Physician trust network (1966)

A network of trust relationships among physicians in four midwestern (USA) cities in 1966. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts or asks for advice from node j. Each of the four components represent the network within a given city.[^icon] [^icon]: Description obtained from the [ICON](https://icon.colorado.edu) project.

npx keepset fetch netzschleuder-physician_trust

Nodes: 241
Edges: 1,098
Size: 7.5 KiB

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Overview

Id	`netzschleuder-physician_trust`
Namespace	`netzschleuder`
Aliases	`physician_trust`
Category	`graph/v1`
Kind	graph
Domain	Social network
Licence	not recorded by the source
Catalogue	`keepset` 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#	URL	Status	Retrieved	Read by recipe	Pinned snapshot	SHA-256
0	http://konect.cc/networks/moreno_innovation	live	2026-04-20		20260810044923raw	`f1eb0416a3b5`
1	https://networks.skewed.de/net/physician_trust	live	2026-04-20		20260316202728raw	`70ffcd034806`
2	https://networks.skewed.de/net/physician_trust/files/physician_trust.csv.zip	live	2026-04-20	yes	20261022023650raw	`b2a72c36e4e1`

Citations

J. Coleman, E. Katz, & H. Menzel, "The diffusion of an innovation among physicians." Sociometry, 20(4), 253-270. (1957) doi:10.2307/2785979

Recipe

Source	#2
Archive	zip
Member	`edges.csv`
Parser format	`"edge-list"`
Parser encoding	`"utf-8"`
Parser delimiter	`"comma"`
Parser skipLines	`0`
Parser commentPrefixes	`["#"]`
Parser sourceColumn	`0`
Parser targetColumn	`1`

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

Rule	From	To	Direction
move	`meta`	`meta`	both
move	`nodes[].id`	`nodes[].id`	both
move	`edges[].source`	`edges[].source`	both
move	`edges[].target`	`edges[].target`	both

Expected counts

Edges	1,098
Nodes	241

Properties

Directed	yes
Download bytes	7.5 KiB
Heterogeneous	no
Multigraph	no
Self loops	no
Weighted	no