Zhijun Yan

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Zhijun Yan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhijun Yan has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Information Systems and Management and 12 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Zhijun Yan's work include Digital Marketing and Social Media (17 papers), Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (14 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (10 papers). Zhijun Yan is often cited by papers focused on Digital Marketing and Social Media (17 papers), Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (14 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (10 papers). Zhijun Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Zhijun Yan's co-authors include Han Zhang, Tianmei Wang, Yi Chen, Ni Huang, Yili Hong, Yan Liu, Xi Chen, Dongsong Zhang, Yahong Chen and Yan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Zhijun Yan

64 papers receiving 1.7k 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. Knowledge sharing in online health communities: A social exchange theory perspective
    2016 420 citations Zhijun Yan, Tianmei Wang et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Zhijun Yan 610 339 263 208 191 67 1.7k
Ron Chi-Wai Kwok 584 1.0× 252 0.7× 271 1.0× 290 1.4× 98 0.5× 70 1.8k
Rafael Aleixandre‐Benavent 216 0.4× 167 0.5× 168 0.6× 65 0.3× 38 0.2× 296 2.7k
Claudia Wagner 472 0.8× 186 0.5× 30 0.1× 240 1.2× 274 1.4× 64 1.7k
Charles R. McClure 351 0.6× 429 1.3× 184 0.7× 162 0.8× 130 0.7× 152 2.5k
Minh‐Hoang Nguyen 427 0.7× 81 0.2× 113 0.4× 123 0.6× 89 0.5× 132 1.6k
Florian Keusch 531 0.9× 106 0.3× 69 0.3× 63 0.3× 65 0.3× 51 1.1k
Concepción S. Wilson 207 0.3× 114 0.3× 269 1.0× 166 0.8× 12 0.1× 79 1.9k
Schubert Foo 436 0.7× 155 0.5× 172 0.7× 403 1.9× 12 0.1× 140 3.0k
Rüdiger Mutz 192 0.3× 42 0.1× 230 0.9× 237 1.1× 20 0.1× 56 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhijun Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhijun Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhijun Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhijun Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhijun Yan 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 Zhijun Yan. Zhijun Yan 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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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2025). DECEN: A deep learning model enhanced by depressive emotions for depression detection from social media content. Decision Support Systems. 191. 114421–114421. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Liang, et al.. (2025). Understanding digital therapeutics in disease self-management: A systematic literature review. Technology in Society. 81. 102831–102831.
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Zhang, Dongsong, et al.. (2024). Digital Phenotyping-based Depression Detection in the Presence of Comorbidity: An Uncertainty Reasoning Approach. Journal of Management Information Systems. 41(4). 931–957. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Ni, et al.. (2024). How to Translate Firm-Generated Content to Sales? Evidence from Online Healthcare Platforms. Journal of Management Information Systems. 41(4). 1173–1197. 3 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2023). When the clock chimes: The impact of on-the-hour effects on user anxiety content generation in social media platforms. Journal of Affective Disorders. 344. 69–78. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2023). Gender Inequality and Poverty: The Role of Financial Development in Mitigating Poverty in Pakistan. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 15(3). 11848–11876. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2022). Monitoring Your Weight-Loss Process Online: The Impacts of Prior Experiences and Online Social Support on Subsequent Weight-Loss Outcome. Health Communication. 38(11). 2408–2418. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, He, Yahong Chen, & Zhijun Yan. (2021). Impacts of social distancing on the spread of infectious diseases with asymptomatic infection: A mathematical model. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 398. 125983–125983. 18 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2019). Effects of Online-offline Channel Integration on E-healthcare Providers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yan, Xi Chen, & Zhijun Yan. (2019). Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 703. 134706–134706. 73 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2017). Do Financial Incentives Induce More Online Participatory Behaviors. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2017). Enhancing Seasonal Influenza Surveillance: Topic Analysis of Widely Used Medicinal Drugs Using Twitter Data. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(9). e315–e315. 49 indexed citations
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Huang, He, Zhijun Yan, Yahong Chen, & Fangyan Liu. (2016). A social contagious model of the obesity epidemic. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37961–37961. 54 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2016). Identifying the direct risk source to contain epidemics more effectively. Physical review. E. 93(1). 12308–12308. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Yan, Zhijun Yan, & Chao Dong. (2016). Health implications of improved air quality from Beijing's driving restriction policy. Environmental Pollution. 219. 323–328. 19 indexed citations
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Dong, Chao, et al.. (2015). Can rewiring strategy control the epidemic spreading?. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 438. 169–177. 12 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhijun, et al.. (2014). A Context-Dependent Sentiment Analysis of Online Product Reviews based on Dependency Relationships.. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dongsong, et al.. (2013). A Classification Model for Detection of Chinese Phishing E-Business Websites. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. 152. 4 indexed citations
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Xia, Huilong, et al.. (2009). Enhancing plant uptake of polychlorinated biphenyls and cadmium using tea saponin. Bioresource Technology. 100(20). 4649–4653. 58 indexed citations

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