EDUCATION
2017 |
PhD, Information Science, Nanjing University, China Dissertation title: Identifying sleeping beauty publications in biomedical sciences using citation analysis |
2010 |
MS, Medical Informatics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
2008 |
BS, Medical Informatics, Binzhou Medical University, China |
RESEARCH/TEACHING POSITIONS
11/2019-present Assistant Professor, National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University
7/2019-10/2019 Associate Research Professor, Institute of Medical Information, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC)
1/2014-10/2019 Assistant Research Professor, Institute of Medical Information, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC)
8/2010-12/2013 Research Assistant, Institute of Medical Information, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC)
Honors and Awards
• Young Information Scientist Award, China Society for Scientific and Technical Information
• Young Elite Scientists, China Association for Science and Technology
• Best Paper Award, ASIS&T SIG-KM International Research Symposium 2022
Fundings
National Key R&D Program for Young Scientists
2022YFF0712000
PI: Jian Du
11/2022 - 10/2025
Title: Constructing Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs from Biomedical and Epidemiological Research Findings
National Natural Science Foundation of China
72074006
PI: Jian Du
01/2021 - 12/2024
Title: Representing and Measuring Scientific Uncertainty in Biomedical Knowledge
National Natural Science Foundation of China
71603280
PI: Jian Du
01/2017 - 12/2019
Title: Identifying sleeping beauty publications in biomedical sciences by citation analysis
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. He, Zixuan; Yang, Lan; Li, Xiaofan; Du, Jian*. Discrepancies in reported results between trial registries and journal articles for AI clinical research. EClinicalMedicine, 2025, 80: 103066
2. Xin Guo; Jiakang Huo; Wanwei Dai; Tong Wang; Han Xiao; Wenjing Zhao; Xuanyu Shi; Xueheng Wang; Yang Gao; Zhi Li; Rui Zhan; Wenli Xu; Jian Du*; Erdan Dong*. Global rehabilitation research equality index across health conditions during 1990–2019: an alignment analysis between bibliographic and epidemiological data. Science Bulletin, 2025, 70(7):1057-1061.
3. Wenjing Zhao; Chi Yuan; Zixuan He; Jian Du*. Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the activeness, efficiency, and international collaboration of clinical trials. Quantitative Science Studies, 2025, 1–30.
4. Li L, Du J, Sun F, Li Z, Chen T, Shi X. Diet therapy for the management of obesity in children and adolescents: Overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2025, 1-11
5. Li L, Sun F, Du J, Li Z, Chen T, Shi X. Behavior-change lifestyle interventions for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents: A scoping review. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2025 Jan;1543(1):31-41.
6. Xie Shiyao, Zhao Wenjing, Deng Guanghui, He Guohua, He Na, Lu Zhenhua, Hu Weihua, Zhao Mingming, Du Jian*; Utilizing ChatGPT as a scientific reasoning engine to differentiate conflicting evidence and summarize challenges in controversial clinical questions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2024,31(7):1551-1560.
7. Shi, Xuanyu; Du, Jian*. Constructing a finer-grained representation of clinical trial results from ClinicalTrials.gov. Scientific Data, 2024, 11(1): 41.
8. Wang, Shuang; He, Xin; Du, Jian*. Scientific commentaries are dealing with uncertainty and complexity in science. Information Processing & Management, 2024, 61(4): 103707
9. Shuang Wang; Kai Zhang; Jian Du*. PubMed captures more fine-grained bibliographic data on scientific commentary than Web of Science: a comparative analysis. BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 2024;31:e101017.
10. Yongmei Bai; Xuanyu Shi; Jian Du*. A computable biomedical knowledge system: Toward rapidly building candidate-directed acyclic graphs. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2024; 17: 307–316.
11. Xuanyu Shi; Daoxin Yin; Yongmei Bai; Wenjing Zhao; Xin Guo; Huage Sun; Dongliang Cui; Jian Du*. A Bibliographic Dataset of Health Artificial Intelligence Research. Health Data Science, 2024; 4:0125.
