International Network for Social Network Analysis

The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a professional academic association of researchers and practitioners of social network analysis. Members have interests in social networks as a new theoretical paradigm, in methodological developments, and in a variety of applications of different types of social networks approaches, social network software, and social networking.

INSNA's membership consists of more than 1,000 social network analysis researchers, who have a website (see External links) and an active email discussion group, SOCNET with over 2,750 subscribers.

INSNA is international and interdisciplinary. Most members are social scientists, but there is significant involvement by mathematicians, statisticians, the business world (especially management consultants), and social networking software creators and analysts.

It was founded in 1977 by Barry Wellman, a sociologist to connect scattered network analysts, dispersed across countries and fields. It was headed by communications scientist William Richards from 2005 until his sudden death in August 2007. He was succeeded by Vice-president George Barnett, a Communication Science professor at the University of California, Davis, and then John Skvoretz (University of South Florida). As of 2016, the president is Steve Borgatti of the University of Kentucky and the vice president is Laura Koehly of the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program.

As well as publishing a triannual journal Connections on the subject, INSNA also:

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