Zhichao Ba

814 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 521 citations indexed

About

Zhichao Ba is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhichao Ba has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 521 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Zhichao Ba's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (5 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 papers). Zhichao Ba is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (5 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 papers). Zhichao Ba collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Zhichao Ba's co-authors include Yuxiang Zhao, Shijie Song, Qinghua Zhu, Xinlin Yao, Jin Mao, Gang Li, Gang Li, Kun Lü, Yuxiang Zhao and Tingting Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.

In The Last Decade

Zhichao Ba

20 papers receiving 510 citations

Hit Papers

Short video apps as a health information source: an inves... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 40 80 120
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. Short video apps as a health information source: an investigation of affordances, user experience and users’ intention to continue the use of TikTok
    2021 147 citations Shijie Song, Yuxiang Zhao et al. Internet Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhichao Ba China 13 207 114 96 93 81 23 521
Libo Liu Australia 11 280 1.4× 55 0.5× 72 0.8× 170 1.8× 113 1.4× 31 478
Lele Kang China 12 133 0.6× 120 1.1× 141 1.5× 89 1.0× 86 1.1× 36 392
Harpreet Singh United States 10 161 0.8× 53 0.5× 92 1.0× 78 0.8× 88 1.1× 22 483
Shengli Deng China 12 270 1.3× 34 0.3× 25 0.3× 142 1.5× 64 0.8× 40 596
Victor Henning Germany 7 210 1.0× 83 0.7× 32 0.3× 60 0.6× 337 4.2× 9 544
Sridhar Ramamoorti United States 12 181 0.9× 63 0.6× 153 1.6× 108 1.2× 62 0.8× 36 848
Chien Hsiang Liao Taiwan 10 170 0.8× 62 0.5× 30 0.3× 99 1.1× 46 0.6× 25 712
Chaojiang Wu United States 9 259 1.3× 43 0.4× 18 0.2× 112 1.2× 107 1.3× 16 461
Nikolaos Mylonopoulos Greece 12 229 1.1× 29 0.3× 111 1.2× 174 1.9× 66 0.8× 23 628
Hani Safadi United States 10 288 1.4× 23 0.2× 102 1.1× 77 0.8× 51 0.6× 28 691

Countries citing papers authored by Zhichao Ba

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhichao Ba

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhichao Ba. 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 Zhichao Ba. The network helps show where Zhichao Ba may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhichao Ba

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhichao Ba. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhichao Ba 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 Zhichao Ba. Zhichao Ba 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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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2024). Multidimensional policy citation features: Insights into policymakers' policy adoption decision-making. Government Information Quarterly. 42(1). 102004–102004.
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Song, Shijie, Xinlin Yao, Yuxiang Zhao, & Zhichao Ba. (2024). Get inspired and pay for the goods: An investigation of customer inspiration and purchase intention in livestream shopping. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 78. 103750–103750. 20 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2023). Discovering technological opportunities by identifying dynamic structure-coupling patterns and lead-lag distance between science and technology. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 200. 123147–123147. 7 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2023). Research complexity increases with scientists’ academic age: Evidence from library and information science. Journal of Informetrics. 17(1). 101375–101375. 2 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2023). Tracing policy diffusion: Identifying main paths in policy citation networks. Journal of Information Science. 2 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2022). Spatio-temporal dynamics and determinants of new energy policy diffusion in China: A policy citation approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 376. 134270–134270. 20 indexed citations
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Li, Tingting, et al.. (2022). Identifying widely disseminated scientific papers on social media. Information Processing & Management. 59(3). 102945–102945. 10 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yuxiang, et al.. (2022). Exploring the endorsement effect on scientific crowdfunding performance: Evidence from Experiment.com. Telematics and Informatics. 73. 101872–101872. 6 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, Yuxiang Zhao, Shijie Song, & Qinghua Zhu. (2022). Does the involvement of charities matter? Exploring the impact of charities’ reputation and social capital on medical crowdfunding performance. Information Processing & Management. 59(3). 102942–102942. 23 indexed citations
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Song, Shijie, Yuxiang Zhao, Xinlin Yao, Zhichao Ba, & Qinghua Zhu. (2021). Serious information in hedonic social applications: affordances, self-determination and health information adoption in TikTok. Journal of Documentation. 78(4). 890–911. 35 indexed citations
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Song, Shijie, Yuxiang Zhao, Xinlin Yao, Zhichao Ba, & Qinghua Zhu. (2021). Short video apps as a health information source: an investigation of affordances, user experience and users’ intention to continue the use of TikTok. Internet Research. 31(6). 2120–2142. 147 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2021). Exploring the effect of city-level collaboration and knowledge networks on innovation: Evidence from energy conservation field. Journal of Informetrics. 15(3). 101198–101198. 26 indexed citations
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Mao, Jin, et al.. (2021). Combining deep neural network and bibliometric indicator for emerging research topic prediction. Information Processing & Management. 58(5). 102611–102611. 44 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2021). A novel approach to measuring science-technology linkage: From the perspective of knowledge network coupling. Journal of Informetrics. 15(3). 101167–101167. 33 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, Yuxiang Zhao, Shijie Song, & Qinghua Zhu. (2020). Understanding the determinants of online medical crowdfunding project success in China. Information Processing & Management. 58(2). 102465–102465. 42 indexed citations
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Mao, Jin, et al.. (2020). Location recommendation by combining geographical, categorical, and social preferences with location popularity. Information Processing & Management. 57(4). 102251–102251. 26 indexed citations
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Ba, Zhichao, et al.. (2019). Analyzing Characteristics of Interdisciplinary Research Evolutions: Case Study of Medical Informatics. Shuju fenxi yu zhishi faxian. 3(5). 107–116.
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