Tzu-Kun (Esther) Hsiao

Tzu-Kun Hsiao

Doctoral Student

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MA, Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University

BA, Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University

Research focus

My research interests are in topics related to knowledge diffusion, citation context, and scholarly communication. In particular, my research combines machine learning and natural language processing techniques with citation analysis to explore how science and technology are cited in scientific literature.

Honors and Awards

Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2023

Publications & Papers

Hsiao, T.-K., & Torvik, V. I. (2023). OpCitance: Citation contexts identified from the PubMed Central open access articles. Scientific Data, 10, 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02134-x

Proescholdt, R., Hsiao, T.-K., Schneider, J., Cohen, A. M., McDonagh, M. S., & Smalheiser, N. R. (2022). Testing a filtering strategy for systematic reviews: Evaluating work savings and recall. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2022, 406.

Hsiao, T.-K., & Schneider, J. (2021). Continued use of retracted papers: Temporal trends in citations and (lack of) awareness of retractions shown in citation contexts in biomedicine. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(4), 1144–1169. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00155

Hsiao, T.-K., & Torvik, V. I. (2020). Technology footprints in scientific discovery: Citation contexts of paper-to-patent citations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e337. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.337

Hsiao, T.-K., Fu, Y., & Schneider, J. (2020). Visualizing evidence-based disagreement over time: The landscape of a public health controversy 2002–2014. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e315. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.315

Hsiao, T.-K., & Torvik, V. I. (2019). Knowledge transfer from technology to science: The longevity of paper-to-patent citations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 417–421.

Cheng, Y.-Y., Parulian, N., Hsiao, T.-K., Dinh, L., Sarol, J., & Schneider, J. (2019). ReTracker: Actively and automatically matching retraction metadata in Zotero. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 372–376.

Dinh, L., Sarol, J., Cheng, Y.-Y., Hsiao, T.-K., Parulian, N., & Schneider, J. (2019). Systematic examination of pre-and post-retraction citations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 390–394.

Tang, M.-C., Hsiao, T.-K., & Ou, I.-A. (2017). Not All Books in the User Profile Are Created Equal: Measuring the Preference “Representativeness” of Books in aNobii Online Bookshelves. International Conference on HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations, 424–433.