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D-Index
39
Citations
10413
World Ranking
5526
National Ranking
328

David Zweig publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Zweig sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 239 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

David Zweig D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Zweig sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

David Zweig is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, as well as Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work addresses various main topics, including:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

David Zweig has published research in frequent collaboration with coauthors such as Kristyn A. Scott, Siqin Kang, Huiyao Wang, Kellee S. Tsai, and Alwyn Didar Singh. Notable publication venues where Zweig's work appears multiple times include the Academy of Management Proceedings. Other one-time publication venues include the Journal of Contemporary China, World Development, The China Quarterly, and Personnel Review.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David Zweig demonstrate a focus on migration, labor markets, and the role of the state. These papers include:

  • 'The Best are yet to Come:' State Programs, Domestic Resistance and Reverse Migration of High-level Talent to China, 2020, Journal of Contemporary China
  • Reverse entrepreneurial migration in China and India: The role of the state, 2020, World Development

Additional recent papers related to organizational behavior and performance, where Zweig's frequent collaborator Kristyn A. Scott is lead author, include:

  • The cynical subordinate: exploring organizational cynicism, LMX, and loyalty, 2020, Personnel Review
  • We're in This Together: A Dyadic Approach to Organizational Cynicism, Leader-Member Exchange, and Performance, 2021, Human Performance

Another related study on the Chinese labor market titled Do Overseas Returnees Excel in the Chinese Labour Market? was published in 2021 in The China Quarterly.

Best Publications

  • Knowledge hiding in organizations

    Catherine E. Connelly;David Zweig;Jane Webster;John P. Trougakos

  • China's Global Hunt for Energy

    David Stephen Zweig;Bi Jianhai

  • Organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive behaviors: An integrative study

    Jamie A. Gruman;Alan M. Saks;David I. Zweig

  • Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages

    David Zweig

  • How perpetrators and targets construe knowledge hiding in organizations

    Catherine E. Connelly;David Zweig

  • Too drained to help: A resource depletion perspective on daily interpersonal citizenship behaviors.

    John P. Trougakos;Daniel J. Beal;Bonnie Hayden Cheng;Ivona Hideg

  • Competing for talent: China's strategies to reverse the brain drain

    David Stephen Zweig

  • Globalization and Transnational Human Capital: Overseas and Returnee Scholars to China

    David Zweig;Chen Changgui;Stanley Rosen

  • Redefining the Brain Drain China's ‘Diaspora Option’

    David Stephen Zweig;Chung Siu Fung;Donglin Han

  • Beyond knowledge sharing: Withholding knowledge at work

    Jane Webster;Graham Brown;David Zweig;Catherine E. Connelly

  • DEVELOPING A NOMOLOGICAL NETWORK FOR INTERVIEW STRUCTURE: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE STRUCTURED SELECTION INTERVIEW

    Derek S. Chapman;David I. Zweig

  • Where is the line between benign and invasive? An examination of psychological barriers to the acceptance of awareness monitoring systems

    David Zweig;Jane Webster

  • What are we measuring? An examination of the relationships between the big-five personality traits, goal orientation, and performance intentions

    David Zweig;Jane Webster

  • Can China Bring Back the Best? The Communist Party Organizes China's Search for Talent

    David Stephen Zweig;Huiyao Wang

  • Agrarian radicalism in China, 1968-1981

    David Stephen Zweig

  • Do promises matter? An exploration of the role of promises in psychological contract breach.

    Samantha D. Montes;David Zweig

  • ‘I’m busy (and competitive)!’ Antecedents of knowledge sharing under pressure

    Catherine E Connelly;Dianne P Ford;Ofir Turel;Brent Gallupe

  • To return or not to return? Politics vs. economics in China's brain drain.

    David Stephen Zweig

  • Learning to Compete: China's Efforts to Encourage a "Reverse Brain Drain"

    David Zweig

  • Young workers’ job self-efficacy and affect: Pathways to health and performance ☆

    Ralph Lubbers;Catherine Loughlin;David Zweig

  • Internationalizing China, Domestic Interests and Global Linkages

    David Stephen Zweig;Ding Yijiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Webster
Jane Webster Queen's University
Ofir Turel
Ofir Turel California State University, Fullerton
Alan M. Saks
Alan M. Saks University of Toronto
Graham Brown
Graham Brown University of Melbourne
Victor Nee
Victor Nee Cornell University
Sim B. Sitkin
Sim B. Sitkin Duke University

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