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social network analysis, sociology of organizations, social statistics
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Biography

I am a mixed-methods sociologist with a strong background in statistical modeling. I am interested in learning about human behavior by detecting and analyzing network patterns. I use network science and computational sociology to understand the interplay between network structures, social selection, and influence. Specifically, my recent interests revolve around the possibilities of employing relational hyperevent models (RHEM) and relational hyperevent outcome models (RHOM) to study diverse topics such as virus spreading in socio-centric networks, scientific collaboration, or science of team science, to name but a few. At the same time, in my work, I am also interested in examining the mutual relationship between relational event data (social interaction) and relational states (social structure). The intertwining of relational event and state data is particularly manifest in my current research on cancer and cardiovascular risk factors within panel personal network data observed in different living labs.

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Employment (2)

University of Bucharest: Bucharest, Romania, RO

2021-02-15 to present | Professor (Sociology)
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2012-10-01 to 2021-02-15 | Associate professor (Sociology)
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Education and qualifications (5)

University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2019-01-09 to present | Habilitation in sociology (Sociology)
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2019-01-09 to present | PhD Supervisor (Sociology)
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National University of Political Studies and Public Administration: Bucharest, RO

2003-10-01 to 2008-12-12 | PhD
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National University of Political Studies and Public Administration: Bucharest, RO

2003-10-01 to 2005-07-15 | MA (Political Science)
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National University of Political Studies and Public Administration: Bucharest, RO

1999-10-01 to 2003-07-15 | BA (Sociology)
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Professional activities (13)

University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2017-04 to present | Coordinator of the Research Group on Graphs and Social Networks - GraphNets (Sociology)
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International Network for Social Network Anlysis: Marrieta, GA, Georgia, US

2012-01-01 to present | Member
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Romanian Sociological Society : Bucharest, RO

2009 to present | Member (Sociology)
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Unitatea Executiva Pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior Si A Cercetarii Stiintifice Universitare: Bucharest, RO

2021-12-31 | The Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI) Award (code: PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-67036) for the following research paper: Hâncean M.-G., Lerner, J., Ghit,a, M.-C., Bunaciu, D., Stoica, A.A., Mihaila, B.E.The role of age in the spreading of COVID-19 across a social network in Bucharest. Journal of Complex Networks 9(4): cnab026.(2021) https://doi.org/10. 1093/comnet/cnab026
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Unitatea Executiva Pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior a Cercetarii Dezvoltarii si Inovarii: Bucharest, RO

2021-12-31 | The Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI) Award (code: PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-67020) for the following research paper: Hâncean M.-G., Lubbers, M.J., Molina, J.L. Measuring transnational social fields through binational link-tracing sampling. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0253042.(2021) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253042
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2021-12-14 | The best research project of the University of Bucharest - https://cosmos.unibuc.ro/ -
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2021-12-14 | The best research project in social sciences - https://cosmos.unibuc.ro/
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2020-12-18 | Best scientific journal in social sciences for the journal "International Review of Social Research - Sciendo Open Access" (Sociology)
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2017-12-19 | Best research paper in social sciences award for the paper: Hâncean, M.-G. & Perc, M. Homophily in coauthorship networks of East European sociologists. Scientific Reports 6, 36152; doi: 10.1038/srep36152 (2016) (Sociology)
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National Alliance of Romanian Student Organizations: Bucharest, RO

2017 | The Bologna Professor Award (Sociology)
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2016 to 2017 | Fellow of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (The University of Bucharest). (Sociology)
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Unitatea Executiva Pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior a Cercetarii Dezvoltarii si Inovarii: Bucharest, RO

2016-09-12 | Award for the paper Hâncean, M.-G. & Perc, M. Homophily in co-authorship networks of East European sociologists. Scientific Reports 6, 36152; doi: 10.1038/srep36152 (2016). PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2016-13345 (Sociology)
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Unitatea Executiva Pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior a Cercetarii Dezvoltarii si Inovarii: Bucharest, RO

2015-09 | Award for the paper Hâncean, M.-G., Perc, M. & Vlasceanu, L. Fragmented Romanian sociology: growth and structure of the collaboration network. PLoS ONE 9, 11, e113271, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113271 (2014). PN-II-RUPRECISI-2015-9-9778 (Sociology)
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Funding (3)

The impact of human mobility networks and weather conditions on COVID-19 spread (CoSMoS)

2021-01 to 2023-12 | Grant
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (Bucharest, RO)
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Longitudinal Analysis of Coauthorship Networks and Citations in Academia

2018-05 to 2020-04 | Grant
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (BUCHAREST, RO)
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Accounting for the Quantified Quality of Academic Researchers in the field of Sociology. A Multi-level Network Analysis Perspective

2017 to 2017 | Grant
University of Bucharest (Bucharest, RO)
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Works (28)

Cross-sectional personal network analysis of adult smoking in rural areas

Royal Society Open Science
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Bianca-Elena Mihăilă; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Matjaž Perc; Jürgen Lerner; Iulian Oană; Marius Geantă; José Luis Molina; Cosmina Cioroboiu
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Online Media Use and COVID-19 Vaccination in Real-World Personal Networks: Quantitative Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2024-10-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Iulian Oană; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Matjaž Perc; Jürgen Lerner; Bianca-Elena Mihăilă; Marius Geantă; José Luis Molina; Isabela Tincă; Carolina Espina
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Online Media Use and COVID-19 Vaccination in Real-World Personal Networks: Quantitative Study (Preprint)

