Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Rosales Cortez, O. & Chen, C. (2026). Where on Earth Are the Earth Sciences? A Mixed-Methods Study of Environmental Justice Research Trends and Roadblocks to Engagement. GeoHealth, 10(9), e2025GH001799. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GH001799 [PDF]

Wang, R. Y. & Chen, C. (2026). Beyond Keywords: Comparing LLM-Assisted Topic Modeling Approaches Across Political Communication Contexts. Computational Communication Research, 8(2), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2026.2.12.WANG [PDF]

Chen, C. & Jia, X. (2026). When Researchers Use AI: Public Trust, Ethical Judgments, and the Perceived Value of Academic Research. AI & Ethics, 6(2), 223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-026-01039-w [PDF]

Chen, C., & Cui, Z. (2025). Impact of AI-Assisted Diagnosis on American Patients’ Trust in and Intention to Seek Help From Health Care Professionals: Randomized, Web-Based Survey Experiment. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, e66083. https://doi.org/10.2196/66083 [PDF][Media Coverage]

Chen, C., Cui, Z., & Chen, Y. (2023). A randomized controlled trial of an information intervention to bolster COVID-19 vaccination intention among people with purity concerns. Health Psychology, 42(9), 686–697. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001295 [PDF]

Chen, C., MacInnis, B., Waltman, M., & Krosnick, J. A. (2021). Public opinion on climate change in the USA: to what extent can it be nudged by questionnaire design features? Climatic Change, 167(3), 1-18. https://10.1007/s10584-021-03194-x [PDF]

Book Chapter

Chen, C., MacInnis, B. & Krosnick, J. A. (2025). American Public Opinion on Climate Change. In M. Lackner, B. Sajjadi & W. Chen (Eds.), Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6431-0_190-1 [PDF]

Preprint

Li, L., Li, J., Chen, C., Gui, F., Yang, H., Yu, C., … & Dong, Y. (2024). Political-llm: Large language models in political science. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06864. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06864