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Weidan Cao

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2011Rising activity
Misinformation and Its ImpactsCancer survivorship and careHealth Literacy and Information AccessibilityMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Publications

41

Citations

537

Est. group size

~7

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

16

Publishing since 2011

Research summary
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Weidan Cao works at the intersection of health communication and mobile/AI-based health technology, studying how patients seek and process health information (including during COVID-19) and how mobile health apps, wearables, and AI clinical decision-support tools can be designed to support conditions like hypertension, cancer treatment side effects, and cardiotoxicity. Their work combines systematic reviews, usability studies, and longitudinal surveys to understand both the design and real-world impact of digital health interventions. This research would suit students interested in human-computer interaction, health informatics, or communication science applied to patient-facing technologies.

Mobile health (mHealth) interventionsAI-based clinical decision support and multimodal monitoringOnline health information seeking and misinformationPatient-provider communication and engagementCancer and chronic disease symptom management

Publication output was minimal or absent in the mid-2010s to late-2010s but has grown fairly steadily since 2021, with a peak of 8 papers in 2023 and continued output through 2025-2026.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 3 publications171819202021: 4 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 8 publications8232024: 5 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 4 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×5
  • PsycTESTS Dataset×5
  • Health Communication×3
  • Psycho-Oncology×2
  • JMIR mhealth and uhealth×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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