Weina Hua

723 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 500 citations indexed

About

Weina Hua is a scholar working on Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Weina Hua has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 500 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Information Systems, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Weina Hua's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (5 papers), Research Data Management Practices (4 papers) and Web visibility and informetrics (3 papers). Weina Hua is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (5 papers), Research Data Management Practices (4 papers) and Web visibility and informetrics (3 papers). Weina Hua collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and New Zealand. Weina Hua's co-authors include Xuelian Pan, Erjia Yan, Cui Ming, Shunbo Yuan, Yun Zhang, Yu Li, Ying Cheng, Jiao Li, Shen Liu and Haixia Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as BMC Public Health, Scientometrics and Journal of Informetrics.

In The Last Decade

Weina Hua

19 papers receiving 471 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.

  1. Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools
    2018 322 citations Xuelian Pan, Erjia Yan et al. Journal of Informetrics profile →

Peers

Weina Hua
Xuelian Pan China
Jianhua Hou China
Donald Pellegrino United States
Hou Hai-yan China
Jason Rollins United States
Chris Belter United States
Yiling Lin United States
Xiucai Yang China
Lna Malkawi Jordan
Xuelian Pan China
Weina Hua
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Countries citing papers authored by Weina Hua

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weina Hua

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weina Hua

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sun, Haixia, Jiao Li, Ying Cheng, et al.. (2022). Developing a framework for understanding health information behavior change from avoidance to acquisition: a grounded theory exploration. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1115–1115. 10 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina, et al.. (2019). Matching Book Reviews and Essential Sentiment Lexicons with Chinese Word Segmenters. Shuju fenxi yu zhishi faxian. 3(7). 23–33.
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Pan, Xuelian & Weina Hua. (2019). The impact of CSC Scholarships on scientific outputs and collaboration.. ISSI. 196–201. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Xuelian, Erjia Yan, Cui Ming, & Weina Hua. (2019). How important is software to library and information science research? A content analysis of full-text publications. Journal of Informetrics. 13(1). 397–406. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Haixia, et al.. (2018). Matching Strategies for Institution Names in Literature Database. Shuju fenxi yu zhishi faxian. 2(8). 88–97. 3 indexed citations
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Pan, Xuelian, Erjia Yan, Cui Ming, & Weina Hua. (2018). Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools. Journal of Informetrics. 12(2). 481–493. 322 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pan, Xuelian, et al.. (2017). How is CiteSpace Used and Cited in the Literature? An Analysis of the Articles Published in English and Chinese Core Journals.. ISSI. 158–165. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yun, Weina Hua, & Shunbo Yuan. (2017). Mapping the scientific research on open data: A bibliometric review. Learned Publishing. 31(2). 95–106. 26 indexed citations
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Pan, Xuelian, Erjia Yan, & Weina Hua. (2016). Disciplinary differences of software use and impact in scientific literature. Scientometrics. 109(3). 1593–1610. 20 indexed citations
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Pan, Xuelian, Erjia Yan, & Weina Hua. (2015). Science communication and dissemination in different cultures: An analysis of the audience for TED videos in China and abroad. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67(6). 1473–1486. 6 indexed citations
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Pan, Xuelian, et al.. (2015). Assessing the impact of software on science: A bootstrapped learning of software entities in full-text papers. Journal of Informetrics. 9(4). 860–871. 33 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina, et al.. (2015). A comparative study of Ocean Engineering research between China and the world. Scientometrics. 105(1). 51–63. 7 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina, Yu Li, & Shunbo Yuan. (2013). A quantitative analysis of Antarctic related articles in humanities and social sciences appearing in the world core journals. Scientometrics. 100(1). 273–286. 3 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina. (2012). Research Progress of Social Tagging: Based on WoS,LISA,ACM and IEEE Databases. Journal of Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina, et al.. (2012). A quantitative analysis of Arctic related articles in the humanities and social sciences appearing in the world core journals. Scientometrics. 91(3). 703–718. 12 indexed citations
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Yuan, Shunbo & Weina Hua. (2011). Scholarly impact measurements of LIS open access journals: based on citations and links. The Electronic Library. 29(5). 682–697. 23 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina. (2001). The development of the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index. The Indexer. 22(3). 128–129. 2 indexed citations
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Hua, Weina. (1999). Comparison between PR China and USA in the Field of Library and Information Sciences. ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University). 1999(117). 3. 1 indexed citations

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