XIANG ZHENG

Publication

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Journal article

2025

  • Zheng, X., Peng, A., Hong, X., & Ni, C. (2025). Interdisciplinary PhDs face barriers to top university placement within their disciplines (No. arXiv:2503.21912). arXiv.[ArXiv]
  • Hong, X., Zheng, X., Yuan, H., & Ni, C. (2025). Parenthood Penalties in Academia: Childcare Responsibilities, Gender Role Beliefs and Institutional Support (No. arXiv:2504.13923). arXiv.[ArXiv]
  • 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] [ArXiv]
  • 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.
  • 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, 463–482. [DOI]

    • 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), 1002–1017. [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, 1–42. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Zhou, W., Ni, C., & Wang, C. (2024). The influencing mechanism of research training on Chinese STEM Ph.D. students’ career interests. Asia Pacific Education Review, 25(4), 733–749. [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), 219–233. [DOI]
  • Zheng, X., Yang, Q., Potnuri, J., Ni, C., & Hutchins, B. I. (2023). Analysis of the comparative strengths of intramural and extramural grant funding mechanisms (p. 2023.11.09.566298). bioRxiv. [Preprint]

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), 1401–1415. [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), 47–59. [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]

Conference presentation

  • Equity in Science Journalism: Investigating Gender Disparities in News Media Coverage of Scientific Re- search (2025). Oral presentation at Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy (ATLC 2025); Oral presentation at the International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2025).
  • Interdisciplinary PhDs face barriers to top university placement within their disciplines (2025). Oral presentation at Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy (ATLC 2025); Oral presentation at the International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2025).
  • Evaluating the language style of AI-generated peer review (2025). Poster at the iConference 2025. (Best Poster Finalist - 5/38)
  • Tenure and Research Trajectories (2024). Oral presentation at the International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2024); Oral presentation at the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation (ICSSI 2024).
  • Contextualizing gender disparities in online teaching evaluations for professors (2024). Oral presentation at the International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2024).
  • Analysis of the comparative strengths of intramural and extramural grant funding mechanisms (2024). Poster at the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation (ICSSI 2024), United States.
  • Exploring the impact of tenure on research performance, innovation, and collaboration (2024). Oral presentation at UW-Madison Research Bazaar[Youtube]; Poster at iConference 2024.
  • The effectiveness of peer review in identifying issues leading to retractions (2023). Oral presentation at the 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023). [Abstract]
  • Skewness and homophily in the global peer review network (2023). Oral presentation at the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2023).
  • The significant yet short-term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics (2023). Oral presentation at the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation (ICSSI 2023).
  • How parenthood contributes to gender gaps in academia (2022). Oral presentation at the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation (ICSSI 2022); Oral presentation at CIES 2022: the 66th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society.

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]