Dynamics of Human-AI Collective Knowledge on the Web: A Scalable Model and Insights for Sustainable Growth.

Kang Zhao 0001 University of Iowa, Department of Business Analytics, USA Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8321-2804 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59764244 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1011899930 Kang Zhao Kang Zhao 0002 Baidu Inc. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lUHdSUAAAAAJ https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3053-3965 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130858857 Buddhika Nettasinghe Kang Zhao 0001 Dynamics of Human-AI Collective Knowledge on the Web: A Scalable Model and Insights for Sustainable Growth. 1797-1808 2026 WWW https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792665 conf/www/2026 db/conf/www/www2026.html#NettasingheZ26

Yichun Peng Saike He Peijie Zhang Kang Zhao 0001 Yi Yang 0042 Ning Zhang Qingpeng Zhang Daniel Dajun Zeng Hao Peng Structural Diversity Drives Disruptive Scientific Innovation. 2026 May abs/2605.12514 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.12514 db/journals/corr/corr2605.html#abs-2605-12514 streams/journals/corr

Jianhao Zhang Wei Jiang Kang Zhao 0001 An Improved Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm to Solving 0-1 Knapsack Problem. 148155-148166 2024 12 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3424415 db/journals/access/access12.html#ZhangJZ24a streams/journals/access

Saike He Weiguang Zhang Jun Luo Peijie Zhang Kang Zhao 0001 Daniel Dajun Zeng Modeling the co-diffusion of competing memes in online social networks. 114324 2024 187 Decis. Support Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2024.114324 db/journals/dss/dss187.html#HeZLZZZ24 streams/journals/dss

Jie Bai Kang Zhao 0001 Linjing Li Daniel Dajun Zeng Qiudan Li Fan Yang Quannan Zu Graph Representation Learning Based on Cognitive Spreading Activations. 8408-8420 2024 December 36 IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 12 https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2024.3437781 db/journals/tkde/tkde36.html#BaiZLZLYZ24 streams/journals/tkde

Yanwu Yang Kang Zhao 0001 Daniel Dajun Zeng Bernard Jim Jansen Time-varying effects of search engine advertising on sales-An empirical investigation in E-commerce. 113843 2022 163 Decis. Support Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2022.113843 db/journals/dss/dss163.html#YangZZJ22

Kang Zhao 0001 Junjie Wu Dirk Neumann 0001 Business analytics for social goods. 101168 2022 54 Electron. Commer. Res. Appl. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2022.101168 db/journals/ecra/ecra54.html#ZhaoWN22

Hu Tian Xiaolong Zheng 0001 Kang Zhao 0001 Maggie Wenjing Liu Daniel Dajun Zeng Inductive Representation Learning on Dynamic Stock Co-Movement Graphs for Stock Predictions. 1940-1957 2022 34 INFORMS J. Comput. 4 https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2022.1172 db/journals/informs/informs34.html#TianZZLZ22

Xiangyu Wang 0009 Min Zhang 0014 Weiguo Fan Kang Zhao 0001 Understanding the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media: The effects of topics and a political leader's nudge. 726-737 2022 73 J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 5 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24576 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125368010 db/journals/jasis/jasis73.html#WangZFZ22

Wanting Wen Daniel Dajun Zeng Jie Bai Kang Zhao 0001 Ziqiang Li Learning Embeddings Based on Global Structural Similarity in Heterogeneous Networks. 13-22 2021 36 IEEE Intell. Syst. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2020.3027677 db/journals/expert/expert36.html#WenZBZL21

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 Understanding and predicting future research impact at different career stages - A social network perspective. 454-472 2021 72 J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 4 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24415 db/journals/jasis/jasis72.html#ZuoZ21

Xiangyu Wang 0009 Andrew High Xi Wang 0010 Kang Zhao 0001 Predicting users' continued engagement in online health communities from the quantity and quality of received support. 710-722 2021 72 J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 6 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24436 db/journals/jasis/jasis72.html#WangHWZ21

