Patrick Doreian is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

and

social scientist Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...

, whose specialty is

network analysis Network analysis can refer to: * Network theory, the analysis of relations through mathematical graphs ** Social network analysis, network theory applied to social relations * Network analysis (electrical circuits) See also *Network planning and d ...

. His specific research interests include

blockmodeling Blockmodeling is a set or a coherent Conceptual framework, framework, that is used for analyzing social structure and also for setting procedure(s) for partitioning (clustering) social network's units (Node (computer science), nodes, vertices, soc ...

social structure In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally rel ...

and network processes. Doreian,

professor emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retirement, retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". ...

from the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

and

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

, was during his research career focused on social network research, especially regarding temporal networks, scientific collaboration, partitioning networks, signed networks,

network autocorrelation Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

and the

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. He was also an (co)editor of '' The Journal of Mathematical Sociology'' (1982–2005) and ''

Social Networks A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of meth ...

'' (2006–2015). He was also a Centennial professor at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

(2002) and a

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at the University of California-Irvine and the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

Work

With Thomas J. Fararo in 1984, he introduced tripartite structural analysis. With Norman P. Hummon in 1989, he proposed a main path analysis, a mathematical tool, to identify the major paths in a citation network, which is one form of a

directed acyclic graph In mathematics, particularly graph theory, and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it consists of vertices and edges (also called ''arcs''), with each edge directed from one ...

(DAG). In 1994, with

Vladimir Batagelj Vladimir Batagelj (born June 14, 1948 in Idrija, Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. He is known for his work in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization, p ...

and

Anuška Ferligoj Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born August 19, 1947, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose specialty is statistics and network analysis. Her specific interests include multivariate analysis (theory and application in social sciences, med ...

, he introduced the generalized blockmodeling.

Awards

His co-authored book ''Generalized blockmodeling'' (with

and

), was in 2007 awarded the Harrison White Outstanding Book Award by the Mathematical Sociology Section of

American Sociological Association The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fi ...

Selected bibliography

* P. Doreian, V. Batagelj, A. Ferligoj, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), ''Generalized Blockmodeling'' (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2004 () * P. Doreian and A. Mrvar, “A Partitioning Approach to Structural Balance”, Social Networks, Vol. 18, 1996, pp. 149–168 * P. Doreian and Andrej Mrvar (2009) “Partitioning Signed Social Networks”, Social Networks, Vol. 31: 1-11 * A. Mrvar and Patrick Doreian (2009), “Partitioning Signed Two-Mode Networks”, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 33: 196-221 * A. Ferligoj, P. Doreian and V. Batagelj (2011): “Positions and Roles” Chapter 29 (pp 434–446) in John Scott and Peter Carrington (Eds.) Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Newbury Park: Sage Publications * P. Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj (2004), “Generalized Blockmodeling Two-Mode Network Data”, Social Networks, Vol. 26(1) 29-53.

References

External links

Personal webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doreian, Patrick 1941 births Living people American social scientists University of Pittsburgh faculty American network scientists Academics of the London School of Economics University of California, Irvine faculty Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana