B Hofstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 20898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Hofstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofstra |
| SIGNATURE | HOFSTRA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9052-956X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The geographical diversity of the citation elite in STEMM is decreasing, even as the overall scientific workforce has diversified
The expansion of research systems in low- and middle-income countries has shifted science to a more diverse geographical structure. Using a global dataset of 40 million authors in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medical fields (STEMM), we investigate whether this shift has made it easier or more difficult for newcomers residing in the Global South to rise to prominence in their disciplines. We tracked yearly cohorts of authors w…
Leaving for more or settling for less: Gendered salary trajectories after leaving academia
Contains fulltext : 328723.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access
Knowledge lost, parity gained? Covid-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia
We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing car…
Who’s in your extended network? Analysing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands
This study advances the understanding of the size and homogeneity of personal networks, focusing on extended networks that encompass both core discussion ties and the broader array of acquaintances. While previous research has primarily examined these dimensions within small, strong-tie networks, knowledge about extended networks remains limited. Using data from the Dutch Network Size Survey (2021), a representative survey of the Dutch adult popu…
The impact of dyads and extended networks on political talk: A factorial survey experiment in the Netherlands
Open political dialogue is regarded as foundational to democratic health and our social fabric. Here, we study political dialogue by examining with whom we prefer to talk about politics and why. In so doing, we develop and test hypotheses about what random encounters (e.g., meeting similar versus dissimilar others, meeting friends or colleagues) foster political dialogue, pose and test conjectures about what features of extended networks facilita…
Professors in the media: Dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scientists do so. Here, we provide an account of a population of social science professors in Germany (N = 2,207). We ask whether and to what extent scientists appear in German printed media (N = 26,729) as a result of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender. We link bibliometric data on professors’ caree…
The why (not) and how (not) of survey to digital footprint linkages: A Use-Case of Ethnic Background and Social Relationships
Contains fulltext : 319503.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
A matter of time? Gender and ethnic inequality in the academic publishing careers of Dutch Ph.D.s
Women and ethnic minorities underpopulate influential academic positions, even though these groups are increasingly represented at the doctorate level. Does this imply that gender and ethnic gaps in academic careers are closing? Prior studies on gender inequality in academia predominantly focus on single academic fields or restricted time periods. Longitudinal descriptions of ethnic inequality are even more rare. Using a novel data set of a nearl…
Size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks in the Netherlands: Differences between migrant groups and migrant generations
Extended social networks encompass both weak and strong ties to provide social support and resources. Hence, it is important to study what explains variation in these networks. This paper addresses this and examines the size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks, and group differences therein, and it aims to explain these differences based on a preference–opportunities approach through a decomposition analysis. We apply state‐of‐the‐…
Interethnic weak ties online and out-group attitudes among Dutch ethnic majority adolescents
Interethnic contact is essential to move past out-group prejudice. However, prior work on the relationship between interethnic contact and out-group attitudes mostly considers core social ties. Here, I consider ethnic majority adolescents’ interethnic weaker ties. To do so, I embrace a key feature of adolescent contemporary social life: they overwhelmingly maintain relations online that snapshot hundreds of ties. Using a combination of survey dat…
Diversifying the Professoriate
The primary means of social and intellectual reproduction in the professoriate is through mentoring doctoral students who become faculty mentors and publish research. However, opportunities to transition into such roles are not equal, and underrepresented groups face challenges building and sustaining their representation in the professoriate. What are social resources enabling them to overcome these challenges? To study this, the authors analyze…
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
Significance By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades, this paper finds demographically underrepresented students innovate at higher rates than majority students, but their novel contributions are discounted and less likely to earn them academic positions. The discounting of minorities’ innovations may partly explain their underrepresentation in influential positions of academia.
