Publications and Manuscripts

* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author.

Refereed Journal Articles

Comparing Modularity Scores across Different Social Networks: Cautions, Illustrations, and Suggestions
Ling Zhu, Ji Cao, Ruihui Tian, Yujie Li, Xiaoqian Yue, Donghang Qi, and Hai Liang. 2026.
Sociological Methodology. link

A Machine Learning Approach to Preferential Attachment and Status Advantage in a Hip-Hop Collaboration Network
Jaemin Lee* and Yujie Li*. 2026.
Sociological Methods & Research. link

Activity Constraints as a Mechanism for Non-Scale-Free Social Networks: Evidence from Hip-Hop and Academic Collaboration
Jaemin Lee* and Yujie Li*. 2026.
PLOS ONE. link

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Activity Constraints as a Mechanism for Non-Scale-Free Social Networks
Jaemin Lee and Yujie Li. 2025.
In Complex Networks & Their Applications XIII, edited by H. Cherifi, M. Donduran, L. M. Rocha, C. Cherifi, and O. Varol, 305–315. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. link

Working Papers

From Broadcasting to Debating: Political Events and the Transformation of Online Discussion Structures
Kuo Lin, Xiangcheng Meng, and Yujie Li†.

Preserving Structure, Pruning Content: A Structural Audit of Platform Governance in Online Discussion Trees
Tangying Chen, Kuo Lin, and Yujie Li†.

Two Paradigms for LLM-Based Public Opinion Imputation: Internal Conditioning and External Matching
Kuo Lin, Tangying Chen, and Yujie Li†.

Diffusion of Ideas in Social Networks: An Analysis of Korean Hip-Hop Artists’ Collaboration Networks
Yujie Li.