Publications

PUBLICATIONS (selected)

Monograph

Co-authorship networks of social scientists in Croatia: Introduction to Social Network Analysis. (UVOD U ANALIZU DRUŠTVENIH MREŽA – Koautorstvo znanstvenika iz triju polja društvenih znanosti od 1992. do 2012.) Publisher: Hrvatska Sveučilišna Naklada (Croatian University Press): Zagreb. Funded by Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports. 2017.→ 

Journal articles

McCann, M., Bianchi, F., Letina, S., Stewart, S., MacLeod, K., & Tranmer, M. (2022). A social network analysis approach to studying whole system disruption related to COVID19 among people who use drugs in Scotland. (under review)

Letina, S., Long, E., McCrorie, P., Mitchell, K., Zucca, C., Riddell, J., … & McCann, M. Adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing: The importance of the meso-level. (under review)

Long, E., Thomson, M., Milicev, J., Goodfellow, C., Letina, S., Bradley, S., & McCann, M. (2022). Place-based variation in loneliness, social support, and social networks: A pilot study comparing Scottish urban and rural areas. (under review)

Wismans, A., van der Zwan, P., Wennberg, K., Franken, I., Mukerjee, J., Baptista, R., …Letina, S.,… & Thurik, R. (2022). Face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic: how risk perception, experience with COVID-19, and attitude towards government interact with country-wide policy stringency. BMC public health, 22(1), 1-14.

Takács, K., Gross, J., Testori, M., Letina, S., Kenny, A. R., Power, E. A., & Wittek, R. P. (2021). Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1838), 20200297.

Wismans, A., Letina, S., Wennberg, K., Thurik, R., Baptista, R., Burke, A., … & Franken, I. (2021). The role of impulsivity and delay discounting in student compliance with COVID-19 protective measures. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110925.

Wismans, A. B., Letina, S., Thurik, R., Wennberg, K., Baptista, R., Barrientos Marín, J., … & Torrès, O. (2020). Hygiene and social distancing as distinct public health related behaviours among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychological Bulletin, 15(4).

Maya-Jariego, I., Letina, S., & Tinoco, E. G. (2019). Personal networks and psychological attributes: Exploring individual differences in personality and sense of community and their relationship to the structure of personal networks. Network Science, 1-21.

Letina, S., Blanken, T. F., Deserno, M. K., & Borsboom, D. (2019). Expanding network analysis tools in psychological networks: Minimal spanning trees, participation coefficients, and motif analysis applied to a network of 26 psychological attributes. Complexity, 2019.

Letina, S., Robins, G., & Maslić Seršić, D. (2016). Reaching out from a small scientific community: the social influence models of collaboration across national and disciplinary boundaries for scientists in three fields of social sciences. Revija za sociologiju, 46(2), 103-139.

Letina, S. (2016). Network and actor attribute effects on the performance of researchers in two fields of social science in a small peripheral community. Journal of Informetrics, 10(2), 571-595.

Technical report

Lewis, Jenny; Letina, Srebrenka; Woelert, Paul (2016). Understanding the structures and effects of research collaboration. Melbourne School of Government – Incubator Research Project Grants.→

Conference presentations/ posters (selected)

• Letina, S., McCann, M. The importance of the network meso-level: Similarity in substance use and mental wellbeing in adolescents’ peer groups in schools. 6^th European Conference on Social Networks, London, UK, 2022.
• Schuler, P., Letina, S., Takacs, K. Holey Diamond! Structural holes in signed networks. 6^th European Conference on Social Networks, London, UK, 2022.
• Letina, S., McCann, M., Long, E. Similarity in substance use and mental well-being in adolescents’ peer groups in schools. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Cairns, Australia, 2022.
• Martinez-Peña, R, Letina, S. Linking threshold models of collective behaviour, small-world networks, and ecological change. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Cairns, Australia, 2022.
• Martinez-Peña, R, Letina, S. Implications of social structure for resource fever mechanisms. 5^th European Conference on Social Networks, Naples, Italy, 2021.
• Letina, S., Krause, R., Sebhatu, A., Wennberg, K., Takács, K. Social “contagion” while “together alone”: A study of social influence in compliance with Covid-19 recommendations among students in Sweden. Networks 2021: A joint Sunbelt and Netsci conference, Virtual, 2021.
• Schuler, P., Letina, S., Takács, K. The Broker’s Invisible Ties: Brokerage and Balance in
• Signed Networks. Networks 2021: A joint Sunbelt and Netsci conference, Virtual, 2021.
• Letina, S., McCann, M. Do health behaviours vary across network communities? An explorative study of contribution of community detection methods in understanding health behaviors among school peers. Networks 2021: A joint Sunbelt and Netsci conference, Virtual, 2021.
• Lengyel, B., Tóth, G., Letina; Bíró, A. Spatial and Triadic Closure of Social Connections Increase Anti-Depression Usage. Networks 2021: A joint Sunbelt and Netsci conference, Virtual, 2021.
• Letina, S. Networks behind gossip and gossip ties as a hidden network in organizations: The role of structural balance and accuracy in knowledge about who is gossiping. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Virtual, 2020.
• Takacs, K., Lucic, M., Sliskovic, T., Letina, S. Do Brokers Gossip Strategically? Investigating Information Sharing and Control in Organizations Using Exponential Random Graph Models. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
• Letina, S; Samu, F. Bringing the Balance Theory Back to the Individual in the Network: Proposed Measures of an Individual’s Embeddedness in Unbalanced Structures. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
• Letina, Srebrenka. Taking into account the individual and social context: Auto-logistic actor attribute models. “Current Trends in Psychology”, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2015.