Publications

* Equal contribution.

Salsabil Arabi, Xiang Zheng, B. Ian Hutchins, and Chaoqun Ni (2025). Equity in Science Journalism: Investigating Gender Disparities in News Media Coverage of Scientific Research. Science Communication. DOI · Featured in Science
Kai Li, Xiang Zheng, and Chaoqun Ni (2025). Gender Disparities in the STEM Research Enterprise in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, 800. DOI
Giorgio Tripodi*, Xiang Zheng*, Yifan Qian*, Dakota Murray, Benjamin F. Jones, Chaoqun Ni, and Dashun Wang (2025). Tenure and Research Trajectories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(30), e2500322122. DOI · Covered in Nature
Xiang Zheng and Chaoqun Ni (2025). Dissecting the Global Peer Review Ecosystem: Skewness, Homophily, and Diversity Dynamics. Quantitative Science Studies, 6, 463-482. DOI
Xiang Zheng, Qiyao Yang, Jai Potnuri, Chaoqun Ni, and B. Ian Hutchins (2025). Comparing the Outputs of Intramural and Extramural Grants Funded by National Institutes of Health. eLife, 14, RP108929. DOI

Kai Li*, Xiang Zheng*, and Chaoqun Ni (2024). The Anglicization of Science in China. Research Evaluation, 33, rvae036. DOI
Xiang Zheng and Chaoqun Ni (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
Xiang Zheng, Erjia Yan, and Chaoqun Ni (2024). Faculty Mobility and Research Dynamics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Quantitative Science Studies, 1-42. DOI
Xiang Zheng, Wenhui Zhou, Chaoqun Ni, and Chuanyi Wang (2024). The Influencing Mechanism of Research Training on Chinese STEM Ph.D. Students’ Career Interests. Asia Pacific Education Review, 25(4), 733-749. DOI

Xiang Zheng, Jiajing Chen, Alison Tollas, and Chaoqun Ni (2023). The Effectiveness of Peer Review in Identifying Issues Leading to Retractions. Journal of Informetrics, 17(3), 101423. DOI
Xiang Zheng, Jiajing Chen, Erjia Yan, and Chaoqun Ni (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
Xiang Zheng, Shreyas Vastrad, Jibo He, and Chaoqun Ni (2023). Contextualizing Gender Disparities in Online Teaching Evaluations for Professors. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282704. DOI

Jibo He, Xiang Zheng, Mingchun Liu, Yu Du, Guanglin Liu, Jingmeng Cui, and Yanjie Su (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
Xi Hong, Fei Guo, Xiang Zheng, and Hamish Coates (2022). The Meaning of Doctoral Education Quality and Its Evolution. Modern Education Management, 04, 119-128. DOI
Xiang Zheng, Haimiao Yuan, and Chaoqun Ni (2022). Meta-Research: How Parenthood Contributes to Gender Gaps in Academia. eLife, 11, e78909. DOI · Chemistry World · Women In Academia Report

Jinyuan Ma, Fan Jiang, Liujian Gu, Xiang Zheng, Xiao Lin, and Chuanyi Wang (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
Chuanyi Wang, Xiang Zheng, Yu Zhang, Guannan Yao, and Shining Kang (2020). Implementation and Diffusion of Online Higher Education Policies—A Case Study on Tsinghua University. Tsinghua Journal of Education, 41(04), 47-59. DOI

Chuanyi Wang, Xiang Zheng, and Jiale Yang (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. China Higher Education Research, 07, 85-91. DOI
Chuanyi Wang, Jiale Yang, and Xiang Zheng (2019). The Development of Education Discipline in China from the Perspective of SWOT. Modern Education Management, 03, 1-6. DOI

Peiran Li, Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing, Xiang Zheng, Xi Hong, Siyuan Yang, Jiashuo Sun, Zhengzhong Tu, and Chaoqun Ni (2026). BibAgent: An Agentic Framework for Traceable Miscitation Detection in Scientific Literature. arXiv
Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni, and Xiang Zheng (2026). Global Training and the Collaborative Structure of Elite U.S. Science. arXiv
Xiang Zheng, Xi Hong, Jialin Liu, and Chaoqun Ni (2026). Scientific Exploration, Collaboration and Labor Division in the Large Language Model Era. arXivPoster accepted, NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI-Native Academia.
Xi Hong, Xiang Zheng, Haimiao Yuan, and Chaoqun Ni (2025). Parenthood Penalties in Academia: Childcare Responsibilities, Gender Role Beliefs and Institutional Support. arXivUnder revision in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Xiang Zheng, Anli Peng, Xi Hong, and Chaoqun Ni (2025). Interdisciplinary PhDs Face Barriers to Top University Placement within Their Disciplines. arXivUnder revision in Nature Communications. Best Speaker Award, ICSSI 2026.
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Justin Eric Chen, Xiang Zheng, Yaoyao Qian, Yunpeng Xiao, and Kai Shu (2025). “Everyone Else Does It”: The Rise of Preprinting Culture in Computing Disciplines. arXivAccepted, ASIS&T 2026.

Xiang Zheng. Educational Modernization in Japan. In Huiqin Liu, International Comparison of Educational Modernization. Beijing: People’s Education Press. In press.
Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto (eds.) (2023). Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact (Chinese version). Translated by Xiang Zheng, Chuanyi Wang, and Han Chu. Beijing: China Science and Technology Press.
Chuanyi Wang and Xiang Zheng (2022). Enacting Collective and Inquiry-Based Leadership. In A Turning Point for Chinese Higher Education. Routledge. DOI