Books
Light, Ryan and James Moody, editors. 2020. The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press.
adams, jimi and Ryan Light. Under contract. Unbounded Science: Integrating Knowledge across Disciplines. Columbia University Press.
Refereed Articles (since 2013)
Weston, Sara J., Ian Shryock, Ryan Light, and Phillip A. Fisher. In Press. “Identifying the number and labels of topics in structural topic modeling analyses: A tutorial.” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
Light, Ryan, Nicholas Theis, Achim Edelmann, James Moody, and Richard York. Forthcoming.”Clouding Climate Science: A Comparative Network and Text Analysis of Consensus and Anti-Consensus Scientists.” Social Networks.
Hanson, Kenneth R., CJ Pascoe, and Ryan Light. 2023. “It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight WhiteMan”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit.” Sex Roles 88:169-186.
Light, Ryan, Nicholas Theis, Achim Edelmann, James Moody, and Richard York. Forthcoming.”Clouding Climate Science: A Comparative Network and Text Analysis of Consensus and Anti-Consensus Scientists.” Social Networks.
Moody, James, Achim Edelmann, and Ryan Light. 2022. “100 years of Social Forces as Seen through Bibliometric Publication Patterns.” *Social Forces* 101:38-75.
Lievanos, Raoul S., Evans, Clare R., and Ryan Light. 2021. “An Intercategorical Ecology of Lead Exposure: Complex Environmental Health Vulnerabilities in the Flint Water Crisis.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:1-24.
adams, jimi, Ryan Light, and Nicholas Theis. 2020. “Moblizing COVID-19 Science” Contexts 19:36-41.
Bellair, Paul E., Ryan Light, and James Sutton. 2019. “Prisoners’ Personal Networks in the MonthsPreceding Prison: A Descriptive Portrayal.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and ComparativeCriminology 63:383-405.Light, Ryan and Colin Odden. 2017. “Managing the Boundaries of Taste: Culture, Valuation, andComputational Social Science.” Social Forces 96:877-908.
Edelmann, Achim, James Moody, and Ryan Light. 2017. “Disparate Foundations of Scientists’ Policy Positions on Contentious Biomedical Research.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114:6262-6267.
York, Richard and Ryan Light. 2017. “Directional Asymmetry in Sociological Analysis.” Socius 3:1-13.
Light, Ryan and Jeanine Cunningham. 2016. “Oracles of Peace: Topic Modeling, Cultural Opportunity, and the Nobel Prize for Peace, 1902-2012.” Mobilization 21:43:64.
adams, jimi and Ryan Light. 2015. “Scientific Consensus, the Law, and Same Sex Parenting Outcomes.” Social Science Research 53:300-310.
Light, Ryan. 2015. “Like Strangers We Trust: Identity and Generic Affiliation Networks.” Social Science Research 51:132-144.
jimi adams and Ryan Light. 2014. “Mapping Interdisciplinary Fields: Efficiencies, Gaps & Redundancies in HIV/AIDS Research.” PLOS ONE 9(12): e115092.
Light, Ryan. 2014. “From Words to Networks and Back: Digital Text, Computational Social Science, and the Case of Presidential Inaugural Addresses.” Social Currents 1(2):111-129.
Light, Ryan. 2013. “Gender Inequality and the Structure of Occupational Identity: The Case of Elite Sociological Publication.” Research in the Sociology of Work 24:239-268.