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14 papers
Fragmentation of a longitudinal population-scale social network: Decreasing structural social cohesion in the Netherlands
Eszter Bokányi, Yuliia Kazmina, Eelke M. Heemskerk +1
Population-level dynamics of social cohesion and its underlying mechanisms remain difficult to study. In this paper, we propose a network approach to measure the evolution of socia…
Link Fraction Mixed Membership Reveals Community Diversity in Aggregated Social Networks
Gamal Adel, Eszter Bokányi, Eelke M. Heemskerk +1
Community detection is a critical tool for understanding the mesoscopic structure of large-scale networks. However, when applied to aggregated or coarse-grained social networks, di…
Can social capital remedy structural inequality? Economic mobility in a longitudinal population-scale social network
Yuliia Kazmina, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Emilia van der Kooij +2
The promise of equal opportunity is a cornerstone of modern societies, yet upward economic mobility remains out of reach for many. Using a decade of population-scale social network…
Freshness, Persistence and Success of Scientific Teams
Hanjo D. Boekhout, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Niccolò Pisani +1
Team science dominates scientific knowledge production, but what makes academic teams successful? Using temporal data on 25.2 million publications and 31.8 million authors, we prop…
From Contact to Threat: A Social Network Perspective on Perceptions of Immigration
Yuliia Kazmina, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Eszter Bokányi +1
Our perceptions are shaped by the social networks we are embedded in. Despite the acknowledged influence of close contacts on how we perceive the world, the role of the broader soc…
Connectivity and Community Structure of Online and Register-based Social Networks
Márton Menyhért, Eszter Bokányi, Rense Corten +3
The dominance of online social media data as a source of population-scale social network studies has recently been challenged by networks constructed from government-curated regist…
Socio-economic Segregation in a Population-Scale Social Network
Yuliia Kazmina, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Eszter Bokanyi +1
We propose a social network-aware approach to studying socio-economic segregation. The key question that we address is whether patterns of segregation are more pronounced in social…
The anatomy of a population-scale social network
Eszter Bokányi, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Frank W. Takes
Large-scale human social network structure is typically inferred from digital trace samples of online social media platforms or mobile communication data. Instead, here we investig…
Functional structure in production networks
Carolina Mattsson, Frank W. Takes, Eelke M. Heemskerk +4
Production networks are integral to economic dynamics, yet dis-aggregated network data on inter-firm trade is rarely collected and often proprietary. Here we situate company-level…
Community membership consistency applied to corporate board interlock networks
Dafne E. van Kuppevelt, Rena Bakhshi, Eelke M. Heemskerk +1
Community detection is a well established method for studying the meso scale structure of social networks. Applying a community detection algorithm results in a division of a netwo…
Uncovering Offshore Financial Centers: Conduits and Sinks in the Global Corporate Ownership Network
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Jan Fichtner, Eelke M. Heemskerk +1
Multinational corporations use highly complex structures of parents and subsidiaries to organize their operations and ownership. Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs) facilitate these…
Centrality in the Global Network of Corporate Control
Frank W. Takes, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Corporations across the world are highly interconnected in a large global network of corporate control. This paper investigates the global board interlock network, covering 400,000…
Where is the global corporate elite? A large-scale network study of local and nonlocal interlocking directorates
Eelke M. Heemskerk, Frank W. Takes, Javier Garcia-Bernardo +1
Business elites reconfigure their locus of organization over time, from the city level, to the national level, and beyond. We ask what the current level of elite organization is an…
Close Communication and 2-Clubs in Corporate Networks: Europe 2010
Robert J. Mokken, Steven Laan
Corporate networks, as induced by interlocking directorates between corporations, provide structures of personal communication at the level of their boards. This paper studies such…