Nan Lin | Academic Influence

Nan Lin's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Nan Lin

Sociology

#105

World Rank

#151

Historical Rank

#55

USA Rank

sociology Degrees

Download Badge

Sociology

Nan Lin's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology National Taiwan University

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Sociology 2025

Why Is Nan Lin Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Nan Lin is the Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology of the Trinity College, Duke University. He is most notable for his research and writing on social networks and social capital. Biography Lin received his undergraduate degree from Tunghai University, Taiwan, in 1960; his M.A. from Syracuse University in 1963; and his doctorate degree from Michigan State University in 1966. He entered the sociology department at the University at Albany, SUNY in 1971, became a full professor there in 1976 and served as department chair from 1979 to 1982. In 1979, he established contacts with sociologists in the People's Republic of China and established an exchange program between Albany and Nankai University. He also helped organize the first U.S.-China doctoral program in sociology.

(See a Problem?)

Nan Lin's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action (2001) (3298)
Social Capital: Frontmatter (2001) (2416)
Buidling a Network Theory of Social Capital (1999) (2094)
Foundations of social research (1976) (1335)
Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment (1981) (1233)
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND STATUS ATTAINMENT (1999) (1177)
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND STATUS ATTAINMENT (1999) (1010)
Access to occupations through social ties (1986) (970)
Social support, stressful life events, and illness: a model and an empirical test. (1979) (850)
The stress-buffering role of social support. Problems and prospects for systematic investigation. (1977) (710)
Social Support, Life Events, and Depression (1985) (691)
Social structure and network analysis (1985) (670)
Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment (1981) (606)
Social support and depressed mood: a structural analysis. (1999) (531)
The life stress paradigm and psychological distress. (1991) (507)
Life stress and health: Stressors and resources. (1989) (481)
Social Capital: Theory and Research (2017) (480)
Inequality in Social Capital (2017) (443)
Inequality in Social Capital (2017) (443)
Social Resources and Occupational Status Attainment (1981) (410)
2 – Conceptualizing Social Support (1986) (328)
Getting Ahead in Urban China (1991) (296)
Inequality in Social Capital (2000) (287)
The buffering effect of social support subsequent to an important life event. (1985) (263)
Social Capital: Theories of Capital (2001) (235)
Social capital and civic action: A network-based approach (2008) (224)
Networks of Opportunity: Gender, Race, and Job Leads (2009) (222)
Capitalism in China: A Centrally Managed Capitalism (CMC) and Its Future (2011) (212)
The Position Generator: Measurement Techniques for Investigations of Social Capital (2017) (194)
A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States. (2000) (178)
Local market socialism: Local corporatism in action in rural China (1995) (177)
Depression-mobility and its social etiology: the role of life events and social support. (1984) (155)
Social Capital and Health Inequality: Evidence from Taiwan∗ (2009) (152)
I NSNA Building a Network Theory of Social Capital ' (2003) (152)
Social capital : an international research program (2008) (141)
Social support scales: a methodological note. (1981) (135)
Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital (2008) (127)
Measuring Depressive Symptomatology in China (1989) (110)
Social support and depression (1984) (96)
Network diversity, contact diversity, and status attainment (2012) (92)
10 – Modeling the Effects of Social Support (1986) (62)
The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study1 (2008) (62)
Age, the Stress Process, and Physical Distress (2000) (60)
Access to Social Capital and Status Attainment in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences (2008) (54)
Urban stress in China. (1995) (53)
Marital Engagement/Disengagement, Social Networks, and Mental Health (1991) (51)
Differential Effects of Information Channels in the Process of Innovation Diffusion (1975) (48)
Age differences in the effects of network composition on psychological distress. (1999) (48)
Local State Marketism (2013) (46)
The Weaknesses of Civic Territorial Organizations: Civic Engagement and Homeowners Associations in Urban China (2014) (45)
Stress in the Life Course (1996) (43)
Distal stressors and the life stress process (1996) (40)
Weak ties, strong ties, and job mobility in urban China: 1978-2008 (2016) (37)
Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification (2019) (35)
Stress and adversity over the life course: Construction and use of the life history calendar: reliability and validity of recall data (1997) (35)
Cross-National Comparison of Social Support Structures between Taiwan and the United States∗ (2008) (34)
