM2 - Order Statistics Local Optimization Method - Clustering algorithm.

Books

Method-specific

Generalized Blockmodeling. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, by Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj and Anuška Ferligoj (2004).

Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks, by Vladimir Batagelj et al. (2014).

An Introduction to Exponential Random Graph Modeling, by Jenine K. Harris (2014).

Multivariate Network Visualization, edited by Andreas Kerren, Helen C. Purchase and Matthew O. Ward (2014).

Handbuch Historische Netzwerkforschung. Grundlagen und Anwendungen, edited by Marten Düring et al., in German (2016).

Knoten und Kanten. Soziale Netzwerkanalyse in Wirtschafts- und Migrationsforschung, edited by Markus Gamper and Linda Reschke, in German (2010).

Knoten und Kanten 2.0. Soziale Netzwerkanalyse in Medienforschung und Kulturanthropologie, edited by Markus Gamper, Linda Reschke and Michael Schönhuth, in German (2012).

Knoten und Kanten III. Soziale Netzwerkanalyse in Geschichts- und Politikforschung, edited by Markus Gamper, Linda Reschke and Marten Düring, in German and English (2015).

Books

Software-specific

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek, by Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj (2011; also in Japanese and in Chinese).

Gephi Cookbook (2015).

Mastering Gephi Network Visualization, by Ken Cherven (2015).

Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi, by Ken Cherven (2013).

Graph Drawing Software (covering many programs), edited by Michael Jünger and Petra Mutzel (2004).

Books

Topic-specific

Inside Criminal Networks, by Carlo Morselli (2009).

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks, edited by Yann Bramoullé, Andrea Galeotti and Brian Rogers (2016).

Theories of Communication Networks, by Peter Monge and Nosh Contractor (2003).

Comparing Policy Networks. Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany, and Japan, by David Knoke et al. (1996).

Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks: German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse, by Philip Leifeld (2016).

Networks in Social Policy Problems, edited by Balázs Vedres and Marco Scotti (2012).

The Connected Past. Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History edited by Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar and Fiona Coward (2016; companion website).

The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science, by Linton C. Freeman, in English and several other languages (2004; follow-up paper, 2011).

Die Verbundenheit der Dinge. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Netze und Netzwerke [The Connectedness of Things. A Cultural History of Nets and Networks], by Sebastian Gießmann, in German (2014).

Verdeckte soziale Netzwerke im Nationalsozialismus. Die Entstehung und Arbeitsweise von Berliner Hilfsnetzwerken für verfolgte Juden [Hidden Social Networks in National Socialism: The origins and working methods of Berlin assistance networks for persecuted Jews], by Marten Düring, in German (2015; related publications and video presentation in English).

Software

Python

TQ (Temporal Quantities) - Python 3 library for temporal network analysis.

npartitestars12 - Python algorithms for community detection in n-partite networks.

python-louvain - A solid implementation of Louvain community detection algorithm.

Varia

Two-Mode Networks

Generalized Two-Mode Cores.

Basic Notions for the Analysis of Large Two-mode Networks (preprint, related code; Social Networks, 2008).

Generalized Blockmodeling of Two-mode Network Data (preprint).

Working with Bipartite/Affiliation Network Data in R (2012).

Software

JavaScript

Popoto.js - Library based on d3.js that provides a graph based search interface.

Books

Dissemination

Nexus. Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, by Mark Buchanan (2003).

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts (2003).

Software

C / C++

MapEquation - C++ code for the Infomap method of multilevel community detection.

BGL - Boost Graph Library - C++ library that provides a generic interface to access graph structures.

OGDF - Open Graph Drawing Framework - Self-contained C++ class library for diagram, network and tree layouts.

Software

MATLAB

Complex Networks Package for MatLab.

Generalized Louvain - Variant of the Louvain community detection algorithm.

MatlabBGL - Graph library based on the C++ Boost Graph Library.

CONTEST - Random network toolbox that implements nine network models.

Books

General Overviews

Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, edited by Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (2014).

The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis, edited by John Scott and Peter J. Carrington (2011).

Review Articles

Archeological and Historical Networks

Netzwerkanalyse in den Geschichtswissenschaften. Historische Netzwerkanalyse als Methode für die Erforschung von historischen Prozessen, in German (Prozesse. Formen, Dynamiken, Erklärungen, 2015).

Introduction à la visualisation de données : l’analyse de réseau en histoire, in French (Geschichte und Informatik, 2015).

Networks and History (Complexity, 2002).

Networks of Power in Archaeology (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014).

