Cindy Cheng

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 925 citations indexed

About

Cindy Cheng is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Modeling and Simulation and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cindy Cheng has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 925 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Cindy Cheng's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (8 papers), COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (5 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (3 papers). Cindy Cheng is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (8 papers), COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (5 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (3 papers). Cindy Cheng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Cindy Cheng's co-authors include Luca Messerschmidt, Joan Barceló, Robert Kubinec, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Timothy Bartram, Sandra G. Leggat, Leila Karimi, Christian C. Abnet, Farin Kamangar and Charles S. Rabkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Blood, Scientific Reports and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Cindy Cheng

29 papers receiving 884 citations

Hit Papers

COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0) 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)
    2020 302 citations Cindy Cheng, Joan Barceló et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cindy Cheng United States 14 166 153 147 143 95 33 925
Devendra Raj Singh Nepal 20 142 0.9× 59 0.4× 135 0.9× 253 1.8× 116 1.2× 89 1.3k
Anton Pak Australia 10 130 0.8× 178 1.2× 231 1.6× 78 0.5× 32 0.3× 26 872
Bin Zhu China 21 69 0.4× 56 0.4× 79 0.5× 409 2.9× 54 0.6× 88 1.4k
Denny John India 21 84 0.5× 54 0.4× 198 1.3× 280 2.0× 84 0.9× 124 1.8k
Anant Kumar India 21 185 1.1× 71 0.5× 161 1.1× 203 1.4× 125 1.3× 103 1.8k
Huong Thanh Nguyen Vietnam 25 179 1.1× 37 0.2× 151 1.0× 373 2.6× 53 0.6× 98 2.1k
Luke Taylor Australia 16 167 1.0× 111 0.7× 251 1.7× 105 0.7× 14 0.1× 145 1.0k
Yaling Chen China 13 111 0.7× 272 1.8× 102 0.7× 25 0.2× 42 0.4× 53 1.4k
Helen Clark United Kingdom 12 130 0.8× 258 1.7× 191 1.3× 145 1.0× 7 0.1× 37 987

Countries citing papers authored by Cindy Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cindy Cheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cindy Cheng. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cindy Cheng. The network helps show where Cindy Cheng may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cindy Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cindy Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cindy Cheng 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 Cindy Cheng. Cindy Cheng 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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Cheng, Cindy, et al.. (2024). A General Primer for Data Harmonization. Scientific Data. 11(1). 152–152. 30 indexed citations
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Cheng, Cindy, et al.. (2024). Harmonizing government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data. 11(1). 204–204. 3 indexed citations
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Richards, Kathy C., Alicia Lozano, Jennifer Morris, et al.. (2023). Predictors of Adherence to Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Older Adults With Apnea and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 78(10). 1861–1870. 6 indexed citations
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Parimbelli, Enea, Cristiana Larizza, Cindy Cheng, et al.. (2022). A New Interactive Tool to Visualize and Analyze COVID-19 Data: The PERISCOPE Atlas. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(15). 9136–9136. 5 indexed citations
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Cheng, Cindy, Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, et al.. (2022). Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science. Scientific Data. 9(1). 520–520. 7 indexed citations
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Barceló, Joan, et al.. (2022). Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?. Journal of Peace Research. 59(1). 73–89. 21 indexed citations
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Kubinec, Robert, Joan Barceló, Rafael Goldszmidt, et al.. (2021). Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations
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Kubinec, Robert, et al.. (2020). Partisanship and the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, & Luca Messerschmidt. (2020). COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0). Nature Human Behaviour. 4(7). 756–768. 302 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Cindy & Shahryar Minhas. (2020). Keeping Friends Close, But Enemies Closer: Foreign Aid Responses to Natural Disasters. British Journal of Political Science. 51(3). 940–962. 5 indexed citations
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Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, & Luca Messerschmidt. (2020). CoronaNet: A Dyadic Dataset of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Cheng, Cindy. (2017). The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War. Journal of American History. 104(1). 250–251.
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Karimi, Leila, Sandra G. Leggat, Cindy Cheng, et al.. (2016). Are organisational factors affecting the emotional withdrawal of community nurses?. Australian Health Review. 41(4). 359–364. 13 indexed citations
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Cheng, Cindy, Timothy Bartram, Leila Karimi, & Sandra G. Leggat. (2013). The role of team climate in the management of emotional labour: implications for nurse retention. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 69(12). 2812–2825. 85 indexed citations
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Kamangar, Farin, Cindy Cheng, Christian C. Abnet, & Charles S. Rabkin. (2006). Interleukin-1B Polymorphisms and Gastric Cancer Risk—A Meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 15(10). 1920–1928. 112 indexed citations
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Karp, Robert J., Cindy Cheng, & Alan Meyers. (2005). The appearance of discretionary income: Influence on the prevalence of under- and over-nutrition. International Journal for Equity in Health. 4(1). 10–10. 19 indexed citations
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Ogunnariwo, J A, et al.. (1990). Response of Haemophilus somnus to iron limitation: expression and identification of a bovine-specific transferrin receptor. Microbial Pathogenesis. 9(6). 397–406. 36 indexed citations

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