Weibo

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Names searched for: Weibo

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 285 archived papers mentioned Weibo in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (17).
Weibo was mentioned in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #68 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Information Systems (3) and AI (2).
Most of them appeared in Telematics and Informatics (2), Electronic Commerce Research (1) and Information Processing & Management (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Weibo was mentioned in 503 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (214), information systems (88) and management (43).
113 of them were published in 2025, against 24 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sun Yat-sen University (14), City University of Hong Kong (10) and Peking University (9).
The journals publishing most of them were Information Processing & Management (31), Expert Systems with Applications (21) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (9).
The most-cited of them is “Effects of tourism information quality in social media on destination image formation: The case of Sina Weibo” (Information & Management, 2017), with 481 citations.
Papers use Weibo most often with Twitter / X (169), Facebook (69) and YouTube / TikTok (51); it has 41 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	78	115	92	285

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	10	8	5	13	11	24	25	29	51	38
Information Systems	6	6	9	11	12	8	8	6	12	10
Management	0	0	0	2	2	8	5	9	9	8
Tourism and Hospitality	2	2	1	2	0	4	4	4	4	6
Marketing	0	0	1	1	3	1	2	9	8	2
Economics	0	1	2	0	0	2	4	7	7	3
Finance	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	4	10	3
Higher Education and Research	5	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	3	4
Operations Research	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	3	4
Health Economics and Policy	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	6	0
Statistics	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
All categories	24	19	22	31	31	48	55	77	113	83

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Information Processing & Management	31
2	Expert Systems with Applications	21
3	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	9
4	Artificial Intelligence Review	8
5	Telematics and Informatics	8
6	Computers in Human Behavior	8
7	Information Fusion	8
8	Journal Of Big Data	8
9	Scientometrics	7
10	Public Relations Review	7

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Sun Yat-sen University	14
2	City University of Hong Kong	10
3	Peking University	9
4	Sichuan University	9
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences	8
6	Harbin Institute of Technology	8
7	Tsinghua University	8
8	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	7
9	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	7
10	University of Science and Technology of China	7

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	218
2	United States	51
3	United Kingdom	47
4	Hong Kong	26
5	Australia	20
6	Singapore	13
7	Spain	10
8	Netherlands	10
9	Canada	9
10	Germany	8

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	Weibo	154
2	social media	50
3	Twitter	37
4	sentiment analysis	28
5	fake news detection	26
6	COVID-19 pandemic	23
7	social media misinformation	17
8	large language models	15
9	misinformation	15
10	rumor detection	13

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	481	4.1	Effects of tourism information quality in social media on destination image formation: The case of Sina Weibo	Information & Management	2017-02-21	Sungeun Kim, Kyung Young Lee, Soo Il Shin et al.
2	345	10.7	A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Graph Representation Learning	Neural Networks	2024-02-27	Wei Ju, Zheng Fang, Yiyang Gu et al.
3	287	10.2	Deep Clustering: A Comprehensive Survey	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2024-07-04	Yazhou Ren, Jingyu Pu, Zhimeng Yang et al.
4	261	3.4	Understanding followers’ stickiness to digital influencers: The effect of psychological responses	International Journal of Information Management	2020-06-13	Lixia Hu, Qingfei Min, Shengnan Han et al.
5	243	5.0	Multimodal fake news detection via progressive fusion networks	Information Processing & Management	2022-10-29	Jing Jing, Hongchen Wu, Jie Sun et al.

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use Weibo most often with Twitter / X (169), Facebook (69) and YouTube / TikTok (51); it has 41 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok. The whole network →

What papers use Weibo together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Twitter / X	Dataset	169	3.6
Facebook	Dataset	69	2.2
YouTube / TikTok	Dataset	51	2.6
Reddit	Dataset	31	4.8
Wikipedia	Dataset	24	2.2
LinkedIn	Dataset	16	1.8
Taobao / Tmall / JD.com	Dataset	10	3.2
Amazon Mechanical Turk	Dataset	8	1.3
Google Trends	Dataset	8	1.1
ImageNet	Dataset	8	0.3
Yelp	Dataset	8	2.1
Location and social recommendation data (Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp…	Dataset	7	3.2

Papers mentioning Weibo in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-11-02	The impact of social media virtual idols on user engagement: perspective of information dissemination	Electronic Commerce Research	Rongqin Liu, 孟丹, Yun Zhang et al.	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Nanning University; Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China; …
2026-10-22	Exploring the evolution of public cognition toward generative AI through sentiment-topic mining and community detection in social graphs	Information Processing & Management	Ji'an Wu, Hong Chen, Ruyin Long	Jiangnan University
2026-10-19	From curiosity to churn: A longitudinal analysis of user engagement with an LLM-powered social bot	Telematics and Informatics	Chenxi Lin, Wenqi Wang, Zhuoren Jiang	Zhejiang University
2026-10-15	Exploring the social media attention to climate change and its predictive value in the stock market	Telematics and Informatics	Yu Bai, Fangfei Yu, Tiantian wu et al.	Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-11	Beyond semantic consistency: Event-level multimodal fake news detection via mutual guidance	Knowledge-Based Systems	Shujie Yang, Dengtai Tan, Jing Wang et al.	Gansu Institute of Political Science and Law

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Weibo. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weibo

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Weibo},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weibo}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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