12. Wang, Shuang; Du, Jian*. A comment-driven evidence appraisal approach to promoting research findings into practice when only uncertain evidence is available. Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023, 21(1): 25.
13. Shi, Xuanyu; Du, Jian*. Distinguishing transformative from incremental clinical evidence: A classifier of clinical research using textual features from abstracts and citing sentences. Journal of Informetrics, 2022, 16, (2):101262.
14. Guo, Xin; Chen, Yuming; Du, Jian*, Dong, Erdan. Extracting and Measuring Uncertain Biomedical Knowledge from Scientific Statements. Journal of Data and Information Science, 2022, 7(2): 1-25.
15. Guo, Xin; Huo, Jiakang; Dai, Wanwei; Wang, Zhongyan; Du Jian*; Zheng, Xiaoying*; Dong, Erdan*. Current State and Challenges of Rehabilitation Needs Among Elderly - China, 1990-2019. China CDC Weekly, 2022, 4(39):871-874
16. Bai, Yongmei; Du, Jian*. Measuring the impact of health research data in terms of data citations by scientific publications. Scientometrics, 2022, 127: 6881–6893.
17. Li, Xiaoying; Peng, Suyuan; Du, Jian*. Towards medical knowmetrics: representing and computing medical knowledge using semantic predications as the knowledge unit and the uncertainty as the knowledge context. Scientometrics, 2021,126, (7):6225-6251.
18. Du, Jian; Li, Peixin; Haunschild, Robin; Sun, Yinan; Tang, Xiaoli. Paper-patent citation linkages as early signs for predicting delayed recognized knowledge: Macro and micro evidence. Journal of Informetrics, 2021, 14, (2):101017.
19. Du, Jian#; Chen, Ting#; Zhang, Luxia. Measuring the Interactions Between Health Demand, Informatics Supply, and Technological Applications in Digital Medical Innovation for China: Content Mapping and Analysis. JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021, 9, (7): e26393.
20. Du, Jian; Li, Xiaoying. A knowledge graph of combined drug therapies using semantic predications from biomedical literature: Algorithm development. JMIR medical informatics, 2020, 8, (4): e18323.
21. Du, Jian; Li, Peixin; Guo, Qianying; Tang, Xiaoli. Measuring the knowledge translation and convergence in pharmaceutical innovation by funding-science-technology-innovation linkages analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 2019, 13(1): 132-148.
22. Du, Jian; Wu, Yishan. A parameter-free index for identifying under-cited sleeping beauties in science. Scientometrics, 2018, 116, (2):959-971.
23. Du, Jian; Wu, Yishan. A bibliometric framework for identifying “princes” who wake up the “sleeping beauty” in challenge-type scientific discoveries. Journal of Data and Information Science, 2016, 1, (1):50-68.
24. Du, Jian; Tang, Xiaoli; Wu, Yishan. The effects of research level and article type on the differences between citation metrics and F 1000 recommendations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016, 67, (12):3008-3021.
25. Du, Jian; Tang, Xiaoli. Natural products against cancer: A comprehensive bibliometric study of the research projects, publications, patents and drugs. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, 2014, 10(5): 27-37.
26. Du, Jian; Tang, Xiaoli. Perceptions of author order versus contribution among researchers with different professional ranks and the potential of harmonic counts for encouraging ethical co-authorship practices. Scientometrics, 2013, 96(1): 277-295.
27. Si Huaxin; Yu, Jiaqi; Liu Qinqin; Li Yanyan; Jin Yaru; Bian Yanhui; Qiao Xiaoxia; Wang Wenyu; Ji Lili; Wang Yan; Du Jian; Wang Cuili. Clinical practice guidelines for frailty vary in quality but guide primary health care: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2023 Sep:161:28-38.