Does unemployment lead to isolation? The consequences of unemployment for social networks
Beyond the Core: Who Has Larger Social Networks
The sociological literature on social networks overwhelmingly considers the number of core social contacts. Social networks, however, reach far beyond this small number of social ties. We know little about individual variation in the size of such extended social networks. In this study, we move beyond core networks and explain individual variation in the extended social network size among youth. We use survey data of Dutch adolescents (N = 5,921)…
Toward curation and personality-driven social networks
Predicting ethnicity with first names in online social media networks
Social scientists increasingly use (big) social media data to illuminate long-standing substantive questions in social science research. However, a key challenge of analyzing such data is their lower level of individual detail compared to highly detailed survey data. This limits the scope of substantive questions that can be addressed with these data. In this study, we provide a method to upgrade individual detail in terms of ethnicity in data ga…
Oorzaken van Homogeniteit in Sociale Netwerken: Kansen voor Sociologisch Onderzoek met Digitale Voetsporen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Sources of Segregation in Social Networks: A Novel Approach Using Facebook
Most research on segregation in social networks considers small circles of strong ties, and little is known about segregation among the much larger number of weaker ties. This article proposes a novel approach to the study of these more extended networks, through the use of data on personal ties in an online social network. We illustrate this method's potential by describing and explaining the degree of ethnic and gender segregation on Facebook a…
Learning in social networks: Selecting profitable choices among alternatives of uncertain profitability in various networks
Who was first on Facebook? Determinants of early adoption among adolescents
We study what determines whether someone is an early Facebook adopter in a context in which Facebook is still relatively new compared to a far more popular Dutch social networking site (SNS) (Hyves). We use representative survey data of 4363 adolescents aged 14–15 years. First, adolescents who participate in more leisure activities, who have more digital resources, and who have more friends who are SNS members are more likely to be SNS members. S…
De werking van sociaal kapitaal in het statusverwervingsproces in Nederland
This study addresses the question what role social capital plays in the status attainment process of men in the Netherlands in 2000: how important is social capital in the transfer of status from one generation to the next? We derive hypotheses by integrating the social resources theory in the classic status attainment model. To test these hypotheses we perform structural equation modeling on data from the Survey of the Social Networks of the Dut…
Some New Forms of Functional Social Control in the Netherlands and Their Effects
Recent government policy in the Netherlands has supported the introduction of a number of new types of agents of social control. This article, based on the results of two recent research projects (Hauber et al. 1993a, b), focuses on three questions central to the effectiveness and acceptability of three kinds of agents: city wardens, police patrollers, and public transport inspectors. First, objective security: what effects did supervision by dif…
Sources of Segregation in Social Networks: A Novel Approach Using Facebook
Most research on segregation in social networks considers small circles of strong ties, and little is known about segregation among the much larger number of weaker ties. This article proposes a novel approach to the study of these more extended networks, through the use of data on personal ties in an online social network. We illustrate this method's potential by describing and explaining the degree of ethnic and gender segregation on Facebook a…
Predicting ethnicity with first names in online social media networks
Social scientists increasingly use (big) social media data to illuminate long-standing substantive questions in social science research. However, a key challenge of analyzing such data is their lower level of individual detail compared to highly detailed survey data. This limits the scope of substantive questions that can be addressed with these data. In this study, we provide a method to upgrade individual detail in terms of ethnicity in data ga…
Who was first on Facebook? Determinants of early adoption among adolescents
We study what determines whether someone is an early Facebook adopter in a context in which Facebook is still relatively new compared to a far more popular Dutch social networking site (SNS) (Hyves). We use representative survey data of 4363 adolescents aged 14–15 years. First, adolescents who participate in more leisure activities, who have more digital resources, and who have more friends who are SNS members are more likely to be SNS members. S…
Diversifying the Professoriate
The primary means of social and intellectual reproduction in the professoriate is through mentoring doctoral students who become faculty mentors and publish research. However, opportunities to transition into such roles are not equal, and underrepresented groups face challenges building and sustaining their representation in the professoriate. What are social resources enabling them to overcome these challenges? To study this, the authors analyze…
Size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks in the Netherlands: Differences between migrant groups and migrant generations
