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D-Index
60
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18098
World Ranking
1432
National Ranking
682

Heng Xu 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 Heng Xu sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heng Xu 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 Heng Xu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Heng Xu is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and works primarily within the domain of social sciences. Their research focuses extensively on topics related to privacy, security, and data protection, particularly emphasizing privacy-preserving technologies. Additionally, Heng Xu explores the ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, alongside investigations into sexuality, behavior, and technology.

The subfields in which Heng Xu is active include sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, safety research, management science and operations research, and clinical psychology. This multidisciplinary approach illustrates a broad engagement with both social and technical aspects of contemporary research challenges.

Heng Xu has published numerous papers in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to SSRN Electronic Journal, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Other notable publication venues include Management Science and MIS Quarterly.

  • Why Individual Employees Commit Malicious Computer Abuse: A Routine Activity Theory Perspective, 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • From Contextualizing to Context Theorizing: Assessing Context Effects in Privacy Research, 2022, Management Science
  • Reducing subgroup differences in personnel selection through the application of machine learning, 2023, Personnel Psychology
  • A review of methods to study the fatigue life of nodes connecting marine composite hydrogen storage tanks to ships under the action of external forces, 2023, Journal of Energy Storage
  • Implications of Data Anonymization on the Statistical Evidence of Disparity, 2022, Management Science

Co-authorship collaboration is a notable aspect of Heng Xu's career, with frequent coauthors including Nan Zhang, Xin Luo, Mo Wang, and Han Li. Nan Zhang is the most frequent collaborator with multiple joint publications.

  • Nan Zhang
  • Xin Luo
  • Mo Wang
  • Han Li

Best Publications

  • Information privacy research: an interdisciplinary review

    H. Jeff Smith;Tamara Dinev;Heng Xu

  • The Role of Push-Pull Technology in Privacy Calculus: The Case of Location-Based Services

    Heng Xu;Hock-Hai Teo;Bernard Tan;Ritu Agarwal

  • The personalization privacy paradox: An exploratory study of decision making process for location-aware marketing

    Heng Xu;Xin (Robert) Luo;John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

  • Information privacy concerns: Linking individual perceptions with institutional privacy assurances

    Heng Xu;Tamara Dinev;H. Jeff Smith;Paul J. Hart

  • Detecting Offensive Language in Social Media to Protect Adolescent Online Safety

    Ying Chen;Yilu Zhou;Sencun Zhu;Heng Xu

  • Information privacy and correlates: an empirical attempt to bridge and distinguish privacy-related concepts

    Tamara Dinev;Heng Xu;H. Jeff Smith;Paul J. Hart

  • The role of affect and cognition on online consumers' decision to disclose personal information to unfamiliar online vendors

    Han Li;Rathindra Sarathy;Heng Xu

  • EXAMINING THE FORMATION OF INDIVIDUAL 'S PRIVACY CONCERNS : TOWARD AN INTEGRATIVE VIEW

    Heng Xu;Tamara Dinev;H. Jeff Smith;Paul J. Hart

  • The effects of privacy concerns and personal innovativeness on potential and experienced customers’ adoption of location-based services

    Heng Xu;Sumeet Gupta

  • Research Note---Effects of Individual Self-Protection, Industry Self-Regulation, and Government Regulation on Privacy Concerns: A Study of Location-Based Services

    Heng Xu;Hock-Hai Teo;Bernard C. Y. Tan;Ritu Agarwal

  • Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry

    Christopher M. Hoadley;Heng Xu;Joey J. Lee;Mary Beth Rosson

  • Understanding Situational Online Information Disclosure as a Privacy Calculus

    Han Li;Rathindra Sarathy;Heng Xu

  • Inherited GATA3 variants are associated with Ph-like childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and risk of relapse

    Virginia Perez-Andreu;Kathryn G. Roberts;Richard C. Harvey;Wenjian Yang

  • Perceived effectiveness of text vs. multimedia Location-Based Advertising messaging

    Heng Xu;Lih-Bin Oh;Hock-Hai Teo

  • Novel Susceptibility Variants at 10p12.31-12.2 for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Ethnically Diverse Populations

    Heng Xu;Wenjian Yang;Virginia Perez-Andreu;Meenakshi Devidas

  • Measuring mobile users' concerns for information privacy

    Heng Xu;Sumeet Gupta;Mary Beth Rosson;John M. Carroll

  • Privacy concerns for mobile app download

    Jie Gu;Yunjie (Calvin) Xu;Heng Xu;Cheng Zhang

  • Personalized neoantigen pulsed dendritic cell vaccine for advanced lung cancer.

    Zhenyu Ding;Qing Li;Rui Zhang;Li Xie

  • ARID5B Genetic Polymorphisms Contribute to Racial Disparities in the Incidence and Treatment Outcome of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

    Heng Xu;Cheng Cheng;Meenakshi Devidas;Deqing Pei

  • Germline genetic variation in ETV6 and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a systematic genetic study

    Takaya Moriyama;Monika L. Metzger;Gang Wu;Rina Nishii

  • Predicting the Adoption of Location-Based Services: The Role of Trust and Perceived Privacy Risk

    Heng Xu;Hock Hai Teo;Bernard C Y Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun J. Yang
Jun J. Yang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Mary Beth Rosson
Mary Beth Rosson Pennsylvania State University
John M. Carroll
John M. Carroll University of Sussex
Li Yang
Li Yang South China University of Technology
Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang Central South University
Mary V. Relling
Mary V. Relling St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Stephen P. Hunger
Stephen P. Hunger University of Pennsylvania
William E. Evans
William E. Evans St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Mignon L. Loh
Mignon L. Loh University of California, San Francisco
Ching-Hon Pui
Ching-Hon Pui St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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