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Journal Articles:
N. Lane, Jacqueline and Leonardi, Paul M. and Contractor, Noshir and DeChurch, Leslie, Teams in the Digital Workplace: Technology’s Role for Communication, Collaboration, and Performance (July 1, 2023). Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 23-079.
Lane, J. N., Leonardi, P. M., Contractor, N. S., & DeChurch, L. A. (2023). Teams in the Digital Workplace: Technology’s Role for Communication, Collaboration, and Performance. Small Group Research, 0(0).
Harris-Watson, A. M., Larson, L. E., Lauharatanahirun, N., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2023). Social Perception in Human-AI Teams: Warmth and competence predict receptivity to AI teammates. Computers in Human Behavior, 107765.
Sha, Z., Cui, Y., Xiao, Y., Xiao, Y., Stathopoulos, A., Contractor, N., Du, Y., & Chen, W. (2023). A network-based discrete choice model for decision-based design. Design Science, 9, e7.
Lungeanu, A., Whalen, R., Wu, Y. J., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2022). Diversity, networks, and innovation: A text analytic approach to measuring expertise diversity. Network Science, 1-29.
Wagner, C., Strohmaier, M., Olteanu, A., Kiciman, E., Contractor, N. & Eliassi-Rad, T. (2021). Measuring algorithmically infused societies. Nature (2021). doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03666-1
Bi, Y., Qiu, Y., Sha, Z., Wang, M., Fu, Y., Contractor, N., & Chen, W. (2021). Modeling Multi-Year Customers’ Considerations and Choices in China’s Auto Market Using Two-Stage Bipartite Network Analysis. Networks and Spatial Economics, doi:10.1007/s11067-021-09526-9
Lungeanu, A., McKnight, M., Negron, R., Munar, W., Christakis, N. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2021). Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field. Social Networks, 66:171-184. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.007
Birkett, M., Melville, J., Janulis, P., Phillips, G., Contractor, N., & Hogan, B. (2021). Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite. Social Networks, 66:114-124. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.003
Niler, A. A., Mesmer-Magnus, J. R., Larson, L. E., Plummer, G., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2020). Conditioning team cognition: A meta-analysis. Organizational Psychology Review, 11(2):144-174. doi.org/10.1177/2041386620972112
Cedeno-Mieles, V., Hu, Z., Ren, Y., Deng, X., Contractor, N., Ekanayake, S., Epstein, J. M., Goode, B. J., Korkmaz, G., Ramakrishnan, C N., Saraf, P., & Self, N. (2020). Data analysis and modeling pipelines for controlled networked social science experiments. PLoS ONE, 15(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242453
Whalen, R., Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor N. (in press). Patent Similarity data and innovation metrics. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Lazer, D. M. J., Pentland, A., Watts, D. J., Aral, S., Athey, S., Contractor, N., Freelon, D., Gonzalez-Bailon, S., King, G., Margetts, H., Nelson, A., Salganik, M. J., Strohmaier, M., Vespignani, A., & Wagner, C. (2020). Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities. Science, 369(6507), 1060–1062. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz8170
Fu, J. S., Schumate, M., & Contractor, N. (2020). Organizational and individual innovation decisions in an interorganizational system: Social influence and decision-making authority. Journal of Communication, 70(4), 497-521. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa018.
Xie, J., Bi, Y., Sha, Z., Wang, M., Fu, Y., Contractor, N., Gong, L. & Chen, W. (2020). Data-Driven Dynamic Network Modeling for Analyzing the Evolution of Product Competitions. Journal of Mechanical Design, 142(3): 031112. doi.org/10.1115/1.4045687
Mell, J. N., DeChurch, L. A., Contractor, N., & Leenders, R. (2020). Identity asymmetries: An experimental investigation of social identity and information exchange in multiteam systems. Academy of Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.0325
Cedeno-Mieles, V., Hu, Z., Ren, Y., Deng, X., Adiga, A., Barrett, C., Contractor, N., Ekanayake, S., Epstein, J. M., Goode, B. J., Korkmaz, G., Kuhlman, C. J., Machi, D., Macy, M. W., Marathe, M. V., Ramakrishnan, N., Ravi, S. S., Saraf, P., & Self, N. (2020). Networked experiments and modeling for producing collective identity in a group of human subjects using an iterative abduction framework. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 10(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-019-0620-8
Contractor, N. (2020). On Writing in Communication and Media Studies| A “Modest Proposal” on Writing That Is Not Modest Enough. International Journal Of Communication, 14, 4. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13987/2921
Hogan, B., Janulis, P., Phillips II, G., Melville, J., Mustanski, B., Contractor, N., & Birkett, M.(2019). Assessing the stability of ego-centered networks over time using the digital participant-aided sociogram tool Network Canvas. Network Science, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2019.27
Hilbert, M., Barnett, G., Blumenstock, J., Contractor, N., Diesner, J., Frey, S., González-Bailón, S., Lamberson, PJ., Pan, J., Peng, T. W., Shen, C. C., Smaldino, P. E., Atteveldt, W. V., Waldher, A., Zhang, J., Zhu, J. J. H. (2019). Computational communication science: A methodological catalyzer for a maturing discipline. International Journal of Communication, 13(0), 23. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10675
Larson, L., Wojcik, H., Gokhman, I., DeChurch, L., Bell, S., & Contractor, N. (2019). Team performance in space crews: Houston, we have a teamwork problem. Acta Astronautica, 161, 108–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2019.04.052
Kim, M. J., Lee, C., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Seniors’ usage of mobile social network sites: Applying theories of innovation diffusion and uses and gratifications. Computers in Human Behavior, 90, 60-73. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.08.046
Gómez-Zará, D., Andreoli, S., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Descubriendo colaboradores en línea: Formando equipos interdisciplinarios en una universidad argentina. Cuadernos.info, 0(44), 21–41
Mukherjee, S., Huang, Y., Neidhardt, J., Uzzi, B., Contractor, N., (2019). Prior shared success predicts victory in team competitions. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 74-81. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0460-y
Leonardi, P., & Contractor, N. S. (2018, Nov-Dec). Better people analytics: Measure who they know, not just who they are. Harvard Business Review, 70–81. https://hbr.org/2018/11/better-people-analytics#comment-section
Lungeanu, A., Carter, S. R., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2018). How team interlock ecosystems shape the assembly of scientific teams: A hypergraph approach. Communication Methods and Measures, 12(2-3), 174-198. doi:10.1080/19312458.2018.1430756
Sha, Z., Huang, Y., Fu, J. S., Wang, M., Fu, Y., Contractor, N., & Chen, W. (2018). A network-based approach to modeling and predicting product co-consideration relations. Complexity, 2018(3), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2018.1430756
Hendler, J. A., Hall, W., & Contractor, N. (2018). Web science: Now more than ever. IEEE Computer, 51(6), 12–17. doi:10.1109/MC.2018.2701637
Schecter, A., Pilny, A., Leung, A., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (2017). Step by step: Capturing the dynamics of work team process through relational event sequences. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2017, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2247
Wax, A., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2017). Self-organizing into winning teams: Understanding the mechanisms that drive successful collaborations. Small group research, 48(6), 665-718. doi:10.1177/1046496417724209
Norton, W. E., Lungeanu, A., Chambers, D. A., & Contractor, N. (2017). Mapping the growing discipline of dissemination and implementation science in health. Scientometrics, 112(3), 1367–1390. doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2455-2.
