Haoran Chu

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Haoran Chu is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Haoran Chu has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 9 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Haoran Chu's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (13 papers), Media Influence and Health (13 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 papers). Haoran Chu is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (13 papers), Media Influence and Health (13 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 papers). Haoran Chu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Haoran Chu's co-authors include Janet Z. Yang, Sixiao Liu, Shupei Yuan, Hang Lu, Jialing Huang, Lee Ann Kahlor, Matthew Grizzard, Changhyun Ahn, Kaitlin Fitzgerald and Tri A. Dinh and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Computers in Human Behavior and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Haoran Chu

36 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Integrating health behavior theories to predict American’s intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine

2021 207 citations Haoran Chu, Sixiao Liu Patient Education and Counseling profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haoran Chu United States	18	547	349	199	168	135	40	1.1k
Melanie B. Tannenbaum United States	6	481 0.9×	124 0.4×	184 0.9×	346 2.1×	117 0.9×	6	1.0k
Shelly R. Hovick United States	17	400 0.7×	196 0.6×	97 0.5×	133 0.8×	45 0.3×	57	997
Jingyuan Shi Hong Kong	15	568 1.0×	170 0.5×	123 0.6×	149 0.9×	47 0.3×	42	1.0k
Matt Motta United States	20	1.4k 2.5×	1.2k 3.4×	75 0.4×	58 0.3×	108 0.8×	72	2.2k
Constanze Rossmann Germany	14	419 0.8×	308 0.9×	74 0.4×	95 0.6×	23 0.2×	58	970
Morgan E. Ellithorpe United States	18	563 1.0×	74 0.2×	192 1.0×	129 0.8×	62 0.5×	74	979
Nick Carcioppolo United States	18	436 0.8×	101 0.3×	229 1.2×	227 1.4×	18 0.1×	45	949
Sixiao Liu United States	13	246 0.4×	265 0.8×	118 0.6×	62 0.4×	19 0.1×	25	526
Jessica Fitts Willoughby United States	20	517 0.9×	156 0.4×	213 1.1×	145 0.9×	16 0.1×	77	1.2k
Sedona Chinn United States	10	659 1.2×	107 0.3×	106 0.5×	38 0.2×	83 0.6×	26	882

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haoran Chu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dalisay, Francis, Young‐Rock Hong, Haoran Chu, & Ramzi G. Salloum. (2025). Factors associated with smoking and e-cigarette use statuses among individuals with chronic diseases after hurricanes Helene and Milton. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 23(May). 1–13.

Hong, Young‐Rock, Haoran Chu, Zhigang Xie, & Francis Dalisay. (2025). Before Helene’s Landfall: Analysis of Disaster Risk Perceptions and Preparedness Assessment in the Southeastern United States in 2023. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 22(2). 155–155. 1 indexed citations

Chu, Haoran & Sixiao Liu. (2025). Generating targeted and tailored health communication narratives with AI. Risk Analysis. 45(11). 3505–3518.

Lu, Hang & Haoran Chu. (2023). Let the dead talk: How deepfake resurrection narratives influence audience response in prosocial contexts. Computers in Human Behavior. 145. 107761–107761. 22 indexed citations

Chu, Haoran & Sixiao Liu. (2023). Risk-efficacy framework – a new perspective on threat and efficacy appraisal and the role of disparity. Current Psychology. 43(7). 5999–6012. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Sixiao & Haoran Chu. (2023). Parents’ COVID-19, HPV, and Monkeypox vaccination intention: A multilevel structural equation model of risk, benefit, barrier, and efficacy perceptions and individual characteristics. Patient Education and Counseling. 114. 107842–107842. 3 indexed citations

Chu, Haoran & Sixiao Liu. (2023). Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines. Science Communication. 45(3). 279–309. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Jialing, et al.. (2022). Framing Climate Change Impacts as Moral Violations: The Pathway of Perceived Message Credibility. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(9). 5210–5210. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Sixiao & Haoran Chu. (2022). Examining the direct and indirect effects of trust in motivating COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Patient Education and Counseling. 105(7). 2096–2102. 23 indexed citations

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Chu, Haoran. (2022). Construing Climate Change: Psychological Distance, Individual Difference, and Construal Level of Climate Change. Environmental Communication. 16(7). 883–899. 15 indexed citations

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Chu, Haoran & Sixiao Liu. (2021). Light at the end of the tunnel: Influence of vaccine availability and vaccination intention on people’s consideration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Social Science & Medicine. 286. 114315–114315. 25 indexed citations

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Chu, Haoran & Sixiao Liu. (2021). Integrating health behavior theories to predict American’s intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Patient Education and Counseling. 104(8). 1878–1886. 207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yuan, Shupei & Haoran Chu. (2021). Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages. Patient Education and Counseling. 105(2). 284–289. 30 indexed citations

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Lu, Hang, Haoran Chu, & Yanni Ma. (2021). Experience, experts, statistics, or just science? Predictors and consequences of reliance on different evidence types during the COVID-19 infodemic. Public Understanding of Science. 30(5). 515–534. 15 indexed citations

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Chu, Haoran & Hang Lu. (2021). Acculturation, Bilateral Hostility, and Psychological Wellbeing of U.S.-dwelling Chinese during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Communication. 38(7). 1281–1292. 3 indexed citations

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Chu, Haoran, et al.. (2021). Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Disasters. 47(1). 163–180. 2 indexed citations

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Chu, Haoran & Janet Z. Yang. (2019). Building disaster resilience using social messaging networks: the WeChat community in Houston, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey. Disasters. 44(4). 726–752. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Sixiao, Janet Z. Yang, & Haoran Chu. (2018). Now or future? Analyzing the effects of message frame and format in motivating Chinese females to get HPV vaccines for their children. Patient Education and Counseling. 102(1). 61–67. 30 indexed citations

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Grizzard, Matthew, Jialing Huang, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Changhyun Ahn, & Haoran Chu. (2017). Sensing Heroes and Villains: Character-Schema and the Disposition Formation Process. Communication Research. 45(4). 479–501. 41 indexed citations

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Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2017). Graphic Violence as Moral Motivator: The Effects of Graphically Violent Content in News. Mass Communication & Society. 20(6). 763–783. 18 indexed citations

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