Kang Zhao 0001 Qingpeng Zhang Sean H. Y. Yuan Kelvin Kam-fai Tsoi Introduction to the Special Section on Using AI and Data Science to Handle Pandemics and Related Disruptions. 27:1-27:2 2021 12 ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst. 4 https://doi.org/10.1145/3486969 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113268485 db/journals/tmis/tmis12.html#ZhaoZYT21

Xiangyu Wang 0009 Kang Zhao 0001 Xun Zhou 0001 W. Nick Street Predicting User Posting Activities in Online Health Communities with Deep Learning. 12:1-12:15 2020 11 ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst. 3 https://doi.org/10.1145/3383780 db/journals/tmis/tmis11.html#WangZZS20

Yanwu Yang Kang Zhao 0001 Daniel Zeng 0001 Bernard Jim Jansen How Search Engine Advertising Affects Sales over Time: An Empirical Investigation. 2020 abs/2008.06809 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06809 db/journals/corr/corr2008.html#abs-2008-06809

Li Sun Kang Zhao 0001 Congying Han Ziwen Liu 0001 Enhancing Hyperspectral Unmixing With Two-Stage Multiplicative Update Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. 171023-171031 2019 7 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2955984 db/journals/access/access7.html#SunZHL19

Kristina Gavin Bigsby Jeffrey W. Ohlmann Kang Zhao 0001 Keeping it 100: Social Media and Self-Presentation in College Football Recruiting. 3-20 2019 7 Big Data 1 https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2018.0094 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q92323602 db/journals/bigdata/bigdata7.html#BigsbyOZ19

Kristina Gavin Bigsby Jeffrey W. Ohlmann Kang Zhao 0001 The turf is always greener: Predicting decommitments in college football recruiting using Twitter data. 1-12 2019 116 Decis. Support Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2018.10.003 db/journals/dss/dss116.html#BigsbyOZ19

Xi Wang 0010 Kang Zhao 0001 Sarah Cha Michael S. Amato Amy M. Cohn Jennifer Pearson 0002 George D. Papandonatos Amanda Lenhart Mining user-generated content in an online smoking cessation community to identify smoking status: A machine learning approach. 26-34 2019 116 Decis. Support Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2018.10.005 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q92306793 db/journals/dss/dss116.html#WangZCACPPL19

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 Chaoqun Ni Standing on the shoulders of giants? - Faculty hiring in information schools. 341-353 2019 13 J. Informetrics 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.01.007 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128463031 db/journals/joi/joi13.html#ZuoZN19

Kang Zhao 0001 Kevin P. Scheibe Jennifer Blackhurst Akhil Kumar 0001 Supply Chain Network Robustness Against Disruptions: Topological Analysis, Measurement, and Optimization. 127-139 2019 66 IEEE Trans. Engineering Management 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2018.2808331 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130030924 db/journals/tem/tem66.html#ZhaoSBK19

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 The more multidisciplinary the better? - The prevalence and interdisciplinarity of research collaborations in multidisciplinary institutions. 736-756 2018 12 J. Informetrics 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.06.006 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129545971 db/journals/joi/joi12.html#ZuoZ18

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 Collaboration matters: Faculty hiring in information school. 965-966 2018 ASIST https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501196 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128500138 conf/asist/2018 db/conf/asist/asist2018.html#ZuoZ18 Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 A Graphical Model for Topical Impact over Time. 405-406 2018 JCDL https://doi.org/10.1145/3197026.3203891 conf/jcdl/2018 db/conf/jcdl/jcdl2018.html#ZuoZ18

Kristina Gavin Bigsby Jeffrey W. Ohlmann Kang Zhao 0001 Online and Off the Field: Predicting School Choice in College Football Recruiting from Social Media Data. 2017 14 Decis. Anal. 4 https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2017.0353 db/journals/da/da14.html#BigsbyOZ17 261-273

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 David Eichmann The state and evolution of U.S. iSchools: From talent acquisitions to research outcome. 1266-1277 2017 68 J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 5 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23751 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125296107 db/journals/jasis/jasis68.html#ZuoZE17