Wang, M., Chen, W., Huang, Y., Contractor, N. S. and Fu, Y. (2016). Modeling customer preferences using multidimensional network analysis in engineering design. Design Science, 2, 2012-2028. doi:10.1017/dsj.2016.11.
Pilny, A., Schecter, A., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (2016). An illustration of the relational event model to analyze group interaction processes. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice: Special Issue on Statistical Methods, 20(3), 181-195. doi:10.1037/gdn0000054
Ghasemian, F., Zamanifar, K., Ghasem-Aqaee, N., & Contractor, N. (2016). Toward a better scientific collaboration success prediction model through the feature space expansion. Scientometrics, 108(2), 777-801. doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-1999-x
Leenders, R. T. A. J., Contractor, N. S., & DeChurch, L. A. (2016). Once upon a time: Understanding team processes as relational event networks. Organizational Psychology Review, 6(1), 92–115. doi: 10.1177/204138661557831
Zhang, C., Phang, C. W., Zeng, X., Wang, X., Xu, Y., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2015). Circadian rhythms in socializing propensity. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0136325. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136325
Carter, D. R., Asencio, R., Wax, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). Little teams, big data: Big data provides new opportunities for teams theory. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 8(4), 550-555. doi: 10.1017/iop.2015.82
Tiropanis, T., Hall, W., Crowcroft, J., Contractor, N., & Tassiulas, L. (2015). Network science, web science and internet science: Comparing interdisciplinary areas. Communications of the ACM, 58(8), 76-82. doi:10.1145/2699416
Foucault Welles, B., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). Individual motivations and network effects: A multi-level analysis of the structure of online social relationships. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 659, 180-190. doi: 10.1177/0002716214565755
Carter, D., DeChurch, L. A., Braun, M., & Contractor, N. (2015). Social network approaches to leadership: An integrative conceptual review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(3), 597. doi:10.1037/a0038922
Sullivan, S. D., Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems. Network Science, 3(1), 124-155. doi:10.1017/nws.2015.7
Contractor, N. S., & DeChurch, L. A. (2014). Integrating social networks and human social motives to achieve social influence at scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(Supplement 4), 13650–13657.
Foucault Welles, B., Vashevko, A., Bennett, N., & Contractor, N. (2014). Dynamic models of communication in an online friendship network. Communication Methods and Measures, 8(4), 223-243. doi:10.1080/19312458.2014.967843
Lungeanu, A., & Contractor, N. S. (2014). The effects of diversity and network ties on innovations: The emergence of a new scientific field. American Behavioral Scientist, 59(5), 548-564. doi:10.1177/0002764214556804
Foucault Welles, B., Rousse, T., Merrill, N., & Contractor, N. (2014). Virtually friends: An exploration of friendship claims and expectations in immersive virtual worlds. Journal for Virtual Worlds Research, 7(2), 1-15.https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v7i2.7024
Lungeanu, A., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. S. (2014). Understanding the assembly of interdisciplinary teams and its impact on performance. Journal of Informetrics, 8(1), 59–70.doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.10.006
Tiropanis, T., Hall, W., Shadbolt, N., De Roure, D., Contractor, N., & Hendler, J. (2013). The Web Science Observatory. Intelligent Systems, IEEE, 28(2), 100–104. doi:10.1109/MIS.2013.50
O’Hara, K., Contractor, N. S., Hall, W., Hendler, J. A., & Shadbolt, N. (2013). Web Science: Understanding the emergence of macro-level features on the World Wide Web. Foundations and Trends® in Web Science, 4(2-3), 103‐267. doi:10.1561/1800000017
Huang, M., Barbour, J., Su, C., & Contractor, N. (2013). Why do group members provide information to digital knowledge repositories? A multilevel application of transactive memory theory. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(3), 540-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22805
Contractor, N. (2013). Some assembly required: Leveraging Web science to understand and enable team assembly. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(1987), 20120385–20120385. doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0385
Zhu, M., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. S. (2013). Motivations for self-assembling into project teams. Social Networks, 35(2), 251–264.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2013.03.001
Huang, Y., Shen, C., & Contractor, N. (2013) Distance matters: Exploring proximity and homophily in virtual world networks. Decision Support Systems, 55(4), 969–977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2013.01.006
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2013). Hot off the Wiki: Structures and dynamics of Wikipedia’s coverage of breaking news events. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 595-622. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764212469367
Contractor, N. S., DeChurch, L. A., Carson, J. B., Carter, D., & Keegan, B. (2012). The topology of collective leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(6), 994-1011.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.10.010
Contractor, N. S., Whitbred, R. C., Fonti, F., & Steglich, C. (2012). Understanding the ties that bind: A longitudinal investigation of the evolution of a communication network. Western Journal of Communication, 76(4), 333-357. doi: 10.1080/10570314.2012.674172
Schatz, B., Marsh, C., Gustafson, D., Patrick, K., Krishnan, J., Kumar, S., & Contractor, N. (2012). Research challenges in measuring data for population health to enable predictive modeling for improving healthcare. ACM SIGHIT Record, 2(2), 36–41.doi: 10.1145/2384556.2384561
Mathur, S., Poole, M. S., Peña-Mora, F., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., & Contractor, N. (2012). Detecting interaction links in a collaborating group using manually annotated data. Social Networks, 34(4), 515–526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2012.04.002
Murase, T., Doty, D., Wax, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2012). Teams are changing, time to “think networks.” Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science & Practice, 5, 41-44.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9434.2011.01402.x
van de Wijngaert, L., Bouwman, H., & Contractor, N. (2012). A network approach toward literature review. Quality & Quantity, 48(2), 623–643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-012-9791-3
Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., Jain, R., Zhuang, Y., Contractor, N., … Hauptmann, A. G. (2012). Societally connected multimedia across cultures. Journal of Zhejiang University Science C, 13(12), 875–880. doi:10.1631/jzus.C1200279
Keegan, B., Ahmad, M. A., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2011). What can gold farmers teach us about criminal networks? XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 17(3), pp. 11-15. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1925041.1925043
Williams, D., Contractor, N., Poole, M. S., Srivastava, J., & Cai, D. (2011). The virtual worlds exploratorium: Using large-scale data and computational techniques for communication research. Communication Methods and Measures, 5(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2011.568373
Wang, J., Huffaker, D. A., Treem, J. W., Fullerton, L., Ahmad, M. A., Williams, D., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (2011). Focused on the prize: Characteristics of experts in massive multiplayer online games. First Monday, 16(8).https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v16i8.3672
Whitbred, R., Fonti, F., Steglich, C., & Contractor, N. (2011). From microactions to macrostructure and back: A structurational approach to the evolution of organizational networks. Human Communication Research, 37(3), 404-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2011.01404.x
Castells, M., Monge, P., & Contractor, N. (2011). Prologue to the special section: Network multidimensionality in the digital age. International Journal of Communication, 5, 6.https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1103
Contractor, N., Monge, P., & Leonardi, P. M. (2011). Multidimensional networks and the dynamics of sociomateriality: Bringing technology inside the network. International Journal of Communication, 5, 39. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1131
Su, C., & Contractor, N. (2011). A multidimensional network approach to studying team members’ information seeking from human and digital knowledge sources in consulting firms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1257-1275. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21526
Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Contractor, N., Fiore, S. M., Hall, K. L., Kane, C., Keyton, J., Klein, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., & Trochim, W. (2011). Mapping a research agenda for the science of team science. Research Evaluation, 20(2), 145-158. doi:10.3152/095820211X12941371876580
Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Börner, K., Contractor, N., Fiore, S. M., Hall, K. L., Keyton, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., Trochim, W., & Uzzi, B. (2010). Advancing the science of team science. Clinical and Translational Sciences, 3(5), 263-266. doi:10.1111/j.1752-8062.2010.00223.x
Börner, K., Contractor, N., Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Fiore, S. M., Hall, K. L., Keyton, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., Trochim, W., & Uzzi, B. (2010). A multi-level systems perspective for the science of team science. Science Translational Medicine, 2(49), 24-49. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3001399
Tian, Y., Srivastava, J., Huang, T., & Contractor, N. (2010). Social multimedia computing. Computer, 43(8), 27-36. doi:10.1109/MC.2010.188
Mahmassani, H. S., Chen, R. B., Huang, Y., Williams, D., & Contractor, N. (2010). Time to play? Activity engagement in multiplayer online role-playing games. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2157(1), 129-137. doi:10.3141/2157-16
Su, C., Huang, M., & Contractor, N. (2010). Understanding the structures, antecedents and outcomes of organisational learning and knowledge transfer: A multi-theoretical and multilevel network analysis. European Journal of International Management, 4(6), 576-601.
Yuan, C., Fulk, J., Monge, P., & Contractor, N. (2010). Expertise directory development, shared task interdependence, and strength of communication network ties as multilevel predictors of expertise exchange in transactive memory work groups. Communication Research, 37(1), 20-47. doi: 10.1177/009365020351469.
Varda, D., Forgette, R., Banks, D., & Contractor, N. (2009). Social network methodology in the study of disasters: Issues and insights prompted by post-Katrina research. Population Research & Policy Review, 28(1), 11-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-008-9110-9
Contractor, N. (2009). The emergence of multidimensional networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14(3), 743–747. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01465.x
Lazer, D., Pentland, A., Adamic, L., Aral, S., Barabasi, A. L., Brewer, D., Christakis, N., Contractor, N., Fowler, J., Gutman, M., Jebara, T., King, G., Macy, M., Roy, D., & Van Alstyne, M. (2009). Life in the network: The coming age of computational social science, Science, 323 (5915), 721-723. doi:10.1126/science.1167742
Contractor, N., Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (2006). Testing multitheoretical, multilevel hypotheses about organizational networks: An analytic framework and empirical example. Academy of Management Review, 31(3), 681-703. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2006.21318925
Palazzolo, E. T., Serb, D., She, Y., Su, C., & Contractor, N. S. (2006). Coevolution of communication and knowledge networks in transactive memory systems: Using computational models for theoretical development. Communication Theory, 16(2), 223-250.
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2004). Network theory and small groups. Small Group Research, 35(3), 307-332.
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2002). Managing knowledge networks. Management Communication Quarterly, 16(2), 249-258.
Fesenmaier, J., & Contractor, N. (2001). The evolution of knowledge networks: An example for rural development. The Journal of the Community Development Society, 32(1), 160-175.
Pollock, T., Whitbred, R. A., & Contractor, N. (2000). Social information processing and job characteristics: A simultaneous test of two theories with implications for job satisfaction. Human Communication Research, 26(2), 292-330.
Contractor, N. S. (1999). Self-organizing systems research in the social sciences: Reconciling the metaphors and the models. Management Communication Quarterly, 13(1), 154–166.
Heald, M., Contractor, N., Koehly, L. M., & Wasserman, S. (1998). Formal and emergent predictors of coworkers’ perceptual congruence on an organization’s social structure. Human Communication Research, 24(4), 536-563.
Ehrlich, M. C., & Contractor, N. S. (1998). “Shock” meets “community service”: J.C. Corcoran at KMOX. Journal of Radio Studies 5(1), 22-35.
Hyatt, A., Contractor, N., & Jones, P. M. (1997). Computational organizational network modeling: Strategies and an example. Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, 2(4), 285-300.
Contractor, N. S., Seibold, D. R., & Heller, M. A. (1996). Interactional influence in the structuring of media use in groups: Influence of members’ perceptions of group decision support system use. Human Communication Research, 22(4), 451-481.
Contractor, N. S., & Seibold, D. R. (1993). Theoretical frameworks for the study of structuring processes in group decision support systems: Adaptive structuration theory and self-organizing systems theory. Human Communication Research, 19(4), 528-563.
Contractor, N., & Ehrlich, M. (1993). Strategic ambiguity in the birth of a loosely coupled organization: The case of a $50-million experiment. Management Communication Quarterly, 6(3), 251-281.
Michaelson, A., & Contractor, N. (1992). Structural position and perceived similarity. Social Psychology Quarterly, 55(3), 300-310.
Monge, P. R., Cozzens, M. D., & Contractor, N. S. (1992). Communication and motivational predictors of the dynamics of organizational innovation. Organization Science, 3(2), 250-274.
Waterman, D., Schechter, R., & Contractor, N. (1991). Overcoming barriers to the live arts: Can the media compensate?. Journal of Cultural Economics, 15(2), 19-40.
Rice, R., & Contractor, N. S. (1990). Conceptualizing effects of office information systems: A methodology and application for the study of alpha, beta and gamma change. Decision Science, 21(2), 301-317.
Contractor, N. S., Singhal, A., & Rogers, E. M. (1988). Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 32(2), 129-148.
Cozzens, M. D., & Contractor, N. S. (1987). The effect of conflicting information on media skepticism. Communication Research, 14(4), 437-451.
Contractor, N. S., Fulk, J., Monge, P. R., & Singhal, A. (1986). Cultural assumptions that influence the implementation of communication technologies. Vikalpa, 11(4), 287-300.
Conference Papers & Proceedings:
Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2022). Leading teams over time through space: Computational experiments on leadership network archetypes. The Leadership Quarterly, 101595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101595
Harris-Watson, A. M., Larson, L. E., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. (2022, Jan.). Calculating and friendly: The paradox of AI teammates. To be presented at the 20th European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress, Glasgow, Scotland.
Contractor, N. (2021, August 2). Unravelling the sequential structural signatures of success in human agent teams. [Conference presentation]. The 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual.
Góméz-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. (2021, August 1). Do I know you? The effects of social capital on self-assembled groups. [Conference presentation]. The 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual.
Modi, N., Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. (2021, July 9). Science of Team Science: Searching for boundary-crossing collaborations. [Conference presentation]. Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference, Virtual.
Tanaka, K., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. (2021, July 6). Knowing is not Enough: How Network Awareness and Acuity are Associated. [Conference presentation]. Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference, Virtual.
Aral, S., Azhar, A., Contractor, N., Teevan, J. (2021, June 22-25). The Future of the Web Society [Panelist]. The 13th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Web Science Conference 2021, Virtual.
Antone, B., DeChurch, L.A., Morton, D., Bell, S., & Contractor, N. (2021, April 15-17). A Network-Based Method to Recommend Optimal Team Compositions for Space Exploration [Conference Presentation]. The 36th Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Contractor, N. (2021, April 15-17). The Future of Team Composition: Robots, Cyber Teams and Decision-Support Systems [Panelist]. The 36th Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Contractor, N. (2021, April 15-17). Human–Agent Teams Will Revolutionize the Future of Work: Implications for Industrial-Organizational Psychology [Panelist]. The 36th Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Chackoria, J.J., Nyberg, B.B., Vasquez, M., Bell, S.T., DeChurch, L.A., Contractor, N., Gushin, V., & Vinokhodova, A. (2021, April 15-17). Perceived Similarity Predicts Viable Relationships and Team Performance [Poster Presentation]. The 36th Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Johnson, M., Gokhman, I., DeChurch, L.A., Bell, S.T., Contractor, N. (2021, April 15-17). Talking About Mars: Team Communication Dynamics and Decision Quality in Space Crews [Poster Presentation]. The 36th Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Contractor, N. (2021, February 11). Pairing Teams for, and (Re)pairing Teams during Long-Duration Space Exploration [Paper Presentation]. Panelist in DeChurch, L. (Chair), Understanding and Enabling Human Travel to the Moon and Mars, Panel discussion conducted at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Virtual.
Contractor, N. (2021, February 10). Teaming in the Time of COVID-19: What Astronaut crews can teach us about “re-pairing” our relationships [Conference Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Preconference: Bringing Intragroup Processes back to Social Psychology, Virtual.
Christian, S., Lougheed, G., Larson, L., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 2). Revisionist Histories: Reflected Themes from the ISS and SIRIUS Space Missions [Poster Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Antone, B., Gruest, V., Gupta, A., DeChurch, L., Bell, S., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 3). Team Performance in Space Crews [Conference Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Izadinia, N., DeChurch, L., Waechter, A., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 3).Measuring and Predicting Performance for Individuals, Teams, and Systems in Interdependent Crew Tasks (MAPPITS-ICT) [Conference Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Johnson, M., Gokhman, I., Bell, S., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 3). Talking about Mars: Team Communication Dynamics and Decision Quality in Space Crews [Conference Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Tanaka, K., DeChurch, L., Baimenova, A., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 4). Network Routing Task Performance Among Space Crew with Human Mission Support VS. Automated Mission Support in Space Multiteam Systems [Conference Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Antone, B., Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L., Bell, S., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 4). A Successful Crew Composition Countermeasure Validated in HERA [Conference Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Lungeanu, A., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2021, February 4). SCALE-ing Crew Shared Mental Models: A Computational Model [Conference Presentation]. NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, Virtual.
Wu, Y. J., Antone, B., Srinivas, A., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2021, January 29). Social Network Churn Within and Between Teams in Times of COVID-19 [Conference Presentation]. The Third North American Social Networks Conference (NASN).
Tanaka, K., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2020) The impact of network acuity on information sharing under communication delays in space multiteam systems. Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress.
Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S., (2020). A taxonomy of team-assembly systems: Understanding how people use technologies to form teams. In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW2, Article 181 (October 2020), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3415252
Kaven, E., Kaven, I., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2020). Assessing How Team Task Influences Team Assembly Through Network Analysis. In Proceedings of Complex Networks and Their Applications IX, 322-334. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65361-4_26
Das, A., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2020). Forming Diverse Teams Based on Members’ Social Networks: A Genetic Algorithm Approach. In Proceedings of Complex Networks and Their Applications IX, 346-357. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65361-4_28
Gómez-Zará, D., Guo, M., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2020). The impact of displaying diversity information on the formation of self-assembling teams. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20). doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376654
Antone, B., Gupta, A., Bell, S., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2019). Testing Influence of Network Structure on Team Performance Using STERGM-Based Controls. Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII, 1018–1030. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_81
Izadinia, N., DeChurch, L., Contractor, N., & Waechter, A. (2020, January). Optimization-based metrics for evaluating individual and team performance in spaceflight multiteam systems. Poster presented at NASA 2020 Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop (HRP IWS), Galveston, TX
Ichhaporia, R., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2020). A Network Approach to the Formation of Self-assembled Teams. Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII, 969–981. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_77
Izadinia, N., DeChurch, L., Contractor, N., & Waechter, A. (2019, January). Introducing a measure for calculating the efficiency of work in space. Paper presented at 2019 Management Science Workshop, Santa Cruz, Chile.
Izadinia, N., DeChurch, L., Contractor, N., & Waechter, A. (2019, January). Using optimization methods to benchmark performance in space multi-team systems (MTS). Poster presented at NASA 2019 Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop (HRP IWS), Galveston, TX
Harris, A. M., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Joining together online: The trajectory of CSCW scholarship on group formation. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 3(CSCW), 27. doi:10.1145/3359250
Gómez-Zará, D., Paras, M., Twyman, M., Lane, J. N., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Who Would You Like to Work With? In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19), Glasgow, UK.
Cedeno-Mieles, V., Ren, Y., Hu, Z., Deng, X., Contractor, N., Ekanayake, S., Epstein, J.M., Goode, B.J., Kuhlman, C.J., Machi, D., Macy, M.W., Marathe, M.V., Mortveit, H.H., Ramakrishnan, N., Saraf, P., Self, N. (2018). Pipelines and their compositions for modeling and analysis of controlled online networked social science experiments. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.
DeChurch, C., & Contractor, N. S. (2018). Using Network Science to Discover the Grand Masters of the Florentine Renaissance. In L. M. Aiello, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, R. Lambiotte, P. Lio, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (pp. 358–360).
Ren, Y., Cedeno-Mieles, V., Hu, Z., Deng, X., Adiga, A., Barrett, C., … Macy, M. W. (2018). Generative modeling of human behavior and social interactions using abductive analysis. 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 413–420.
Mukherjee, A., Xiao, P., Wang, Li., & Contractor, N. (2018). Does the opinion of the crowd predict commercial success? Evidence from Threadless. Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
Foote, J., & Contractor, N. (2018). The behavior and network position of peer production founders. International Conference on Information (iConference 2018), Bol. 10766, 99-106
Ng, J., P. M. Leonardi, L. DeChurch, & N. Contractor. (2017). Teaming at the Limit: Enhancing Team Effectiveness with Enterprise Social Media Affordances. Proceedings of Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.
Sha, Z., Wang, M., Huang, Y., Contractor, N., Fu, Y., & Chen, W. (2017). Modeling product co-consideration relations: A comparative study of two network models. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Vol. 6, No. DS87-6, pp. 317-326.
Whalen, R., & Contractor, N. (2016, January). Measuring Innovation: Citation Measures of Knowledge Translation, Integration, Diffusion and Scope. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2016, No. 1, p. 16352). Academy of Management.
Lungeanu, A., & Contractor, N. (2016, January). Assembly Mechanisms of Emerging Interdisciplinary Scientific Teams and Their Impact on Performance. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2016, No. 1, p. 14388). Academy of Management.
Wang, M., Sha, Z., Huang, Y., Contractor, N., Fu, Y., & Chen, W. (2016, August). Forecasting Technological Impacts on Customers’ Co-Consideration Behaviors: A Data-Driven Network Analysis Approach. Proceedings of ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Charlotte, NC.
Schecter, A. & Contractor, N. (2016). Modeling the joint dynamics of relational events and individual states. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016, San Francisco, CA.
Whalen, R., Huang, Y., Tanis, C., Sawant, A., Uzzi, B., & Contractor, N. (2016). Citation Distance: Measuring Changes in Scientific Search Strategies. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW ’15 Companion, Montreal, Canada.
Hogan, B., Melville, J. R., Philips, G. L., Janulis, P., Contractor, N., Mustanski, B. S., & Birkett, M. (2016). Evaluating the Paper-to-Screen Translation of Participant-Aided Sociograms with High-Risk Participants. Proceedings of CHI ’16, San Jose, CA.
Pilny, A., Keegan, B., Foucault Welles, B., Riedl, C., Lazer, D., Radford, J., Ognyanova, K., DeChurch, L., Macy, M., Contractor, N., Meleis, W. (2016). Designing online experiments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, San Francisco, CA.
Lungeanu, A., Sullivan, S., Contractor, N., & Wilensky, U. (2015). A Computational Model of Team Assembly in Emerging Scientific Fields. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, Huntington Beach, CA.
Wang, M., Chen, W., Huang, Y., Contractor, N. S., & Fu, Y. (2015). A Multidimensional Network Approach for Modeling Customer-Product Relations in Engineering Design. Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Boston, MA.
Whalen, R., & Contractor, N. (2015). Patent Application Citations and the Examination Process: A Network-Based Date-Sensitive Method to Analyze Patent Applications. Proceedings of the Law & Big Data Workshop at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, San Diego, CA.
Schecter, A. & Contractor, N. (2015). Forming and performing: How group structure evolves in successful multiteam systems. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2015, No. 1, p. 11306), Academy of Management.
