galesburg_physicians — Galesburg physicians (1955)

Description

Friendship and discussion ties among 31 physicians in Galesburg (Illinois, USA), from the Columbia University drug study of J. S. Coleman, E. Katz and H. Menzel on the diffusion of a new drug (gammanym, a pseudonym for tetracycline) in the mid-1950s. The researchers recorded the date at which each physician first prescribed the drug, and asked the physicians to name three doctors whom they considered personal friends, and three doctors with whom they would choose to discuss medical matters. The data were taken from Knoke and Burt (1983), who used the archives of the original authors. Each edge points from the physician making the nomination to the nominated one. The data were distributed on the Pajek datasets page of the book Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (de Nooy, Mrvar and Batagelj), from which this version was obtained. The Pajek site also distributes a combined undirected network of the 17 physicians who adopted the drug, which is not included here. The data of all four towns of the same study, in the preparation of R. S. Burt (with 35 physicians and 86 friendship ties in Galesburg, and also the advice relation), are in the entry physician_trust.

friendship: the friendship nominations.
discussion: the discussion nominations.

The networks have the following properties:

Nodes: name, the identifier of the physician; adoption_time, the number of months between the introduction of the drug and its first prescription by the physician (-1 for the 14 physicians who did not adopt it).

Tags

Social Offline Unweighted Metadata

Citation

J. S. Coleman, E. Katz, H. Menzel, "Medical Innovation: A Diffusion Study." Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis (1966) web.archive.org
D. Knoke, R. S. Burt, "Prominence." In R. S. Burt, M. J. Minor (eds.), Applied Network Analysis: A Methodological Introduction, Sage, Beverly Hills (1983), pp. 195-222 web.archive.org
W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, V. Batagelj, "Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek." Cambridge University Press (2005) 10.1017/CBO9780511806452 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

https://web.archive.org/web/20040706125601/http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/Galesburg2.htm

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: Mean degree
$\sigma_k$: Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$: Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$: Random walk mixing time
$r$: Degree assortativity
$c$: Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$: (Pseudo-) diameter
$S$: Relative size of the largest component
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	EPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
friendship	31	78	2.52	2.66	4.46	9.68	-0.00	0.29	6	1.00	Directed	Unipartite	name adoption_time		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
discussion	31	82	2.65	2.90	4.52	8.29	-0.11	0.28	5	1.00	Directed	Unipartite	name adoption_time		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB