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62
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Overview

Weiguo Fan is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their scholarly contributions span several fields, primarily within Computer Science and Social Sciences. The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Communication, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The research topics addressed by Weiguo Fan reflect a focus on digital and social media environments, knowledge management, and information systems. Main thematic areas of their work include:

  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • Expert Finding and Q&A Systems

Weiguo Fan has published extensively in various academic venues, with notable frequent publication outlets including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Information Processing & Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Weiguo Fan illustrate a focus on online communities, product innovation, and social media platforms. These include:

  • "Finding Useful Solutions in Online Knowledge Communities: A Theory-Driven Design and Multilevel Analysis" (2020), published in Information Systems Research
  • "User idea implementation in open innovation communities: Evidence from a new product development crowdsourcing community" (2020), published in Information Systems Journal
  • "Mining product innovation ideas from online reviews" (2020), published in Information Processing & Management
  • "What makes user-generated content more helpful on social media platforms? Insights from creator interactivity perspective" (2022), published in Information Processing & Management
  • "A Permissioned Blockchain-Based Identity Management and User Authentication Scheme for E-Health Systems" (2020), published in IEEE Access

Collaborations form an important part of Weiguo Fan's research output, with frequent co-authors including Qianzhou Du, Qingfeng Zeng, Xinyin Xiang, Yuejie Zhang, and Tao Zhang.

Best Publications

  • Social presence, trust, and social commerce purchase intention

    Baozhou Lu;Weiguo Fan;Mi Zhou

  • A comparative analysis of major online review platforms: Implications for social media analytics in hospitality and tourism

    Zheng Xiang;Qianzhou Du;Yufeng Ma;Weiguo Fan

  • The power of social media analytics

    Weiguo Fan;Michael D. Gordon

  • Tapping the power of text mining

    Weiguo Fan;Linda Wallace;Stephanie Rich;Zhongju Zhang

  • A new image classification method using CNN transfer learning and web data augmentation

    Dongmei Han;Qigang Liu;Weiguo Fan

  • Understanding the determinants of online review helpfulness: A meta-analytic investigation

    Hong Hong;Di Xu;G. Alan Wang;Weiguo Fan

  • Determinants of users’ continuance of social networking sites: A self-regulation perspective

    Hui Lin;Weiguo Fan;Patrick Y.K. Chau

  • Probabilistic question answering on the Web

    Dragomir R. Radev;Weiguo Fan;Hong Qi;Harris Wu

  • Optimizing web search using web click-through data

    Gui-Rong Xue;Hua-Jun Zeng;Zheng Chen;Yong Yu

  • Vehicle defect discovery from social media

    Alan S. Abrahams;Jian Jiao;G. Alan Wang;Weiguo Fan

  • An Integrated Text Analytic Framework for Product Defect Discovery

    Alan S. Abrahams;Weiguo Fan;G. Alan Wang;Zhongju John Zhang

  • Effects of user-provided photos on hotel review helpfulness: An analytical approach with deep leaning

    Yufeng Ma;Zheng Xiang;Qianzhou Du;Weiguo Fan

  • Improving web search results using affinity graph

    Benyu Zhang;Hua Li;Yi Liu;Lei Ji

  • The joint moderating role of trust propensity and gender on consumers' online shopping behavior

    Yue Chen;Xiangbin Yan;Weiguo Fan;Michael Gordon

  • ExpertRank: A topic-aware expert finding algorithm for online knowledge communities

    G. Alan Wang;Jian Jiao;Alan S. Abrahams;Weiguo Fan

  • A genetic programming framework for content-based image retrieval

    Ricardo da S. Torres;Alexandre X. Falcão;Marcos A. Gonçalves;João P. Papa

  • Effective and efficient dimensionality reduction for large-scale and streaming data preprocessing

    Jun Yan;Benyu Zhang;Ning Liu;Shuicheng Yan

  • Learning to advertise

    Anísio Lacerda;Marco Cristo;Marcos André Gonçalves;Weiguo Fan

  • Project description and crowdfunding success: an exploratory study

    Mi Jamie Zhou;Baozhou Lu;Weiguo Patrick Fan;G Alan Wang

  • Competitive Actions and Dynamics in the Digital Age: An Empirical Investigation of Social Networking Firms

    Devi R. Gnyawali;Weiguo Fan;James Penner

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Fox
Edward A. Fox Virginia Tech
Marcos André Gonçalves
Marcos André Gonçalves Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Jun Yan
Jun Yan Microsoft (United States)
Dragomir R. Radev
Dragomir R. Radev Yale University
Benyu Zhang
Benyu Zhang Ant Group
Ricardo da Silva Torres
Ricardo da Silva Torres Wageningen University & Research
Shuicheng Yan
Shuicheng Yan National University of Singapore
Qiang Yang
Qiang Yang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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