SNA Research News

Read the relationships behind the results.

A reviewed collection of journal and conference articles that use social network analysis as a substantive data analysis approach.

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Photograph of medical students arranging seven hand-drawn sociogram cards during a reflective workshop

Journal article2022Open access

Journal article 26

First-year medical students mapped in-groups, exclusion, and curricular support

Samantha Stasiuk, Maria Hubinette, Laura Nimmon

Canadian Medical Education Journal

Seven first-year medical students created personal sociograms containing 61 alters and discussed them in semi-structured interviews. The qualitative network analysis identified in-grouping and exclusivity, while curriculum reflection sessions sometimes introduced perspectives beyond students' usual circles.

Qualitative SNABelongingMedical students

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Photograph of educators and researchers in a media lab studying a large recommendation network of anonymous video thumbnails

Journal article2022Open access

Journal article 25

Recommendation networks among educational video channels on YouTube

Cynthia Pasquel-López, Lucía Rodríguez-Aceves, Gabriel Valerio-Ureña

Frontiers in Education

Researchers snowballed from 37 educational YouTube channels to a directed recommendation network of 412 channels and 1,303 links collected in October 2021. Degree, reciprocity, QAP, and MRQAP analyses linked outgoing recommendations with digital engagement and found homophily in reciprocal channel ties.

EduTubeRecommendation networksPlatform research

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Photograph of resident physicians in several hospital lounge huddles, with colored relationship paths and seven observation markers

Journal article2022Open access

Journal article 24

Participatory interest groups and the development of residency support networks

Mona Aghaei, Mahnaz Sharifi, Zahra Tabatabaee, Fatemeh Abdi-Masouleh, Reza Yousefi Nooraie

BMC Medical Education

Seventeen second-year residents were invited into four participatory interest groups with faculty during a seven-month program. Resident and resident-faculty networks for clinical advice, educational advice, and personal support were measured before and after; active participants showed selected wellbeing and tie gains.

Residency educationParticipatory groupsSupport networks

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Photograph of students collaborating in a physics laboratory, with eight sequential network snapshots above the class

Journal article2022Open access

Journal article 23

Tracking collaboration structure across a two-course introductory physics sequence

Steven Wolf, Timothy Sault, Tyme Suda, Adrienne Traxler

Applied Network Science

Students in a two-course introductory physics sequence named collaborators at four exams per semester. Global and node measures, structural-equivalence blocks, and communities showed an early period of relationship exploration, later stabilization, and substantial carryover of ties into the second term.

Temporal networksPhysics collaborationBlockmodels

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Three-part photograph of one medical student moving from peer study to clinical teamwork and focused supervisor feedback

Journal article2022Open access

Journal article 22

How medical students compose personal co-regulation networks across clerkships

Derk Bransen, Erik Driessen, Dominique Sluijsmans, Marjan Govaerts

BMC Medical Education

A questionnaire completed by 403 medical students, a 65.5 percent response rate, mapped the people they approached for co-regulated learning and the purposes those contacts served. Later-year students reported proportionally more supervisors and fewer peers in their personal learning networks.

Co-regulated learningPersonal networksClerkships

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Photograph of biology students writing reflection cards at classroom tables, with new friendship ties crossing groups and a doorway behind them

Journal article2020Open access

Journal article 21

A values-affirmation intervention changed biology classroom friendship networks

Kate M. Turetsky, Valerie Purdie-Greenaway, Jonathan E. Cook, Joseph P. Curley, Geoffrey L. Cohen

Science Advances

In a gateway biology course, students were randomized to a 15-minute values-affirmation or control writing task in week three. Among 226 students with baseline and end data, treated students reported about 29.2 percent more friends and were 11.7 percentage points more likely to enroll in the next course.

Randomized interventionFriendship networksSTEM persistence

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