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Social Sciences and Humanities
China
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
14579
World Ranking
654
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award

Overview

Wei-Xing Zhou is affiliated with East China University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a total of 148 publications in this main area. Within this broad field, their subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, particularly addressing Market Dynamics and Volatility, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

Wei-Xing Zhou has published papers in several frequently appearing venues, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • Finance research letters
  • Frontiers in Physics

Recent notable papers include:

  • A global economic policy uncertainty index from principal component analysis, 2020, Finance research letters
  • Robustness of the international oil trade network under targeted attacks to economies, 2022, Energy
  • Do the global grain spot markets exhibit multifractal nature?, 2022, Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • The role of global economic policy uncertainty in predicting crude oil futures volatility: Evidence from a two-factor GARCH-MIDAS model, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Information Flow Networks of Chinese Stock Market Sectors, 2020, IEEE Access

Co-authors who have frequently collaborated with Wei-Xing Zhou include Wen-Jie Xie, Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Peng-Fei Dai, Hai-Chuan Xu, and Ying-Hui Shao. These collaborators have contributed extensively to the research output alongside Zhou.

In addition to journal articles, Zhou has contributed to book literature, publishing at least one book titled Recurrence Interval Analysis of Financial Time Series in 2024 through Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Prediction of Drug-Target Interactions and Drug Repositioning via Network-Based Inference

    Feixiong Cheng;Chuang Liu;Jing Jiang;Weiqiang Lu

  • Multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis for two nonstationary signals.

    Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Discrete hierarchical organization of social group sizes

    W.-X. Zhou;D. Sornette;R. A. Hill;R. I. M. Dunbar

  • Detrending moving average algorithm for multifractals.

    Gao-Feng Gu;Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Statistical tests for power-law cross-correlated processes

    Boris Podobnik;Boris Podobnik;Boris Podobnik;Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wei-Xing Zhou;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Multifractal detrending moving average cross-correlation analysis

    Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Multifractal detrending moving-average cross-correlation analysis.

    Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Multifractal analysis of financial markets

    Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wen-Jie Xie;Wei-Xing Zhou;Didier Sornette

  • Multifractal analysis of financial markets

    Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wen-Jie Xie;Wei-Xing Zhou;Didier Sornette

  • Bubble diagnosis and prediction of the 2005–2007 and 2008–2009 Chinese stock market bubbles

    Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wei-Xing Zhou;Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette;Ryan Woodard

  • Detrended fluctuation analysis for fractals and multifractals in higher dimensions.

    Gao-Feng Gu;Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Evolution of worldwide stock markets, correlation structure and correlation based graphs

    Dong-Ming Song;Michele Tumminello;Wei-Xing Zhou;Rosario N. Mantegna

  • The 2006–2008 oil bubble: Evidence of speculation, and prediction

    Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette;Ryan Woodard;Wei-Xing Zhou;Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Is there a real-estate bubble in the US?

    Wei-Xing Zhou;Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette

  • Detrended partial cross-correlation analysis of two nonstationary time series influenced by common external forces

    Xi-Yuan Qian;Ya-Min Liu;Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Boris Podobnik

  • The components of empirical multifractality in financial returns

    Wei-Xing Zhou

  • The components of empirical multifractality in financial returns

    Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Detrended partial cross-correlation analysis of two nonstationary time series influenced by common external forces.

    Xi-Yuan Qian;Ya-Min Liu;Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Boris Podobnik

  • Comparing the performance of FA, DFA and DMA using different synthetic long-range correlated time series

    Ying-Hui Shao;Gao-Feng Gu;Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Calling patterns in human communication dynamics

    Zhi-Qiang Jiang;Wen-Jie Xie;Ming-Xia Li;Boris Podobnik;Boris Podobnik;Boris Podobnik

  • The US 2000-2002 Market Descent: How Much Longer and Deeper?

    D. Sornette;W. X. Zhou

  • Self-organizing Ising model of financial markets

    W.-X. Zhou;D. Sornette

  • Finite-size effect and the components of multifractality in financial volatility

    Wei-Xing Zhou

  • Statistical properties of visibility graph of energy dissipation rates in three-dimensional fully developed turbulence

    Chuang Liu;Wei-Xing Zhou;Wei-Kang Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
Rosario N. Mantegna
Rosario N. Mantegna University of Palermo
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Baowen Li
Baowen Li Southern University of Science and Technology
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University
Feixiong Cheng
Feixiong Cheng Case Western Reserve University

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