28. Wang Huai-Yu; Du Jian; Yang Yu; Lin Hongbo; Bao Beiyan; Ding Guohui; Yang Chao; Kong Guilan; Zhang Luxia. Rapid identification of chronic kidney disease in electronic health record database using computable phenotype combining a common data model. Chinese Medical Journal, 2023, 136(7): 874-876.
29. Zhao, Linyan; Zhao, Yang, Du, Jian; Desloge, Allissa; Hu, Zhiyong; Cao, Gaofang. Mapping the Research on Health Policy and Services in the Last Decade (2009–2018): A Bibliometric Analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Apr 27;10:773668.
30. Wang, Xuefeng; Zhang, Shuo; Liu, Yuqin; Du, Jian; Huang, Heng. How pharmaceutical innovation evolves: The path from science to technological development to marketable drugs. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021, 167: 120698.
31. Wang, Xue; Yang, Xuemei; Du, Jian; Wang Xuwen; Li, Jiao; Tang, Xiaoli. A deep learning approach for identifying biomedical breakthrough discoveries using context analysis. Scientometrics, 2021, 126 (7): 5531-5549.
32. Wang, huaiyu; Ding, Guohui; Lin, Hongbo; Sun, Xiaoyu; Yang, Chao; Peng, Suyuan; Wang, Jinwei; Du, Jian; Zhao, Yu; Chen, Zhengyue; Bao, Beiyan; Kong, Guilan; Zhang, Luxia. Influence of doctors’ perception on the diagnostic status of chronic kidney disease: results from 976 409 individuals with electronic health records in China. Clinical Kidney Journal, 2021, 14(11): 2428-2436.
33. Wang, Huaiyu; Lv, Xiaozhen; Du, Jian; Kong, Guilan; Zhang, Luxia. Age-and gender-specific prevalence of frailty and its outcomes in the longevous population: the chinese longitudinal healthy longevity study. Frontiers in medicine, 2021, 8: 719806.
34. Zhao, Yong; Du, Jian; Wu, Yishan. The impact of J. D. Bernal’s thoughts in the science of science upon China: Implications for today’s quantitative studies of science. Quantitative Science Studies, 2020, 1(3): 959-968.
35. Xing, Zhaopeng; Yu, Fei; Du, Jian; Walker, Jennifer S; Paulson, Claire B; Mani, Nandita S; Song, Lixin. Conversational Interfaces for Health: Bibliometric Analysis of Grants, Publications, and Patents. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019, 21(11): e14672.
36. Tang, Xiaoli; Du, Jian. The performance of China's biomedical innovation: a scientometric analysis. Science China Life Sciences, 2016, 59(10): 1074-1082.
Peer-Reviewed Conference/Workshop Publications in Proceedings
37. Wang, Shuang; Wang, Huaiyu*, Du, Jian*. Discovering causal paths to diabetic nephropathy by combining computable biomedical knowledge with graph mining algorithms. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2023 Apr 29:2022:1118-1124.
38. Zhao, Wenjing; Ma Jintao; Du Jian*. Identifying and Classifying Scientific Unknowns in Clinical Literature. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International ISKO Conference, 2024, Wuhan, China. 2024, pp 297-314.
39. Zhao, Wenjing; Zhang, Nan; Du Jian*. Constructing a Map of Contradictory Evidences Based on Semantic Triples: A Case Study of Cardiovascular Diseases. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International ISKO Conference, 2024, Wuhan, China. 2024, pp 465-474.
40. Liang, Zitao; Shi, Xuanyu; Du, Jian*. Extraction and Co-Occurrence Analysis of Serious Adverse Events in Studies on Clinicaltrials.Gov. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International ISKO Conference, 2024, Wuhan, China. 2024, pp 479-484.
41. Shi, Xuanyu; Xie, Shiyao; Wang, Wenjia; Chen, Ting; Du, Jian*. An automated approach to extracting positive and negative clinical research results. Proceeding of the 19th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI2023). Bloomington, Indiana, USA, July 2-5, 2023.
