Zhejun Zheng

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at iSchool, Nanjing University, co-advised by Prof. Lei Pei and Prof. Gang Li. Before that, I received my B.Mngt. degree from iSchool, Wuhan University in 2022. My researches lie in science of science and knowledge discovery. I am particularly interested in the fine-grained textual understanding of scientific publications, as well as the knowledge linkage and diffusion between disciplines.

Research Interests

• Science of Science: scientometrics, bibliometrics, science-technology-innovation (STI) studies
• Knowledge Discovery: data mining, knowledge organization, network analysis, text mining
• Interdisciplinary Research: inderdisciplinary knowledge integration, boundary spanning, knowledge transfer

News

• [Mar. 2025] Passed the Ph.D. qualification examination.
• [Oct. 2024] I presented our work on identifying transformative research on the 14th National Information Science PhD Forum!
• [Aug. 2024] Our paper about measuring science-technology knowledge linkage is accepted by Journal of Informetrics!
• [Apr. 2024] My Grant Proposal titled “Identifying Transformative Research in Basic Science through Knowledge Network Mining” is approved by the Department of Education of Jiangsu Province.
• [Sept. 2023] Moved to Soochow and started my research internship as a cross-department student at RIDMI, NJU.
• [Sept. 2022] Started my journey as a Ph.D. student at iSchool, Nanjing University (NJU).

Publication

Misc.

• My 16 personality trait: INTJ
• In my spare time, I enjoy travelling on bicycles🚴 and vlogging🎬. I am also an amateur in playing the guitar🎸, board games♟️ (German-style ones especially) and table tennis🏓.
• Though R&B music can always soothe my soul🎵, I enjoy live rock concerts and music festivals very much🤘.
• Though my friends always misunderstand that I am studying in a major borned for “hacking”, I am always there to effectively handle their software/code/tool-related issues.

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