***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** In response to a list query about social network analysts' take on Barabasi's and other physicists' recent foray into social network analysis. A key review is by Phil Bonacich in our home journal, _Social Networks_: "The Invasion of the Physicists" by Phillip Bonacich Social Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 285-288 Barry Wellman, co-Book Essay editor If you are relying on this list to tell you about social network analysis, you are missing 80%+ of what's going on. _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.