Guobin Yang

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Guobin Yang is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Guobin Yang has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 19 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 16 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Guobin Yang's work include Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (18 papers), China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (18 papers) and Social Media and Politics (16 papers). Guobin Yang is often cited by papers focused on Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (18 papers), China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (18 papers) and Social Media and Politics (16 papers). Guobin Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Guobin Yang's co-authors include Craig Calhoun, Min Jiang, William L. Parish, Wenfang Tang, Steven Pfaff, Dingxin Zhao, Shiwen Wu, Yanhua Deng, Rosemary Clark and Kaiyu Qin and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Neurocomputing and Political Science Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Guobin Yang

46 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackL... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150 200 250
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. Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter
    2016 270 citations Guobin Yang profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Guobin Yang United States 22 1.5k 1.0k 828 208 180 51 2.4k
Joseph Chan Hong Kong 25 1.4k 1.0× 598 0.6× 711 0.9× 98 0.5× 131 0.7× 95 2.2k
Yannis Stavrakakis Greece 27 1.6k 1.1× 2.0k 2.0× 310 0.4× 141 0.7× 130 0.7× 88 3.2k
Jan W. van Deth Germany 28 2.1k 1.4× 1.5k 1.5× 1.2k 1.5× 264 1.3× 136 0.8× 115 3.5k
Jeffrey S. Juris United States 13 1.0k 0.7× 464 0.5× 620 0.7× 176 0.8× 90 0.5× 26 1.8k
Zhongdang Pan United States 23 1.6k 1.1× 358 0.4× 1.7k 2.1× 281 1.4× 147 0.8× 44 2.9k
Simon Tormey United Kingdom 16 1.0k 0.7× 981 1.0× 415 0.5× 110 0.5× 90 0.5× 51 1.9k
David Croteau United States 13 1.2k 0.8× 336 0.3× 984 1.2× 306 1.5× 70 0.4× 22 2.2k
Alvin Y. So Hong Kong 18 1.6k 1.1× 940 0.9× 320 0.4× 171 0.8× 55 0.3× 108 2.6k
Karin Wahl‐Jorgensen United Kingdom 25 1.5k 1.0× 387 0.4× 2.3k 2.8× 428 2.1× 133 0.7× 88 3.3k
Paolo Gerbaudo United Kingdom 19 1.1k 0.7× 756 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 306 1.5× 300 1.7× 47 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guobin Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guobin Yang

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Guobin, et al.. (2024). Thirty years of the Internet in China: On writing Chinese Internet histories. Communication and the Public. 9(4). 347–357.
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Liu, Jun, Guobin Yang, Nan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Event-triggered consensus control based on maximum correntropy criterion for discrete-time multi-agent systems. Neurocomputing. 545. 126323–126323. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2021). Online lockdown diaries as endurance art. AI & Society. 38(5). 2061–2070. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2018). (Un)civil Society in Digital China| Demobilizing the Emotions of Online Activism in China: A Civilizing Process. International journal of communication. 12. 21. 14 indexed citations
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Pan, Zhongdang & Guobin Yang. (2017). Urban Spaces and Publicity: A View of a Chinese City. Communication and the Public. 2(1). 50–51.
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Yang, Guobin, et al.. (2016). Techno-Social Generations and Communication Research. 91–106.
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Yang, Guobin & Min Jiang. (2015). The Networked Practice of Online Political Satire in China: Between Ritual and Resistance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2014). Political contestation in Chinese digital spaces: Deepening the critical inquiry. China Information. 28(2). 135–144. 42 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2013). Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony. The China Quarterly. 214. 337–355. 85 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2012). Lightness, wildness, and ambivalence: China and new media studies. New Media & Society. 14(1). 170–179. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2012). A Chinese Internet? History, practice, and globalization. Chinese Journal of Communication. 5(1). 49–54. 56 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2010). Author's Response: The Growing Power of Internet Activism in China. Asia policy. 1(1). 182–188.
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Yang, Guobin. (2009). Historical imagination in the study of Chinese digital civil society. 29–45. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2009). China Since Tiananmen: Online Activism. Journal of democracy. 20(3). 33–36. 38 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2009). The Power of the Internet in China. Columbia University Press eBooks. 192 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin & Craig Calhoun. (2008). Media, power, and protest in China: from the cultural revolution to the internet. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 9(2). 9. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin & Craig Calhoun. (2007). Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China. China Information. 21(2). 211–236. 211 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2003). Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making. Political Science Quarterly. 118(4). 719–721. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2002). Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study. China review international. 9(1). 1–16. 6 indexed citations
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Yang, Guobin. (2000). . Sociological Forum. 15(3). 379–406. 41 indexed citations

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