| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification | Social Networks | 1978 | 11,938 |
| 2 | Node centrality in weighted networks: Generalizing degree and shortest paths | Social Networks | 2010 | 2,425 |
| 3 | Centrality and network flow | Social Networks | 2005 | 2,424 |
| 4 | Friends and neighbors on the Web | Social Networks | 2003 | 2,174 |
| 5 | A measure of betweenness centrality based on random walks | Social Networks | 2005 | 1,829 |
| 6 | Introduction to stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics | Social Networks | 2010 | 1,598 |
| 7 | Stochastic blockmodels: First steps | Social Networks | 1983 | 1,573 |
| 8 | Models of core/periphery structures | Social Networks | 2000 | 1,515 |
| 9 | An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks | Social Networks | 2007 | 1,430 |
| 10 | Network structure and minimum degree | Social Networks | 1983 | 1,364 |
| 11 | A Graph-theoretic perspective on centrality | Social Networks | 2006 | 1,226 |
| 12 | Some unique properties of eigenvector centrality | Social Networks | 2007 | 1,042 |
| 13 | Network items and the general social survey | Social Networks | 1984 | 928 |
| 14 | Network analysis of 2-mode data | Social Networks | 1997 | 832 |
| 15 | Predicting with networks: Nonparametric multiple regression analysis of dyadic data | Social Networks | 1988 | 824 |
| 16 | Eigenvector-like measures of centrality for asymmetric relations | Social Networks | 2001 | 818 |
| 17 | Cognitive social structures | Social Networks | 1987 | 814 |
| 18 | Centrality in valued graphs: A measure of betweenness based on network flow | Social Networks | 1991 | 807 |
| 19 | Access to occupations through social ties | Social Networks | 1986 | 763 |
| 20 | Social network thresholds in the diffusion of innovations | Social Networks | 1996 | 748 |
| 21 | Rethinking centrality: Methods and examples | Social Networks | 1989 | 741 |
| 22 | Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com | Social Networks | 2008 | 734 |
| 23 | Clustering in weighted networks | Social Networks | 2009 | 731 |
| 24 | On variants of shortest-path betweenness centrality and their generic computation | Social Networks | 2008 | 680 |
| 25 | Effects of missing data in social networks | Social Networks | 2006 | 676 |
| 26 | Homogeneity in confiding relations | Social Networks | 1988 | 643 |
| 27 | Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks | Social Networks | 2007 | 615 |
| 28 | The stability of centrality measures when networks are sampled | Social Networks | 2003 | 610 |
| 29 | Connectivity in a citation network: The development of DNA theory | Social Networks | 1989 | 587 |
| 30 | On the robustness of centrality measures under conditions of imperfect data | Social Networks | 2006 | 552 |
| 31 | Ego network betweenness | Social Networks | 2005 | 518 |
| 32 | Social resources and socioeconomic status | Social Networks | 1986 | 503 |
| 33 | QAP partialling as a test of spuriousness | Social Networks | 1987 | 496 |
| 34 | Centrality in social networks: ii. experimental results | Social Networks | 1979 | 495 |
| 35 | Modeling social influence through network autocorrelation: constructing the weight matrix | Social Networks | 2002 | 471 |
| 36 | The application of network analysis to criminal intelligence: An assessment of the prospects | Social Networks | 1991 | 468 |
| 37 | How to search a social network | Social Networks | 2005 | 462 |
| 38 | A note on social capital and network content | Social Networks | 1997 | 455 |
| 39 | The Resource Generator: social capital quantification with concrete items | Social Networks | 2005 | 455 |
| 40 | Basic notions for the analysis of large two-mode networks | Social Networks | 2008 | 451 |
| 41 | Geography of Twitter networks | Social Networks | 2012 | 447 |
| 42 | Contacts and influence | Social Networks | 1978 | 429 |
| 43 | Bridge decay | Social Networks | 2002 | 429 |
| 44 | Egocentric and sociocentric measures of network centrality | Social Networks | 2002 | 410 |
| 45 | Centrality in affiliation networks | Social Networks | 1997 | 398 |
| 46 | Curved exponential family models for social networks | Social Networks | 2007 | 371 |
| 47 | Structural properties of work groups and their consequences for performance | Social Networks | 2003 | 365 |
| 48 | Exploring variation in active network size: Constraints and ego characteristics | Social Networks | 2009 | 362 |
| 49 | Decay functions | Social Networks | 2000 | 359 |
| 50 | Eccentricity and centrality in networks | Social Networks | 1995 | 358 |