Neidhardt, J., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2015). Team vs. Team: Success Factors in a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Game. Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
McDonald, J. D., Dechurch, L. A., Asencio, R., Carter, D. R., Mesmer-Magnus, J. R., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). Team task switching: A conceptual framework for understanding functional work shifts. In 2015 International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2015. (Vol. 2015-January, pp. 1157-1161). Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Inc.. DOI: 10.1177/1541931215591179
Schecter, A., Leenders, R., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2014). The Signatures of Success in Teams & Multiteam Systems. Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Sullivan, S., Pierce, C. S., Leonardi, P. M., & Contractor, N. (2013). Explaining idea sharing mechanisms: Linking diversity and network factors to explore creative teams. Proceedings of the e Academy of Management Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.
Xu, B., Huang, Y., Kwak, H., & Contractor, N. (2013). Structures of Broken Ties: Exploring Unfollow Behavior on Twitter. Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 871-76. San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Xu, B., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2013). Exploring Twitter networks in parallel computing environments. XSEDE ’13: Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery, ACM Request Permissions. doi:10.1145/2484762.2484811
Ahmad, M., Keegan, B., Roy, A., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. S. (2013). Guilt by association? Network based propagation approaches for gold farmer detection. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.
McCusker, J. P. , Shaikh, A., Contractor, N., Courtney, P., Lee, J., Morgan, G., Tatalovich, Z., Thomas, C., and L. McGuinness, D. L. (2013). Towards next generation health data exploration: A data cube-based investigation into population statistics for tobacco IT innovation. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS) 2013.
Sullivan, S., Lungeanu, A., Dechurch, L. A., & S, C. N. (2013). Leading innovation over space and time. Paper presented at the ARS’13 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, June 20-22, 2013. ARS 2013
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2012). Staying in the loop: Structure and dynamics of Wikipedia’s breaking news collaborations. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration: WikiSym 2012, Linz, Austria.
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2012). Do editors or articles drive collaboration? Multilevel statistical network analysis of Wikipedia coauthorship. In S. Poltrack & C. Simone (Eds.), Proceedings of the CSCW ’12 Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Seattle, WA (pp. 427–436). New York, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2145204.2145271
Ahmad, M., Borbora, Z., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2012). Love all, trust a few: Link prediction for trust and psycho-social factors in MMOs. In S. J. Yang, A. M. Greenberg, & M. Endsley (Eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral – Cultural Modeling and Prediction. 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Vol. 7227, pp. 123–130). Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29047-3
McGuinness, D. L., Lebo, T., Ding, L., McCusker, J. P., Shaikh, A. R., Moser, R. P., et al. (2012). Towards semantically enabled next generation community health information portals: The PopSciGrid pilot. In Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, 4-7 January, 2012 (pp. 2752–2760). IEEE. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2012.605
Whalen, Ryan (2012). Modeling annual Supreme Court influence: The role of citation practices and judicial tenure in determining precedent network growth. In A Evsukoff, M.C. Gonzalez and R. Menezes (eds.) Complex Networks. Berlin, Springer Verlag. Series: “Studies in Computational Intelligence.”
Ahmad, M.A., Keegan, B., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2011). Trust among rogues? A hypergraph approach for comparing clandestine trust networks in MMOGs. Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 10-17.
Fazel-Zarandi, M., Devlin, H.J., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2011). Expert recommendation based on social drivers, social network analysis, and semantic data representation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems, 41-48.
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2011). Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, practices and structures in Wikipedia’s coverage of the Tōhoku catastrophes. Proceedings of WikiSym11, 105-113.
Ahmad, M., Keegan, B., Sullivan, S., Williams, D., Srivastava, J. & Contractor, N. (2011). Illicit Bits: Detecting and Analyzing Contraband Networks in Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing.
Ahmad, M.A., Keegan, B., Sullivan, S., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2011). Towards analyzing adversarial behavior in clandestine networks. Proceedings from the 2011 AAAI Workshop on Applied Adversarial Reasoning and Risk Modeling, 75-76.
Young, L., & Pieterson, W. (2011). Strategic communication in a networked world. Paper presented at the 2011 International Communication Association Strategic Communication Pre-conference, Boston, MA.
Young, L., & Pieterson, W. (2011). Government to citizen communication in a networked world: Integrating network and communication theories to inform strategic communication. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA.
Whalen, R. (2011). The Structure of Federal eGovernment: Using hyperlinks to analyze the .gov domain. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Keegan, B. (2011). Breaking news, breaking planes, and breaking hearts: Psycholinguistic dynamics and sensemaking in collaborative accounts of catastrophe. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA.
Keegan, B., Ahmed, M.A., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2010). Dark gold: Statistical properties of clandestine networks in massively multiplayer online games. Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing, 201-208.
Ahmad, M.A., Borbora, Z., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2010). Link prediction across multiple social networks. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 911-918.
Courtney, P., Shaikh, A. R., Contractor, N., McGuinness, D. L., Ding, L., Augustson, E. M., Blake, K., Morgan, G. D., Moser, R., Willis, G., & Hesse, B. W. (2010). Consumer health portal: An informatics tool for translation and visualization of complex, evidence-based population health data for cancer prevention and control. Proceedings of the 138th American Public Health Association.
You, W., Huang, Y., & Xia, M. (2010). Content popularity in a peer-to-peer community: A network perspective. Paper presented at the 9th Workshop on e-Business (WeB’10), St. Louis, MO.
Shaikh, A. R., Contractor, N., Moser, R., Morgan, G. D., Courtney, P. K., E. M. Augustson, A. M. Pilsner, & Hesse, B. W. (2009). PopSciGrid: Using cyberinfrastructure to enable data harmonization, collaboration, and advanced computation of nationally representative behavioral, demographic, and economic data. Proceedings of the 137th Annual Public Health Association.
Huang, Y., Zhu, M. Wang, J. Pathak, N., Shen, C., Keegan, B., Williams, D., & Contractor, N. (2009). The formation of task-oriented groups: exploring combat activities in online games. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, 4, 122-127.
Contractor, N. (2009). Understanding & enabling networks in digital government. Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 390, 364-365.
Ahmad, M.A., Keegan, B., Srivastava, J., Williams, D., & Contractor, N. (2009). Mining for gold farmers: Automatic detection of deviant players in MMOGs. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 4, 340-345.
Huffaker, D., Wang, J., Treem, J., Ahmad, M. A., Fullerton, L., Williams, D., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (2009). The social behaviors of experts in massive multiplayer online role-playing games. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 4, 326-331.
