Mapping university prestige and hierarchy in China via faculty hiring networks of internationally active Ph.D.s.

Chaolin Tian, Xunyi Jiang, Yurui Huang, Langtian Ma, Yifang Ma
February, 2026
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026

Using ORCID and OpenAlex records, this study examines faculty hiring among internationally active researchers trained in China. It measures how institutional prestige and unequal faculty production shape the hiring network.

Computational Social Science Science of Science
Xunyi Jiang
Xunyi Jiang
PhD in CS @ 🇺🇸NYU
MS in CS @ 🇺🇸UCSD
BS in DS @ 🇨🇳SUSTech

I am interested in LLM Evaluation, Generative Engine Optimization, Human-AI collaboration, AI for creativity🎻.