Publications

Journal Publications
2025
The differential impacts of team diversity as variability versus atypicality on team effectiveness
Neelam Modi, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Nature: Scientific Reports
15(1), 4461
2024
Think like a team: Shared mental models predict creativity and problem-solving in space analogs
Leslie A. DeChurch, Alina Lungeanu, Noshir S. Contractor
Acta Astronautica
214, 701-711
2023
A tale of three teams: Effect of long-term isolation in SIRIUS-21 on crew interpersonal networks
Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Acta Astronautica
212, 617-623
2023
Organizing for Mars: A task management perspective on work within spaceflight multiteam systems
Alina Lungeanu, Jessica R. Mesmer-Magnus, Ashley A. Niler, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Human Factors, 65(6), 1199-1220
2022
Leading teams over time through space: Computational experiments on leadership network archetypes
Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
The Leadership Quarterly, 33(5), 101595
2021
Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field
Alina Lungeanu, Mark McKnight, Rennie Negron, Wolfgang Munar, Nicholas A. Christakis, Noshir S. Contractor
Social Networks, 66, 171-184
2020
Patent similarity data and innovation metrics
Ryan Whalen, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 17(3), 615-639
2018
How team interlock ecosystems shape the assembly of scientific teams: A hypergraph approach
Alina Lungeanu , Dorothy R. Carter, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Communication Methods and Measures, 12(2-3), 174-198
2017
Mapping the growing discipline of dissemination and implementation science in health
Wynne E. Norton, Alina Lungeanu, David A. Chambers, Noshir S. Contractor
Scientometrics, 112(3), 1367-1390
2015
The effects of diversity and network ties on innovations: The emergence of a new scientific field
Alina Lungeanu, Noshir S. Contractor
American Behavioral Scientist, 59(5), 548-564
2015
Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems
Sophia D. Sullivan, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Network Science, 3(S01), 124-155
2014
Understanding the assembly of interdisciplinary teams and its impact on performance
Alina Lungeanu, Yun Huang, Noshir S. Contractor
Journal of Informetrics, 8(1), 59-70
Book Chapters
2023
Collective leadership
Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies. SAGE Publications, Inc; 1st edition
2020
Computational modeling of long-distance space exploration: A guide to predictive and prescriptive approaches to the dynamics of team composition
Brennan Antone, Alina Lungeanu, Suzanne T. Bell, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs: Research at the Frontier (pp. 107-130): CRC Press.
2020
Working in space: Managing transitions between tasks
Alina Lungeanu, Alexa Harris, Ashley Niler, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs: Extreme Application (pp. 179-203): CRC Press
Conference Proceedings
2024
Leading the crew to Mars: Evidence from NASA HERA analog crews
Leslie A. DeChurch, Alina Lungeanu, Noshir S. Contractor, Megan Chan
IAC 2024 Congress Proceedings, 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Milan, Italy
2024
Teams that SIRIUSly Go the Distance: Effect of Isolation and Confinement on Team Performance
Noshir S. Contractor, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Megan Chan
IAC 2024 Congress Proceedings, 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Milan, Italy
2023
Crossing boundaries in space exploration multiteam systems: Insights from SIRIUS-21 Mission
Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Joy Caroline Liebman, Noshir S. Contractor
IAC 2023 Congress Proceedings, 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Baku, Azerbaijani
2022
Think like a team: Shared mental models predict creativity and problem-solving in HERA and SIRIUS ‘19
Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor
IAC 2022 Congress Proceedings, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France
2022
A tale of three teams: Effect of long-term isolation in SIRIUS-21 on crew interpersonal networks
Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir S. Contractor, Joy Caroline Liebman
IAC 2022 Congress Proceedings, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France
2021
Re-pairing to repair: A countermeasure that enhances crew relations in deep space
Brennan Antone, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie A. DeChurch, Suzanne T. Bell, Noshir S. Contractor
IAC 2021 Congress Proceedings, 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2015
A computational model of team assembly in emerging scientific fields
Alina Lungeanu, Sophia D. Sullivan, Uri Wilensky, Noshir S. Contractor
2015 Winter Simulation Conference, Huntington Beach, CA.