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Social Capital and Networks

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Luca Braghieri
Stanford University
2
Giampaolo Bonomi
University of California, San Diego
3
Yunus Emre Orhan
North Dakota State University
4
Zhangdong Guo
Northwest A&F University
5
Jonathan Muringani
University of Stavanger
6
Lawrence McKay
University of Southampton
7
Chaolin Lyu
Chongqing Normal University
8
Leonardo Bursztyn
National Bureau of Economic Research
9
Jing Zou
Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
10
Ji Luo
Shanghai Polytechnic University

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Optimization of Carbon Emission Prediction in Low Carbon Energy Economy Under Big Data
IEEE Access|2024
185 cit.
2
Life cycle cost analysis of power generation from underground coal gasification with carbon capture and storage (CCS) to measure the economic feasibility
Resources Policy|2024
124 cit.
3
How does digital inclusive finance promote the journey of common prosperity in China?
Cities|2024
69 cit.
4
The Immigrant Next Door
American Economic Review|2024
56 cit.
5
The social integration of rural migrants in urban China: The effect of hometown land tenure
Population Space and Place|2024
14 cit.
6
Political trust and economic development in European regions
The Annals of Regional Science|2024
13 cit.
7
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission
American Economic Review|2024
13 cit.
8
The impact of the Grain-for-Green Programme on carbon storage in the Upper Yangtze River Basin based on the PLUS-InVEST model
Carbon Balance and Management|2025
8 cit.
9
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
American Economic Review|2025
6 cit.
10
How do entrepreneurial traits affect green entrepreneurial performance? A Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)
Results in Engineering|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ulugbek Aminjonov
Université de Bordeaux
2
Nils Wernerfelt
Meta (United States)
3
Theresa Kuchler
New York University
4
Alexey Makarin
Northwestern University
5
Chana Teeger
University of Johannesburg
6
Jingwei Hu
Unknown
7
Armèn Hakhverdian
University of Amsterdam
8
Cary Wu
York University
9
Xu Lin
Wuhan University
10
Xiaobin He
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility
Nature|2022
599 cit.
2
Social Media and Mental Health
American Economic Review|2022
477 cit.
3
An introduction to the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)
Unknown Journal|2026
462 cit.
4
Interviews in the social sciences
Nature Reviews Methods Primers|2022
457 cit.
5
Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness
Nature|2022
234 cit.
6
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis
American Economic Review|2022
170 cit.
7
Digital public health interventions at scale: The impact of social media advertising on beliefs and outcomes related to COVID vaccines
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2023
63 cit.
8
Public awareness of One Health in China
One Health|2023
25 cit.
9
The gender peak effect: Women are most vulnerable to infections during COVID-19 peaks
Frontiers in Public Health|2022
24 cit.
10
The gender citation gap: Approaches, explanations, and implications
Sociology Compass|2024
22 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
James M. Cook
University of Maine at Augusta
2
Cliff Lampe
University of Michigan
3
Seok‐Woo Kwon
University of Calgary
4
Philip Keefer
World Bank
5
Daniel J. Brass
University of Kentucky
6
Eliana La Ferrara
Bocconi University
7
Deepa Narayan
World Bank
8
Eric W. K. Tsang
The University of Texas at Dallas
9
Samer Faraj
McGill University
10
James G. Scott
Harborview Medical Center

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
Annual Review of Sociology|2001
18.6k cit.
2
The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|2007
9.8k cit.
3
Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept
Academy of Management Review|2002
7.9k cit.
4
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1997
7.5k cit.
5
Social Network Analysis: A Handbook.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1993
6.1k cit.
6
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES
Economics and Politics|1995
5.1k cit.
7
Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy
The World Bank Research Observer|2000
4.3k cit.
8
Social Capital, Networks, and Knowledge Transfer
Academy of Management Review|2005
3.8k cit.
9
Why should i share? examining social capital and knowledge contribution in electronic networks of practice
MIS Quarterly|2005
3.6k cit.
10
Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept
Academy of Management Review|2002
3.1k cit.

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