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D-Index
59
Citations
9491
World Ranking
1597
National Ranking
762

Xinguang Chen 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 Xinguang Chen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 222 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xinguang Chen 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 Xinguang Chen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 59 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xinguang Chen is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a total of 102 publications. Within this broader domain, Chen has contributed notably to the subfields of General Health Professions, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Health, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Biology.

Chen's work encompasses several major research topics, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth

The scientist has published in a variety of journals with notable frequencies in:

  • Global Health Journal
  • Global Health Research and Policy
  • BMC Public Health
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Chen has collaborated extensively with other researchers, frequently co-authoring with Bin Yu, Ding-Geng Chen, Zhenyu Ma, Yundong Li, and Qibin Yang.

Among Chen's recent publications are:

  • First two months of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic in China: real-time surveillance and evaluation with a second derivative model, 2020, Global Health Research and Policy
  • What is global health? Key concepts and clarification of misperceptions, 2020, Global Health Research and Policy

Chen has also contributed to edited volumes and authored books published by Springer Nature and Springer International Publishing, including:

  • Statistical Methods for Global Health and Epidemiology, 2020
  • Quantitative Epidemiology, 2021

Best Publications

  • Heterosexual transmission of HIV in China: a systematic review of behavioral studies in the past two decades.

    Hongmei Yang;Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Hongjie Liu

  • Personal Social Capital Scale: an instrument for health and behavioral research

    X. Chen;B. Stanton;J. Gong;X. Fang

  • Global prevalence of hypertension among people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Yunan Xu;Xinguang Chen;Kai Wang

  • English language use as a risk factor for smoking initiation among Hispanic and Asian American adolescents: evidence for mediation by tobacco-related beliefs and social norms.

    Jennifer B. Unger;Tess Boley Cruz;Louise Ann Rohrbach;Kurt M. Ribisl

  • Risk and protective factors for physical functioning in older adults with and without chronic conditions: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

    Teresa Seeman;Xinguang Chen

  • Optimal cutoffs for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment vary by race and ethnicity.

    Sadaf Arefi Milani;Michael Marsiske;Linda B. Cottler;Xinguang Chen

  • Smoking patterns of Asian-American youth in California and their relationship with acculturation

    Xinguang Chen;Jennifer B. Unger;Tess Boley Cruz;C.Anderson Johnson

  • First two months of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic in China: real-time surveillance and evaluation with a second derivative model

    Xinguang Chen;Xinguang Chen;Bin Yu

  • The role of social networks and media receptivity in predicting age of smoking initiation: a proportional hazards model of risk and protective factors.

    Jennifer B Unger;Xinguang Chen

  • Prior cigarette smoking initiation predicting current alcohol use: evidence for a gateway drug effect among California adolescents from eleven ethnic groups.

    Xinguang Chen;Jennifer B. Unger;Paula Palmer;Michelle D. Weiner

  • Reliability and Validity of the Personal Social Capital Scale 16 and Personal Social Capital Scale 8: Two Short Instruments for Survey Studies

    Peigang Wang;Peigang Wang;Xinguang Chen;Xinguang Chen;Jie Gong;Angela J. Jacques-Tiura

  • Application of the protection motivation theory in predicting cigarette smoking among adolescents in China.

    Yaqiong Yan;Angela J. Jacques-Tiura;Xinguang Chen;Nianhua Xie

  • Prevalence and factors of addictive Internet use among adolescents in Wuhan, China: interactions of parental relationship with age and hyperactivity-impulsivity.

    Xianhua Wu;Xinguang Chen;Juan Han;Juan Han;Heng Meng

  • Acculturative stress and influential factors among international students in China: a structural dynamic perspective.

    Bin Yu;Xinguang Chen;Shiyue Li;Yang Liu

  • Stressful life events among adolescents in Wuhan, China: Associations with smoking, alcohol use, and depressive symptoms

    Jennifer B. Unger;Yan Li;C. Anderson Johnson;Jie Gong

  • Alcohol intoxication and sexual risk behaviors among rural-to-urban migrants in China

    Danhua Lin;Xiaoming Li;Hongmei Yang;Xiaoyi Fang

  • Peer influences and access to cigarettes as correlates of adolescent smoking: a cross-cultural comparison of Wuhan, China, and California

    Jennifer B. Unger;Li Yan;Sohaila Shakib;Louise Ann Rohrbach

  • Attitudes toward anti-tobacco policy among California youth: associations with smoking status, psychosocial variables and advocacy actions

    Jennifer B. Unger;Louise Ann Rohrbach;Kim Ammann Howard;Tess Boley Cruz

  • Social Stigma, Social Capital Reconstruction, and Rural Migrants in Urban China: A Population Health Perspective

    Xinguang Chen;Bonita Stanton;Linda M. Kaljee;Xiaoyi Fang

  • Effects Through 24 Months of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention Program Based on Protection Motivation Theory Among Preadolescents in the Bahamas

    Jie Gong;Bonita Stanton;Sonja Lunn;Lynette Deveaux

  • HIV-related sexual behaviour among migrants and non-migrants in a rural area of China: role of rural-to-urban migration.

    Z. Hu;H. Liu;X. Li;B. Stanton

Frequent Co-Authors

Bonita Stanton
Bonita Stanton Seton Hall University
Xiaoyi Fang
Xiaoyi Fang Beijing Normal University
Jennifer B. Unger
Jennifer B. Unger University of Southern California
Danhua Lin
Danhua Lin Beijing Normal University
C. Anderson Johnson
C. Anderson Johnson Claremont Graduate University
Sylvie Naar-King
Sylvie Naar-King Florida State University
Steve Sussman
Steve Sussman University of Southern California
Jeffrey T. Parsons
Jeffrey T. Parsons City University of New York
Tess Boley Cruz
Tess Boley Cruz University of Southern California
Stanley P. Azen
Stanley P. Azen University of Southern California

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