Published (Peer Review)#

  1. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2026. ‘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.’ Developmental Review.

  2. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2026. ‘Multiple Discrimination Experiences Patterns in the Asexual Adolescent and Youth Community: The Intersectionality of Outness and Gender Identity.’ Journal of Sex Research.

  3. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2026. ‘Disentangling the Developmental Cascades between Adolescent Maltreatment and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: From Between-person Differences to Within-person Changes.’ Journal of Research on Adolescence 36(1):e70157. doi:10.1111/jora.70157

  4. Lu, Zékai (Zachary). 2025. ‘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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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).

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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)

  22. 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. 2026. ‘The Topology of Adversities: Mapping the Space of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Positions, and Risk Behaviors/Health Outcomes among US Adolescents.’ Social Science & Medicine.

  2. 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. Religious Freedom and Population Health: Cross-National Panel Evidence on Political Liberalization as the Mediating Pathway. Submitted to Journal of Religion and Health (Sole)

  2. When Convergence Produces Divergence: Internet Use, Gendered Returns, and the Widening Gender Ideology Gap in China, 2012–2023. Submitted to Sex Roles (Sole)

  3. Faith Beyond the Congregation: Religion, Generalized Trust, and Subjective Wellbeing in Contemporary China. Submitted to Social Forces (First & Corresponding Author)

  4. How Well Does Combining Inverse Probability Weighting with the BCH Method Work for Causal Inference with Latent Class Exposures? A Monte Carlo Evaluation. Submitted to Multivariate Behavioral Research (Sole Author)

  5. Bayesian Psychopathology Network Analysis of Adversity Exposure, Risky Behaviors, and Psychological Distress Among US Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents. Submitted to International Journal of Transgender Health (Sole Author)

  6. The Social Stratification of Slumber: Disentangling the Intersectional Effects of Heterogeneous Adverse Childhood Experiences on Sleep Deprivation in US Children and Adolescents. Minor R&R in Social Science & Medicine (First Author)

  7. 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)

In Preparation#

  1. The Discordant Self: A Longitudinal Response Surface Analysis of Objective-Subjective Health Congruence and Well-being in Older Americans

  2. Religious Attendance and Multidimensional Health Among Older Americans: Bidirectional Within-Person Dynamics from a General Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis of the Health and Retirement Study, 2006–2020

  3. Do Living Arrangements Really Impact Health? Evidence From Fixed-Effects-With-Individual-Slopes Analysis of U.S. Older Adults

  4. Does Body Image Distortion Mediate the Link Between Adolescent Bullying and Depression in Early Adulthood? Evidence From a National Irish Cohort

  5. Mapping the Epistemic Transformation of Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Computational Analysis Integrating Bibliometrics, Word Embeddings, and BertTopic Modeling

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

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

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

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

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