Kai‐Cheng Yang

2.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
62 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kai‐Cheng Yang is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai‐Cheng Yang has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 16 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Kai‐Cheng Yang's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (22 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (8 papers) and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (8 papers). Kai‐Cheng Yang is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (22 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (8 papers) and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (8 papers). Kai‐Cheng Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Kai‐Cheng Yang's co-authors include Filippo Menczer, Onur Varol, Pik-Mai Hui, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, Francesco Pierri, John Bryden, Brea L. Perry, Clayton A. Davis and Matthew DeVerna and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kai‐Cheng Yang

52 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

2019 257 citations Kai‐Cheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini et al. profile →
Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection

2020 218 citations Kai‐Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer et al. profile →
Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal

2022 144 citations Francesco Pierri, Brea L. Perry et al. Scientific Reports profile →
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook

2021 135 citations Kai‐Cheng Yang, Francesco Pierri et al. profile →
Systematic Evaluation of State Policy Interventions Targeting the US Opioid Epidemic, 2007-2018

2021 117 citations Kai‐Cheng Yang, Yong‐Yeol Ahn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai‐Cheng Yang United States	15	850	432	402	263	190	62	1.4k
Alessio Signorini United States	9	390 0.5×	273 0.6×	327 0.8×	154 0.6×	177 0.9×	12	1.4k
Adrian Benton United States	11	657 0.8×	139 0.3×	456 1.1×	167 0.6×	353 1.9×	24	1.4k
Yelena Mejova United States	15	500 0.6×	141 0.3×	296 0.7×	209 0.8×	142 0.7×	74	1.1k
Eiji Aramaki Japan	19	278 0.3×	123 0.3×	694 1.7×	119 0.5×	66 0.3×	153	1.6k
Scott H. Burton United States	11	420 0.5×	140 0.3×	187 0.5×	225 0.9×	320 1.7×	18	1.1k
Chung‐hong Chan Hong Kong	18	526 0.6×	57 0.1×	258 0.6×	336 1.3×	102 0.5×	60	1.2k
Jiawei Li United States	15	347 0.4×	148 0.3×	189 0.5×	98 0.4×	100 0.5×	58	959
David Huynh United States	15	340 0.4×	351 0.8×	559 1.4×	89 0.3×	197 1.0×	35	1.4k
Abeed Sarker United States	27	439 0.5×	269 0.6×	1.4k 3.5×	57 0.2×	216 1.1×	123	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai‐Cheng Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai‐Cheng Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai‐Cheng Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai‐Cheng Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai‐Cheng Yang 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 Kai‐Cheng Yang. Kai‐Cheng Yang 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

Yang, Kai‐Cheng, Shengjie Luo, Jiacheng Sun, et al.. (2025). How Numerical Precision Affects Arithmetical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs. 46–85.

Hu, Yibo, Xiaozhou Liao, Jisoo Kim, et al.. (2025). Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content. Political Analysis. 33(4). 425–445. 1 indexed citations

Cresci, Stefano, Kai‐Cheng Yang, Angelo Spognardi, et al.. (2025). Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research. Social Science Computer Review.

Zhang, Maolin, et al.. (2025). Structural vibration characteristics of offshore wind turbines under tropical cyclones. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 100084–100084.

Yan, Harry Yaojun, et al.. (2025). The origin of public concerns over AI supercharging misinformation in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Jianhui, et al.. (2024). Dynamic scheduling method of public transportation resources based on Spatial Graph Convolution and Proximal Policy Optimization. 986–991. 1 indexed citations

DeVerna, Matthew, Harry Yaojun Yan, Kai‐Cheng Yang, & Filippo Menczer. (2024). Fact-checking information from large language models can decrease headline discernment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(50). e2322823121–e2322823121. 16 indexed citations

Yang, Qiang, et al.. (2024). DMGAE: An interpretable representation learning method for directed scale-free networks based on autoencoder and masking. Information Processing & Management. 62(3). 104007–104007.

Yang, Kai‐Cheng & Filippo Menczer. (2024). Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 27 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, et al.. (2024). Characteristics and Prevalence of Fake Social Media Profiles with AI-generated Faces. 2(4). 8 indexed citations

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Yan, Harry Yaojun, Kai‐Cheng Yang, James Shanahan, & Filippo Menczer. (2023). Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20707–20707. 8 indexed citations

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Gan, Zhiwei, Youxian Zhang, Sibei Chen, et al.. (2023). Transcriptomic and metabolomic perspectives for the growth of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) seedlings with the effect of vanadium exposure. Chemosphere. 336. 139222–139222. 6 indexed citations

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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2022). Algorithmic Agents in the Hybrid Media System: Social Bots, Selective Amplification, and Partisan News about COVID-19. Human Communication Research. 48(3). 516–542. 38 indexed citations

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Pierri, Francesco, Brea L. Perry, Matthew DeVerna, et al.. (2022). Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5966–5966. 144 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Harry Yaojun, Kai‐Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer, & James Shanahan. (2020). Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots. New Media & Society. 23(10). 3016–3037. 32 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, Brian Aronson, & Yong‐Yeol Ahn. (2020). BiRank: Fast and Flexible Ranking on Bipartite Networks with R and Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 5(51). 2315–2315. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhi-Xi, et al.. (2019). Advantage of Being Multicomponent and Spatial: Multipartite Viruses Colonize Structured Populations with Lower Thresholds. Physical Review Letters. 123(13). 138101–138101. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, Zhi-Xi Wu, Petter Holme, & Etsuko Nonaka. (2017). Expansion of cooperatively growing populations: Optimal migration rates and habitat network structures. Physical review. E. 95(1). 12306–12306. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, et al.. (2010). The Structure and Functions of P-Glycoprotein. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 17(8). 786–800. 76 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai‐Cheng, et al.. (1989). The S RN 1 reaction of the sodium salt of 2-nitropropane with 1-chloro-3-nitro-2-butene.. 47(5). 509–511.

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