Fan Liang

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 582 citations indexed

About

Fan Liang is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Liang has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 582 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Communication, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Fan Liang's work include Social Media and Politics (10 papers), China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (7 papers). Fan Liang is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (10 papers), China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (7 papers). Fan Liang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Fan Liang's co-authors include Vishnupriya Das, Muzammil Hussain, Nadiya Kostyuk, Slgi S. Lee, Brian E. Weeks, Daniel S. Lane, Nojin Kwak, Lianrui Jia, Dam Hee Kim and Shuning Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, New Media & Society and Communication Research.

In The Last Decade

Fan Liang

20 papers receiving 541 citations

Hit Papers

Constructing a Data‐Driven Society: China's Social Credit... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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. Constructing a Data‐Driven Society: China's Social Credit System as a State Surveillance Infrastructure
    2018 223 citations Fan Liang, Vishnupriya Das et al. Policy & Internet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fan Liang United States 10 287 147 123 116 54 25 582
Fernando van der Vlist Netherlands 12 280 1.0× 95 0.6× 42 0.3× 73 0.6× 35 0.6× 25 515
Evgeny Morozov United States 7 285 1.0× 229 1.6× 124 1.0× 69 0.6× 54 1.0× 16 648
Priyank Chandra Canada 13 187 0.7× 88 0.6× 52 0.4× 173 1.5× 55 1.0× 46 510
Benjamin H. Bratton United States 7 247 0.9× 52 0.4× 82 0.7× 70 0.6× 26 0.5× 14 607
Marina Micheli Italy 11 221 0.8× 60 0.4× 46 0.4× 92 0.8× 65 1.2× 30 441
Leo Van Audenhove Belgium 15 188 0.7× 183 1.2× 135 1.1× 106 0.9× 38 0.7× 81 624
Nicolas Suzor Australia 15 463 1.6× 209 1.4× 134 1.1× 117 1.0× 277 5.1× 66 977
Esther Weltevrede Netherlands 11 256 0.9× 170 1.2× 39 0.3× 62 0.5× 44 0.8× 20 505
Matías Dodel Uruguay 9 188 0.7× 84 0.6× 44 0.4× 130 1.1× 31 0.6× 21 417
Loni Hagen United States 12 331 1.2× 245 1.7× 106 0.9× 80 0.7× 185 3.4× 42 748

Countries citing papers authored by Fan Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Liang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fan Liang. 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 Fan Liang. The network helps show where Fan Liang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fan Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fan Liang 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 Fan Liang. Fan Liang 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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Ollier‐Malaterre, Ariane, et al.. (2025). Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics. Journal of Contemporary China. 35(158). 1285–1302. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan. (2025). Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy. Media Culture & Society. 47(7). 1324–1340. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2025). China Defenders From Abroad: Exploring Pro-China Foreign Political Influencers on X/Twitter. Social Media + Society. 11(3).
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2024). Examining Active News Avoidance Across Countries: A Multilevel Moderation Analysis of News Interests, News Trust, and Press Freedom. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 103(1). 369–393.
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Liang, Fan & Ji Li. (2024). Manufacturing influencers: the gatekeeping roles of MCNs (Multi-channel networks) in cultural production. Information Communication & Society. 27(12). 2297–2313. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Ping, et al.. (2023). Media framing and public support for China’s social credit system: An experimental study. New Media & Society. 27(2). 995–1013. 4 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2022). The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification. Policy & Internet. 14(1). 114–135. 16 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2022). The Effects of Flagging Propaganda Sources on News Sharing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Twitter. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 28(4). 909–928. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2021). The Platformization of Propaganda: How Xuexi Qiangguo Expands Persuasion and Assesses Citizens in China. International journal of communication. 15. 20. 8 indexed citations
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Campbell, Scott W., et al.. (2021). Imagining 5G: Public sense-making through advertising in China and the US. Mobile Media & Communication. 9(3). 546–562. 18 indexed citations
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Lee, Slgi S., et al.. (2021). The Impact of Social Endorsement Cues and Manipulability Concerns on Perceptions of News Credibility. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 24(6). 384–389. 11 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan. (2020). COVID-19 and Health Code: How Digital Platforms Tackle the Pandemic in China. Social Media + Society. 6(3). 3628641737–3628641737. 110 indexed citations
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Lane, Daniel S., Slgi S. Lee, Fan Liang, et al.. (2019). Social Media Expression and the Political Self. Journal of Communication. 69(1). 49–72. 74 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, Vishnupriya Das, Nadiya Kostyuk, & Muzammil Hussain. (2018). Constructing a Data‐Driven Society: China's Social Credit System as a State Surveillance Infrastructure. Policy & Internet. 10(4). 415–453. 223 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Bo, et al.. (2016). Active steering control strategy for articulated vehicles. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. 17(6). 576–586. 32 indexed citations
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