Daniel DellaPosta

874 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 514 citations indexed

About

Daniel DellaPosta is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel DellaPosta has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 514 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Demography and 3 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Daniel DellaPosta's work include Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 papers). Daniel DellaPosta is often cited by papers focused on Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 papers). Daniel DellaPosta collaborates with scholars based in United States and Sweden. Daniel DellaPosta's co-authors include Michael W. Macy, Yongren Shi, Victor Nee, Sonja Opper, Diane Felmlee, Lisha Liu, Xi Zhu, Stephen A. Matthews, Gary J. Adler and Clio Andris and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Daniel DellaPosta

19 papers receiving 493 citations

Hit Papers

Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes? 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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. Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?
    2015 254 citations Daniel DellaPosta, Yongren Shi et al. American Journal of Sociology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel DellaPosta United States 8 330 126 113 93 45 20 514
Andrei Boutyline United States 6 401 1.2× 200 1.6× 132 1.2× 95 1.0× 103 2.3× 10 593
Jan Fuhse Germany 12 373 1.1× 73 0.6× 75 0.7× 57 0.6× 44 1.0× 38 585
Israel Waismel-Manor Israel 11 307 0.9× 242 1.9× 44 0.4× 137 1.5× 24 0.5× 32 508
Lauren Guggenheim United States 7 433 1.3× 496 3.9× 110 1.0× 93 1.0× 54 1.2× 10 800
Cornelia Mothes United States 13 442 1.3× 464 3.7× 51 0.5× 79 0.8× 32 0.7× 23 700
Debbie Denise Reese United States 8 363 1.1× 286 2.3× 29 0.3× 58 0.6× 28 0.6× 16 605
Paul Cornelius Bauer Germany 12 417 1.3× 137 1.1× 21 0.2× 260 2.8× 103 2.3× 27 681
Francis Dalisay United States 15 353 1.1× 330 2.6× 23 0.2× 68 0.7× 72 1.6× 44 623
Clement Y. K. So Hong Kong 13 314 1.0× 308 2.4× 25 0.2× 98 1.1× 30 0.7× 29 648
Jihyang Choi South Korea 11 515 1.6× 557 4.4× 119 1.1× 96 1.0× 30 0.7× 39 791

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel DellaPosta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel DellaPosta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel DellaPosta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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DellaPosta, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Partisan styles of self-presentation in U.S. Twitter bios. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 1077–1077. 2 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel. (2023). Bridging the parochial divide: Outsider brokerage in mafia families. Social Science Research. 114. 102913–102913. 2 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Is your neighbor your friend? Scan methods for spatial social network hotspot detection. Transactions in GIS. 27(3). 607–625. 1 indexed citations
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Adler, Gary J., et al.. (2022). Aesthetic Style: How Material Objects Structure an Institutional Field. Sociological Theory. 40(1). 51–81. 7 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Vertical organizations, flat networks: Centrality and criminal collaboration in the Italian-American Mafia. Social Networks. 68. 127–138. 7 indexed citations
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Kim, Minjae & Daniel DellaPosta. (2021). The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets. Organization Science. 33(6). 2496–2518. 3 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel, et al.. (2021). The Complexity of Associative Diffusion: Reassessing the Relationship between Network Structure and Cultural Variation. American Sociological Review. 86(6). 1193–1204.
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Andris, Clio, et al.. (2021). To racketeer among neighbors: spatial features of criminal collaboration in the American Mafia. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 35(12). 2463–2488. 10 indexed citations
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Felmlee, Diane, et al.. (2020). Can Social Media Anti-abuse Policies Work? A Quasi-experimental Study of Online Sexist and Racist Slurs. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 6. 7 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel. (2020). Pluralistic Collapse: The “Oil Spill” Model of Mass Opinion Polarization. American Sociological Review. 85(3). 507–536. 111 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel. (2020). Syndicate Women: Gender and Networks in Chicago Organized Crime. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 49(6). 534–535. 5 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel & Victor Nee. (2019). Emergence of diverse and specialized knowledge in a metropolitan tech cluster. Social Science Research. 86. 102377–102377. 7 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel. (2018). Gay Acquaintanceship and Attitudes toward Homosexuality: A Conservative Test. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 4. 15 indexed citations
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Nee, Victor, Lisha Liu, & Daniel DellaPosta. (2017). The Entrepreneur's Network and Firm Performance. Sociological Science. 4. 552–579. 12 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel & Minjae Kim. (2016). The Fickle Crowd: Selective Differentiation in Cultural Markets. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2016(1). 12820–12820. 1 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel. (2016). Network closure and integration in the mid-20th century American mafia. Social Networks. 51. 148–157. 35 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel, Victor Nee, & Sonja Opper. (2016). Endogenous dynamics of institutional change. Rationality and Society. 29(1). 5–48. 29 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel, Yongren Shi, & Michael W. Macy. (2015). Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?. American Journal of Sociology. 120(5). 1473–1511. 254 indexed citations breakdown →
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DellaPosta, Daniel, Yongren Shi, & Michael W. Macy. (2015). Why do liberals drink lattes? How lifestyles tied to political views can be self-reinforcing among partisan groups. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations
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DellaPosta, Daniel. (2013). The heterogeneous economic returns to military service: Evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 34. 73–95. 5 indexed citations

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