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Peiling Wang<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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peilingw@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

865-974-3700<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peiling Wang is a full professor at the School of Information Sciences, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has been teaching database design, data analytics and visualization, research methods, and information seeking since she joined UT in 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research areas include relevance information search and seeking behavior, user-system interactions, learner-centered educational transformation, open science, open peer review, research reporting guidelines for biomedical publications, retractions, publication recommendation systems, and bibliometrics\/informetrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has authored or co-authored more than seventy-five peer-reviewed research articles in journals and conference proceedings. A frequent presenter at various conferences, she also chairs and serves on international conferences program committees. She serves as a peer-reviewer for many journals and on several editorial boards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Education<\/div><\/h2>
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  • PhD, University of Maryland College Park, 1994<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Research Interests<\/div><\/h2>
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    • Research methodologies and methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Database management<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Information-seeking behaviors<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Data analytics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Bibliometrics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Open peer review in open science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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