---
title: "Weibo: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weibo
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weibo.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Weibo

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/7.md)

Posts and activity from social networks and investor forums.

- data category: Social media data
- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Weibo

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Social media data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/social-media-data.md



## 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 (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #64 of the 246 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 10 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 51 | 38 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Computers in Human Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-in-human-behavior.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-media.md) | 50 |
| 3 | [Twitter](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/twitter.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [sentiment analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sentiment-analysis.md) | 28 |
| 5 | fake news detection | 26 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 23 |
| 7 | social media misinformation | 17 |
| 8 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2017.02.009) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106207) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2024-02-27 | Wei Ju, Zheng Fang, Yiyang Gu et al. |
| 3 | 287 | 10.2 | [Deep Clustering: A Comprehensive Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2024.3403155) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102169) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-06-13 | Lixia Hu, Qingfei Min, Shengnan Han et al. |
| 5 | 243 | 5.0 | [Multimodal fake news detection via progressive fusion networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103120) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2022-10-29 | Jing Jing, Hongchen Wu, Jie Sun et al. |

## 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.

*What papers use Weibo together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 169 | 3.6 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 69 | 2.2 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 51 | 2.6 |
| [Reddit](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reddit.md) | Dataset | 31 | 4.8 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 24 | 2.2 |
| [LinkedIn](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/linkedin.md) | Dataset | 16 | 1.8 |
| [Taobao / Tmall / JD.com](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/taobao-tmall-jd-com.md) | Dataset | 10 | 3.2 |
| [Amazon Mechanical Turk](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/amazon-mechanical-turk.md) | Dataset | 8 | 1.3 |
| [Google Trends](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends.md) | Dataset | 8 | 1.1 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 8 | 0.3 |
| [Yelp](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/yelp.md) | Dataset | 8 | 2.1 |
| [Location and social recommendation data (Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp…](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/location-and-social-recommendation-data-gowalla-foursquare-yelp-epinions.md) | Dataset | 7 | 3.2 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-026-10214-4) | [Electronic Commerce Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105237) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2026.102473) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2026.102474) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117172) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weibo

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-weibo,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Weibo},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weibo}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).