2024-03-11 | Preprint
Contributors: Iulian Oană; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Matjaž Perc; Jürgen Lerner; Bianca-Elena Mihăilă; Marius Geantă; José Luis Molina; Isabela Tincă; Carolina Espina
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Online media use and COVID-19 vaccination in real-world personal networks

2024-03-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Iulian Oană; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Matjaž Perc; Jürgen Lerner; Bianca-Elena Pintoiu-Mihăilă; Marius Geantă; José Luis Molina; Isabela Tincă; Carolina Espina
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Perceptions Towards the Adoption of Multi-Risk Factors Cancer Prevention Educational Tool Among European Union Citizens: A Multi-Country Qualitative Study Protocol

International Journal of Qualitative Methods
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ariadna Feliu; Bibiana Barrera; Amanda Drury; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Marius Geantă; Paweł Koczkodaj; Patricia Pinto; Marga Pla; Ivan Tchalakov; Helena Vučković et al.
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Processed food intake assortativity in the personal networks of older adults

2024-01-26 | Preprint
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hancean; Juergen Lerner; Matjaz Perc; Jose Luis Molina; Marius Geanta; Iulian Oana; Bianca Elena Pintoiu Mihaila
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A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat

Nature
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Lazarus, Jeffrey, V; Romero, Diana; Kopka, Christopher J.; Karim, Salim Abdool; Abu-Raddad, Laith J.; Almeida, Gisele; Baptista-Leite, Ricardo; Barocas, Joshua A.; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Bar-Yam, Yaneer et al.
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Micro-level network dynamics of scientific collaboration and impact: Relational hyperevent models for the analysis of coauthor networks

Network Science
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Lerner, Juergen; Hancean, Marian-Gabriel
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Occupations and their impact on the spreading of COVID-19 in urban communities

Scientific Reports
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Hancean, Marian-Gabriel; Lerner, Juergen; Perc, Matjaz; Oana, Iulian; Bunaciu, David-Andrei; Stoica, Adelina Alexandra; Ghita, Maria-Cristina
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Short Take: Sampling from Transnational Social Fields

Field Methods
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Molina, Jose Luis; Lubbers, Miranda J.; Hancean, Marian-Gabriel; Fradejas-Garcia, Ignacio
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Disaggregated data on age and sex for the first 250 days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bucharest, Romania

Scientific Data
2022-05-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Maria Cristina Ghiță; Matjaž Perc; Jürgen Lerner; Iulian Oană; Bianca-Elena Mihăilă; Adelina Alexandra Stoica; David-Andrei Bunaciu
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The formation of political discussion networks

Royal Society Open Science
2022-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Matjaž Perc; Adrian Gheorghiță; George G. Vega Yon; Bianca-Elena Mihăilă
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The role of age in the spreading of COVID-19 across a social network in Bucharest

Journal of Complex Networks
2021-09-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Jürgen Lerner; Matjaž Perc; Maria Cristina Ghiţă; David-Andrei Bunaciu; Adelina Alexandra Stoica; Bianca-Elena Mihăilă; Ernesto Estrada
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Measuring transnational social fields through binational link-tracing sampling

PLOS ONE
2021-06-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Floriana Gargiulo; Miranda Jessica Lubbers; José Luis Molina
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The impact of human mobility networks on the global spread of COVID-19

Journal of Complex Networks
2021-03-07 | Journal article
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The coauthorship networks of the most productive European researchers

Scientometrics
2021-01-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean; Matjaž Perc; Jürgen Lerner
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The impact of human mobility networks on the global spread of COVID-19

Journal of Complex Networks
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Hancean, Marian-Gabriel; Slavinec, Mitja; Perc, Matjaz
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Early spread of COVID-19 in Romania: imported cases from Italy and human-to-human transmission networks

Royal Society Open Science
2020-07-22 | Journal article
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Measuring Transnational Social Fields Through Binational Link-tracing Sampling

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2020-06-26 | Journal article
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Homophily in coauthorship networks of East European sociologists

Scientific Reports
2016-10-27 | Journal article
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Policy Incentives and Research Productivity in the Romanian Higher Education. An Institutional Approach

The European Higher Education Area
2015 | Other
Contributors: Lazăr Vlăsceanu; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean
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Fragmented Romanian sociology: Growth and structure of the collaboration network

PLoS ONE
2014 | Journal article
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Contributors: Hâncean, M.-G.; Perc, M.; Vləsceanu, L.
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Human Capital for a Planned Economy Relations of Correspondence and Unintended Consequences in the Higher Education of Communist Romania

International Review of Social Research
2014-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Lazăr Vlăsceanu; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean
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A Brief Overview of Social Network Analysis and its Current State within Romanian Sociology

International Review of Social Research
2013-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean
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Networks and Organizations Guest Editors’ Foreword

International Review of Social Research
2013-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Mihaela Vlăsceanu; Marian-Gabriel Hâncean
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Internalizing Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Challenges of Transition in Enhancing the Institutional Responsibility for Quality

European Higher Education at the Crossroads
2012 | Other
Contributors: Mihai Păunescu; Bogdan Florian; Gabriel-Marian Hâncean
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Policy and prediction: The case of institutional diversity in romanian higher education,Politike in predvidevanje: Primer institucionalne raznolikosti romunskega visokega šolstva

Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
2012 | Journal article
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Contributors: Vlǎsceanu, L.; Hâncean, M.-G.
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USING BENCHMARKING METHODS IN HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY SYSTEM ASSESSMENT

QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION, VOL 2
2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Vlasceanu, Lazar; Hancean, Marian-Gabriel
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