Dragana Ostic

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 663 citations indexed

About

Dragana Ostic is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Dragana Ostic has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 663 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Dragana Ostic's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (7 papers), Digital Marketing and Social Media (4 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (4 papers). Dragana Ostic is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (7 papers), Digital Marketing and Social Media (4 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (4 papers). Dragana Ostic collaborates with scholars based in China, Pakistan and Oman. Dragana Ostic's co-authors include Sikandar Ali Qalati, Syed Mir Muhammad Shah, Mohammed Ali Bait Ali Sulaiman, Mingyue Fan, Esthela Galván-Vela, Feng Liu, Belém Barbosa, Asadullah Khan, Ahmad Mohammad Herzallah and Manzoor Ali Mirani and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Dragana Ostic

19 papers receiving 639 citations

Hit Papers

Effects of Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being: ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 40 80 120
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. Effects of Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being: A Mediated Model
    2021 125 citations Dragana Ostic, Sikandar Ali Qalati et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dragana Ostic China 12 234 176 149 108 97 19 663
Sharjeel Saleem Pakistan 19 197 0.8× 190 1.1× 163 1.1× 54 0.5× 185 1.9× 50 998
Asadullah Khaskheli China 14 93 0.4× 184 1.0× 120 0.8× 54 0.5× 102 1.1× 28 738
Yushi Jiang China 18 304 1.3× 308 1.8× 264 1.8× 127 1.2× 181 1.9× 73 1.0k
Tahir Masood Qureshi United Arab Emirates 13 143 0.6× 74 0.4× 111 0.7× 97 0.9× 157 1.6× 42 766
Yuen Onn Choong Malaysia 16 314 1.3× 72 0.4× 146 1.0× 71 0.7× 111 1.1× 60 821
Saddam Hussain Pakistan 10 124 0.5× 153 0.9× 111 0.7× 59 0.5× 252 2.6× 20 831
Basheer M. Al‐Ghazali Saudi Arabia 17 152 0.6× 92 0.5× 272 1.8× 106 1.0× 292 3.0× 28 1.0k
Zhe Ouyang China 15 209 0.9× 114 0.6× 267 1.8× 79 0.7× 370 3.8× 32 837
Muhammad Ibrahim Abdullah Pakistan 18 155 0.7× 118 0.7× 175 1.2× 100 0.9× 235 2.4× 48 882
Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry Pakistan 13 109 0.5× 184 1.0× 185 1.2× 54 0.5× 246 2.5× 41 783

Countries citing papers authored by Dragana Ostic

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dragana Ostic

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dragana Ostic

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dragana Ostic. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dragana Ostic 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 Dragana Ostic. Dragana Ostic is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2025). Transition Toward a Sustainable Circular Economy: A Perspective on Green Innovation and Governance Policy Using a Novel MMQR Approach. Sustainable Development. 33(4). 5719–5741. 13 indexed citations
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Obrenovic, Bojan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Job Performance: The Critical Roles of Well-Being, Satisfaction, and Trust in Supervisor. Behavioral Sciences. 14(8). 688–688. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Qiang, et al.. (2023). Supply chain finance and innovation efficiency: An empirical analysis based on manufacturing SMEs. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0286068–e0286068. 6 indexed citations
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Fan, Mingyue, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Danmaku Information Quality on Consumers’ Impulsive Consumption Behavior. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2023(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2022). Air quality and health benefits of increasing carbon mitigation tech-innovation in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(3). 6786–6804. 3 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2022). Assessing the impact of oil and gas trading, foreign direct investment inflows, and economic growth on carbon emission for OPEC member countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(28). 43089–43101. 42 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2022). How Does Green Credit Promote Carbon Reduction? A Mediated Model. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 22 indexed citations
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Fan, Mingyue, Limin Wang, & Dragana Ostic. (2022). Casebook of Chinese Business Management. Management for professionals. 2 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2022). Carbon Reduction Effect of Green Technology Innovation from the Perspective of Energy Consumption and Efficiency. Sustainability. 14(21). 14113–14113. 4 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2022). Can Carbon Trading Policy Promote China’s Decoupling of Carbon Emission From the Perspective of Technology-Driven Innovation?. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 11 indexed citations
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Qalati, Sikandar Ali, et al.. (2021). A mediated–moderated model for social media adoption and small and medium‐sized enterprise performance in emerging countries. Managerial and Decision Economics. 43(3). 846–861. 41 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, Sikandar Ali Qalati, Belém Barbosa, et al.. (2021). Effects of Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being: A Mediated Model. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 678766–678766. 125 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qalati, Sikandar Ali, et al.. (2021). Effects of entrepreneurial orientation, social media, and innovation capabilities on SME performance in emerging countries: a mediated–moderated model. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 34(11). 1326–1338. 72 indexed citations
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Fan, Mingyue, et al.. (2021). Effects of Information Overload, Communication Overload, and Inequality on Digital Distrust: A Cyber-Violence Behavior Mechanism. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 643981–643981. 57 indexed citations
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Ostic, Dragana, et al.. (2021). Why low-carbon technological innovation hardly promote energy efficiency of China? – Based on spatial econometric method and machine learning. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 160. 107566–107566. 49 indexed citations
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Qalati, Sikandar Ali, et al.. (2021). The General Public Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding COVID-19 During the Lockdown in Asian Developing Countries. PubMed. 43(3). 239–248. 19 indexed citations

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