Research Topics

Future of Work

Exploring the impact of AI and climate change on workforce

Science of Science

Exploring the characteristics of AI's knowledge creation, including how AI is created, who created it, and who is missing.

AI and Sustainability

Exploring how AI is used and its potential in climate mitigation and adaptation.

News Deserts

Make information deserts in local information landscape visible, including civic technologies and news mentioning.

History of AI

Historical perspective of AI, particularly in non-Western context, such as China.

AI in Pop Culture

Exploring how AI is portrait in pop culture, such as science fiction, and how those portraits impact our collective imagination about the future.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

1. 1. [Accepted] Gundogdu, T., Wang, J., Butler, B., & Lee, M. (2026). The dynamic of psychological distance in news deserts: civic and democratic implications. iConference 2026
  2. Wang, J., & Maynard, A. (2025). Gender Disparity in U.S. Patenting. Humanities and Social Science Communications, 12(1), 1730. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06038-6
  3. Wang, J., Gundogdu, T. B., Ivic, R. K., Butler, B. S., & Lee, M. (2025). News Deserts as Information Problems: A Case Study of Local News Coverage in Alabama. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 741–753. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1293
  4. Wang, J., & Solís, P. (2025). Identifying Latent Workforce Capacities for Extreme Heat Resilience: An Artificial Intelligence Assisted Approach. Energy and AI, 100580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100580
  5. Wang, J., Kiran, E., Aurora, S. R., Simeone, M., & Lobo, J. (2025). ChatGPT on ChatGPT: An Exploratory Analysis of its Performance in the Public Sector Workplace. Digit. Gov.: Res. Pract., 6(2), 29:1-29:28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3676281
  6. Wang, J., & Lobo, J. (2024). Extensive growth of inventions: Evidence from U.S. patenting. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 207, 123586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123586
  7. Wang, J., Lobo, J., Shutters, S. T., & Strumsky, D. (2024). Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 51, 100836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100836
  8. Wang, J., Maynard, A., Lobo, J., Michael, K., Motsch, S., & Strumsky, D. (2024). Knowledge Combination Analysis Reveals That Artificial Intelligence Research Is More Like “Normal Science” Than “Revolutionary Science.” Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 5598--5607. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107058
  9. Hsu, J. H.-P., Wang, J., & Lee, M. (2022). Towards an Expectation-Oriented Model of Public Service Quality: A Preliminary Study of NYC 311. In F. Hopfgartner, K. Jaidka, P. Mayr, J. Jose, & J. Breitsohl (Eds.), Social Informatics(pp. 447–458). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_31
  10. Lee, M., Wang, J., Janzen, S., Winter, S., & Harlow, J. (2021). Crowdsourcing Behavior in Reporting Civic Issues: The Case of Boston’s 311 Systems. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 16532. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.16532abstract
  11. Pine, K. H., Hinrichs, M. M., Wang, J., Lewis, D., & Johnston, E. (2020). For Impactful Community Engagement: Check Your Role. Communications of the ACM, 63(7), 26–28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3401720

Book Chapters

Hinrichs, M., Wang, J., Roe, C., & Johnston, E. W. (2025). AI Integration in Mental Health Services: Examining Trends in the USA and Peoria, Illinois. In P. Ahrweiler (Ed.), Participatory Artificial Intelligence in Public Social Services: From Bias to Fairness in Assessing Beneficiaries (pp. 255–275). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71678-2_12

Working Papers, Preprints, and Technical Reports

Kim, S., Chang, D., & Wang, J. (2025). Persona Alchemy: Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Psychologically-Grounded LLM Agents for Diverse Stakeholder Representation (arXiv:2505.18351). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.18351
Li, R., & Wang, J. (2025). The Impact of Generative AI on the Urban Transportation Workforce (SSRN Scholarly Paper 5120920). Social Science Research Network. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5120920
Shutters, S. T., Lobo, J., & Wang, J. (2023). The Role of Occupational Socialness on the Productivity of Metropolitan Economies. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4659919
Bernstein, M. J., Wang, J., Bevaresh, S., Keeler, L. W., & Basile, G. (2021). Social Value in Sustainability Assessment and Reporting. Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Global Futures Laboratory, and The Global KAITEKI Center.

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