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Wei Cheng

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 2000Rising activity

Publications

67

Citations

247

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

25

Publishing since 2000

Research summary
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This publication record appears to blend at least two distinct bodies of work: a substantial line of research in ancient Greek philosophy, focusing on how Aristotle, Plato, Speusippus, Theophrastus and other ancient thinkers understood pleasure, pain, and related concepts, and a separate scattering of publications on unrelated topics such as territorial disputes, spatial econometrics, privacy in language models, and family farm entrepreneurship. Prospective students interested in ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotelian and Hellenistic theories of emotion and value, would find the philosophy-focused publications most relevant. Note that the name 'Wei Cheng' may correspond to multiple different researchers, since the topics and venues span very different disciplines.

Ancient Greek philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, Speusippus, Theophrastus)Theories of pleasure and pain in antiquityClassical philology and terminology studiesSpatial/regional economic analysis (possibly a different author)Miscellaneous topics: law, entrepreneurship, privacy in AI (possibly a different author)

Output dipped to its lowest point around 2021–2022 (2 papers/year) after a higher rate in 2017–2019, then rebounded to 5–6 papers/year in 2023–2024, giving an overall uneven but recently increasing pace.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
2017: 6 publications6172018: 4 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 6 publications6242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • National Bureau of Economic Research×3
  • PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)×2
  • Philologus×1
  • Advances in Psychological Science×1
  • Sustainability×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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