Xiucai Yang

461 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 349 citations indexed

About

Xiucai Yang is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiucai Yang has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 349 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 4 papers in Strategy and Management and 4 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Xiucai Yang's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (4 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 papers). Xiucai Yang is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (4 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 papers). Xiucai Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Xiucai Yang's co-authors include Jianhua Hou, Chaomei Chen, Haoyang Song, Jianhua Hou and Ruo-Yu Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Sustainability and Scientometrics.

In The Last Decade

Xiucai Yang

9 papers receiving 343 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. Emerging trends and new developments in information science: a document co-citation analysis (2009–2016)
    2018 280 citations Jianhua Hou, Xiucai Yang et al. Scientometrics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiucai Yang China 5 56 41 39 37 37 11 349
Hiran H. Lathabai India 11 77 1.4× 52 1.3× 41 1.1× 38 1.0× 37 1.0× 34 325
Donald Pellegrino United States 3 53 0.9× 63 1.5× 50 1.3× 34 0.9× 43 1.2× 5 355
Jianhua Hou China 9 110 2.0× 73 1.8× 69 1.8× 50 1.4× 60 1.6× 18 480
Marcus Vinícius de Araújo Fonseca Brazil 7 39 0.7× 16 0.4× 30 0.8× 32 0.9× 35 0.9× 14 303
Xianlei Dong China 13 50 0.9× 38 0.9× 22 0.6× 39 1.1× 39 1.1× 41 429
Hou Hai-yan China 7 176 3.1× 61 1.5× 105 2.7× 61 1.6× 69 1.9× 19 597
Hajime Sasaki Japan 9 14 0.3× 22 0.5× 9 0.2× 55 1.5× 16 0.4× 53 272
Sergio Copiello Italy 16 88 1.6× 19 0.5× 34 0.9× 30 0.8× 32 0.9× 45 655
H. Grupp Germany 9 111 2.0× 14 0.3× 38 1.0× 81 2.2× 13 0.4× 18 363

Countries citing papers authored by Xiucai Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiucai Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xiucai Yang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xiucai Yang. The network helps show where Xiucai Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiucai Yang

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Song, Haoyang, et al.. (2024). Wake-up of sleeping beauty patent families: The global non-equilibrium diffusion of technological knowledge. Technology in Society. 79. 102706–102706.
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Yang, Xiucai, et al.. (2023). Will patent family be dormant? Research on the identification and characteristics of sleeping beauty’s patent family. Scientometrics. 128(10). 5361–5387. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiucai, et al.. (2023). The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion. Scientometrics. 128(9). 5169–5195. 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Jianhua, Xiucai Yang, & Chaomei Chen. (2020). Measuring researchers’ potential scholarly impact with structural variations: Four types of researchers in information science (1979–2018). PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234347–e0234347. 19 indexed citations
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Hou, Jianhua & Xiucai Yang. (2020). Social media-based sleeping beauties: Defining, identifying and features. Journal of Informetrics. 14(2). 101012–101012. 15 indexed citations
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Hou, Jianhua & Xiucai Yang. (2019). Patent sleeping beauties: evolutionary trajectories and identification methods. Scientometrics. 120(1). 187–215. 22 indexed citations
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Hou, Jianhua & Xiucai Yang. (2019). From the United States to China:The Transfer of Research Centres in Information Science. Current Science. 116(3). 422–422. 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Jianhua, Xiucai Yang, & Chaomei Chen. (2018). Emerging trends and new developments in information science: a document co-citation analysis (2009–2016). Scientometrics. 115(2). 869–892. 280 indexed citations breakdown →

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