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 Systematic investigation of sex disparity in multidisciplinary institutions - a case study of U.S. iSchools. 857-858 2017 ASIST https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401186 conf/asist/2017 db/conf/asist/asist2017.html#ZuoZ17

Michael T. Lash Kang Zhao 0001 Early Predictions of Movie Success: The Who, What, and When of Profitability. 874-903 2016 33 J. Manag. Inf. Syst. 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2016.1243969 db/journals/jmis/jmis33.html#LashZ16

Xi Wang 0010 Zhiya Zuo Yang Zhang Kang Zhao 0001 Yung-Chun Chang Chin-Shun Chou Investigating Regional Prejudice in China Through the Lens of Weibo. 500-513 2016 SocInfo (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47874-6_34 conf/socinfo/2016-2 db/conf/socinfo/socinfo2016-2.html#WangZZZCC16 Zhiya Zuo Xi Wang 0010 David Eichmann Kang Zhao 0001 Research Collaborations in Multidisciplinary Institutions: a Case Study of iSchools. 443-448 2016 WWW (Companion Volume) https://doi.org/10.1145/2872518.2890522 conf/www/2016c db/conf/www/www2016c.html#ZuoWEZ16

Kang Zhao 0001 Yao Xie 0002 Kwok-Leung Tsui Qingming Wei Wenpo Huang Wei Jiang Yanting Li Su Gon Cho Seoung Bum Kim Kaibo Liu Jianjun Shi 0001 Young-Seon Jeong 0001 Byunghoon Kim Seung Hoon Tong In-Kap Chang Myong Kee Jeong Florent Charruaud Lishuai Li System Informatics: From Methodology to Applications. 12-29 2015 30 IEEE Intell. Syst. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2015.111 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2015.111 db/journals/expert/expert30.html#ZhaoXTWHJLCKLSJ15

Kang Zhao 0001 Greta E. Greer John Yen Prasenjit Mitra 0001 Kenneth Portier Leader identification in an online health community for cancer survivors: a social network-based classification approach. 629-645 2015 13 Inf. Syst. E Bus. Manag. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-014-0260-5 db/journals/isem/isem13.html#ZhaoGYMP15

Xi Wang 0010 Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 The Evolution and Diffusion of User Roles in Online Health Communities: A Social Support Perspective. 48-56 2015 ICHI https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2015.12 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICHI.2015.12 conf/ichi/2015 db/conf/ichi/ichi2015.html#WangZZ15 Xi Wang 0010 Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 W. Nick Street Predicting User Participation and Detecting User Role Diffusion in Online Health Communities. 483 2015 ICHI https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2015.82 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICHI.2015.82 conf/ichi/2015 db/conf/ichi/ichi2015.html#WangZZS15 Xi Wang 0010 Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao 0001 The Evolution of User Roles in Online Health Communities - A Social Support Perspective. 121 2015 PACIS http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2015/121 conf/pacis/2015 db/conf/pacis/pacis2015.html#WangZZ15 Michael T. Lash Sunyang Fu Shiyao Wang Kang Zhao 0001 Early Prediction of Movie Success - What, Who, and When. 345-349 2015 SBP https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16268-3_41 conf/sbp/2015 db/conf/sbp/sbp2015.html#LashFWZ15

Michael T. Lash Kang Zhao 0001 Early Predictions of Movie Success: the Who, What, and When of Profitability. 2015 abs/1506.05382 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05382 db/journals/corr/corr1506.html#LashZ15

Shiyao Wang Tianbo Yang Qi Zhang Kang Zhao 0001 Concurrent diffusion of information and behaviors in online social networks - a case study of the Ice Bucket Challenge. 2015 abs/1508.04417 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04417 db/journals/corr/corr1508.html#WangYZZ15

Kang Zhao 0001 Xi Wang 0010 Mo Yu Bo Gao User Recommendations in Reciprocal and Bipartite Social Networks-An Online Dating Case Study. 27-35 2014 29 IEEE Intell. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2013.104 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2013.104 db/journals/expert/expert29.html#ZhaoWYG14

