Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the Information School, and co-director of the Metascience Research Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am also an affiliated faculty member of the Data Science Institute, Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, and Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA). Prior to this, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa and Simmons University. I study science, scholarship, and the scientific workforce using massive data to inform decision-making in science policy and to better understand the doing of science. I teach in the areas of information technology, database management, statistical data analysis, data interoperability, information visualization, and research methods. I got my Ph.D. in Information Science (minor in Statistics) from the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington.

I am looking for highly-motivated Ph.D. students to work on cutting-edge problems in the science of science, scientific workforce diversity, scholarly data mining & analytics, and science policy. Students with interests and background in NLP, statististics, sociology, and information science are welcome to apply. Please contact me by email if you are interested.


Selected Publications

The tenure debate: How US faculty change their research practices post-tenure
Xiang Zheng, & Chaoqun Ni*
The effectiveness of peer review in identifying issues leading to retractions
Xiang Zheng, Jiajing Chen, Alison Tollas, & Chaoqun Ni*
Contextualizing gender disparities in online teaching evaluations for professors
Xiang Zheng, Shreyas Vastrad,Jibo He, & Chaoqun Ni*
Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications
Xiang Zheng, Jiajing Chen, Erjia Yan, & Chaoqun Ni*
The influencing mechanism of research training on Chinese STEM Ph.D. students’ career interests
Xiang Zheng, Wenhui Zhou, Chaoqun Ni, & Chuanyi Wang
How parenthood contributes to gender gaps in academia
Xiang Zheng, Haimiao Yuan, & Chaoqun Ni*
The gendered Nature of Authorship
Chaoqun Ni, Elise Smith, Haimiao Yuan, Vincent Larivière,& Cassidy R. Sugimoto
What we talk about when we talk about information literacy
Margaret Zimmerman, Chaoqun Ni
Examining International Research Collaboration during the COVID-19 Pandemic using arXiv Preprints
ISSI
Jiangen He, Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni
Standing on the shoulders of giants?—Faculty hiring in information schools
Journal of Informetrics
Zhiya Zuo, Kang Zhao, Chaoqun Ni
Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science
Vincent Larivière,Chaoqun Ni,Yves Gingras,Blaise Cronin & Cassidy R. Sugimoto
The academic advantage: Gender disparities in patenting
Cassidy R Sugimoto, Chaoqun Ni, Jevin D West, Vincent Larivière
Examining the Evolution of the Field of Public Administration through a Bibliometric Analysis of Public Administration Review
Public Administration Review
Chaoqun Ni, Cassidy R Sugimoto, Alice Robbin
Visualizing and comparing four facets of scholarly communication: producers, artifacts, concepts, and gatekeepers
Scientometrics
Chaoqun Ni, Cassidy R Sugimoto, Blaise Cronin
Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of variability and relationships with journal measures
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Cassidy R Sugimoto, Vincent Lariviére, Chaoqun Ni, Blaise Cronin
Venue‐author‐coupling: A measure for identifying disciplines through author communities
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Chaoqun Ni, Cassidy R Sugimoto, Jiepu Jiang
Degree, closeness, and betweenness: Application of group centrality measurements to explore macro-disciplinary evolution diachronically
ISSI
Chaoqun Ni, Cassidy Sugimoto, Jiepu Jiang
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Chaoqun Ni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

The Information School (iSchool)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Metascience Research Lab@UW-Madison
ResearchGate - Google Scholar

Contact

4230 Helen C. White Hall (map)
600 N Park Street, Madison, WI 53706

Teaching

Fall 2021
LIS 751: Database Management

LIS 707: Data Visualization and Communication for Decision Making

Spr 2022
LIS 751: Database Management

LIS464: Applied Database Design

Office hours

No regular office hours currently; Please request appointments by email.

Updates

**I recently got an NSF grant to study the mobility and retention of HBCU faculty!

**I am currently looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students to work with me. Please send me an email if you are interested.**