Alex Jie Yang

ORCID: 0000-0002-1276-0483

Email / Github / Research Gate / ORCID

Affiliation: School of Information Management, Nanjing University.

My research interest includes science of science, network science, scientific innovation, and computational social science.

Peer reviewed papers

Yang, A. J.* (2025). Unraveling Topic Switching and Innovation in Science. Information Processing & Management. Accepted.

Yang, A. J.* (2025). Understanding the relationship between interdisciplinary knowledge and disruption in science. Journal of Information Science. Accepted.

Yang, A. J., Yan, X., Hu, H., Hu, H., Kong, J., & Deng, S. (2025). Are disruptive papers more likely to impact technology and society? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(3), 563-579. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24947 Featured by Information Matters

Hu, H., Yang, A. J., Deng, S., Wang, D., & Song, M.* (2025). CoTEL-D3X: A chain-of-thought enhanced large language model for drug–drug interaction triplet extraction. Expert Systems with Applications, 273, 126953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.126953

Yang, A. J., Ding Y, & Liu, M.* (2024). Female-led teams produce more innovative ideas yet receive less scientific impact. Quantitative Science Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00323

Yang, A. J.*, Deng, S. (2024). Dynamic patterns of the disruptive and consolidating knowledge flows in Nobel-winning scientific breakthroughs. Quantitative Science Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00323

Yang, A. J.* (2024). On the temporal diversity of knowledge in science. Journal of Informetrics, 18(4), 101594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2024.101594

Yang, A. J., Xu H., Ding Y., & Liu, M. (2024). Unveiling the dynamics of team age structure and its impact on scientific innovation. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04987-4

Yang, A. J.*, Zhao, S. X., & Deng, S. (2024). Revisiting delayed recognition in science: a large-scale & comprehensive study. Journal of Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515241244462

Liu, M.*, Xie, Z., Yang, A. J., Yu C., Xu J., Ding Y., Bu Y. (2024). The prominent and heterogeneous gender disparities in scientific novelty: Evidence from biomedical doctoral theses. Information Processing & Management, 61(4), 103743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2024.103743

Yang, A. J.* (2024). Unveiling the impact and dual innovation of funded research. Journal of Informetrics, 18(1), 101480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101480

Yang, A. J., Gong, H., Wang, Y., Zhang, C., & Deng, S. (2024). Rescaling the disruption index reveals the universality of disruption distributions in science. Scientometrics, 129(1), 561-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04889-x

Yang, A. J., Hu, H., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., & Deng, S. (2023). From consolidation to disruption: A novel way to measure the impact of scientists and identify laureates. Information Processing & Management, 60(5), 103420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103420

Best paper award in 2023

Yang, A. J., Wu, L., Zhang, Q., Wang, H., & Deng, S. (2023). The k-step h-index in citation networks at the paper, author, and institution levels. Journal of Informetrics, 17(4), 101456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101456

Yang, A. J., Deng, S.*, Wang, H., Zhang, Y., & Yang, W. (2023). Disruptive coefficient and 2-step disruptive coefficient: Novel measures for identifying vital nodes in complex networks. Journal of Informetrics, 17(3), 101411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101411

杨杰, 柳美君, 步一, 赵星, 邓三鸿*. 组合新颖性和学科新颖性能否提升论文的技术影响？基于直接和间接技术影响力的双重视角 [J]. 情报学报, 2025.

杨杰, 王左戎, 邓三鸿*, 王昊, 章学周. 基于参考文献的论文跨学科性、跨时域性及其影响力研究 [J]. 情报学报, 2024, 43(09): 1003-14.

杨杰, 邓三鸿*, 王昊. 科学研究的颠覆性创新测度——相对颠覆性指数 [J]. 情报学报, 2023, 42(09): 1052-64.

杨杰, 孔嘉, 张艺炜, et al. 融合论文颠覆性与巩固性的学者二元影响力测度 [J]. 情报学报, 2023, 42(12): 1412-23.

杨杰, 吴琳伟, 邓三鸿*. 颠覆性技术视角下科技伦理的敏捷治理框架探讨 [J]. 中国科学基金, 2023, 37(03): 378-86.

