Papers on “social networks”
Research on “social networks” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “social networks” appeared in 1,831 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (626), economics (544) and management (217).
- 209 of them were published in 2025, against 175 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sichuan University (16), Zhejiang University (16) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (54), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (30) and Information Fusion (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Graph embedding techniques, applications, and performance: A survey” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018), with 1,801 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 58 | 50 | 70 | 64 | 77 | 70 | 66 | 62 | 66 | 43 |
| Economics | 60 | 47 | 49 | 55 | 60 | 55 | 53 | 53 | 64 | 48 |
| Management | 19 | 34 | 21 | 13 | 24 | 21 | 23 | 20 | 26 | 16 |
| Operations Research | 16 | 16 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 22 | 16 | 13 |
| Finance | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 10 |
| Information Systems | 9 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| Marketing | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Statistics | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| All categories | 175 | 171 | 186 | 176 | 210 | 181 | 186 | 194 | 209 | 143 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 54 |
| 2 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 30 |
| 3 | Information Fusion | 25 |
| 4 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 21 |
| 5 | Information Processing & Management | 17 |
| 6 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 16 |
| 7 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 15 |
| 8 | Journal of Business Research | 14 |
| 9 | Games and Economic Behavior | 14 |
| 10 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sichuan University | 16 |
| 2 | Zhejiang University | 16 |
| 3 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 15 |
| 4 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | 13 |
| 5 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 11 |
| 6 | Fudan University | 11 |
| 7 | Shanghai Maritime University | 10 |
| 8 | University of Amsterdam | 9 |
| 9 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 8 |
| 10 | De Montfort University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 320 |
| 2 | United States | 128 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 70 |
| 4 | Australia | 43 |
| 5 | Germany | 40 |
| 6 | France | 39 |
| 7 | Spain | 38 |
| 8 | India | 38 |
| 9 | Italy | 31 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 30 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | information dissemination | 44 |
| 2 | social capital | 33 |
| 3 | influence maximization | 30 |
| 4 | China | 28 |
| 5 | opinion dynamics | 28 |
| 6 | consensus reaching | 25 |
| 7 | group decision making | 25 |
| 8 | network centrality | 22 |
| 9 | community detection | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,801 | 17.4 | Graph embedding techniques, applications, and performance: A survey | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2018-03-16 | Palash Goyal, Emilio Ferrara |
| 2 | 661 | 6.3 | Influence Maximization on Social Graphs: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2018-02-22 | Yuchen Li, Ju Fan, Yanhao Wang et al. |
| 3 | 460 | 5.4 | The future of in-store technology | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | 2019-10-11 | Dhruv Grewal, Stephanie M. Noble, Anne L. Roggeveen et al. |
| 4 | 441 | 4.3 | Attributed Social Network Embedding | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2018-03-27 | Lizi Liao, Xiangnan He, Hanwang Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 388 | 3.5 | A minimum adjustment cost feedback mechanism based consensus model for group decision making under social network with distributed linguistic trust | Information Fusion | 2017-09-16 | Jian Wu, Lifang Dai, Francisco Chiclana et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “social networks”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-networks
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title = {Papers on “social networks”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-networks}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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