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)
Theis, Nicholas and Ryan Light. 2024. “Surveying the Landscape of Environmental Social Science:A Bibliometric and Network Analysis.” Environmental Research Communications 6:061003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad495d.
Weston, Sara J., Ian Shryock, Ryan Light, and Phillip A. Fisher. 2023. “Identifying the number and labels of topics in structural topic modeling analyses: A tutorial.” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231160105.
Light, Ryan, Nicholas Theis, Achim Edelmann, James Moody, and Richard York. 2023. “Clouding Climate Science: A Comparative Network and Text Analysis of Consensus and Anti-Consensus Scientists.” Social Networks. 75:148-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.11.007.
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.
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.