Network Time Series from Archival Records (1977) (29)
Social Networks and Health (2006) (28)
9 – Measuring Community and Network Support (1986) (26)
An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Housing and Land Market (2013) (25)
Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency : A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan (2013) (24)
The Chinese triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : comparative institutional analyses (2001) (23)
Markets or networks: Households' choice of financial intermediary in Western China (2012) (21)
Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families. (2009) (21)
Assimilation of Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C.* (1977) (21)
Social Capital: Institutions, Networks, and Capital Building (2001) (20)
16 – Buffering the Impact of the Most Important Life Event (1986) (17)
Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance (2015) (15)
HOW THE EAST AND THE WEST SHALL MEET (2007) (15)
The McIntire March A Study of Recruitment and Commitment (1974) (13)
Hiring for Networks: Social Capital and Staffing Practices in Transitional China (2016) (13)
Social Capital: Social Capital (2001) (13)
Foundations of social research / by Nan Lin (1976) (12)
11 – The Age Structure and the Stress Process (1986) (11)
Contexts of social capital : social networks in communities, markets, and organizations (2010) (10)
The Struggle for Tiananmen: Anatomy of the 1989 Mass Movement (1992) (10)
Status-Based differential memory and measurement of social capital: Recall errors and bias estimates (2013) (8)
Chinese Rural Enterprises in Transformation: The End of the Beginning (1998) (7)
15 – Gender of the Gonfidant and Depression (1986) (6)
Conducting social research (1976) (5)
Recruiting and Deploying Social Capital in Organizations: Theory and Evidence (2009) (5)
Emerging chinese capitalism and its theoretical and global significance (2008) (4)
Social Capital : Theory and Research(The Center for Social Capital Studies, Senshu University 2009 Symposium，Exploring Social Capital towards Sustainable Development in East Asia，Kanda campus, Senshu University，December 19, 2009) (2010) (4)
Contact status and finding a job: validation and extension (2014) (4)
Causal Interpretation of Interaction Effect (1981) (4)
Social Capital: Social Capital and Status Attainment (2001) (3)
Social Capital: Resources, Hierarchy, Networks, and Homophily (2001) (3)
Chapter 9. Social Capital and Health (2009) (2)
Social Capital: Reputation and Social Capital (2001) (2)
Advancing Network Analysis of Chinese Businesses: Commentary on Burt and Burzynska (2017) (2)
A Tale of Two Concepts of Social Capital: Network Resources and Civic Networks (2008) (2)
Is soCIal CaPItal rEally tHE CaPItal In tErms of EConomICs? (2015) (2)
Book Review / Comptes rendu: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion & Culture (2019) (1)
Social Support in the Etiology of Depression: A Panel Study (1985) (1)
Recruiting and Deploying Social Capital in Organizations (2009) (1)
Warming Needle Moxibustion for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (2021) (0)
Social captial in wedding banquets: A comparative study of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (2013) (0)
Interest Cognition-Strategic Interaction-Feedback Assessment: Analysis of the Evolutionary Logic of Sino-Japanese Relations (2020) (0)
Social Capital: The Future of the Theory (2001) (0)
Social Capital: Social Capital in Hierarchical Structures (2001) (0)
Social Capital and Finding a Job: A Further Investigation (2011) (0)
Homeowners’ Associations in Urban China: A Move Toward Civil Society? (2012) (0)
Social Capital and Marital Satisfaction (2006) (0)
Social Capital: Cybernetworks and the Global Village (2001) (0)
The Relational and Transactional Rationality: Exploring Eastern and Western Bases of Exchanges(superscript §) (2009) (0)
Social Capital and Socioeconomic Attainment in Taiwan (2001) (0)
Applied Network Analysis: A Methodological Introduction.@@@Social Structure and Network Analysis. (1984) (0)
The wedding banquet: The presentation of social capital in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (2014) (0)
Searching for a Generalizable Social Support Structure: Comparison between the U.S. and Taiwan (2006) (0)
Gender, Race and the Unsolicited Receipt of Job Information (2006) (0)
Running Head: Access to Social Capital by Parenthood Status, Gender, and Marital Status Raising Network Resources While Raising Children? Access to Social Capital by Parenthood Status, Gender, and Marital Status* (2015) (0)
Letter from the Editor (2017) (0)
Social Capital and the Emergence of Social Structure (2001) (0)
Advancing Social Capital Research: A Discussion of East Asia Research Contributions (2014) (0)
Advancing Network Analysis of Chinese Businesses: Commentary on Burt and Burzynska (2017) (0)
Chinese Depressive Symptom Scale (CDS) 1989 (2007) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Nan Lin

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Nan Lin?

Nan Lin is affiliated with the following schools: