Research

Selected papers, preprints, and the code, data, and slides behind them. Filter by topic below.

Journal articles

Herring, S. C., Lee, S., Wang, H., & Yan, Y. (forthcoming). Can LLMs do computer-mediated discourse analysis? Language@Internet.

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Wang, H., Clark, J., Yan, Y., Bradley, S., Chen, R., Zhang, Y., Fu, H., & Tian, Z. (2026). Fairness evaluation of large language models in academic library reference services. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

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Wang, H., Juola, P., & Riddell, A. (2026). Reproduction and replication of an adversarial stylometry experiment. Replication Research, 2.

Code Data Preprint NLPOpen code, data, and materials; reproducibility certificate
Wang, H., Lee, J., Walsh, J. A., Flanders, J., & Lee, B. C. G. (2025). Building and deploying the Digital Humanities Quarterly recommender system. Code4Lib Journal, (61).

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Wang, H., Clark, J., McKelvey, H., Sterman, L., Gao, Z., Tian, Z., Kübler, S., & Liu, X. (2025). Science out of its ivory tower: Improving accessibility with reinforcement learning. Scientometrics, 130(8), 4519–4543.

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Wang, H., Clark, J., McKelvey, H., Sterman, L., Gao, Z., Tian, Z., & Liu, X. (2025). Improving scholarship accessibility with reinforcement learning. Information Research, 30(iConf), 203–218.

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Xie, X., Li, J., & Wang, H. (2025). The many voices of Duying: Revisiting the disputed essays between Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 40(1), 338–353.

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Conference papers

Wang, H., & Clark, J. (2024). Simplifying scholarly abstracts for accessible digital libraries using language models. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '24).

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Wang, H. (2024). A content-based novelty measure for scholarly publications: A proof of concept. Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win: Proceedings of iConference 2024 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 409–420.

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Wang, H., & Riddell, A. (2022). CCTAA: A reproducible corpus for Chinese authorship attribution research. Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), 5889–5893.

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Tian, Z., Dong, X., Gao, F., Wang, H., & Lin, C. (2022). Mandarin tone sandhi realization: Evidence from large speech corpora. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 5273–5277.

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Wang, H., Xie, X., & Riddell, A. (2021). The challenge of vernacular and classical Chinese cross-register authorship attribution. Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2021), 299–309.

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Riddell, A., Wang, H., & Juola, P. (2021). A call for clarity in contemporary authorship attribution evaluation. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), 1178–1183.

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Wang, H., Riddell, A., & Juola, P. (2021). Mode effects' challenge to authorship attribution. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), 1146–1155.

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Books

Wang, H. (under contract; manuscript under review). Defending against authorship identification attacks. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies (Springer Nature).

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Book chapters

Wang, H., Clark, J., & Peña, A. (forthcoming). Equitable intelligence in practice: A fairness audit of open large language models for library reference services. Artificial Intelligence and Social Justice Intersections in Library and Information Studies (Emerald).

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Wang, H. (forthcoming). Social determinants of COVID-19 hospitalization in the All of Us Research Program: A propensity-matched case-control study. Social Vulnerability to COVID-19, 2nd ed. (Springer Nature).

Health

Preprints

Wang, H., & Su, J. (2026). Funding deadlines act as a zeitgeber for science. bioRxiv.

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Wang, H. (2026). The prestige precedes the prize: Top-journal papers and new federal grants. SocArXiv.

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Wang, H., Fu, H., & Tian, Z. (2026). Leadership of supported and new clinical trials after the NIH K23 clinical trial pathway. bioRxiv.

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Zhang, J., Fu, H., & Wang, H. (2026). The shape of NSF openness to newcomers: Same share, fewer doors. SocArXiv.

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Xie, F., Zhang, J., & Wang, H. (2026). Still funded, no longer counted: How NIH's 2025 award reviews changed what the government counts as minority health research. arXiv.

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Wang, H. (2026). Authorship identification under domain shift: A survey of stylistic measures and learned author representations. arXiv.

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Wang, H. (2026). Funding the runners-up beats a golden ticket. arXiv.

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Wang, H. (2026). Ending the NIH embargo accelerated public access to funded research, but substantial delays remain. arXiv.

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Wang, H. (2023). Defending against authorship identification attacks. arXiv.

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In the Media

R&D World, Oct 9, 2026. NSF looks to UK experiments as it plans to test how it awards grants. Discusses my golden-ticket preprint in a story on how NSF plans to test new ways of awarding grants.
infoDOCKET, Feb 24, 2026. Responsible Intelligence in Practice: A Fairness Audit of Open Large Language Models for Library Reference Services. Features our fairness audit of open LLMs for library reference services.
Nature, Dec 20, 2024. Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing? Quoted on measuring novelty in research (Nature Index).
Montreal AI Ethics Institute, Jan 18, 2024. Defending Against Authorship Identification Attacks. Invited column on protecting writers from being identified by their style.