Published (Peer Review)#

  1. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2026. ‘Mapping Adolescent Problematic Social Media Use Patterns across 41 Countries/Regions: A Multilevel Latent Class Analysis with Social Determinants’. Addictive Behaviors 172:108523. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108523

  2. Lu, Zékai (Zachary), Zelin Liu and Danhua Lin. 2025. ‘The Association of Relative Deprivation, Interpersonal Relationships, and Problematic Social Media Use in 39 Countries/Regions: Does School Contextual Inequality Matter?’. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. doi:10.1556/2006.2025.00091

  3. Lu, Zékai (Zachary), and Samuelle Fortin. 2025. ‘Sociocultural Determinants of Injury Risk among Indigenous Peoples in Canada: A Population-Based Study of Heterogeneous Effects’. Injury Prevention. doi:10.1136/ip-2025-045849

  4. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2025. ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among US Children: Untangling the Developmental Sex Differences’. International Journal of Eating Disorders. doi:10.1002/eat.24555

  5. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2025. “Book Review of Disclosing Sexual Violence in a Digital Society: Storytelling, Activism, and Justice By Tully O’Neill”. Sexualities.

  6. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2025. “Excessive Digital Devices Use as an Intermediate Variable between Heterogeneous Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychopathology in US Adolescents: A Latent Class Cross-Sectional Analysis.” European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi:10.1007/s00787-025-02777-8

  7. Bi, Kaiwen, Gabriel J. Merrin, Tianyu Li, Xianlin Sun, Yi Chai, Zekai Lu*, and Mark Shuquan Chen*. 2025. “Navigating Unmeasured Confounding in Nonexperimental Psychological Research: A Practical Guide to Computing and Interpreting E-Value.” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 8(2):25152459251326571. doi:10.1177/25152459251326571

  8. Lu, Zekai. 2025. “Public Concern of Child Maltreatment in China from 2011 to 2024 and Its Socioeconomic Determinants: An Infodemiology Analysis Using Baidu Index.” Child Abuse & Neglect 163:107352. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107352

  9. Lu, Zekai, Eran Shor, and Samuelle Fortin. 2025. “Ethnic Belonging and Chronic Disease in Indigenous Populations in Canada.” Preventive Medicine 192:108236. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2025.108236

  10. Lu, Zekai, Ge Tang, and Samuelle Fortin. 2024. ‘Explaining Child Maltreatment and Aggression among Chinese Drug User: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Drug Craving and Impulsivity.’ Child Abuse & Neglect 154:106954. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106954

  11. Lu, Zekai, Rongqin Yuan, Zelin Liu, and Hong Lu. 2024. ‘Exploring the Symptom Patterns of Depression and Anxiety among Teachers during COVID-19: A Latent Profile Analysis.’ Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. doi:10.1037/tra0001686

  12. Lu, Zekai, Chuyin Xie, Nian Liu, Ying Xie, and Hong Lu. 2022. ‘Can We Predict Aggression?’—Determining the Predictors of Aggression among Individuals with Substance Use Disorder in China Undergoing Enforced Detoxification through Machine Learning. Journal of Affective Disorders. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2022.10.005

  13. Lu, Zekai, Lingxi Peng, Xuan Liu, Lizhi Zhan, Haohuai Liu, and Rong Hu. 2022. “The Systematic Traceability and Analysis of COVID-19.” Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 23(10): 2383–93. Link

  14. Liu, Nian, Zekai Lu*, and Xie Ying. 2023. Application of the R Package ProcessR to Implement Various Types of Intermediary Models. China Health Statistics (Chinese CSCD).

  15. Liu, Nian, Zekai Lu, and Ying Xie. 2022. Tracking Study on the Relapse and Aftercare Effect of Drug Patients Released From a Compulsory Isolated Detoxification Center. Frontiers in Psychiatry 12:699074. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.699074

  16. Xu, Junhui, Zekai Lu, and Ying Xie. 2021. Loan Default Prediction of Chinese P2P Market: A Machine Learning Methodology. Scientific Reports 11:18759. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-98361-6

  17. Liu, Nian, Zekai Lu, and Ying Xie. 2021. Factors Affecting the Public Acceptance of Extramarital Sex in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(11):5767. doi:10.3390/ijerph18115767

  18. Lu, Zekai, and Xie, Ying. 2021. A study of public opinion texts on the “Sino-US diplomatic storm” in microblogs: a word vector sentiment analysis based on R language. Media Watch, no. 02: 54-61. doi:10.19480/j.cnki.cmgc.2021.02.007 (Chinese CSSCI)

  19. Lu, Zekai, Yaya Wang, and Ying Xie. 2021. A random forest-based approach to poverty alleviation identification. China Market. 2021, 22-23+36. doi:10.13939/j.cnki.zgsc.2021.25.022

Accepted#

  1. Lu, Zekai, Nian Liu, Ying Xie, and Junhui Xu. 2021. Time Series Analysis and Forecasting of China’s Energy Production during Covid-19: Statistical Models vs Machine Learning Models. Energies. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1074872/v3

Under Review#

  1. Multiple Discrimination Experiences Patterns in the Asexual Adolescent and Youth Community: The Intersectionality of Outness and Gender Identity. Under External Review in Journal of Sex Research (Sole)

  2. The Topology of Adversities: Mapping the Space of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Positions, and Risk Behaviors/Health Outcomes among US Adolescents. Under External Review in Social Science & Medicine (Sole)

  3. Mapping the Longitudinal Dynamics of Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Function in Aging: Insights from Temporal Network Analysis. Under External Review in Aging and mental health (Sole)

  4. The Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Child Maltreatment and Problematic Technology Use in Children and Adolescents: Heterogeneity Across Different Subtypes and Moderating Factors. Under External Review in Developmental Review

  5. Disentangling the Developmental Cascades Between Adolescent Maltreatment and Internalizing/Externalizing Problems: From Between-Person Differences to Within-Person Changes. Under 1st R&R in Journal of Research on Adolescence (Sole)

In Preparation#

  1. The Burden of Dual Belonging in a Settler-Colonial State: The Case of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. With my Supervisor Eran Shor

  2. The Great Divergence: The Dynamic Evolution and Intersectional Formation of Sex Attitudes in Contemporary China. With my Supervisor Eran Shor

  3. Predicting and Explaining Suicidal Ideation Among Indigenous People in Canada Using Machine Learning Methods: A Nationally Representative Study

  4. Rethinking the measurement of Adverse Childhood Experiences — A causal tree-based approach

  5. Exemplar of the New Century? - Understanding China’s Drug Policy in the 21st Century through Critical Discourse Analysis