Ratan, R., Chung, J. E., Shen, C., Williams, D., Foucault, B., & Poole, M. S. (2009). Schmoozing and smiting: Trust and communication patterns in an MMO. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA2009), Chicago, IL, USA.
Foucault, B., & Markov, A. (2009). Teens and communication technology: The co-construction of privacy and friendship in mediated communication.Paper presented at the International Communication Association 2009 Annual Meeting (ICA ’09), Chicago, IL.
Neumeyer, X., Contractor, N., & Ehmann, K. (2008). Collaboration Networks in Micromanufacturing, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Micromanufacturing, Pittsburgh, PA.
Huang, Y., Contractor, N., & Yao, Y. (2008). Recommendation based on social networks. Proceedings of DG.O 2008 Annual conference for Digital Government, Montreal, Canada.
Patel, J., Gupta, I., & Contractor, N. (2006). JetStream: Achieving predictable gossip dissemination by leveraging social networks principles. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06).
Pathak, N., Mane, S., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. S. (2006). Knowledge perception analysis in a social network. Proceedings of the 6th SIAM – International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 06).
Contractor, N., Bishop, A. P., & Zink, D. (1999). PrairieKNOW: A tool to assist the study, creation, and growth of community networks. In H-J.Bullinger& J. Ziegler (Eds.). Proceedings of HCI International ’99 (the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), Munich, Germany, Volume 2, (pp. 447-451). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Jacobs, J. L., Dorneich, M. C., Jones, P. M., O’Keefe, B. J. and Contractor, N. (1997). SPOT: Using collaborative technologies for developing collaborative technologies. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1, 690-695, Orlando, FL.
Jones, P. M., Chin, G., Lucenti, M., Kim, H-J., Stigberg, D., Sherman, G., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B. J., Whitbred, R., Grobler, F., Case, M., Heckel, J., Lu, S. C-Y. & Ganeshan, R. (1997). CITYSCAPE: Civil infostructure technology system for collaborative analysis, prediction, and evaluation. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 3, 2223-2227, Orlando, FL.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B., Lu, S., Case, M., Lawrence, P., & Grobler, F. (1995). Workflow and cooperative problem solving in civil infrastructure management. Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 5, 4575-4580, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., Lu, S. C-Y., & O’Keefe, B. J. (1994). Intelligent collaborative support for engineering design. Proceedings of the 12th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA ’94), 4, 80 – 82, Toronto, Ontario.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B., & Lu, S. C-Y. (1994). Competence models and self-organizing systems: Towards intelligent, evolvable, collaborative support. Proceedings of the IEEE 1994 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1, 367-372, San Antonio, TX.
Case, M., Contractor, N., Jones, P. M., Lu, S. C-Y., & O’Keefe, B. J. (1992). Team engineering analysis and modeling: Toward a normative model of team interaction. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chicago IL.
Case, M., Contractor, N., Jones, P. M., Lu, S. C-Y, & O’Keefe, B. (1992). Consensus management in engineering design. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Chicago IL.
Books:
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, & Committee on a Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security. (2019). A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. National Academies Press.
Ahmad, M. A., Shen, C., Srivastava, J., and Contractor, N. S. (Eds.). (2014). Predicting real world behaviors from virtual worlds data. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
O’Hara, K., Contractor, N. S., Hall, W., Hendler, J. A., & Shadbolt, N. (2013). Web Science: Understanding the emergence of macro-level features on the World Wide Web. Now Foundations and Trends®, 4(2-3), 103‐267. doi:10.1561/1800000017
Steinfield, C., Pentland, B. T., Ackerman, M., & Contractor, N. (Eds.) (2007). Communities and Technologies 2007. Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, London: Springer London.Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (2003). Theories of communication networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapters:
Schecter, A., & Contractor, N. S. (2023). Relational Event Models. In J. McLevey, J. Scott, & P. J. Carrington (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. SAGE Publications.
Pilny, A., & Contractor, N. S. (2024). Networks. In V. D. Miller and S. Poole (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Communication Theory and Research.
Pendergraft, J. G., Carter, D. R., Trainer, H. M., Jones, J. M., Schecter, A., Shuffler, M. L., DeChurch, L., Contractor, N. (in press). Supporting Spaceflight Multiteam Systems throughout Long-Duration Exploration Missions: A Countermeasure Toolkit. In L. Landon, S. Kelley, & E. Salas (eds.), Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs, Volume 1: Research at the Frontier. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis.
Mesmer-Magnus, J., Lungeanu, A., Harris, A., Niler, A., DeChurch, L., Contractor, N. (in press). Working in Space: Managing Transitions between Tasks. In L. Landon, S. Kelley, & E. Salas (Eds.), Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs, Volume 2: Extreme Application. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis.
Antone, B., Lungeanu, A., Bell, S., De Church, L., & Contractor, N. (in press). Computational Modeling of Long-Distance Space Exploration: A Guide to Predictive and Prescriptive Approaches to the Dynamics of Team Composition. In L. Landon, S. Kelley, & E. Salas (Eds.), Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs, Volume 1: Research at the Frontier. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis. b
Contractor, N. (2019). How Can Computational Social Science Motivate the Development of Theories, Data, and Methods to Advance Our Understanding of Communication and Organizational Dynamics?. In: Foucault Welles, B. & González-Bailón, S. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.7
Twyman, M., & Contractor, N. (2019). Team Assembly. In K. L. Hall, A. L. Vogel, & R. T. Croyle (Eds.), Strategies for Team Science Success: Handbook of Evidence-Based Principles for Cross-Disciplinary Science and Practical Lessons Learned from Health Researchers (pp. 217–240). Springer International Publishing. Available online.
DeChurch, L. A., Bufton, G. M., Kay, S. A., Velez, C. V., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Organizational learning and multiteam systems. In J. L. Argote & J. Levine (Eds.), Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning, Oxford University Press.
