Ru Zhang

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ru Zhang is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Physiology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ru Zhang has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Clinical Psychology, 24 papers in Physiology and 21 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ru Zhang's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (13 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 papers). Ru Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (13 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 papers). Ru Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Ru Zhang's co-authors include Chun‐Qing Zhang, Martin S. Hagger, Ralf Schwarzer, Yanping Duan, Ryan E. Rhodes, Petra Wagner, Hagen Wulff, Walter Brehm, James Blair and Xin Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ru Zhang

169 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

A meta-analysis of the health action process approach. 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 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. A meta-analysis of the health action process approach.
    2019 267 citations Chun‐Qing Zhang, Ru Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ru Zhang China 24 434 290 285 242 234 181 2.5k
Yi Gong China 25 552 1.3× 338 1.2× 179 0.6× 67 0.3× 281 1.2× 103 3.6k
Rui Li China 28 302 0.7× 421 1.5× 387 1.4× 83 0.3× 539 2.3× 137 2.7k
Kyoung‐Bok Min South Korea 33 918 2.1× 196 0.7× 299 1.0× 67 0.3× 201 0.9× 142 3.2k
Jin‐Young Min South Korea 35 920 2.1× 192 0.7× 400 1.4× 68 0.3× 221 0.9× 169 3.5k
Kristen Malecki United States 33 1.3k 2.9× 208 0.7× 283 1.0× 63 0.3× 485 2.1× 113 3.9k
Hiroyuki Kikuchi Japan 36 241 0.6× 315 1.1× 724 2.5× 93 0.4× 549 2.3× 213 4.8k
Simiao Chen China 29 191 0.4× 354 1.2× 277 1.0× 40 0.2× 283 1.2× 144 3.9k
Tom C. Russ United Kingdom 33 619 1.4× 399 1.4× 771 2.7× 78 0.3× 468 2.0× 114 4.6k
Danping Liu United States 33 855 2.0× 252 0.9× 228 0.8× 71 0.3× 340 1.5× 156 3.4k
Sara Warber United States 25 1.3k 2.9× 97 0.3× 146 0.5× 66 0.3× 84 0.4× 62 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ru Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ru Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ru Zhang

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

All Works

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Ren, Rui, Wen-Xu Wang, Xin Ye, et al.. (2025). Dual Cohort Insights Into Accelerometer‐Derived Weekend Warrior Physical Activity and Its Impact on Mortality. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(11). e039852–e039852. 1 indexed citations
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Bellmann‐Sickert, Kathrin, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the molecular basis of substrate specificity and halogen activation in vanadium-dependent haloperoxidases. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2083–2083. 3 indexed citations
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Kriaučiūnienė, Zita, et al.. (2024). Contributions of climate smart agriculture toward climate change adaptation and food security: The case of Mazandaran Province, Iran. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 152. 104653–104653. 8 indexed citations
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Xie, Lulu, et al.. (2024). Phloridzin prevents diabetic cardiomyopathy by reducing inflammation and oxidative stress. European Journal of Pharmacology. 984. 177032–177032. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru, et al.. (2024). MvMRL: a multi-view molecular representation learning method for molecular property prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(4). 39 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru, et al.. (2024). GCCNet: A Novel Network Leveraging Gated Cross-Correlation for Multi-View Classification. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 27. 1086–1099. 19 indexed citations
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Ren, Rui, Yi Li, Wen-Xu Wang, et al.. (2024). Depressive symptoms mediate the association between dietary inflammatory index and sleep: A cross-sectional study of NHANES 2005–2014. Journal of Affective Disorders. 372. 117–125. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, Fuzai Yin, Yali Liu, et al.. (2023). Total sugar intake is associated with higher prevalence of depressive symptoms in obese adults. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 1069162–1069162. 7 indexed citations
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Ding, Yajie, Wei Zhang, Ru Zhang, et al.. (2023). Epidemiological characteristics of alcohol-related liver disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 1276–1276. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru, Chun‐Qing Zhang, PC Lai, et al.. (2021). Park environment and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in parks among adolescents in a high-density city: the moderating role of neighbourhood income. International Journal of Health Geographics. 20(1). 35–35. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chun‐Qing, et al.. (2021). Effects of anxiety and sleep on academic engagement among university students. Australian Psychologist. 57(1). 57–64. 22 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chun‐Qing, et al.. (2020). Predicting Hand Washing and Sleep Hygiene Behaviors among College Students: Test of an Integrated Social-Cognition Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(4). 1209–1209. 24 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru. (2015). Wechat public platform-based health information push service. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru. (2014). Species Diversities of Plant Communities of Degraded Artificial Grassland,“Heitutan”and Natural Grassland in the“Three-River Headwaters”Region. Acta Agrestia Sinica. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru. (2013). Evaluation on Cultivated Land Ecological Security Based on Entropy-weighted Extension Matter-element Model. Bulletin of Soil and Water Conservation. 1 indexed citations
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Bao, Yong & Ru Zhang. (2013). Estimation Bias and Feasible Conditional Forecasts from the First-Order Moving Average Model. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6(1). 63–80. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru. (2012). Serosurvey for four arthropod-borne infectious diseases in Linzhi. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ru. (2010). A Study of the Validation Method of Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration based on Observation Data. Diqiu kexue jinzhan. 3 indexed citations

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