杨杰*, 赵星. 大数据专业培养内容的主题分析及对图情档学科的启示 [J]. 图书情报工作, 2022, 66(02): 109-116.

柳美君, 杨杰, 石静, 步一*. 中国内地科技人才跨境流动网络多样性与互惠性 [J]. 科学学研究, 2024.

柳美君, 杨杰, 杨斯杰, 闵超*. 中国与“一带一路”沿线国家的科技人才流动研究：基于准自然实验的证据 [J]. 科学学研究, 2024.

闫晓慧, 杨杰, 杨文霞, et al. 学者合作网络外部影响力与学术成就的关系研究 [J]. 图书情报工作, 2025, 69(02): 96-107.

张逸勤, 杨杰, 宋欣雨, et al. 代表作评价模式的定量探析——基于诺贝尔奖得主的实证 [J]. 情报理论与实践, 2025.

巩洪村, 邓三鸿, 杨杰, et al. 组态视角下Y世代移动数字过度使用的影响因素研究 [J]. 图书情报知识, 2024, 41(05): 128-37+49.

张逸勤, 邓三鸿, 巩洪村, 杨杰, 刘潮. 面向 AI4Science 的科学论文图像语义描述框架体系构建研究[J]. 图书馆论坛, 2025.

邓三鸿, 杨杰, 王昊, et al. 多源异构数据视角下的学术评价:内涵、进展与展望 [J]. 科技情报研究, 2023, 5(04): 42-56.

Conference papers

Yangfanyu Yang, Alex J. Yang, and Yian Yin*. (2025) Quantifying Ageing Effect in Scientific and Innovative Careers. The 4th International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI).

Alex J. Yang*, Yujie Shi, Yinuo Ma, and Sanhong Deng. (2025) Quantifying talent space of nations based on global patterns of mobility. The 4th France’s International Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS).

Yang, A. J., Bu Y., Ding Y., & Liu, M.* (2024) Quantifying scientific novelty of doctoral theses with Bio-BERT model. Proceedings of Joint Workshop of the 5th Extraction and Evaluation of Knowledge Entities from Scientific Document and the 4th AI + Informetrics, iConference.

Liu, M.*, Yang, A. J., Bu Y., & Ding Y. (2024) Untangling the complex pattern of international talent mobility in science. The 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI).

Yang, A. J.*, Wang, Y., Kong, J., Zhang, Q., Hu, H., Wang, H., & Sanhong, D. (2023). The global disruption index (GDI): an incorporation of citation cascades in the disruptive index. Proceedings of 19th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI).

Yang, A. J.*, Zhao, Y., Wang, H., & Deng, S. (2023). Untangle the characteristics of disruptive and consolidating citations of Nobel-winning papers. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).

Hu, H., Yang, A. J., Deng, S., Wang, D.*, Song, M., Shen, S. (2023). A Generative Drug–Drug Interaction Triplets Extraction Framework Based on Large Language Models. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).

Activity

Editor board, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Grants & Projects

2025-2027 National Science Fund Project (#724B2015) (PI)

2024 Open Fund for Innovative Evaluation, Fudan University (PI)

2021 National College Students Innovation Training Program, Ministry of Education (PI)

National Social Science Fund Project (#19BTQ062) (Participation)

National Social Science Fund Project, Major Program (#17ZDA291) (Participation)

National Natural Science Foundation Project (87874056) (Participation)

National Natural Science Foundation Project (71874056) (Participation)

Honors & prizes

2023 IPM Ph.D. Best paper award winner, IPM & ELSEVIER

2023 Honorable mention of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship, ISSI

2023 The First “Frontier Discussion on Science and Technology Ethics” Essay Competition (Third Prize), CAST

2024 National Scholarship for Graduate Student, Ministry of Education

2023 National Scholarship for Graduate Student, Ministry of Education

2022 First-class Scholarship, ECNU

2021 National Inspiration Scholarship, Ministry of Education

2021 “Challenge Cup” (National Third Prize), Ministry of Education