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UCINET

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Graph theory; NETDRAW; Social network analysis

Glossary

Social capital:

The potential benefit of having certain ties or occupying a certain position in the network

Definition

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  • Title: UCINET for Windows: Software Package for Social Network Analysis

  • Creation date: 1992 (current incarnation, first appeared in 1983)

  • Authors: Borgatti SP, Everett MG, Freeman LC

  • Specialization: General social network analysis

  • Copyright: Commercial

  • Type: Program

  • Size limits: approximately 10,000 nodes

  • Platforms: Windows

  • Programming language: Delphi

  • Orientation: social science data analysis

Introduction

UCINET is a general package for social network analysis. It is mostly used in the social sciences to analyze sociometric survey data. The program features a large number of metrics that can be used to characterize whole networks and positions of nodes within networks. It also features a number of analytical techniques such as finding cohesive subgroups (clustering), blockmodeling, and...

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Reference

  • Borgatti SP, Everett MG, Johnson JC (2013) Analyzing social networks. Sage, London

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Acknowledgments

The UCINET team acknowledges the help of hundreds of individuals who have reported bugs, suggested improvements, submitted algorithms, and so on.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Stephen P. Borgatti

  2. Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, School of Social Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Martin G. Everett

  3. Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Linton C. Freeman

Authors
  1. Stephen P. Borgatti
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  2. Martin G. Everett
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  3. Linton C. Freeman
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Corresponding author

Correspondence to Stephen P. Borgatti .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

Section Editor information

  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Vladimir Batagelj

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Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G., Freeman, L.C. (2017). UCINET. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_316-1

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