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1 A review of the early literature is in McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook (Citation2001).
2 Excellent examples of the empirical literature that have addressed innovative behaviors include Kandler and Caccioli (Citation2016), Zeltzer (Citation2020), and Zhang et al. (Citation2018).
McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M Cook. 2001. “Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks.” Annual Review of Sociology 27 (1): 415–444. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.415 Kandler, Anne, and Fabio Caccioli. 2016. “Networks, Homophily, and the Spread of Innovations.” In The Connected Past: Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History, edited by T. Brughmans, A. Collar, and F. Coward, 175–197. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Zeltzer, Dan. 2020. “Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12 (2): 169–197. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20180201 Zhang, Chenwei, Yi Bu, Ying Ding, and Jian Xu. 2018. “Understanding Scientific Collaboration: Homophily, Transitivity, and Preferential Attachment.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 69 (1): 72–86. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23916