Wayne Zachary

Wayne Zachary (often cited as S. Wayne Zachary) is best known for collecting and analyzing what is now famously called “Zachary’s Karate Club” dataset. Published in a 1977 paper titled “An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups” in the Journal of Anthropological Research, this dataset has become a classic benchmark in the field of social network analysis, especially for testing community-detection algorithms.

Beyond this work, publicly available information about Zachary’s broader biography or mathematical background is quite scarce. Most references to him focus on the significance of the Karate Club study rather than his personal or academic history. Consequently, he is primarily recognized for his influential contribution to network science through that single, but seminal, dataset.

All published works

Action	Title	Year	Authors
+	Decision situations, decision processes, and decision functions	1982	Wayne Zachary R. Wherry Floyd Glenn J. Hopson
+ PDF Chat	An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups	1977	Wayne Zachary

Common Coauthors

Coauthor	Papers Together
R. Wherry	1
Floyd Glenn	1
J. Hopson	1

Commonly Cited References

Action	Title	Year	Authors	# of times referenced
+	Community structure in social and biological networks	2002	Michelle Girvan M. E. J. Newman	1
+	Structural equivalence of individuals in social networks	1971	François Lorrain Harrison C. White	1
+ PDF Chat	Statistical mechanics of community detection	2006	Juergen Reichardt Stefan Bornholdt	1
+ PDF Chat	Computing Communities in Large Networks Using Random Walks	2005	Pascal Pons Matthieu Latapy	1
+ PDF Chat	Community detection in graphs	2009	Santo Fortunato	1
+ PDF Chat	Resolution limit in community detection	2006	Santo Fortunato Marc Barthélemy	1
+ PDF Chat	Fast unfolding of communities in large networks	2008	Vincent D. Blondel Jean‐Loup Guillaume Renaud Lambiotte Etienne Lefebvre	1
+ PDF Chat	Near linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks	2007	Usha Nandini Raghavan Réka Albert Soundar Kumara	1
+ PDF Chat	A tutorial on spectral clustering	2007	Ulrike von Luxburg	1
+	Adaptive Utility Assessment in Dynamic Decision Processes: An Experimental Evaluation of Decision Aiding	1977	Richard L. Weisbrod Kent B. Davis Amos Freedy	1
+ PDF Chat	Community Structure in Large Networks: Natural Cluster Sizes and the Absence of Large Well-Defined Clusters	2009	Jure Leskovec Kevin Lang Anirban Dasgupta Michael W. Mahoney	1
+	Modularity and community structure in networks	2006	M. E. J. Newman	1
+ PDF Chat	A measure of betweenness centrality based on random walks	2005	M. E. J. Newman	1
+ PDF Chat	A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks	2010	Ludo Waltman Nees Jan van Eck Ed Noyons	1
+ PDF Chat	An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups	1977	Wayne Zachary	1