Zhichao Fang
Visiting Researcher
- Name
- Dr. Z. Fang
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- z.fang@cwts.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3802-2227
Zhichao Fang is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University in the Netherlands. His PhD research focuses on the development and application of usage metrics and altmetrics, especially for the application of altmetric data in identifying and tracking hot research topics.
Zhichao obtained his B.S. (2014) in Public Administration and M.S. (2017) in Scientometrics at Dalian University of Technology in China. He joined the CWTS in September 2017 after being awarded the CSC scholarship from China Scholarship Council for pursuing PhD.
Visiting Researcher
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- CWTS
- Wencan T., Fang Z.., Xianwen W. & Costas Comesana R. (2024), A multi-dimensional analysis of usage counts, Mendeley readership, and citations for journal and conference papers, Scientometrics 129: 985–1013.
- Fang Z., Dudek J. & Costas R. (2022), Facing the volatility of tweets in altmetric research, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73(8): 1192-1195.
- Fang Z., Costas Comesana R. & Wouters P.F. (2022), User engagement with scholarly tweets of scientific papers: a large-scale and cross-disciplinary analysis, Scientometrics 127(8): 4523-4546.
- Fang Z., Costas Comesana R., Tian W., Wang X. & Wouters P. (2021), How is science clicked on Twitter? : Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 72(7): 918-932.
- Fang Z. (21 December 2021), Towards advanced social media metrics: understanding the diversity and characteristics of Twitter interactions around science (Dissertatie. Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Wouters P.F., Costas Comesana R.