Publications

Books

Yang, F., Zhang, X., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Research on information poverty in southwest ethnic villages: The perspective of small world life situation (Chinese Edition). Economic Science Press. ISBN 978-7-5218-2730-9

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Peer-reviewed Articles

Zhang, X., Yang, F., Wan, Y. (2023). The Rural Informatization Policies in China: The Power Dynamics and Policy Instruments. In: I. Sserwanga, et al (Eds.), Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer, Cham.

Zhang X., Yang F. (2023). What contextual factors affect information poverty? Evidence from ethnic villages in rural Southwest China. Library & Information Science Research. 45(1), 101224.

Yang, F., Ren Y., Wang S., & Zhang, X. (corresponding author) (2022). Health-related rumor control through social collaboration models: Lessons from cases in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare. 10(8):1475.

Yang, F., Zhao, S., & Zhang, X. (corresponding author) (2022). The policy trajectory of China’s globalizing Internet. Digital Transformation and Society, 1 (2): 182-197.

Yang, F., Shu, H., & Zhang, X. (corresponding author) (2021). Understanding the “Internet + Healthcare” in China: A policy text analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(7): e23779

Yang, F., Xu, L., & Zhang, X. (2020). Health information divide in the United States: A review from the medical institution, patient, community, and government. Library, (03): 67-72.

Zhang, X. & Yang, F. (2019) Rural informatization policy evolution in China: A bibliometric study. Scientometrics, 120(1), 129-153.

Yang, F, & Zhang, X. (corresponding author) (2019) Focal fields in literature on the information divide: the United States, China, United Kingdom, and India. Journal of Documentation, 76(2), 373-388.

Zhu, X., & Zhang, X., Li, G. (2019). Research on incentive mechanism of library reading activities: Based on World Book and Copyright Day cases of libraries in China. Journal of Academic Libraries, 37(04), 71-78.

Zhang, X., & Zhao, Y. (2019) A review of the research on Google Digital Library from the perspective of information law relationship. Information Research, 2019(10), 110-115.

Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., & Yang, F. (2018). A literature review of information poverty: Conception, research designs and details. Library Tribune, 38(08), 24-32+39.

Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., & Yang, F. (2018). The formation mechanism of information poverty in ethnic villages: A case study of Yi ethnic villages in Liangshan Prefecture. Library Tribune, 38(08), 40-46.

Peer-reviewed Conference Posters

Zhang, X. & Bartlett, J.C. (2023). Health Information Use of Older Adults With Diabetes: A Preliminary Analysis. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60: 1212-1214.

Zhang, X. & Bartlett, J.C. (2022). Older adults’ health information behaviour before the pandemic: a literature review. The 2022 Information Seeking in Context conference, Berlin, German, September 26 – 29,2022.

Bowen-Ziecheck, A., Yeboah, R., Zhang, X. Pienaar, C. & Bartlett., J.C. (2023) Preliminary results of a longitudinal study of health information-seeking behaviour pre-and post-COVID. The 2023 Canadian Health Libraries Association conference, Halifax, Canada, June 3-5, 2023

Zhang, X. & Bartlett, J.C. (2021). What does the literature tell us? Reviewing literature reviews on information behaviour. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58: 872-874.

Zhang, X. & Bartlett, J.C. (2022). How is health information used? Lessons from older adults with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 Canadian Health Libraries Association conference, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 11-13, 2022.