Carl Nordlund

Publications

• Nordlund, C. (2026) Threadle User Guide (v1.2): How to use Threadle with register data. Linköping University Electronic Press, https://doi.org/10.3384/9789181187137 |
• Nordlund, C., Jiao, Y. (2026) Threadle: A Memory-Efficient Network Storage and Query Engine for Large, Multilayer, and Mixed-mode Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04446, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.04446 |
• Estévez, J.L., Nordlund, C. (2025) Revising the Borgatti-Everett core-periphery model: Inter-categorical density blocks and partially connected cores. Social Networks, 81, pp. 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.11.002 |
• Nordlund, C. (2023) Transformations, Trajectories, and Similarities of National Production Structures: A Comparative Fingerprinting Approach. PLoS ONE 18(12): e0295568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295568 |
• Nordlund, C. (2020) Direct Blockmodeling of Valued and Binary Networks: A Dichotomization-free Approach. Social Networks, 61, pp. 128-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.10.004 | | Spindel.zip (demo software client) | Instructions
• Nordlund, C., Wennberg, K. (2020) Potential Labor Supply Consequences of Closing Primary Schools in Sweden, with a Focus on Health Care Occupations (unpublished report). |
• Nordlund, C., Ziberna, A. (2019) Blockmodeling of Valued Networks. In Doreian, P., Batagelj, V., Ferligoj, A. (eds.), Advances in Network Clustering and Blockmodeling, New Jersey: Wiley & Sons Inc., pp. 147-184. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119483298.ch6 |
• Kahancova, M., Martiskova, M, Nordlund, C. (2019) Enhancing the Effectiveness of Social Dialogue Articulation in Europe: Conceptual and Analytical Framework in a Multi-level Governance Perspective. Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) Discussion paper. |
• Nordlund, C. (2019) En nätverksanalys av Familjebildningsmönster mellan olika etniska grupper i Sverige. In Hedström, P (ed.), Segregation. RJ:s Skriftserie. Stockholm: Madadam förlag, pp. 79-89. |
• Akgüç, M., Martišková, M., Szüdi, G., Nordlund, C. (2019) Stakeholders' Views on and Experiences with the Articulation of Social Dialogue and its Effectiveness. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies. |
• Nordlund, C. (2018) Power-relational Core-periphery Structures: Peripheral Dependency and Core Dominance in Binary and Valued Networks. Network Science, 6(3), pp. 348-369. https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2018.15 | | PowerCorePeri.zip (demo software client)
• Vedres, B., Nordlund, C. (2018) Disembedded Openness: Inequalities in European Economic Integration at the Sectoral Level. Studies in Comparative International Development, 53(2), pp. 169-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9263-4 |
• Nordlund, C., Fierascu, S.I. (2018) Introduction to the Special Issue on Social and Political Networks. Romanian Journal of Political Science, 18(1), pp. 4-7. |
• Nordlund, C. (2016) A Deviational Approach to Blockmodeling of Valued Networks. Social Networks, 44, pp. 160-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2015.08.004 |
• Svensson, S., Nordlund, C. (2015) The Building Blocks of a Euroregion: Novel Metrics to Measure Cross-border Integration. Journal of European Integration, 37(3), pp. 371-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2014.968568 |
• Nordlund, C. (2014) Preceding and Governing Measurements: An Emmanuelian Conceptualization of Ecological Unequal Exchange. In Suter, C. and Chase-Dunn, C. (eds.), Structures of the World Political Economy, Zurich: Lit-verlag, pp. 315-346. |
• Nordlund, C. (2013) International Networks. In Barnett, G. (ed), Encyclopedia of Social Networks, Volume 1, SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 425-431. |
• Nordlund, C. (2010) Social Ecography: International Trade, Network Analysis, and an Emmanuelian Conceptualization of Ecological Unequal Exchange. [Doctoral Thesis (monograph), Human Ecology]. Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University. |
• Nordlund, C. (2010) Markanvändningsanalys av svensk produktion, konsumtion och utrikeshandel av primära grödor. Naturvårdsverket, Dnr 230-7091-09 Mk. Stockholm: Naturvårdsverket.
• Nordlund, C. (2009) International Trade in Fuel Commodities: A Network Approach. In Hornborg, A., Jorgenson, A. (eds), International Trade and Environmental Justice: Towards a Global Political Ecology, pp. 63-88. |
• Nordlund, C. (2007) Identifying Regular Blocks in Valued Networks: A Heuristic Applied to the St. Marks Carbon Flow Data, and International Trade in Cereal Products. Social Networks, 29(1), pp. 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2005.12.001 |
• Nordlund, C. (2004) A Critical Comment on the Taylor Approach for Measuring World-city Interlock Linkages. Geographical Analysis, 36(3), pp. 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-4632.2004.tb01136.x |

Fellowships, grants, awards

NordForsk Programme for Interdisciplinary Research

Main applicant and project lead for a 4-year Nordic research project on inter-ethnic relations in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. See Nordint.net.

World Society Foundation Award of Excellence

Award received for the paper Preceding and Governing Measurements: an Emmanuelian Conceptualization of Ecological Unequal Exchange, presented at the PEWS/WSF conference in Riverside, California, 12-13 April, 2013.

Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years), Central European University

Recipient of the CEU 20th Anniversary fellowship on 'Network Analysis in the Political Context', at the Department of Political Science; Center for Network Science, Central European University, Budapest.

Postdoctoral fellowship (10 months), Central European University

Postdoctoral fellowship with 'Networks and Innovation' theme. Center for Network Science, Central European University, Budapest.

Development grant, .SE Foundation

Awarded a grant (10,000 EUR) to design and implement the mollevangen.net online community for the Möllevången city district in Malmö, Sweden.

Teaching and administrative

Director of studies (2022 - 2024)

Director of studies at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping university.

Program director, MSc in Computational Social Science (Jan 2020-Sep 2021)

Management and directorship of the international 2-year Masters programme in Computational Social Science, provided by the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping university.

Course director and teacher, Statistics and Data Science 1 (2019 - 2024)

Planning and conducting a graduate course in introductory statistics and data science, aimed at 1st year students in the MSc program in Computational Social Science at Linköping university.

Course director and teacher, Social-scientific network analysis (2015)

Planning and conducting a graduate course on social-scientific network analysis for PhD students at European University Institute, Florence.

Course director and teacher, Social-scientific network analysis (2015)

Planning and conducting a graduate course on social-scientific network analysis for PhD students at European University Institute, Florence.

Assistant teacher, Network Science and Applications (2012-2014)

Teacher assistant on graduate course on network science and its applications, held by professor Barabasi at CEU (3 occurrences). Tasks involved supervising, grading and part lecturing.

Assistant teacher, Fundamental ideas in Network Science (2012-2014)

Teacher assistant on graduate course on fundamentals in network science, held by professor Kertesz at CEU (3 occurrences). Tasks involved supervising, grading, administration and lecturing.

Course director and teacher, Global Environmental Justice (2004-2006)

Planning and conducting undergraduate online course at Human Ecology Division, Lund university (5 occurrences).

Miscellaneous

• Peer-reviewing: Ambio, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Cities journal, Conservation Biology, Geographical analysis, GeoJournal, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of Computational Social Science, Journal of Complex Networks, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Journal of World-Systems Research, Network Science, Romanian Journal of Political Science, Social Networks
• Supervision of several MSc/BA thesis, main supervisor of PhD thesis, co-supervisor of a couple of PhD theses. PhD thesis committee member at Department of Environmental Science, CEU, Department of Sociology, Corvinus university, Department of Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington.