Bin Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bin Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bin |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | BIN CHEN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3287-934X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 179 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 179 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cross-platformization
This study examines how seven right-leaning media organizations utilize cross-platformization strategies to reach audiences across multiple platforms; in this case, Twitter and Truth Social. Focusing on both content volume and story packaging, we collect right-leaning media organizations’ social media posts and content from the 2022 U.S. midterm election. Combining computational and qualitative methods, we find that outlets posted only a small sh…
Replacing experts by machine in determining the test road grade of autonomous vehicles
A narrative review of nutritional components, health effects, and disease prevention mechanisms of dairy products
As an integral component of the human diet, dairy products are rich in high-quality protein, lactoferrin, conjugated linoleic acid, calcium, vitamin D, and various other nutrients and bioactive compounds. They exert broad health benefits through core mechanisms involving multiple pathways and targets. This article systematically reviews the nutritional composition of dairy products, provides an in-depth analysis of their fundamental mechanisms—su…
Negative life events and problematic smartphone use among university students
Objectives This study explores how negative life events relate to problematic smartphone use among university students and examines whether self-efficacy acts as a mediator and physical activity as a moderator in this relationship. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted among undergraduates at eight universities in Nanchang, China, from November 2024 to March 2025. Validated instruments were used to assess negative life events (ASLEC), se…
Buzz Across Borders
ChatGPT ignited a global AI media hype. Surprisingly, China ranks as the leading country in online searches for “ChatGPT,” despite the platform’s limited accessibility there. In this study, we explore how the ChatGPT media hype was produced within a framework of international information flow and the localization of a global issue. We employ computational methods to investigate the inter-media and intra-media dynamics shaping the ChatGPT media hy…
Stage-specific integrated resilience of urban drainage systems through nature-based solutions
Towards spatial equality in China’s protected area system
Optimal Scale of Greenspace Exposure for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Success
Synergistic impacts of 2D/3D grey-green spatial morphology on land surface temperature across local climate zones in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Measuring the cumulative cooling effects from 3D building and tree shading in high-rise and high-density urban environments
Gaming modern Chinese history
Focusing on the strategy game The Opium War (1997), developed in mainland China, this article argues that, while designed as a patriotic product about the Opium War, the game moves beyond simple propaganda. Through its rule-based systems, it constructs a nuanced historical argument that operationalizes the tension within the Marxist concept of historical inevitability and contingency. The inevitability of the Qing Empire’s structural weakness is …
Style and substance on The Alex Jones Show predict InfoWars sales
When Demand Mixes and Matches with Supply
The nonprofit sector is a vital component of good governance, yet it remains unclear how different factors interact to shape its development. This study employs a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to examine how demand- and supply-side factors combine to influence nonprofit sector density across jurisdictions, using Chinese social service nonprofits as the empirical context. We identify three pathways to high nonprofit sec…
Assessing and improving the resilience of a stakeholder cooperation network for urban waterlogging disaster management from the perspective of social capital
A framework for assessing commuting delay driven economic loss of urban waterlogging
The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Flow Experience
In the highly immersive interaction context of short-form video platforms, flow experience presents a dual facilitation-risk effect. However, existing research has primarily examined its role from a single perspective and lacks a systematic investigation of boundary conditions for protective psychological mechanisms. This study integrates flow theory, habit theory, and conservation of resources theory to develop a dual-pathway model linking flow …
In Punishment We Trust
Research on fact-checking journalism has predominantly centered on Western countries, often overlooking how distinct political media systems in non-Western countries might influence its practices and effectiveness. This article addresses this gap by focusing on government-led fact-checking in China, referred to as “rumor-debunking,” and we argue that compared to the Western mode of fact-checking, rumor debunking differs significantly with its uni…
Different Country, Different Truth? A Cross-Country Comparison of Fact-Checking Journalism During Public Health Crises
Despite recent shifts in support from major digital platforms, fact-checking journalism has been expanding globally over the past decade. However, little is known about how fact-checking varies across countries with different media systems and cultures. Taking a cross-national comparative approach, we explore how different political and media environments shape the fact-checking content. This study employs content analysis and statistical testing…
A Data-Driven Crowd Simulation Framework Integrating Physics-Informed Machine Learning With Navigation Potential Fields
Crowd simulation plays a crucial role in the prevention and management of public safety events in cities. However, the inherent complexity and diverse nature of human behaviors present substantial challenges in developing realistic and precise simulation models. Traditional rule-based physical models are limited by their reliance on fixed physical formulas and parameters, which hinders their ability to effectively handle the complex tasks associa…
The latent profile structure of negative emotion in female college students and its impact on eating behavior
Objective Negative emotions (NE) are strongly linked to disordered eating among female university students, yet the underlying mechanisms require further clarification. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between NE and eating behavior (EB) within this population, specifically examining the mediating role of physical exercise (PE) and exploring the latent profiles of NE through a person-centered approach. Methods An online survey was…
Exploring self-rated health, physical activity, and social anxiety among female Chinese university students
Background: Physical inactivity is a significant public health issue among female college students. This study aimed to explore the complex relationship between self-rated health (SRH), social anxiety (SA), and physical activity (PA) in a sample of female Chinese university students, employing both variable-centered and person-centered approaches. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a sample of 1,452 female Chinese university stu…
Application of the age-period-cohort model in tuberculosis
Up to now, tuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health problem, posing a serious threat to human health. Traditional methods for analyzing time-varying trends, such as age and period, tend to ignore the poor impact of birth cohorts, which is an important factor in the development of TB. The age-period-cohort (APC) model, a statistical method widely used in recent decades in economics, sociology, and epidemiology, can quantitatively estimate …
Disparities in the burden of tuberculosis associated with urbanization across 178 countries and territories
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, there is limited quantitative evidence on the impact of urbanization on TB burden. We aimed to assess the relationship between urbanization and the global TB burden. Methods: Using multi-source data, we developed a composite index of urbanization across 178 countries and territories from 2012 to 2019, incorporating the proportion of urban pop…
The relationship between positive exercise experiences and mobile phone addiction tendencies in older adults
Background While the literature on mobile phone addiction (MPA) is extensive, it has overwhelmingly focused on younger populations, leaving its manifestation and impact among older adults as a critical research gap. Positive exercise experience (PEE) is a potential protective factor, yet the dynamic, reciprocal relationship between PEE and MPA in later life is poorly understood. This study addresses this gap. This study aimed to (a) examine the s…
Incidence rate and related factors of depression in older adult patients with somatization symptoms
Background This study aimed to determine the incidence and predictors of depressive symptoms among older adults presenting with somatization symptoms. A prospective cohort design was used to follow participants over time and evaluate the emergence of depressive symptoms. Methods Between July 2020 and November 2022, 162 community-dwelling adults aged ≥60 years were enrolled from three community health centers in Fujian Province. Participants scree…
Influences on the Size and Scope of Networks for Social Service Delivery
Local social service agencies throughout the world have begun encouraging or requiring social service providers to form community-based networks for the delivery of publicly funded social services. Little is known, however, about the nature of the resulting networks. In this article we develop a model of organizational, programmatic, and community influences on the size and scope of interorganizational networks for social service delivery. We the…
Why Do Countries Respond Differently to Covid-19? A Comparative Study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan
Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are important public health tools to fight against COVID-19. Governments around the world have instituted a variety of NPIs to modify individuals’ behavior, giving rise to four distinct pandemic response strategies: nudge, mandate, decree, and boost. To better understand the different policy choices involved in these strategies, four countries including Sweden, China, France, and Japan were compared to ident…
Factors Influencing Participation in Bilateral Interprovincial Agreements
China’s provincial governments increasingly participate in interprovincial agreements (IPAs) to address regional policy problems. Nevertheless, limited research investigates the determinants of a province’s propensity to engage in bilateral agreements with another province. This article uses network data and employs network regressions to investigate this question in the context of China’s Pan Pearl River Delta (PPRD) regional network governance.…
Public–private partnerships as a governance response to sustainable urbanization
Spontaneous or Constructed? Neighborhood Governance Reforms in Los Angeles and Shanghai
Can grassroots government succeed on its own without state involvement? By comparing approaches in two metropolitan governments—neighborhood councils in Los Angeles and resident committees in Shanghai—Bin Chen of the City University of New York at Baruch College, Terry L. Cooper of the University of Southern California, and Rong Sun of Shanghai Tongji University underscore the need to understand the interrelationships among the political and admi…
Social asset or social liability? How partisanship moderates the relationship between social capital and Covid-19 vaccination rates across United States counties
Culture, Institution, and Covid-19 First-Response Policy
Different from existing studies focusing on formal institutional factors, this study applies a configurational approach to exploring how cultural, institutional, and crisis-specific factors interplay to shape policymaking under extremely uncertain and risky circumstances. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of the COVID-19 first-response policies adopted by 31 countries reveals three pathways consistently leading to a more stringent firs…
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships
The New Public Management (NPM) has achieved many successes in public service delivery, but practitioners frequently observed failures in developing and transitional economies. For instance, China's public–private partnerships (PPP) since 2014 have failed to transfer risks to the private sector, to involve private skills and expertise, and to reduce local government's debt. This article claims that PPP failures in China are associated with the co…
A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change
How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies fro…
What matters the most in curbing early Covid‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis
COVID-19 represents a turbulent problem: a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous crisis, in which bounded-rational policymakers may not be able to do everything right, but must do critical things right in order to reduce the death toll. This study conceptualizes these critical things as necessary conditions (NCs) that must be absent to prevent high early mortality from occurring. We articulate a policy-institution-demography framework that …
Comparing the #StopTheSteal Movement across Multiple Platforms
Given that political groups are dispersed across platforms, resulting in different discourses, there is a need for more studies comparing communication across platforms. In this study, we compared posts about #StopTheSteal from three social media platforms after the 2020 US Presidential election and preceding the January 6 Capitol Riot. To do so, we utilized Snow and Benford's typology of social movement frames-diagnostic, prognostic, and motivat…
The disembedded digital economy
This research focuses upon employment in the new economy, exploring labour protection and social protection in the digital age in China. Through an empirical survey conducted in three Chinese cities, social insurance and the labour rights of employees in the digital economic sector, such as gig employment, e‐commerce, and various other forms of online employment, have been examined in‐depth. This study reveals new regulatory loopholes in the digi…
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities
Economic, social and environmental infrastructure forms a fundamental pillar of societal development. Ensuring equitable access to infrastructure for all residents is crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, yet knowledge gaps remain in infrastructure accessibility and inequality and their associations with human health. Here we generate gridded maps of economic, social and environmental infrastructure distribution and apply popul…
Critical constraints on high performance of provincial E-governments in China
PM2.5 and ozone pollution-related health challenges in Japan with regards to climate change
In Punishment We Trust
Research on fact-checking journalism has predominantly centered on Western countries, often overlooking how distinct political media systems in non-Western countries might influence its practices and effectiveness. This article addresses this gap by focusing on government-led fact-checking in China, referred to as “rumor-debunking,” and we argue that compared to the Western mode of fact-checking, rumor debunking differs significantly with its uni…
Social vulnerability assessment for air pollution in China
Impact of urbanization on water-energy-carbon nexus system
Globalization of forest land use
The Chengda Teachers School and Modern China's Frontier Politics
The military victories of the Northern Expedition (1926-28) ended nearly two decades of political fragmentation and ushered in a new era of centralized government in China. A key concern of the Nationalist government, based in Nanjing, was bringing the haphazard array of private schools that had emerged since the republic's founding in 1911 in line with the Nationalists' political agenda. The Nationalist leadership also hoped to use their educati…
To Have Versus To Have Not
This study employs a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to explore how combinations of demand- and supply-side factors jointly shape the scale of government-nonprofit contracting in social services across 38 Chinese cities. Our analysis reveals a huge disparity by identifying two pathways to large-scale government contracting for “to-have” (well-resourced cities with low service needs but a well-developed nonprofit sector) versus the othe…
