Jiangping Chen, Ph.D.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Biography

Dr. Jiangping Chen is a Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She conducts interdisciplinary research, spanning information science, library science, data science, and health informatics. (Curriculum Vitae)

Research Areas and Expertise

Data Analytics for Information Problems: Misinformation, Topic Modeling and Analysis, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Application of Large Language Models
Digital Libraries: Multilingual Digital Libraries and Collections, Technologies, Services, and Sustainability
Information Services: Library Services, Information User Studies
Information Retrieval: Cross Language Information Retrieval, Multilingual Information Retrieval and Access, Medical Information Retrieval, Applied Natural Language Processing

Selected Recent Publications

Chung, H.-H. & Chen, J. (2025). Misinformation detection: datasets, models and performance. Online Information Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-06-2024-0388.

Li, J. & Chen, J. (2024). Secure and trustworthy cyberspace: characteristics and contributions. Information Discovery and Delivery, https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-02-2024-0019.

Ogbadu-Oladapo, L., Chung, H., Li, J., & Chen, J. (2023). An investigation of the use of theories in misinformation studies. Proceedings of 2023 annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, London, UK, October 27-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.790.

Nguyen, H., Ogbadu-Oladapo, L., Irhamni, A., Chen, H., & Chen, J. (2023). Fighting misinformation: where are we and where to go? Proceedings of iConference 2023, Barcelona, Spain, March 27-29. 10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_27.

Wu, A. & Chen, J. (2022). Sustaining multilinguality: case studies of two multilingual digital libraries. The Electronic Library, 40(6), 625-645. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-03-2022-0061.

Chen, H., Wu, L., Lu, W., Chen, J., & Ding, J. (2022). A comparative study of automated legal text classification using random forests and deep learning. Information Processing and Management, 59(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102798.

Chen, H., Nguyen, H., & Chen, J. (2021). Demystifying COVID-19 publications: researchers, topics, diseases, and therapeutics. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(3), 395-405. 10.5195/jmla.2021.1141.

Faulkner, J., Lu, L., & Chen, J. (2021). Archivists’ golden egg: environmental sustainability practices of archives, The Electronic Library, 39(2), 258-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-09-2020-0260.

Chen, J. (2020). Beyond information organization and evaluation: how can information scientists contribute to independent thinking. Data and Information Management, 4(3), 171-176. https://doi.org/10.2478/dim-2020-0017.

Wang, C., Huang, R., Li, J., & Chen, J. (2020). Towards better information services: A framework for immigrant information needs and library services. Library and Information Science Research, 42(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2019.101000.

Qu, J., & Chen, J. (2019). An investigation of benchmark image collections: how different from digital libraries? The Electronic Library, 37(3), 401-418. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-10-2018-0195.

Qin, C., Liu, Y., Mou, J., & Chen, J. (2019). User adoption of a hybrid social tagging approach in an online knowledge community, Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(2), 155-175, https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-09-2018-0212.

Chen, M., Qu, J., Xu, Y., & and Chen. J. (2018). Smart and connected health: what can we learn from funded projects? Data and Information Management, 2(3), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.2478/dim-2018-0015.

Brenda, R., Knudson, R., Chen, J., Cao, G., & Wang, X. (2018). Metadata records machine translation combining multi-engine outputs with limited parallel data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69(1), 47-59, 2018. doi:10.1002/asi.23925. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23925.

Chen, J. 2016. Multilingual Access and Services for Digital Collections. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/Multilingual-Access-Services-Digital-Collections/dp/1440839549.

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