XIANG ZHENG

Publication

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Research article

2025

  • Tripodi, G.*, Zheng, X.*, Qian, Y.*, Murray, D., Jones, B. F., Ni, C., & Wang, D. (2024). Tenure and Research Trajectories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. [DOI][News]
  • Arabi, S., Zheng, X., Hutchins, B. I., & Ni, C. (2025). Equity in science journalism: Investigating gender disparities in news media coverage of scientific research. Science Communication. [DOI][News]
  • Li, K., Zheng, X., & Ni, C. (2025). Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 800. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X. & Ni, C. (2025). Dissecting the Global Peer Review Ecosystem: Skewness, Homophily, and Diversity Dynamics. Quantitative Science Studies, 6, 463 E82. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Yang, Q., Potnuri, J., Ni, C., & Hutchins, B. I. (2025). Comparing the Outputs of Intramural and Extramural Grants Funded by National Institutes of Health. eLife, 14, RP108929. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Peng, A., Hong, X., Sugimoto, C. R., & Ni, C. (2025). Interdisciplinary PhDs face barriers to top university placement within their disciplines. [ArXiv]
  • Hong, X., Zheng, X., Yuan, H., & Ni, C. (2025). Parenthood Penalties in Academia: Childcare Responsibilities, Gender Role Beliefs and Institutional Support. [ArXiv]
  • Zhou, K. Z., Chen, J. E., Zheng, X., Qian, Y., Xiao, Y., & Shu, K. (2025). “Everyone Else Does It E The Rise of Preprinting Culture in Computing Disciplines. [ArXiv]

    • 2024

  • Zheng, X. & Ni, C. (2024). The significant yet short-term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(9), 1002 E017. [DOI]
  • Li, K.*, Zheng, X. *, & Ni, C. (2024). The anglicization of science in China. Research Evaluation, 33, rvae036. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Yan, E., & Ni, C. (2024). Faculty Mobility and Research Dynamics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Quantitative Science Studies, 1 E2. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Zhou, W., Ni, C., & Wang, C. (2024). The influencing mechanism of research training on Chinese STEM Ph.D. students Ecareer interests. Asia Pacific Education Review, 25(4), 733 E49. [DOI]

2023

  • Zheng, X., Vastrad, S., He, J., & Ni, C. (2023). Contextualizing gender disparities in online teaching evaluations for professors. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282704. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Chen, J., Tollas, A., & Ni, C. (2023). The effectiveness of peer review in identifying issues leading to retractions. Journal of Informetrics, 17(3), 101423. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Chen, J., Yan, E., & Ni, C. (2023). Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(2), 219 E33. [DOI]

2022

  • Zheng, X., Yuan, H., & Ni, C. (2022). Meta-Research: How parenthood contributes to gender gaps in academia. eLife, 11, e78909. [DOI][News][News]
  • He, J., Zheng, X., Liu, M., Du, Y., Liu, G., Cui, J., & Su, Y. (2022). Reciprocity in college teaching: A big data study based on online student evaluation of 919,750 professors. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 47(8), 1401 E415. [DOI]
  • Hong, X., Guo, F., Zheng, X., & Coates, H. (2022). The Meaning of Doctoral Education Quality and Its Evolution: From the Perspective of Assessment Practice (in Chinese). Modern Education Management, 04, 119-128. [DOI]

2021 and before

  • Wang, C., Zheng, X., Zhang, Y., Yao, G., & Kang, S. (2020). Implementation and Diffusion of Online Higher Education Policies—A Case Study on Tsinghua University (in Chinese). Tsinghua Journal of Education, 41(04), 47 E9. [DOI]
  • Ma, J., Jiang, F., Gu, L., Zheng, X., Lin, X., & Wang, C. (2020). Patterns of the Network of Cross-Border University Research Collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. Sustainability, 12(17), 6846. [DOI]
  • Wang, C., Yang, J., & Zheng, X. (2019). The Development of Education Discipline in China from the Perspective of SWOT (in Chinese). Modern Education Management, 03, 1-6. [DOI]
  • Wang, C., Zheng, X., & Yang, J. (2019). A Comparative Study on the Development of Postgraduate Education in the Discipline of Education from the Year 2000: Based on the Diachronic Analysis of 8 Countries (in Chinese). China Higher Education Research, 07, 85-91. [DOI]

Book

  • Wang, C., & Zheng, X. (2022). Enacting collective and inquiry-based leadership. In A Turning Point for Chinese Higher Education. Routledge. [DOI]
  • Translated book Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact (Cronin, Blaise, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto, eds.) from English to Chinese. [News]