Brian Uzzi

37.4k total citations · 12 hit papers
99 papers, 24.4k citations indexed

About

Brian Uzzi is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Uzzi has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 24.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Brian Uzzi's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (22 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (13 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Brian Uzzi is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (22 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (13 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Brian Uzzi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Brian Uzzi's co-authors include Benjamin F. Jones, Stefan Wuchty, Ryon Lancaster, Satyam Mukherjee, Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, Michael J. Stringer, Sara B. Soderstrom, Alison Davis‐Blake, James J. Gillespie and Roger Guimerà and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brian Uzzi

94 papers receiving 22.1k citations

Hit Papers

Social Structure and Comp... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1997 1996 2007 1999 2005 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness
    1997 6.6k citations Brian Uzzi profile →
  2. The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect
    1996 3.9k citations Brian Uzzi profile →
  3. The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge
    2007 2.2k citations Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. Jones et al. profile →
  4. Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing
    1999 1.3k citations Brian Uzzi profile →
  5. Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem
    2005 1.2k citations Brian Uzzi et al. profile →
  6. Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact
    2013 869 citations Brian Uzzi, Satyam Mukherjee et al. profile →
  7. Relational Embeddedness and Learning: The Case of Bank Loan Managers and Their Clients
    2003 791 citations Brian Uzzi et al. profile →
  8. Science of science
    2018 781 citations Alexander M. Petersen, Brian Uzzi et al. profile →
  9. Team Assembly Mechanisms Determine Collaboration Network Structure and Team Performance
    2005 719 citations Brian Uzzi et al. profile →
  10. Dynamics of Dyads in Social Networks: Assortative, Relational, and Proximity Mechanisms
    2010 614 citations Brian Uzzi et al. profile →
  11. Multi-University Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science
    2008 505 citations Benjamin F. Jones, Stefan Wuchty et al. profile →
  12. Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas
    2022 156 citations Yang Yang, Teresa K. Woodruff et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Brian Uzzi 8.7k 5.8k 3.8k 3.7k 3.5k 99 24.4k
Barry Bozeman 5.3k 0.6× 4.0k 0.7× 2.9k 0.8× 2.9k 0.8× 3.9k 1.1× 310 19.2k
Robert Κ. Merton 3.4k 0.4× 15.5k 2.7× 4.0k 1.1× 1.9k 0.5× 3.7k 1.1× 153 42.5k
Stephen P. Borgatti 5.4k 0.6× 8.0k 1.4× 2.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 128 27.7k
Ronald S. Burt 13.4k 1.5× 20.2k 3.5× 9.2k 2.4× 6.3k 1.7× 4.6k 1.3× 147 49.4k
Bruno Latour 4.2k 0.5× 26.5k 4.6× 5.5k 1.5× 2.4k 0.6× 2.3k 0.7× 347 67.9k
Walter W. Powell 23.3k 2.7× 13.6k 2.3× 11.9k 3.1× 7.2k 1.9× 7.9k 2.3× 96 54.4k
Loet Leydesdorff 7.8k 0.9× 3.1k 0.5× 694 0.2× 10.1k 2.7× 5.6k 1.6× 520 30.6k
Katherine Faust 3.7k 0.4× 8.3k 1.4× 1.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 44 28.2k
Ranjay Gulati 19.5k 2.2× 3.7k 0.6× 5.5k 1.5× 5.5k 1.5× 4.3k 1.2× 126 29.5k
J. Scott Armstrong 9.3k 1.1× 5.8k 1.0× 7.0k 1.8× 3.1k 0.8× 3.1k 0.9× 291 30.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Uzzi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shen, Haipeng, et al.. (2025). A large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models. Nature Human Behaviour. 10(3). 531–540.
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Youyou, Wu, Yang Yang, & Brian Uzzi. (2023). Reply to Crockett et al. and Mottelson and Kontogiorgos: Machine learning’s scientific significance and future impact on replicability research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2308195120–e2308195120.
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Uzzi, Brian, et al.. (2021). Quantifying the selective forgetting and integration of ideas in science and technology.. American Psychologist. 76(6). 1067–1087. 3 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2021). Scientific prizes and the extraordinary growth of scientific topics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5619–5619. 26 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, Satyam Mukherjee, & Brian Uzzi. (2020). Mentorship and protégé success in STEM fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14077–14083. 67 indexed citations
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Akleman, Ergün, et al.. (2020). Scholar Plot: Design and Evaluation of an Information Interface for Faculty Research Performance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 6–6. 4 indexed citations
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Lane, Jacqueline N., et al.. (2019). Structural balance emerges and explains performance in risky decision-making. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2648–2648. 24 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Diego F. M., Yifang Ma, Teresa K. Woodruff, & Brian Uzzi. (2019). Comparison of National Institutes of Health Grant Amounts to First-Time Male and Female Principal Investigators. JAMA. 321(9). 898–898. 137 indexed citations
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Yang, Yang, Nitesh V. Chawla, & Brian Uzzi. (2019). A network’s gender composition and communication pattern predict women’s leadership success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(6). 2033–2038. 91 indexed citations
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Huang, Yun, et al.. (2016). Citation Distance. National University of Singapore. 419–423. 2 indexed citations
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刘, 斌, Ramesh Govindan, & Brian Uzzi. (2016). Do Emotions Expressed Online Correlate with Actual Changes in Decision-Making?: The Case of Stock Day Traders. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0144945–e0144945. 13 indexed citations
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Bessi, Alessandro, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario, et al.. (2016). Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0159641–e0159641. 153 indexed citations
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Saavedra, Serguei, Daniel B. Stouffer, Brian Uzzi, & Jordi Bascompte. (2011). Strong contributors to network persistence are the most vulnerable to extinction. Nature. 478(7368). 233–235. 239 indexed citations
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Saavedra, Serguei, Jordi Duch, & Brian Uzzi. (2011). Tracking Traders' Understanding of the Market Using e-Communication Data. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26705–e26705. 21 indexed citations
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Jones, Benjamin F., Stefan Wuchty, & Brian Uzzi. (2008). Multi-University Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science. SSRN Electronic Journal. 20 indexed citations
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Uzzi, Brian. (2008). Keys to Understanding Your Social Capital. ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University). 10(2). 3. 2 indexed citations
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Saavedra, Serguei, Felix Reed‐Tsochas, & Brian Uzzi. (2008). A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks. Nature. 457(7228). 463–466. 131 indexed citations
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Wuchty, Stefan, Benjamin F. Jones, & Brian Uzzi. (2007). The Increasing Dominance of Teams in the Production of Knowledge. SSRN Electronic Journal. 85 indexed citations
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Uzzi, Brian & Shannon Dunlap. (2005). Cómo construir su red. Harvard business review. 83(12). 36–43. 1 indexed citations
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Uzzi, Brian, et al.. (2000). Embeddedness & corporate change in a global economy. P. Lang eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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