ANR-Lab employees Aryuna Kim and Daria Maltseva published an article in the Q1 journal

In March, Quality & Quantity journal published an article by Aryuna Kim and Daria Maltseva ‘Qualitative social network analysis: studying the field through the bibliographic approach’.

This paper presents the results of a study on the development of qualitative social network analysis (QSNA) and its evolution over time, using the analysis of bibliographic networks. The dataset consists of articles from the Web of Science Clarivate Analytics database obtained by searching for the keyword“Social network* + (Qualitative OR Mixed method*)”(in total 21,823 publications). From the data, we constructed a citation network, which was followed by an evaluation of QSNA field’s growth and the identification of the most cited works. Using the normalized Search path count weights, we extracted the Main path and Key-routes in the citation network. Starting from 1988, when the first works appeared, the field has grown significantly. The analysis of the citation network shows that there are two main scientific spheres where QSNA was developed—in the social science and the medical science. In the social science the main empirical research subjects are migrant networks and teacher’s networks. In the medical science the research object moved from sexual contacts to social contacts in infection studies. 

Kim A., Maltseva D. Qualitative social network analysis: studying the field through the bibliographic approach // Quality and Quantity. 2023


Aryuna Kim, Junior Research Fellow at ANR-Lab and PhD student in Sociology:

I am writing a thesis on ‘Qualitative Network Analysis: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations and Analytical Possibilities’. This article will allow me to get closer to the pre-defense and subsequent defence. To write the text of the article, I took a course from the Center of academic writing "Basics of Writing an Empirical Research Article in English", and also took consultations with a native speaker for proofreading the text. 


We congratulate Aryuna and Daria on their successful publication and wish them further success in their scientific activities!