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Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He developed the HITS (Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search) algorithm for web ranking, contemporary with PageRank, and co-authored with David Easley 'Networks, Crowds, and Markets,' a widely used interdisciplinary...

Éva Tardos is a Hungarian-American computer scientist at Cornell University, where she is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science. Her research centers on algorithms, particularly approximation algorithms for network and scheduling problems, and on algorithmic game theory, where she s...

Walter W. Powell is an American sociologist known for research on organizations, institutions, networks, and the production of knowledge. With Paul J. DiMaggio, he helped formulate the influential concept of institutional isomorphism, explaining why organizations in the same field often become incre...

Harrison C. White was an American sociologist known for applying mathematical network analysis to social structure. His work helped establish social network analysis as a major sociological method and examined how identities, relationships, organizations, and markets emerge from patterns of interact...

Barry Wellman was a Canadian-American sociologist who lived from 1942 to 2022 and spent much of his career at the University of Toronto. He was a prominent researcher in social network analysis, studying how relationships extend beyond neighborhoods and tightly bounded groups through dispersed perso...

Lesley Milroy is a prominent British sociolinguist whose research significantly advanced the study of language variation and change. Working alongside James Milroy, she is best known for developing the social network approach to sociolinguistics, which analyzes how social connections influence speec...

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining is a reference work published by Springer in 2014 and edited by Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne. It provides coverage of computational and theoretical methods for analyzing social networks, including community detection, graph algorithms, link predict...

Brazilian urban geographer known for theoretical work on the geography of corporations and symbolic space, with major influence on human geography in Brazil since the 1980s.

Charles Kadushin (1932–2012) was an American sociologist known for his work on social networks, elite structures, and the sociology of culture. His books include The American Intellectual Elite (1974) and Understanding Social Networks (2012), the latter serving as an introductory textbook on network...

David Willer is an American sociologist associated with the development of Elementary Theory, a formal approach to explaining power and exchange in social structures. His work uses explicitly stated concepts, assumptions, and deductions to analyze how positions within exchange networks shape bargain...

Bernd A. Wegener is a German sociologist whose work examines social inequality, stratification, mobility, social justice, and the empirical measurement of social status. He has been associated with Humboldt University of Berlin, where he held a professorship in empirical social research and helped e...