Yini Zhang

988 total citations
40 papers, 599 citations indexed

About

Yini Zhang is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yini Zhang has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 599 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Communication, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Yini Zhang's work include Social Media and Politics (21 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (10 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (7 papers). Yini Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (21 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (10 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (7 papers). Yini Zhang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Chile. Yini Zhang's co-authors include Chris Wells, Josephine Lukito, Karl Rohe, Jiyoun Suk, Song Wang, Sang Jung Kim, Dhavan V. Shah, Yiping Xia, Jon Pevehouse and Min-Hsin Su and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Yini Zhang

36 papers receiving 576 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yini Zhang United States 14 310 294 125 79 66 40 599
Tom Wilson United States 11 208 0.7× 349 1.2× 160 1.3× 64 0.8× 32 0.5× 24 666
Lorenzo Coviello United States 9 85 0.3× 245 0.8× 96 0.8× 105 1.3× 25 0.4× 15 631
Asta Zelenkauskaitė United States 12 130 0.4× 134 0.5× 64 0.5× 31 0.4× 15 0.2× 32 360
Johnnatan Messias Brazil 10 178 0.6× 366 1.2× 159 1.3× 71 0.9× 21 0.3× 22 545
Ahmer Arif United States 7 303 1.0× 448 1.5× 181 1.4× 96 1.2× 33 0.5× 15 617
Marisa Vasconcelos Brazil 13 164 0.5× 322 1.1× 199 1.6× 89 1.1× 17 0.3× 40 622
Craig Robertson United States 11 238 0.8× 308 1.0× 116 0.9× 26 0.3× 28 0.4× 20 467
Chuan Yu United States 4 183 0.6× 327 1.1× 103 0.8× 36 0.5× 12 0.2× 10 417
Christopher Sibona United States 9 104 0.3× 138 0.5× 38 0.3× 29 0.4× 12 0.2× 20 267

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yini Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yini Zhang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yini Zhang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yini 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 Yini Zhang. Yini 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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Zhang, Yini, Jiyoun Suk, Zhiying Yue, et al.. (2025). Center-Left and Right-Wing News, YouTube, and Twitter as Key Connectors in the Social Media System. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2025). Navigating the future: unveiling new facets of nurse work engagement. BMC Nursing. 24(1). 80–80. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2024). Partisanship and Risk Talk on Twitter. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4.
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Zhang, Yini, Xiaoyu Wang, & Yu Sun. (2024). A newly identified algicidal bacterium of Pseudomonas fragi YB2: Algicidal compounds and effects. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 478. 135490–135490. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2024). Empowered or Constrained in Platform Governance? An Analysis of Twitter Users’ Responses to Elon Musk’s Takeover. Social Media + Society. 10(3). 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2024). Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 22(2). 229–242. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2023). WordPPR: A Researcher-Driven Computational Keyword Selection Method for Text Data Retrieval from Digital Media. Communication Methods and Measures. 18(4). 332–348. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, Josephine Lukito, Min-Hsin Su, et al.. (2021). Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017. Journal of Communication. 71(2). 305–331. 30 indexed citations
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Wells, Chris, Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, & Jon Pevehouse. (2019). Modeling the Formation of Attentive Publics in Social Media: The Case of Donald Trump. Mass Communication & Society. 23(2). 181–205. 13 indexed citations
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Liang, Hongliang, et al.. (2019). Sequence Coverage Directed Greybox Fuzzing. 249–259. 30 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2018). The Model Research on Location Fusion Algorithm with Big Data Selection and Accuracy Correction. DEStech Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2017). Tweeting Mass Shootings. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, Chris Wells, Song Wang, & Karl Rohe. (2017). Attention and amplification in the hybrid media system: The composition and activity of Donald Trump’s Twitter following during the 2016 presidential election. New Media & Society. 20(9). 3161–3182. 90 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, et al.. (2014). Impact of Structure Balance on Opinion Spreading in Signed Social Networks. 202–205. 1 indexed citations

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