Linkage between Service Delivery and Administrative Advocacy
Third-party service providers often collaborate in both service delivery and administrative advocacy. Yet the linkage between such collaboration has been overlooked. The article studies how joint advocacy inside two government-funded service delivery networks are formed, based on the concepts of service provider clique overlap, multiplexity, and resource tangibility. Comparative network analysis of data from a mental health services network in th…
Far-right conspiracies and online engagement
This study explores the strategic spread of conspiracy theories by far-right groups during the “Stop the Steal” election denial rallies, focusing on their online efforts to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement. Based on the Discursive Opportunity Structure framework, we conducted a computer-assisted content analysis of Parler posts (N = 9,714), supplemented with qualitative textual analysis. We analyzed three key messaging strategies that pr…
The imperative of institutional trust and individualistic culture on early Covid ‐19 policy responses
COVID‐19 sparked a global public health crisis, to which countries around the world responded differently. However, the critical reasons behind governments' slow or stringent responses to COVID‐19 remain understudied. Leveraging multiple global databases on COVID‐19 policies, trust, and national cultural orientation, this study spotlights the crucial roles of institutional trust and individualism in shaping the speed and stringency of early COVID…
FTIR spectra combined with machine learning to reveal the amber trade during the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Influences on the Size and Scope of Networks for Social Service Delivery
Local social service agencies throughout the world have begun encouraging or requiring social service providers to form community-based networks for the delivery of publicly funded social services. Little is known, however, about the nature of the resulting networks. In this article we develop a model of organizational, programmatic, and community influences on the size and scope of interorganizational networks for social service delivery. We the…
Anti-osteoporotic effect of Erythrina variegata L. in ovariectomized rats
On the strategy of regional trade arrangements of China
Spontaneous or Constructed? Neighborhood Governance Reforms in Los Angeles and Shanghai
Can grassroots government succeed on its own without state involvement? By comparing approaches in two metropolitan governments—neighborhood councils in Los Angeles and resident committees in Shanghai—Bin Chen of the City University of New York at Baruch College, Terry L. Cooper of the University of Southern California, and Rong Sun of Shanghai Tongji University underscore the need to understand the interrelationships among the political and admi…
Relative Urban Ecosystem Health Assessment
Administering services and managing contracts
Panax notoginseng saponins promotes proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of rat bone marrow stromal cells
Urban Public Health
Early ecologists identified a pyramidal trophic structure in terms of number, biomass and energy transfer. In 1943, the psychologist Maslow put forward a pyramid model to describe layers of human needs. It is indicated that the pyramid principle is universally applicable in natural, humanistic and social disciplines. Here, we report that a pyramid structure also exists in urban public health (UPH). Based on 18 indicators, the UPH states of four c…
Tuberculosis among Healthcare Workers in Southeastern China
The baseline prevalence and characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) among general healthcare workers (HCWs) in southeastern China remains unknown. We conducted a retrospective study based on the TB surveillance data in Zhejiang Province from 2005 to 2011, which were extracted from the national Tuberculosis Information Management System (TIMS). We calculated and compared annual notification rates of different occupational groups and analyzed the epid…
Energy and material flows of megacities
Significance Our quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities is a major undertaking, not previously achieved. The sheer magnitude of these flows (e.g., 9% of global electricity, 10% of gasoline; 13% of solid waste) shows the importance of megacities in addressing global environmental challenges. In aggregate the resource flows through megacities are consistent with scaling laws for cities. Statistical relations are e…
Linking Local Consumption to Global Impacts
Ecological Network Analysis of Embodied Energy Exchanges Among the Seven Regions of China
Regional economic development in China has resulted in an unbalanced distribution of resources and frequent exchanges of resources and products among regions. Therefore, it is necessary to understand these regional differences to support national planning to improve sustainability. In this research, we used energy data and a multiregional input‐output table for China in 2002 to analyze the domestic trade among the 30 provinces and seven regions o…
Soil greenhouse gas emissions reduce the contribution of mangrove plants to the atmospheric cooling effect
Mangrove soils have been recognized as sources of greenhouse gases, but the atmospheric fluxes are poorly characterized, and their adverse warming effect has rarely been considered with respect to the potential contribution of mangrove wetlands to climate change mitigation. The current study balanced the warming effect of soil greenhouse gas emissions with the plant carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) sequestration rate derived from the plants' net primary pr…
Who Is Vulnerable to Dengue Fever? A Community Survey of the 2014 Outbreak in Guangzhou, China
Unprecedented dengue fever (DF) outbreaks impel China to develop useful disease control strategies. Integrated vector management (IVM) focuses on identifying vulnerable populations and interrupting human-vector contact; however, vulnerable populations have not been clearly identified in China. We conducted a case-control study during the initial stage of the 2014 DF outbreak in Guangzhou, China to assess risk factors for DF infection. Cases were …
Chinese Public Attention to the Outbreak of Ebola in West Africa
Confronted with the risk of cross-border transmission of the infectious disease, online surveillance might be used as an innovative approach to perform public communication and health education through examining the public's reaction and attitude
A Bibliometric Analysis of PubMed Literature on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a pandemic threat to human beings, has aroused huge concern worldwide, but no bibliometric studies have been conducted on MERS research. The aim of this study was to map research productivity on the disease based on the articles indexed in PubMed. The articles related to MERS dated from 2012 to 2015 were retrieved from PubMed. The articles were classified into three categories according to their focus. Pub…
Modeling Spatial Contacts for Epidemic Prediction in a Large-Scale Artificial City
Spatial contacts among human beings are considered as one of the influential factors during the transmission of contagious diseases, such as influenza and tuberculosis. Therefore, representing and understanding spatial contacts plays an important role in epidemic modeling research. However, most current research only considers regular spatial contacts such as contacts at home/school/o ice, or they assume static social networks for modeling social…
A holistic low carbon city indicator framework for sustainable development
Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Zhejiang Province, China
BACKGROUND: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) hinder the progress of TB control. OBJECTIVE: To track the trend of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) prevalence in Zhejiang Province from 1999 to 2013, and identify risk factors of resistance to second-line drugs among MDR-TB patients. DESIGN: Four DR-TB surveys had been done in Zhejiang Province in 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2013 through quest…
Playing Chemical Plant Environmental Protection Games with Historical Monitoring Data
The chemical industry is very important for the world economy and this industrial sector represents a substantial income source for developing countries. However, existing regulations on controlling atmospheric pollutants, and the enforcement of these regulations, often are insufficient in such countries. As a result, the deterioration of surrounding ecosystems and a quality decrease of the atmospheric environment can be observed. Previous works …
Comparison of Machine Learning Models for Hazardous Gas Dispersion Prediction in Field Cases
Dispersion prediction plays a significant role in the management and emergency response to hazardous gas emissions and accidental leaks. Compared with conventional atmospheric dispersion models, machine leaning (ML) models have both high accuracy and efficiency in terms of prediction, especially in field cases. However, selection of model type and the inputs of the ML model are still essential problems. To address this issue, two ML models (i.e.,…
Real-Time Estimation of Population Exposure to PM2.5 Using Mobile- and Station-Based Big Data
Extremely high fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentration has been a topic of special concern in recent years because of its important and sensitive relation with health risks. However, many previous PM 2.5 exposure assessments have practical limitations, due to the assumption that population distribution or air pollution levels are spatially stationary and temporally constant and people move within regions of generally the same air quality …
An Extended Chemical Plant Environmental Protection Game on Addressing Uncertainties of Human Adversaries
Chemical production activities in industrial districts pose great threats to the surrounding atmospheric environment and human health. Therefore, developing appropriate and intelligent pollution controlling strategies for the management team to monitor chemical production processes is significantly essential in a chemical industrial district. The literature shows that playing a chemical plant environmental protection (CPEP) game can force the che…
Tuberculosis among Full-Time Teachers in Southeast China, 2005–2016
Objective : To explore the incidence rate and characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) among full-time teachers from 2005 to 2016 in southeast China and to provide a basis for TB prevention and control measures in schools. Methods : Information about full-time teachers with TB was obtained from the National Tuberculosis Information Management System (NTIMS). Population data were collected from the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook and the Zhejiang Educat…
China (71 works) · Geography (66 works) · Medicine (60 works) · Economics (50 works) · Business (46 works) · Political science (45 works) · Environmental Science (42 works) · Computer Science (41 works) · Ecology (27 works) · Environmental health (26 works)