Extended social networks encompass both weak and strong ties to provide social support and resources. Hence, it is important to study what explains variation in these networks. This paper addresses this and examines the size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks, and group differences therein, and it aims to explain these differences based on a preference–opportunities approach through a decomposition analysis. We apply state‐of‐the‐…
Interethnic weak ties online and out-group attitudes among Dutch ethnic majority adolescents
Interethnic contact is essential to move past out-group prejudice. However, prior work on the relationship between interethnic contact and out-group attitudes mostly considers core social ties. Here, I consider ethnic majority adolescents’ interethnic weaker ties. To do so, I embrace a key feature of adolescent contemporary social life: they overwhelmingly maintain relations online that snapshot hundreds of ties. Using a combination of survey dat…
The why (not) and how (not) of survey to digital footprint linkages: A Use-Case of Ethnic Background and Social Relationships
Contains fulltext : 319503.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Beyond the Core: Who Has Larger Social Networks
The sociological literature on social networks overwhelmingly considers the number of core social contacts. Social networks, however, reach far beyond this small number of social ties. We know little about individual variation in the size of such extended social networks. In this study, we move beyond core networks and explain individual variation in the extended social network size among youth. We use survey data of Dutch adolescents (N = 5,921)…
Toward curation and personality-driven social networks
Some New Forms of Functional Social Control in the Netherlands and Their Effects
Recent government policy in the Netherlands has supported the introduction of a number of new types of agents of social control. This article, based on the results of two recent research projects (Hauber et al. 1993a, b), focuses on three questions central to the effectiveness and acceptability of three kinds of agents: city wardens, police patrollers, and public transport inspectors. First, objective security: what effects did supervision by dif…
Some New Forms of Functional Social Control in the Netherlands and Their Effects
Recent government policy in the Netherlands has supported the introduction of a number of new types of agents of social control. This article, based on the results of two recent research projects (Hauber et al. 1993a, b), focuses on three questions central to the effectiveness and acceptability of three kinds of agents: city wardens, police patrollers, and public transport inspectors. First, objective security: what effects did supervision by dif…
De werking van sociaal kapitaal in het statusverwervingsproces in Nederland
This study addresses the question what role social capital plays in the status attainment process of men in the Netherlands in 2000: how important is social capital in the transfer of status from one generation to the next? We derive hypotheses by integrating the social resources theory in the classic status attainment model. To test these hypotheses we perform structural equation modeling on data from the Survey of the Social Networks of the Dut…
Learning in social networks: Selecting profitable choices among alternatives of uncertain profitability in various networks
Who was first on Facebook? Determinants of early adoption among adolescents
We study what determines whether someone is an early Facebook adopter in a context in which Facebook is still relatively new compared to a far more popular Dutch social networking site (SNS) (Hyves). We use representative survey data of 4363 adolescents aged 14–15 years. First, adolescents who participate in more leisure activities, who have more digital resources, and who have more friends who are SNS members are more likely to be SNS members. S…
Oorzaken van Homogeniteit in Sociale Netwerken: Kansen voor Sociologisch Onderzoek met Digitale Voetsporen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Sources of Segregation in Social Networks: A Novel Approach Using Facebook
Most research on segregation in social networks considers small circles of strong ties, and little is known about segregation among the much larger number of weaker ties. This article proposes a novel approach to the study of these more extended networks, through the use of data on personal ties in an online social network. We illustrate this method's potential by describing and explaining the degree of ethnic and gender segregation on Facebook a…
Predicting ethnicity with first names in online social media networks
Social scientists increasingly use (big) social media data to illuminate long-standing substantive questions in social science research. However, a key challenge of analyzing such data is their lower level of individual detail compared to highly detailed survey data. This limits the scope of substantive questions that can be addressed with these data. In this study, we provide a method to upgrade individual detail in terms of ethnicity in data ga…
Toward curation and personality-driven social networks
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
Significance By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades, this paper finds demographically underrepresented students innovate at higher rates than majority students, but their novel contributions are discounted and less likely to earn them academic positions. The discounting of minorities’ innovations may partly explain their underrepresentation in influential positions of academia.