Xi Wang 0010 Kang Zhao 0001 W. Nick Street Social Support and User Engagement in Online Health Communities. 97-110 2014 ICSH https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08416-9_10 conf/icsh/2014 db/conf/icsh/icsh2014.html#WangZS14 Xi Wang 0010 Kang Zhao 0001 Social Support and User engagement in Online Health Communities. 367 2014 PACIS http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2014/367 conf/pacis/2014 db/conf/pacis/pacis2014.html#WangZ14

Kang Zhao 0001 Akhil Kumar 0001 Who blogs what: understanding the publishing behavior of bloggers. 621-644 2013 16 World Wide Web 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-012-0167-3 db/journals/www/www16.html#ZhaoK13

Akhil Kumar 0001 Kang Zhao 0001 Making sense of a healthcare forum - Smart keyword and user navigation graphs. 2013 ICIS http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2013/proceedings/ResearchInProgress/89 conf/icis/2013 db/conf/icis/icis2013.html#KumarZ13 Mo Yu Kang Zhao 0001 John Yen Derek Kreager Recommendation in Reciprocal and Bipartite Social Networks-A Case Study of Online Dating. 231-239 2013 SBP https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37210-0_25 conf/sbp/2013 db/conf/sbp/sbp2013.html#YuZYK13

Kang Zhao 0001 Xi Wang 0010 Mo Yu Bo Gao User recommendation in reciprocal and bipartite social networks - a case study of online dating. 2013 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2526 abs/1311.2526 db/journals/corr/corr1311.html#ZhaoWYG13

Kang Zhao 0001 John Yen Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Carleen F. Maitland Andrea Hoplight Tapia Simulating inter-organizational collaboration network: a multi-relational and event-based approach. 617-633 2012 88 Simul. 5 https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549711421942 db/journals/simulation/simulation88.html#ZhaoYTMT12

Kang Zhao 0001 Greta E. Greer Baojun Qiu Prasenjit Mitra 0001 Kenneth Portier John Yen Finding influential users of an online health community: a new metric based on sentiment influence http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6086 2012 CoRR abs/1211.6086 db/journals/corr/corr1211.html#abs-1211-6086

Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Edgar A. Maldonado Kang Zhao 0001 Harold R. Robinson Carleen F. Maitland Andrea H. Tapia Exploring Barriers to Coordination between Humanitarian NGOs: A Comparative Case Study of two NGO's Information Technology Coordination Bodies. 1-25 2011 2 Int. J. Inf. Syst. Soc. Chang. 2 https://doi.org/10.4018/jissc.2011040101 db/journals/ijissc/ijissc2.html#TchouakeuMZRMT11

Kang Zhao 0001 Akhil Kumar 0001 Terry P. Harrison John Yen Analyzing the Resilience of Complex Supply Network Topologies Against Random and Targeted Disruptions. 28-39 2011 5 IEEE Syst. J. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2010.2100192 db/journals/sj/sj5.html#ZhaoKHY11

Kang Zhao 0001 Akhil Kumar 0001 John Yen Achieving High Robustness in Supply Distribution Networks by Rewiring. 347-362 2011 58 IEEE Trans. Engineering Management 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2010.2095503 db/journals/tem/tem58.html#Zhao0Y11