Foote, J., & Contractor, N. (2018). The behavior and network position of peer production founders. In Transforming Digital Worlds (Vol. 10766, pp. 99–106). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Schecter A., Contractor N. (2017) Understanding and assessing collaborative processes through relational events. In: von Davier A., Zhu M., Kyllonen P. (Eds.), Innovative Assessment of Collaboration. Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment (pp. 223-231). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Contractor, N., & Forbush, E. (2017). Networks. In C. R. Scott & L. K. Lewis, (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of organizational communication, (Vol. 22, pp. 1–25). Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. DOI: 10.1002/9781118955567
Zhu, M., Kuskova, V., Wasserman, S., & Contractor, N. S. (2016). Correspondence analysis of multirelational multilevel networks. In E. Lazega & T. Snijders (Eds.) Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences – Theory, Methods and Applications. Methodos Series – Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences. (pp. 145-172) Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Huang, Y., Weng, C., Lee, B., & Contractor, N. (2015). Semantic and Social Spaces: Identifying Keyword Similarity with Relations. In E. Bertino & S. Matei (Eds.) Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets (pp. 47–55). Computational Social Science Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Ahmad, M. A., Shen, C., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2014). On the problem of predicting real world characteristics from virtual worlds. In A. Ahmad, C. Shen, J. Srivastava, & N. contractor (Eds.) Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data (pp. 1–18). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Shumate, M., & Contractor, N. (2014). Emergence of multidimensional social networks. In L.L. Putnam & D. Mumby (Eds.) Handbook of Organizational Communication (pp. 451-474). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Whalen, R. (2013). Modeling annual Supreme Court influence: The role of citation practices and judicial tenure in determining precedent network growth. In A. Evsukoff, M. C. Gonzalez & R. Menezes (Eds.), Complex Networks (pp. 169-176): Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Margolin, D., Ognyanoya, K., Huang, M., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2012). Team formation and performance on Nanohub: A network selection challenge in scientific communities. In B. Vedres & M. Scotti (Eds.), Networks in Social Policy Problems (pp. 80–100). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Contractor, N., & Su, C. (2012). Understanding groups from a network perspective. In A. Hollingshead & M. S. Poole (Eds.), Research Methods for Studying Groups and Teams: A Guide to Approaches, Tools, and Technologies (pp. 284-310). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. S. (2011). Conceptualizing the multiteam system as an ecosystem of networked groups. In Zaccaro, S.J., Marks, M.A., & DeChurch, L.A. (Eds.) Multiteam Systems: An Organizational Form for Dynamic and Complex Environments (pp. 193-224). New York: Routledge Academic.
Pathak, N., Mane, S., Srivastava, J., Contractor, N., Poole, S., & Williams, D. (2008). Analysis of social networks and group dynamics from electronic communication. In Kargupta, H., Han, J., Yu, P.S., Motwani, R., & Kumar, V. (Eds.) Next Generation of Data Mining (377-397). Chapman and Hall.
Hollingshead, A., & Contractor, N. (2006). New media and small group organizing. In L.A. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), The Handbook of New Media (Student Edition) (pp. 114-133). London: Sage.
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2005). The network perspective on small groups: Theory and research. In Poole, M. S. & Hollingshead, A.B. (Eds.) Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 277-312). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2003). Using multi-theoretical multilevel models to study adversarial networks. In R. Breiger, K. Carley, & P. Pattison (Eds.), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers (pp. 324-344). Washington, D.C.: National Research Council.
Hollingshead, A. B., & Contractor, N. S. (2002). New media and organizing at the group level. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (pp. 221-235). London: Sage.
Contractor, N. (2002). New media and organizing: Introduction. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (pp. 201-205). London: Sage.
Contractor, N., & Baldwin, C. (2001). Adoption of communication technologies and the evolution of communication networks in organizations. In V. Burton, D. Herr, & T. Finnegan (Eds.), Wayfarer: Charting Advances in Social Science Computing (CD). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (2001). Emergence of communication networks. In F.M. Jablin & L.L. Putnam (Eds.), The New Handbook of Organizational Communication (pp. 440-502). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Shapiro, M. A., Lang, A., Hamilton, M., & Contractor, N. S. (2001). Information Systems Division: Intra-Personal, Meaning, Attitude and Social Systems. In W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 24 (pp. 17-49). Newbury Park: Sage.
Contractor, N., & Bishop, A. P. (2000). Reconfiguring community networks: The case of PrairieKNOW. In T. Ishida (Ed.), Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 151-164). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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Contractor, N. S., & Grant, S. (1996). The emergence of shared interpretations in organizations: A self-organizing systems perspective. In J. Watt & A. VanLear (Eds.), Cycles and Dynamic Processes in Communication Processes (pp. 216-230). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. (1994). Self-organizing systems perspective in the study of organizational communication. In B Kovacic (Ed.) New Approaches to Organizational Communication (pp. 39-66). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
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Contractor, N. S., Singhal, A., & Rogers, E. M. (1993). Satellite television and development in India: A utopian, dystopian, neutral, and contingency view. In K. S. Nair & S. A. White (Eds.), Perspectives on Development Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., & Eisenberg, E. M. (1990). Communication networks and new media in organizations. In J. Fulk & C. W. Steinfield (Eds.), Organizations and Communication Technology (pp. 143-172). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (1988). Communication networks: Measurement techniques. In C. H. Tardy (Ed.), A Handbook for the Study of Human Communication: Methods and Instruments for Observing, Measuring, and Assessing Communication Processes (pp. 107-138). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Reports:
Contractor, N. S., et al. (2016). 3D Netscope Intro and Walkthrough, SONIC Lab, Northwestern University and Syndio Inc., 1-15.
Contractor, N. S., Young, L., & Pieterson, W. (2011). Mapping community-based information networks to enable the Chicago Climate Action Plan: A case study of the South Chicago Community. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University.
Young, L., Pieterson, W., Hsieh, Y.-l., Wang, H., & Contractor, N. (2010). Mapping community-based information networks to enable the Chicago Climate Action Plan: A case study of the North Kenwood/Oakland community. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University.
Provan, K., & Contractor, N. (2007). Understanding and managing stakeholder networks. In National Cancer Institute, Greater than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 06-6085.
Bajcsy, R., Rubin P., Bertenthal, B., Bimber, B., Contractor, N., Finholt, T., Franklin, K., Liberman, M., Mebane, W., Pearce, C., Scacchi, W., Teitelbaum, B., & Urban M. (2004). Cyberinfrastructure-mediated interaction. Report of the NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences.