Shijie Song

Shijie Song received his Ph.D. in Management from Nanjing University and is currently an Associate Professor at the Business School, Hohai University. He has published more than 20 papers in leading international SCI/SSCI journals, including Internet Research and Information Processing & Management. Four of his papers have been selected as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers. He has also been included in Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” list in the field of Library and Information Science.

He has published more than 20 papers in top-tier Chinese CSSCI journals, including Journal of Library Science in China and Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information. He has led seven research projects, including the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Youth Project of the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, the Jiangsu Social Science Fund Youth Project, the General Program of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Special Grant of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

He serves as a reviewer for more than 30 international SCI/SSCI journals, including Internet Research, Information Processing & Management, and Information Technology & People. He is also a committee member of the Health Informatics Committee, Information Behavior Committee, International Cooperation Committee, and Competitive Intelligence Committee of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information.

Research Areas

Information Systems; Consumer Information Behavior; Health Informatics

Research Approach

His research focuses on the interactions among users, information technologies, and sociocultural contexts.

Academic Profiles

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4544-2027

CNKI: https://au.cnki.net/author/personalInfo/000058541064

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=26U88eYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Education

2017–2021

Ph.D. in Information Science, Nanjing University

Supervisor: Prof. Jianjun Sun

2018–2021

State-sponsored Joint Ph.D. Researcher in Information Management, The University of Texas at Austin

Supervisor: Dr. Yan Zhang

Dissertation: Factors Influencing Users’ Credibility Assessment in the Online Health Information Seeking Process

Awarded Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Nanjing University and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu Province

2013–2015

M.Sc. in International Business, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

2013–2015

M.Sc. in Marketing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Dissertation: I Satisfy Therefore I Buy: An Investigation on Influencing Factors of Continuous Purchase Intention in the C2C Context

2008–2012

B.A. in Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management, Nanjing Agricultural University

2011–2012

Fully Funded Visiting Student in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dissertation: The Environmental Kuznets Curve of Agricultural Non-CO₂ Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from Panel Data of 130 Countries

Professional Experience

2021–Present

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Business School, Hohai University

2022–Present

Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Information Management, Wuhan University

Collaborative Supervisor: Prof. Feicheng Ma

2015–2017

Project Purchasing Engineer, Asia Pacific Purchasing Department, Ford Motor Company

2012–2013

Staff Member, Land Acquisition and Resettlement Section, Rural Affairs Office, Gangzha District Committee, Nantong

Citation Metrics

Google Scholar citations: 2,254; h-index: 22

As of May 2025

Representative English Publications

[1] Song, S., Yao, X., Zhao, Y., & Ba, Z. (2024). Get inspired and pay for the goods: An investigation of customer inspiration and purchase intention in livestream shopping. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 78, Article 103750. [ABS-2, 5-year Impact Factor: 11.2, JCR Q1]

[2] Song, S., Zhao, Y., Yao, X., Ba, Z., & Zhu, Q. (2022). Serious information in hedonic social applications: Affordance, self-determination and health information adoption in TikTok. Journal of Documentation, 78(4), 890–911. [ABS-2, 5-year Impact Factor: 1.8, JCR Q2]

[3] Song, S., Xue, X., Zhao, Y., Li, J., Zhu, Q., & Zhao, M. (2021). Short-video apps as a health information source for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Information quality assessment of TikTok videos. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(12), e28318. [PubMed, 5-year Impact Factor: 6.7, JCR Q1]

[4] Song, S., Zhao, Y., Yao, X., Ba, Z., & Zhu, Q. (2021). Short video apps as a health information source: An investigation of affordances, user experience, and users’ intention to continue use of TikTok. Internet Research, 31(6), 2120–2142. [ABS-3, 5-year Impact Factor: 7.9, JCR Q1; ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2023]

[5] Song, S., Yao, X., & Wen, N. (2021). What motivates Chinese consumers to avoid information about the COVID-19 pandemic? The perspective of the stimulus-organism-response model. Information Processing & Management, 58(1), 102407. [ABS-2, 5-year Impact Factor: 7.3, JCR Q1; ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2021, 2022, 2023]

[6] Song, S., Zhang, Y., & Bei, Y. (2021). Interventions to support consumer evaluation of online health information credibility: A scoping review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 145, 104321. [PubMed, 5-year Impact Factor: 4.6, JCR Q2]

[7] Yang, L., Song, S. (Corresponding Author), & Liu, C. (2023). Green signal: The impact of environmental protection support policies on firms’ green innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment. [ABS-3, 5-year Impact Factor: 14.0, JCR Q1]

