Jian Tao

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 721 citations indexed

About

Jian Tao is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Tao has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 721 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Language and Linguistics, 12 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 10 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Jian Tao's work include Second Language Learning and Teaching (12 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers). Jian Tao is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Learning and Teaching (12 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers). Jian Tao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Hong Kong. Jian Tao's co-authors include Xuesong Gao, Yueting Xu, Xiuwen Chen, Ke Zhao, Fred Dervin, Ke Zhao, Qing Shao and Hang Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Teaching and Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Jian Tao

24 papers receiving 692 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.

Teacher agency and identity commitment in curricular reform

2017 234 citations Jian Tao, Xuesong Gao Teaching and Teacher Education profile →
Language Teacher Agency

2021 87 citations Jian Tao, Xuesong Gao profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jian Tao China	14	411	273	242	129	86	26	721
Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen Australia	15	582 1.4×	315 1.2×	391 1.6×	215 1.7×	108 1.3×	59	944
Fritjof Sahlström Finland	18	416 1.0×	347 1.3×	198 0.8×	92 0.7×	112 1.3×	50	834
Josephine Moate Finland	13	380 0.9×	196 0.7×	197 0.8×	52 0.4×	89 1.0×	45	631
Hayriye Kayı-Aydar United States	14	448 1.1×	471 1.7×	367 1.5×	295 2.3×	99 1.2×	29	887
Kenan Dikilitaş Norway	15	451 1.1×	322 1.2×	256 1.1×	141 1.1×	156 1.8×	74	833
Mostafa Nazari Iran	17	454 1.1×	330 1.2×	167 0.7×	101 0.8×	124 1.4×	83	817
Mark Wyatt United Arab Emirates	17	571 1.4×	311 1.1×	227 0.9×	95 0.7×	130 1.5×	51	829
Terry Locke New Zealand	15	490 1.2×	228 0.8×	265 1.1×	65 0.5×	121 1.4×	60	728
Christina Gkonou United Kingdom	13	282 0.7×	398 1.5×	189 0.8×	100 0.8×	113 1.3×	20	759
Megan Madigan Peercy United States	16	461 1.1×	256 0.9×	241 1.0×	215 1.7×	111 1.3×	38	713

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Tao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tao, Jian & Ke Zhao. (2025). A social network analysis of collective agency in achieving the teaching-research nexus. System. 133. 103785–103785. 1 indexed citations

Tao, Jian, et al.. (2025). The emotions of language teachers: A systematic review of studies between 2015 and 2024. Language Teaching. 58(4). 450–473.

Tao, Jian, et al.. (2025). Academics’ identity struggles and professional agency in the transition to teaching in a professional master’s degree programme. Higher Education Research & Development. 44(8). 1964–1980.

Tao, Jian, et al.. (2023). Influencia de factores contextuales en creencias pedagógicas de los profesores de ELE en China. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics. 36(2). 615–642. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Yueting & Jian Tao. (2023). The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online. Language Teaching Research. 29(8). 3592–3613. 14 indexed citations

Tao, Jian, et al.. (2023). The emotions of teachers teaching German in Chinese secondary schools. Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras. 151–168. 1 indexed citations

Tao, Jian, Yueting Xu, & Xuesong Gao. (2023). Teacher emotions and agency enactment in online teaching. Teaching and Teacher Education. 137. 104389–104389. 32 indexed citations

Tao, Jian, et al.. (2022). Towards a Sustainable Multidimensional Approach to English Proficiency Proof in the Post-Pandemic Era: Learning from the Legacy of COVID-19. Sustainability. 14(9). 5568–5568. 4 indexed citations

Tao, Jian, et al.. (2022). A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university. Applied Linguistics Review. 15(4). 1531–1555. 2 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian, et al.. (2022). Interplay between language and identity: Chinese returnee scholars in the internationalisation of higher education. Applied Linguistics Review. 15(3). 983–1008. 3 indexed citations

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Dervin, Fred, et al.. (2020). Business English students’ multifaceted and contradictory perceptions of intercultural communication education (ICE) at a Chinese University. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 25(6). 2041–2057. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiuwen, Jian Tao, & Ke Zhao. (2020). Agency in meso-level language policy planning in the face of macro-level policy shifts: a case study of multilingual education in a Chinese tertiary institution. Current Issues in Language Planning. 22(1-2). 136–156. 16 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian, Ke Zhao, & Xiuwen Chen. (2020). The Collective Agency of Language Teachers under the Scheme of Research Excellence: Using a social network approach. Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación. 84. 13–25. 14 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian, et al.. (2020). Spanish language teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Chinese universities. Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación. 84. 41–53. 4 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian, Ke Zhao, & Xiuwen Chen. (2019). The motivation and professional self of teachers teaching languages other than English in a Chinese university. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 40(7). 633–646. 32 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiuwen, Fred Dervin, Jian Tao, & Ke Zhao. (2019). Towards a multilayered and multidimensional analysis of multilingual education: ideologies of multilingualism and language planning in Chinese higher education. Current Issues in Language Planning. 21(3). 320–343. 14 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian. (2019). Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, and Gergana Vitanova (eds): Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher AgencyPatrick C. L. Ng and Esther F. Boucher-Yip (eds): Teacher Agency and Policy Response in English Language Teaching. Applied Linguistics. 43(4). 839–843. 2 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian & Xuesong Gao. (2017). Identity constructions of ESP teachers in a Chinese university. English for Specific Purposes. 49. 1–13. 65 indexed citations

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Tao, Jian & Xuesong Gao. (2017). Teacher agency and identity commitment in curricular reform. Teaching and Teacher Education. 63. 346–355. 234 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tao, Jian, Qing Shao, & Xuesong Gao. (2016). Ethics-related practices in Internet-based applied linguistics research. Applied Linguistics Review. 8(4). 321–353. 15 indexed citations

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