Anfan Chen

932 total citations
32 papers, 556 citations indexed

About

Anfan Chen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Anfan Chen has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 556 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Communication and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Anfan Chen's work include Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (6 papers). Anfan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (6 papers). Anfan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Hong Kong. Anfan Chen's co-authors include Chen Luo, Wang Liao, Zhuo Chen, Elmie Nekmat, Pengxiang Li, Jingwen Zhang, Hichang Cho, Cuihua Shen, Weiyu Zhang and Kaiping Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Anfan Chen

32 papers receiving 547 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anfan Chen China 14 371 215 111 82 53 32 556
Isabelle Freiling United States 10 512 1.4× 218 1.0× 97 0.9× 93 1.1× 59 1.1× 17 642
Kenneth M. Winneg United States 14 374 1.0× 267 1.2× 51 0.5× 77 0.9× 79 1.5× 29 659
Sacha Altay France 14 500 1.3× 209 1.0× 166 1.5× 80 1.0× 48 0.9× 30 595
Raffael Heiss Austria 19 652 1.8× 606 2.8× 141 1.3× 61 0.7× 94 1.8× 47 1.0k
Yotam Ophir United States 17 549 1.5× 336 1.6× 120 1.1× 138 1.7× 176 3.3× 56 865
Stephanie Alice Baker United Kingdom 13 292 0.8× 122 0.6× 52 0.5× 53 0.6× 49 0.9× 32 477
Elmie Nekmat Singapore 17 435 1.2× 376 1.7× 83 0.7× 32 0.4× 76 1.4× 25 674
Marc Trussler United States 7 337 0.9× 157 0.7× 28 0.3× 65 0.8× 42 0.8× 8 532
Clarissa C. David Philippines 12 287 0.8× 236 1.1× 34 0.3× 31 0.4× 72 1.4× 42 575
Joseph Downing United Kingdom 9 510 1.4× 159 0.7× 139 1.3× 148 1.8× 25 0.5× 20 650

Countries citing papers authored by Anfan Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anfan Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anfan Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anfan Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anfan Chen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Anfan Chen. Anfan Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Zhiyao, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Making of Trending Topics on a Digital Platform: A Research Note on Chinese Sina Weibo. Social Science Computer Review. 44(2). 259–270. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Anfan, et al.. (2024). Collective empowerment and connective outcry: What legitimize netizens to engage in negative word-of-mouth of online firestorms?. Public Relations Review. 50(2). 102438–102438. 5 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Saifuddin, et al.. (2024). Social media and anti-immigrant prejudice: a multi-method analysis of the role of social media use, threat perceptions, and cognitive ability. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1280366–1280366. 2 indexed citations
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Cho, Hichang, et al.. (2023). The bright and dark sides of social media use during COVID-19 lockdown: Contrasting social media effects through social liability vs. social support. Computers in Human Behavior. 146. 107795–107795. 36 indexed citations
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Cho, Hichang, Pengxiang Li, & Anfan Chen. (2023). Nostalgia, Social Media, and Subjective Wellbeing: The Dualistic and Conditional Effects of Nostalgia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Communication. 39(3). 507–517. 3 indexed citations
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Kong, Dexia, Anfan Chen, Jingwen Zhang, et al.. (2022). Public Discourse and Sentiment Toward Dementia on Chinese Social Media: Machine Learning Analysis of Weibo Posts. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(9). e39805–e39805. 17 indexed citations
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Jin, Jing, et al.. (2022). Excavating the social representations and perceived barriers of organ donation in China over the past decade: A hybrid text analysis approach. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 998737–998737. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Anfan, Jingwen Zhang, Wang Liao, et al.. (2022). Multiplicity and dynamics of social representations of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese social media from 2019 to 2020. Information Processing & Management. 59(4). 102990–102990. 13 indexed citations
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Leng, Yan, Yujia Zhai, Shaojing Sun, et al.. (2021). Misinformation During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: Cultural, Social and Political Entanglements. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. 7(1). 69–80. 45 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yongjian, Liqing Cao, Jingui Xie, et al.. (2021). Using social media data to assess the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in China. Psychological Medicine. 53(2). 1–8. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Anfan, et al.. (2021). Conditional transparency: Differentiated news framings of COVID-19 severity in the pre-crisis stage in China. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0252062–e0252062. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Anfan, et al.. (2021). Before and after the Chinese gene-edited human babies: Multiple discourses of gene editing on social media. Public Understanding of Science. 30(5). 570–587. 20 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhuo, et al.. (2021). The Role of Online Media in Mobilizing Large-Scale Collective Action. Social Media + Society. 7(3). 19 indexed citations
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Luo, Chen, et al.. (2020). What triggers online help-seeking retransmission during the COVID-19 period? Empirical evidence from Chinese social media. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0241465–e0241465. 30 indexed citations
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Chen, Kaiping, Anfan Chen, Jingwen Zhang, Jingbo Meng, & Cuihua Shen. (2020). Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origins on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 30 indexed citations
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Li, Pengxiang, et al.. (2020). #MeToo as a Connective Movement: Examining the Frames Adopted in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Movement in China. Social Science Computer Review. 39(5). 1030–1049. 26 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhuo, et al.. (2019). Top-down or Bottom-up? A Network Agenda-setting Study of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 63(3). 512–533. 43 indexed citations

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