[8] Zhao, Y., Zhao, M., & Song, S. (Corresponding Author). (2022). Online health information seeking among patients with chronic conditions: Integrating the health belief model and social support theory. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(11), e42447. [PubMed, 5-year Impact Factor: 6.7, JCR Q1]

[9] Zhao, Y. C., Wu, D., Song, S. (Corresponding Author), & Yao, X. (2022). Exploring players’ in-game purchase intention in freemium open-world games: The role of cognitive absorption and motivational affordances. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–17. [5-year Impact Factor: 4.6, JCR Q1]

[10] Zhao, Y., Zhao, M., & Song, S. (Corresponding Author). (2022). Online health information-seeking behaviors among older adults: Systematic scoping review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(2), e34790. [PubMed, 5-year Impact Factor: 6.7, JCR Q1; ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2024]

[11] Kong, W., Song, S. (Corresponding Author), Zhao, Y., Zhu, Q., & Sha, L. (2021). TikTok as a health information source: An assessment of the quality of information in diabetes-related videos. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(9), e30409. [PubMed, 5-year Impact Factor: 6.7, JCR Q1; ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2025]

[12] Pian, W., Song, S., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Consumer health information needs: A systematic review of measures. Information Processing & Management, 57(2), 102077. [ABS-2, 5-year Impact Factor: 7.3, JCR Q1; ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2021]

Citation Metrics in CNKI

CNKI citations: 1,275

As of March 2025

Representative Chinese Publications

[1] Song, S., Song, X., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. Individual heterogeneity in credibility assessment of distorted health information from the perspective of construal level theory. Library and Information Service, 2025, Online First. [CSSCI, Hohai University A-level Journal]

[2] Song, S., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. From ELIZA to ChatGPT: Credibility evaluation of AI-generated content in human–AI interaction experience. Information and Documentation Services, 2023, 44(4), 35–42. [CSSCI; Full-text Reprinted by Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China; Hohai University A-level Journal]

[3] Song, S., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. Dissemination, identification, and correction of distorted health information on social media. Journal of Intelligence, 2023, 42(6), 162–169. [CSSCI, Hohai University A-level Journal]

[4] Song, S., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. Information credibility research from the perspective of iField: Conceptual origins, thematic evolution, and future directions. Journal of Library Science in China, 2022, 48(1), 107–126. [CSSCI, Hohai University A-level Journal]

[5] Song, S., Qi, Y., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. The influence of conflicting health information on users’ health information seeking: An uncertainty perspective. Library and Information Service, 2021, 65(11), 24–32. [CSSCI, Hohai University A-level Journal]

[6] Song, S., Zhao, Y., Song, X., & Zhu, Q. A heuristic experimental study on the influence of information sources on digital natives’ credibility judgment of health information. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, 2020, 39(4), 399–408. [CSSCI, Hohai University A-level Journal]

[7] Song, S., Zhao, Y., Song, X., & Zhu, Q. Factors influencing credibility judgment of distorted health information in the Internet environment. Journal of Library Science in China, 2019, 45(4), 72–85. [CSSCI, Hohai University A-level Journal]

[8] Song, S., Zhao, Y., Han, W., & Zhu, Q. The inhibitory effect of citizens’ health literacy on health risks in the Internet environment: An empirical study of chronic diseases based on CHNS data from the perspective of urban–rural heterogeneity. Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, 2019, 3(4), 13–21. [CSSCI]

[9] Song, S., Song, X., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. Exploring the effect of Internet use on reducing loneliness among older adults: An empirical study based on CHARLS data. Library & Information, 2019, (1), 63–69. [CSSCI, Hohai University B-level Journal]

[10] Song, S., Zhang, Y., & Zhao, Y. A preliminary exploration of design principles for public science projects from the perspective of Science 2.0. Information and Documentation Services, 2018, (5), 6–13. [CSSCI]

[11] Song, S., Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. The influence of health information access channels on health literacy development: From the perspective of urban–rural heterogeneity. Library & Information, 2018, (5), 36–43. [CSSCI, Hohai University B-level Journal]

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Association for Information Systems (AIS); Gerontological Society of America (GSA); American Psychological Association (APA); Chinese Society of Systems Engineering; China Society for Scientific and Technical Information

Courses and Teaching

Social Media Marketing, undergraduate course

Frontiers of Information Technology, undergraduate course

Business English, graduate course

Information Retrieval, graduate course