Congcong Wang

Advisor: Prof. Shuo Xu (徐硕)

Beijing University of Technology

Email: wittycong [at] gmail.com

I am a PhD student in Management Science and Engineering at Beijing University of Technology, advised by Prof. Shuo Xu (徐硕). From January 2025 to January 2026, I am a visiting PhD student at Indiana University Bloomington.

My research lies at the intersection of scientometrics, bibliometrics, and information science. I use citation data, network science, and topic modeling to study how scientific knowledge and emerging technologies develop over time. Recent topics include:

Main path analysis with intermediacy for tracing technology trajectories
Author–topic models with authorship credit allocation
Disruption indexes computed from open citation databases (OpenCitations, Dimensions)
Weak-signal scanning for emerging technology detection

Before my PhD, I earned a BSc in Information Management and Information Systems from the School of Information, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics (2016–2020), and joined Beijing University of Technology’s combined Master–PhD program in 2020.

Feel free to reach out if you’d like to chat about scientometrics, bibliometric methods, or potential collaborations.

news

Jun 01, 2025	Our paper on whether OpenCitations and Dimensions can replace Web of Science for computing disruption indexes appeared in Journal of Informetrics.
Jan 15, 2025	Started a one-year visiting PhD scholar position at Indiana University Bloomington.
Sep 01, 2024	New paper: A novel developmental trajectory discovery approach by integrating main path analysis and intermediacy published in Journal of Information Science.

selected publications

JBIM

Impact of digitalization on entrepreneurial ecosystems: a bibliometric exploration

Muhammad Farrukh Shahzad, Muhammad Asif, Shuo Xu, and 1 more author

Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 2025

Bib

@article{shahzad2025digitalization,
  title = {Impact of digitalization on entrepreneurial ecosystems: a bibliometric exploration},
  author = {Shahzad, Muhammad Farrukh and Asif, Muhammad and Xu, Shuo and Wang, Congcong},
  journal = {Journal of Business \& Industrial Marketing},
  volume = {40},
  number = {3},
  pages = {782--795},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Emerald Publishing Limited},
}

JIS

A novel developmental trajectory discovery approach by integrating main path analysis and intermediacy

Shuo Xu, Congcong Wang, Xin An, and 2 more authors

Journal of Information Science, 2024

Bib

@article{xu2024mainpath,
  title = {A novel developmental trajectory discovery approach by integrating main path analysis and intermediacy},
  author = {Xu, Shuo and Wang, Congcong and An, Xin and Hao, Liyuan and Yang, Guancan},
  journal = {Journal of Information Science},
  volume = {50},
  number = {3},
  pages = {651--672},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications},
}

JIS

An improved author-topic (AT) model with authorship credit allocation schemes

Shuo Xu, Liang Li, Congcong Wang, and 2 more authors

Journal of Information Science, 2025

Bib

@article{xu2025authortopic,
  title = {An improved author-topic (AT) model with authorship credit allocation schemes},
  author = {Xu, Shuo and Li, Liang and Wang, Congcong and An, Xin and Yang, Guancan},
  journal = {Journal of Information Science},
  volume = {51},
  number = {1},
  pages = {184--204},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications},
}

JOI

Do OpenCitations and Dimensions serve as an alternative to Web of Science for calculating disruption indexes?

Shuo Xu, Congcong Wang, Xin An, and 2 more authors

Journal of Informetrics, 2025

Bib

@article{xu2025disruption,
  title = {Do OpenCitations and Dimensions serve as an alternative to Web of Science for calculating disruption indexes?},
  author = {Xu, Shuo and Wang, Congcong and An, Xin and Deng, Yuan and Liu, Jing},
  journal = {Journal of Informetrics},
  volume = {19},
  number = {3},
  pages = {101685},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}