Academic Degrees

09/2013-06/2016 College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.h.D

09/2010-06/2012 College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, M.S.

09/2006-06/2010 School of Public Administration, Sichuan University B.S.

Professional Experience

07/2016-Present School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College of, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor.

07/2016 Center of Sociological and Internet Research, Saint-Petersburg State University, Research Associate.

09/2013-09/2014 Department of Political Science, Columbia University, Visiting Scholar.

Selected Publications

1. Zhang, W., Xu, X., Evans, R., & Yang, F. (2017). Towards Internationalization: A Critical Assessment of China’s Public Administration Research in a Global Context 2000–2014.International Public Management Journal, 1-31.

2. Zhang, W., Xu, X., Zhang, H., & Chen, Q. (2016). Online participation chaos: A case study of Chinese government-initiated e-polity square.International Journal of Public Administration, 39(14), 1195-1202.

3. Zhang, W., Xu, X., Ming, C., Mao, Z., Shi, J., & Xiang, Y. (2016). Surviving in the dispute: A bibliometric analysis of global GMF-related research, 1995–2014.Scientometrics, 109(1), 359-375.

4. Ma, J.,Zhang, W^*., Harris, K., Chen, Q., & Xu, X. (2016). Dying online: live broadcasts of Chinese emerging adult suicides and crisis response behaviors.BMC Public Health, 16(1), 774.

5. Chen, Q., Xu, X., Cao, B., &Zhang, W. (2016). Social media policies as responses for social media affordances: The case of China.Government Information Quarterly, 33(2), 313-324.

6. Zhang, H., Mao, Z., &Zhang, W. (2015). Design charrette as methodology for post-disaster participatory reconstruction: observations from a case study in Fukushima, Japan.Sustainability, 7(6), 6593-6609.

Zhang, H., Yan, W., Oba, A., &Zhang, W. (2014). Radiation-driven migration: the case of Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan, after the Fukushima nuclear accident.International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(9), 9286-9305.

Working Papers

1. Are all unhappy patients not alike? Mining the negative comments on China’s haodf.com

2. Suicidality, Psychopathology, and the Internet: Online Time vs. Online Behaviors

Awards and Honors

Top 10 academic talents in all Arts and Social Science graduate students in Huazhong University of Science and technology, 2012

Courses Taught

Undergraduate courses

Introduction to Information Management

Health Informatics