42. Zhao, Wenjing; Du, Jian*. Has COVID-19 Crowded Out Medical Research Resources from Non-COVID-19 Diseases? ---- Observations From Clinical Trials. Proceeding of the 19th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI2023). Bloomington, Indiana, USA, July 2-5, 2023.
43. Bai, Yongmei; Sun, Huage; Du, Jian*. A PICO-based Knowledge Graph for Representing Clinical Evidence. The 2nd Workshop on Extraction and Evaluation of Knowledge Entities from Scientific Documents (EEKE2021) at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021 (JCDL2021), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sep 27-30, 2021.
Invited Book Chapters
44. Zhao, Yong; Han, Jiayan; Du, Jian, Wu, Yishan. Origin and Impact: A Study of the Intellectual Transfer of Professor Henk F. Moed’s Works by Using Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS). In Evaluative Informetrics: The Art of Metrics-Based Research Assessment 2020 (pp. 145-162). Springer, Cham.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles in Chinese (Indexed by Chinese Science Citation Database in Web of Science)
45. Du Jian; Zhao Wenjing; Guo Xin; Dong Erdan. Modeling the pulling and pushing powerin medical research: Unmet health needs and unsettled scientific questions. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2023, 68(19): 2537-2543
46. Du Jian; Kong Guilan; Li Pengfei; Bai Yongmei; Zhang Luxia. On the Concepts and Approaches of Computable Knowledge in Biomedical and Health Sciences. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, 2021, 40(11): 1221-1233
47. Du Jian. Measuring Uncertainty of Medical Knowledge: A Literature Review. Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, 2020, 4(10): 14-27
48. Du Jian; Sun Yinan; Zhang Yang; Tang Xiaoli. Characterizing and detecting the early scientometric signs of the potential transformative research. Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019, 33(1): 88-98
49. Du Jian; Wu Yishan. Sleeping beauties in science: Key characteristics, early identification clues and science policy implications. Studies in Science of Science, 2018, 36(11): 1938-1945
50. Du Jian; Wu Yishan. The science, technology and innovation policy studies in China: A scientometric analysis. Studies in Science of Science, 2017, 35(9): 1289-1300
51. Du Jian; Tang Xiaoli. Precision medicine: concept origins and evolution, research areas and policy recommendations for China. Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016, 30(1): 20-26
52. Du Jian; Tang Xiaoli; Zhang Yanwu; Zhang Bin; Jiang Zhuming. Accelerating the transition among T1, T2, and T3 phases of translational medicine through citation networks. Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013,21(2): 98-102
SOFTWARE
53. Computable Biomedical Knowledge (CBK) System. To facilitate the use of large-scale triple sets in SemMedDB, we have developed a computable biomedical knowledge (CBK) system (https://cbk.bjmu.edu.cn/), a website that enables direct retrieval of related publications and their corresponding triples without the necessity of writing SQL statements.
54. Health Nature Language Processing System (HNLP System): www.hnlp.bjmu.edu.cn
TEACHING
Knowledge Discovery in Bibliographic Databases, Instructor (Spring 2020-2025)
Biomedical Literature Mining for Network Medicine, Instructor (Spring 2024-2025)
SERVICE
Editorial Boards
• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Data (2024-)
• Editorial Board Member, Health Data Science (2021-)
• Editorial Board Member BMC Medical Informatics and Decision-making (2024-)
Professional Memberships
• Committee Member, Medical Informatics Branch, Chinese Medical Association
• Committee Member, Bioinformatics Branch, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association
• Standing Committee Member & Secretary-General, Hospital Library and Information Specialized Committee, Chinese Hospital Association
• Standing Committee Member, Health Data Science Specialized Committee, Chinese Hospital Association
• Committee Member, Scientometrics and Informatrics Branch, China Science and Technology Policy Research Association
Program Committees
• AI + Informetrics (AII) Workshop (2021-2025)
• Extraction and Evaluation of Knowledge Entities from Scientific Documents (EEKE) Workshop (2020-2025)
• NetSci 2025 Satellite Workshop
Complete List of Published Work
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8436-778X
