Katherine Faust

41.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
44 papers, 28.2k citations indexed

About

Katherine Faust is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine Faust has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 28.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Katherine Faust's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (21 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (11 papers) and Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (7 papers). Katherine Faust is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (21 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (11 papers) and Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (7 papers). Katherine Faust collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and Cameroon. Katherine Faust's co-authors include Stanley Wasserman, David Knoke, John Skvoretz, Noshir Contractor, A. Kimball Romney, Barbara Entwisle, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Toshiko Kaneda, George Tita and Carolyn J. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Academy of Management Review and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Katherine Faust

42 papers receiving 26.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Social network analysis methods and applications

1994 12.5k citations Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust VTechWorks (Virginia Tech) profile →
Social Network Analysis

1994 11.5k citations Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust profile →
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications

1995 1.1k citations Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust et al. profile →
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.

1996 858 citations David Knoke, Stanley Wasserman et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine Faust United States	26	8.3k	8.0k	3.7k	3.4k	2.4k	44	28.2k
Stephen P. Borgatti United States	55	8.0k 1.0×	6.1k 0.8×	5.4k 1.5×	3.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	128	27.7k
Stanley Wasserman United States	40	10.5k 1.3×	9.9k 1.2×	4.7k 1.3×	3.9k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	101	43.6k
Linton C. Freeman United States	31	5.1k 0.6×	8.0k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	74	23.6k
Kathleen M. Carley United States	62	4.7k 0.6×	3.5k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	486	15.2k
Sinan Aral United States	33	7.7k 0.9×	3.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.3×	3.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	84	13.9k
Ronald S. Burt United States	61	20.2k 2.4×	5.4k 0.7×	13.4k 3.6×	7.2k 2.1×	1.3k 0.6×	147	49.4k
Michael Newman United Kingdom	33	3.1k 0.4×	7.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.3×	949 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	179	17.8k
Duncan J. Watts United States	55	13.4k 1.6×	28.9k 3.6×	2.2k 0.6×	4.5k 1.3×	3.5k 1.5×	117	58.4k
Tom A. B. Snijders Netherlands	65	7.2k 0.9×	4.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	437 0.2×	212	22.4k
Mark Granovetter United States	29	27.0k 3.3×	6.2k 0.8×	13.8k 3.7×	6.7k 2.0×	1.6k 0.7×	61	61.4k

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Faust, Katherine. (2019). Linton C. Freeman Interview by Katherine Faust, July 27, 2018. Connection Science. 39(1). 1–9. 1 indexed citations

Oravecz, Zita, Katherine Faust, William H. Batchelder, & Daniel Levitis. (2015). Studying the Existence and Attributes of Consensus on Psychological Concepts by a Cognitive Psychometric Model. The American Journal of Psychology. 128(1). 61–75. 9 indexed citations

Rindfuss, Ronald R., Martin Piotrowski, Barbara Entwisle, Jeffrey Edmeades, & Katherine Faust. (2012). Migrant remittances and the web of family obligations: Ongoing support among spatially extended kin in North-east Thailand, 1984–94. Population Studies. 66(1). 87–104. 25 indexed citations

Reitsma, Justin M., John P. Savaryn, Katherine Faust, et al.. (2011). Antiviral Inhibition Targeting the HCMV Kinase pUL97 Requires pUL27-Dependent Degradation of Tip60 Acetyltransferase and Cell-Cycle Arrest. Cell Host & Microbe. 9(2). 103–114. 56 indexed citations

Faust, Katherine & Lorien Jasny. (2010). Social Network Analysis: An Introduction 2010 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research The Odum Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 12 to 16. 1 indexed citations

Faust, Katherine. (2010). Book Review: Kolaczyk, Eric D. 2009. Statistical Analysis of Network Data: Methods and Models. New York: Springer. 386 pp. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-387-88145-4. Sociological Methods & Research. 40(1). 194–198.

Faust, Katherine. (2010). A puzzle concerning triads in social networks: Graph constraints and the triad census. Social Networks. 32(3). 221–233. 81 indexed citations

Faust, Katherine. (2007). 7. Very Local Structure in Social Networks. Sociological Methodology. 37(1). 209–256. 64 indexed citations

Contractor, Noshir, Stanley Wasserman, & Katherine Faust. (2006). Testing Multitheoretical, Multilevel Hypotheses About Organizational Networks: An Analytic Framework and Empirical Example. Academy of Management Review. 31(3). 681–703. 330 indexed citations

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Faust, Katherine. (2006). Comparing social networks. 3(2). 14 indexed citations

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Faust, Katherine. (2006). Comparing Social Networks: Size, Density, and Local Structure. Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana). 89 indexed citations

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Skvoretz, John & Katherine Faust. (2002). Relations, Species, and Network Structure.. 3(9918). 748–53. 22 indexed citations

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Faust, Katherine, et al.. (2002). Scaling and statistical models for affiliation networks: patterns of participation among Soviet politicians during the Brezhnev era. Social Networks. 24(3). 231–259. 29 indexed citations

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Skvoretz, John & Katherine Faust. (1999). 8. Logit Models for Affiliation Networks. Sociological Methodology. 29(1). 253–280. 75 indexed citations

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Faust, Katherine, Thomas Schweizer, & Dougľas R. White. (1999). Kinship, Networks, and Exchange.. Social Forces. 78(2). 826–826. 37 indexed citations

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Winship, Christopher, Stanley Wasserman, & Katherine Faust. (1996). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 91(435). 1373–1373. 81 indexed citations

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Knoke, David, Stanley Wasserman, & Katherine Faust. (1996). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 25(2). 275–275. 858 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wasserman, Stanley & Katherine Faust. (1994). Social network analysis methods and applications. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 12475 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wasserman, Stanley, Katherine Faust, & Joseph Galaskiewicz. (1990). Correspondence and canonical analysis of relational data. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 15(1). 11–64. 22 indexed citations

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Romney, A. Kimball & Katherine Faust. (1982). Predicting the structure of a communications network from recalled data. Social Networks. 4(4). 285–304. 80 indexed citations

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