Baojun Qiu Kang Zhao 0001 Prasenjit Mitra 0001 Dinghao Wu Cornelia Caragea John Yen Greta E. Greer Kenneth Portier Get Online Support, Feel Better - Sentiment Analysis and Dynamics in an Online Cancer Survivor Community. 274-281 2011 SocialCom/PASSAT https://doi.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.127 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.127 conf/socialcom/2011 db/conf/socialcom/socialcom2011.html#QiuZMWCYGP11 Kartikeya Bajpai Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Carleen F. Maitland Kang Zhao 0001 Andrea Hoplight Tapia Crossing Borders, Organizations, Levels and Technologies: IS Collaboration in Humanitarian Relief. 115 2010 AMCIS http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/115 conf/amcis/2010 db/conf/amcis/amcis2010.html#BajpaiTMZT10 Carleen F. Maitland Andrea H. Tapia Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Kang Zhao 0001 Edgar A. Maldonado Sectoral coordination in humanitarian information management: The implications of professionalization. 2010 ISCRAM http://idl.iscram.org/files/maitland/2010/736_Maitland_etal2010.pdf conf/iscram/2010 db/conf/iscram/iscram2010.html#MaitlandTTZM10 Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Carleen F. Maitland Andrea H. Tapia Kang Zhao 0001 Kartikeya Bajpai Assessing humanitarian inter-organizational network effectiveness: The case of GlobalSympoNet. 2010 ISCRAM http://idl.iscram.org/files/tchouakeu/2010/1000_Tchouakeu_etal2010.pdf conf/iscram/2010 db/conf/iscram/iscram2010.html#TchouakeuMTZB10 Kang Zhao 0001 Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu John Yen Carleen F. Maitland Andrea Hoplight Tapia Assortativity Patterns in Multi-dimensional Inter-organizational Networks: A Case Study of the Humanitarian Relief Sector. 265-272 2010 SBP https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_33 conf/sbp/2010 db/conf/sbp/sbp2010.html#ZhaoTYMT10 Kang Zhao 0001 John Yen Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Carleen F. Maitland Andrea Hoplight Tapia From Communication to Collaboration: Simulating the Emergence of Inter-organizational Collaboration Network. 413-418 2010 SocialCom/PASSAT https://doi.org/10.1109/SocialCom.2010.66 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SocialCom.2010.66 conf/socialcom/2010 db/conf/socialcom/socialcom2010.html#ZhaoYTMT10 Kang Zhao 0001 John Yen Carleen F. Maitland Andrea Hoplight Tapia Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu A formal model for emerging coalitions under network influence in humanitarian relief coordination. 2009 SpringSim http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1639809.1639820 conf/springsim/2009 db/conf/springsim/springsim2009.html#ZhaoYMTT09 Michael S. Amato Jie Bai Kartikeya Bajpai Kristina Gavin Bigsby Jennifer Blackhurst Cornelia Caragea Sarah Cha In-Kap Chang Yung-Chun Chang Florent Charruaud Su Gon Cho Chin-Shun Chou Amy M. Cohn David Eichmann Weiguo Fan Sunyang Fu Bo Gao Greta E. Greer Congying Han Terry P. Harrison Saike He Andrew High Wenpo Huang Jim JansenBernard Jim Jansen Myong Kee Jeong Youngseon Jeong 0001Young-Seon Jeong 0001 Wei Jiang Byunghoon Kim Seoung Bum Kim Derek Kreager Akhil Kumar 0001 Michael T. Lash Amanda Lenhart Linjing Li Lishuai Li Qiudan Li Yanting Li Ziqiang Li Kaibo Liu Maggie Wenjing Liu Ziwen Liu 0001 Jun Luo Carleen F. Maitland Edgar A. Maldonado Prasenjit Mitra 0001 Buddhika Nettasinghe Dirk Neumann 0001 Chaoqun Ni Jeffrey W. Ohlmann George D. Papandonatos Jennifer Pearson 0002 Hao Peng Yichun Peng Kenneth Portier Baojun Qiu Harold R. Robinson Kevin P. Scheibe Jianjun Shi 0001 W. Nick Street Li Sun Andrea H. TapiaAndrea Hoplight Tapia Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu Hu Tian Seung Hoon Tong Kelvin Kam-fai Tsoi Kwok-Leung Tsui Shiyao Wang Xi Wang 0010 Xiangyu Wang 0009 Qingming Wei Wanting Wen Dinghao Wu Junjie Wu Yao Xie 0002 Fan Yang Tianbo Yang Yanwu Yang Yi Yang 0042 John Yen Mo Yu Sean H. Y. Yuan Daniel Dajun ZengDaniel Zeng 0001 Jianhao Zhang Min Zhang 0014 Ning Zhang Peijie Zhang Qi Zhang Qingpeng Zhang Weiguang Zhang Yang Zhang Xiaolong Zheng 0001 Xun Zhou 0001 Quannan Zu Zhiya Zuo