The Roots and Shoots of Archaeological Network Analysis: A Citation Analysis and Review of the Archaeological Use of Formal Network Methods (Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 2014).

Thinking Through Networks: A Review of Formal Network Methods in Archaeology (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2013).

Formale Methoden der Netzwerkanalyse in den Geschichtswissenschaften: Warum und Wie? [Formal Network Methods in History: Why and How?], in German (preprint in English; Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2012).

Review Articles

Network Modeling

A Survey of Statistical Network Models - Book-length review (preprint; Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, 2010).

A Unified View of Generative Models for Networks: Models, Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges (video presentation; NIPS 2014 workshop on “Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data”).

Introduction to Stochastic Actor-Based Models for Network Dynamics (preprint; Social Networks, 2010).

Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis (American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming 2016).

Statistical Models for Social Networks (Annual Review of Sociology, 2011).

Review Articles

Social, Economic and Political Networks

Brokerage (Annual Review of Sociology, 2012).

Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks (Annual Review of Sociology, 2001).

Review Articles

Network Visualization

Graphical Techniques for Exploring Social Network Data (Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis, 2005).

Methods of Social Network Visualization (Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, 2009; poster version).

Social Networks (Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization, 2013).

Review Articles

Complex and Multilayer Networks

Complex Systems and Networks (special issue of Science, 2009).

The Structure and Function of Complex Networks (SIAM Review, 2003).

Varia

New Perspectives for Relational Learning - Videos (and more) from a workshop at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) (2015).

Mixed-Method Approaches to Social Network Analysis - Videos of a conference at the Middlesex University School of Law (2014).

Modeling Complex Social Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Statistical Learning and Inference - Video of a seminar talk by Jennifer Neville at Purdue University (2011).

Plan interactif du métro - Interactive visualization of the Paris metro network, drawn with d3.js, in French.

Picking Sides - Community detection in the political network of Middle Eastern alliances between various state and nonstate powers (updated version).

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere and The Other Ride of Paul Revere: The Brokerage Role in the Making of the American Revolution - Network analysis applied to American revolutionaries.

Books

Software-specific

Introduction to Social Network Methods (using mostly UCINET), by Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle - Full book online (2001).

Social Network Analysis for Startups. Finding Connections on the Social Web (using Python), by Maksim Tsvetovat and Alexander Kouznetsov (codestars237; 2011).

Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R, by Eric D. Kolaczyk and Gabor Csárdi (R packagestars254; 2014).

Network Analysis with R/igraph, by Gabor Csárdi, Thomas Nepusz and Eduardo M. Airoldi (in preparation).

Network Analysis with Python/igraph, by Thomas Nepusz, Gabor Csárdi and Eduardo M. Airoldi (in preparation).

Review Articles

Social, Economic and Political Networks

Network Analysis in the Social Sciences (Science, 2009).

Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014).

Mixed-Method Approaches to Social Network Analysis (ESRC NCRM Discussion Paper, 2010).

Network Analysis and Political Science (Annual Review of Political Science, 2011).

Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (preprint; PS: Political Science and Politics, 2011).

Books

General Overviews

Social Networks: An Introduction, by Jeroen Bruggeman (related material; 2008).

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg - Full pre-publication draft (review; 2010).

Network Science: Theory and Practice, by Ted G. Lewis (2011).

Social Network Analysis with Applications, by Ian McCulloh, Helen Armstrong and Anthony Johnson (2013).

Network Science, by the U.S. National Research Council - Full book online (2005).

Networks. An Introduction, by Mark E.J. Newman (2010).

Social and Economic Networks, by Matthew O. Jackson (2008).

Studying Social Networks. A Guide to Empirical Research, by Marina Hennig et al. (2013).

Réseaux sociaux et structures relationnelles, by Emmanuel Lazega, in French (2014).

Sociologie des réseaux sociaux, by Pierre Mercklé, in French (2011).

Datasets

International Currencies 1890-1910 - Historical data on the international connections between 45 currencies.

Bayesian Network Repository.

Enron Email Dataset.

Pajek Datasets.

Gephi Datasets.

Siena Datasets.

Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection.

UCI Network Data Repository.

Books

Method-specific

Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets: Social Network Analysis for Actor-Centred Networks, by Nick Crossley et al. (2015).

Bayesian Networks with Examples in R, by Marco Scutari and Jean-Baptiste Denis (website; 2014).

Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks, edited by Dean Lusher, Johan Koskinen and Garry Robins (2013).

Inferential Network Analysis, by Skyler J. Cranmer, Bruce A. Desmarais and Jason Morgan (forthcoming).

Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences, edited by Emmanuel Lazega and Tom A.B. Snijders (2016).

Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations, edited by Ulrik Brandes and Thomas Erlebach - Covers network centrality, clustering, blockmodels, spatial networks and more (2005).

Political Networks. The Structural Perspective, by David Knoke (1994).

Books

Topic-specific

Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, by Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy and Alessandro Vespignani (2008).

Towards Relational Sociology, by Nick Crossley (2011).

Visualisierung komplexer Strukturen. Grundlagen der Darstellung mehrdimensionaler Netzwerke, by Lothar Krempel, in German.

Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness, by Duncan J. Watts (2003).

Neighbor Networks. Competitive Advantage Local and Personal, by Ronald S. Burt (2010).

Conferences

CNDay - Cambridge Networks Day - Convened by the Cambridge Networks Network.

EUSN - European Conference on Social Networks.

Professional Groups

Research Groups (Other)

Centre for Business Network Analysis, University of Greenwich - Focused on economic/organisational network analysis.

Center for Network Science, Central European University, Budapest - Features a PhD in Network Science program.

Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester - Currently studies covert networks.

UCL Centre for Organisational Network Analysis (CONA).

NetLab - Research network at the University of Toronto, led by Barry Wellman.

ORIO - Observatoire des Réseaux Intra- et Inter-Organisationnels - A research program on networks and regulation.

• ‘Réseaux et Régulation’ Conference Cycle - Seminar based at Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Cx-Nets - Virtual collaboration between four complex networks research groups.

SocioPatterns - Interdisciplinary research group that uses wireless sensors to study social network data.

Software

Stata

SNA with Stata - Blog documenting the use of the netplot Stata package.

Software

Graphystars49 - Graph theory library written in Ruby.

GLEAMviz Simulator - Cross-platform tool intended for the prediction of human epidemics.

Graphviz - Cross-platform software to draw graphs in the DOT graph drawing language.

Radatools - Set of tools intended for the analysis of complex networks, built on top of Radalib, a library written in Ada.

MuxViz - Cross-platform, free and open source tool to study multilayer networks, based on R and GNU Octave.

Siena - Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis. Formerly a Windows program, now developed as the RSiena R package.

NodeXL - Free, open-source template to explore network graphs with Microsoft Excel.

• The NodeXL Series - Series of blog posts on using NodeXL (2013).

VOSviewer - Cross-platform Java tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.

ORA-LITE - Windows program for dynamic meta-network assessment and analysis.

Visone - Cross-platform Java network analysis and visualization program, free for noncommercial use.

• Network Analysis with Visone Tutorial - Illustrated through an archaeological case study (2015).

Neo4j - Open source, scalable graph database, used by companies like Linkurious.

Discourse Network Analyzer (DNA) - Qualitative content analysis tool with network export facilities, written in Java with R integration.

Gephi - Cross-platform, free and open source tool for network visualization.

• Clément Levallois’ Gephi Tutorials.
• Geographische Netzwerkvisualisierung mit dem Programm ‘Gephi’, in German (2016).
• Introduction to Network Analysis and Visualization with Gephi (2015).
• Practical Social Network Analysis With Gephi (2014).

UCINET - Windows commercial software package for the analysis of social network data.

Software

JavaScript

d3.js - JavaScript visualization library that can plot force-directed graphs.

• d3-force: Force-directed graph layoutstars1.4k using velocity Verlet integration.
• d3-vector: Define connections between nodes as directional vectorsstars4, consisting of angles and magnitudes.

VivaGraphJSstars3.5k - Graph drawing library (ForceAtlas2 pluginstars4).

viz.js - Use Graphviz in Web pages.

vis.js - JavaScript library with network visualization capabilities.

jLouvainstars142 - Louvain community detection for Javascript (example).

Sigma - JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing.

Software

Syntaxes

JGraphT - Java graph library for graph data structures and algorithms (example algorithmsstars8).

GEXF - File format used by the Gephi software.

PGF/TikZ - Tandem of vector graphics languages that can be used to draw graphs in the LaTeX typesetting environment.

• Awesome LaTeX: TiKZstars1k.
• How to Draw Graphs in LaTeX?
• TikZ Graph Examples.
• TikZ & PGF Manual.
• TKZ - Packages based on TikZ.

Varia

Network Science

Social Network and Network Science Co-Citations Across Disciplines in 1996-2013stars19.

Predicting Highly Cited Papers - Prediction of the next highly cited papers in network science.

Three Hard Questions about Network Science.

What is Network Science? - First editorial of the recent Network Science journal.

Software

R