Curriculum vitae

Alex Jie Yang 杨杰

School of Information Management · Nanjing University

alexjieyang#outlook.com / ORCID 0000-0002-1276-0483 / Official NJU profile

Academic background

Education & visits

2022–present: Nanjing UniversityPh.D.
2025–2026: Harvard UniversityVisiting Scholar
2024: Cornell UniversityVisiting Scholar
2018–2022: East China Normal UniversityB.S.

Research interests

Science of science · Network science · Scientific innovation · Computational social science

Publications

The complete list of journal articles, letters, correspondence, and conference papers is available on the publications page.

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Academic service

Editor: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Editorial board member: Information Processing & Management

Peer review & refereeing

Nature Human Behaviour, npj Artificial Intelligence, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing & Management, Journal of Informetrics, Scientometrics, Journal of Information Science, Expert Systems With Applications, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Journal of Technology Transfer, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, etc.

Grants & projects

2025-2027 National Science Fund Project (724B2015) (PI)
2024-2025 Open Fund for Innovative Evaluation (CSPJ2024004), Fudan University & Clarivate (PI)
2025-2026 Jiangsu Provincial Graduate Student Research and Practical Innovation Program Project (KYCX25_0133) (PI)
2021 National College Students Innovation Training Program, Ministry of Education (202110269150G) (PI)

Additional project participation

National Social Science Fund Project (25ATQ008) (Participation)
National Social Science Fund Project (19BTQ062) (Participation)
National Social Science Fund Project (23&ZD224) (Participation)
National Social Science Fund Project (25&ZD298) (Participation)
National Social Science Fund Project (17ZDA291) (Participation)
National Natural Science Foundation Project (72374047) (Participation)
National Natural Science Foundation Project (71874056) (Participation)

Honors & awards

2026“中国社会科学博士论文文库” (博士论文入选)
2026 Doctoral dissertation selected for the Chinese Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Series
2026 入选全球前2%顶尖科学家年度榜单 (斯坦福&爱思唯尔)
2026 Named to the annual list of the World's Top 2% Scientists (Stanford–Elsevier)
2026 上海科学技术情报成果一等奖
2026 First Prize, Shanghai Science and Technology Information Achievement Award
2026 华东地区科学技术情报成果奖二等奖
2026 Second Prize, East China Science and Technology Information Achievement Award
2023 IPM Ph.D. Best paper award winner, IPM & ELSEVIER
2023 Honorable mention of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship, ISSI

More honors & scholarships

2023 The First "Frontier Discussion on Science and Technology Ethics" Essay Competition (Third Prize), CAST
2025 National Scholarship for Graduate Student, Ministry of Education
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

Contact

School of Information Management
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China

alexjieyang#outlook.com
+86 180 1112 9689