Does unemployment lead to isolation? The consequences of unemployment for social networks
Beyond the Core: Who Has Larger Social Networks
The sociological literature on social networks overwhelmingly considers the number of core social contacts. Social networks, however, reach far beyond this small number of social ties. We know little about individual variation in the size of such extended social networks. In this study, we move beyond core networks and explain individual variation in the extended social network size among youth. We use survey data of Dutch adolescents (N = 5,921)…
Interethnic weak ties online and out-group attitudes among Dutch ethnic majority adolescents
Interethnic contact is essential to move past out-group prejudice. However, prior work on the relationship between interethnic contact and out-group attitudes mostly considers core social ties. Here, I consider ethnic majority adolescents’ interethnic weaker ties. To do so, I embrace a key feature of adolescent contemporary social life: they overwhelmingly maintain relations online that snapshot hundreds of ties. Using a combination of survey dat…
Diversifying the Professoriate
The primary means of social and intellectual reproduction in the professoriate is through mentoring doctoral students who become faculty mentors and publish research. However, opportunities to transition into such roles are not equal, and underrepresented groups face challenges building and sustaining their representation in the professoriate. What are social resources enabling them to overcome these challenges? To study this, the authors analyze…
A matter of time? Gender and ethnic inequality in the academic publishing careers of Dutch Ph.D.s
Women and ethnic minorities underpopulate influential academic positions, even though these groups are increasingly represented at the doctorate level. Does this imply that gender and ethnic gaps in academic careers are closing? Prior studies on gender inequality in academia predominantly focus on single academic fields or restricted time periods. Longitudinal descriptions of ethnic inequality are even more rare. Using a novel data set of a nearl…
Size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks in the Netherlands: Differences between migrant groups and migrant generations
Extended social networks encompass both weak and strong ties to provide social support and resources. Hence, it is important to study what explains variation in these networks. This paper addresses this and examines the size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks, and group differences therein, and it aims to explain these differences based on a preference–opportunities approach through a decomposition analysis. We apply state‐of‐the‐…
Knowledge lost, parity gained? Covid-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia
We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing car…
Who’s in your extended network? Analysing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands
This study advances the understanding of the size and homogeneity of personal networks, focusing on extended networks that encompass both core discussion ties and the broader array of acquaintances. While previous research has primarily examined these dimensions within small, strong-tie networks, knowledge about extended networks remains limited. Using data from the Dutch Network Size Survey (2021), a representative survey of the Dutch adult popu…
The impact of dyads and extended networks on political talk: A factorial survey experiment in the Netherlands
Open political dialogue is regarded as foundational to democratic health and our social fabric. Here, we study political dialogue by examining with whom we prefer to talk about politics and why. In so doing, we develop and test hypotheses about what random encounters (e.g., meeting similar versus dissimilar others, meeting friends or colleagues) foster political dialogue, pose and test conjectures about what features of extended networks facilita…
Professors in the media: Dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scientists do so. Here, we provide an account of a population of social science professors in Germany (N = 2,207). We ask whether and to what extent scientists appear in German printed media (N = 26,729) as a result of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender. We link bibliometric data on professors’ caree…
The why (not) and how (not) of survey to digital footprint linkages: A Use-Case of Ethnic Background and Social Relationships
Contains fulltext : 319503.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
The geographical diversity of the citation elite in STEMM is decreasing, even as the overall scientific workforce has diversified
The expansion of research systems in low- and middle-income countries has shifted science to a more diverse geographical structure. Using a global dataset of 40 million authors in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medical fields (STEMM), we investigate whether this shift has made it easier or more difficult for newcomers residing in the Global South to rise to prominence in their disciplines. We tracked yearly cohorts of authors w…
Leaving for more or settling for less: Gendered salary trajectories after leaving academia
Contains fulltext : 328723.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Social Capital and Networks (7 works) · Social media (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works)