Selected publications

Selected publications are sorted by year, newest first.

1. 2026

   Arabi S and Hutchins BI. “Forecasting novel therapeutic development in biomedical research.” Communications Medicine. doi: 10.1038/s43856-026-01838-6

2. 2026

   Hong X, Hutchins BI, and Ni C. “Faster science, penalties in evaluation, and concerns on quality and impact: Researchers’ use and perceptions of preprints.” bioRxiv. doi: 10.64898/2026.03.02.709147

3. 2026

   Afshar AS, Yang Q, Thebault-Spieker J, and Hutchins BI. “Quantifying (Mis)alignment Between Reader Focus and Editor Citation in Scholarly Biomedical Topics in Wikipedia.” Quantitative Science Studies. doi: 10.1162/QSS.a.457

4. 2026

   Gu W and Ni C. “Universities as Central Actors in Evidence-Based Policymaking in the US.” Journal of Informetrics, 20(1): 101761. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2025.101761

5. 2025

   Davis MT, Busse BL, Arabi S, Meyer P, Hoppe TA, Meseroll RA, Hutchins BI, Willis KA, and Santangelo GM. “Prediction of transformative breakthroughs in biomedical research.” bioRxiv. doi: 10.64898/2025.12.16.694385

6. 2025

   Arabi S, Ni C, and Hutchins BI. “Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics.” PLOS Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532

7. 2025

   Zheng X, Yang Q, Potnuri J, Ni C, and Hutchins BI. “Comparing the outputs of intramural and extramural grants funded by National Institutes of Health.” eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.108929

8. 2025

   Arabi S, Zheng X, Hutchins BI, and Ni C. “Equity in science journalism: Investigating gender disparities in news media coverage of scientific research.” Science Communication. doi: 10.1177/10755470251360187

9. 2025

   Ni C and Hutchins BI. “Framework for assessing the risk to a field from fraudulent researchers: A case study of Alzheimer’s disease.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(9): 1162-1173. doi: 10.1002/asi.25009

10. 2025

    Murray D, Ni C, Gu W, and Hubbard T. “Using language models to label clusters of scientific documents.” Scientometrics. doi: 10.1007/s11192-025-05445-5

11. 2025

    Tripodi G, Zheng X, Qian Y, Murray D, Jones BF, Ni C, and Wang D. “Tenure and Research Trajectories.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(30): e2500322122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2500322122

12. 2025

    Li K, Zheng X, and Ni C. “Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12: 800. doi: 10.1057/s41599-025-05028-y

13. 2025

    Zheng X and Ni C. “Dissecting the Global Peer Review Ecosystem: Skewness, Homophily, and Diversity Dynamics.” Quantitative Science Studies, 6: 463-482. doi: 10.1162/qss_a_00358

14. 2025

    Yan E, Palmer RT, He J, Ni C, and Kelly M. “Diversity of HBCUs’ Institutional Human Capital.” Innovative Higher Education, 50(3): 1021-1039. doi: 10.1007/s10755-024-09772-y

15. 2024

    Zheng X, Yan E, and Ni C. “Faculty Mobility and Research Dynamics at HBCUs.” Quantitative Science Studies, 5(4): 844-860. doi: 10.1162/qss_a_00334

16. 2024

    Wu C, Yan E, Ni C, and He J. “To move or to be promoted: Examining the effect of promotions and academic mobility on professors’ productivity and impact.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(12): 1350-1367. doi: 10.1002/asi.24895