Understanding the Complexity of Business Information Dissemination in Social Media: A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence from China

Table 1

A detailed overview.

Code number	Publication	Literature resource	Number of variables	Sample size	Effect size	Is it a public emergency?
1	Wei [30]	Master’s thesis	4	480	Correlation coefficient and N	Yes
2	Han [31]	Master’s thesis	10	700	Correlation coefficient	No
3	Zhang [6]	Master’s thesis	5	182	N	Yes
4	Gu et al. [8]	Information science	7	616	Correlation coefficient	No
5	Zeng [32]	Information science	9	649	N	No
6	Wang [33]	China youth study	4	2745	Correlation coefficient	No
7	Zhao and Cheng [25]	Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information	8	420	N	No
8	Huang [34]	Master’s thesis	11	170	Correlation coefficient	No
9	Zhang [35]	Master’s thesis	4	343	N	Yes
10	Wu [36]	Master’s thesis	9	148	Correlation coefficient	No
11	Zhao [9]	Master’s thesis	4	235	N	Yes
12	Chen [37]	Master’s thesis	8	420	Correlation coefficient	Yes
13	Hong [38]	China Population, Resources and Environment	6	10405	value and N	No
14	Cao [39]	Chinese Journal of Computers	6	12284	Correlation coefficient and N	No
15	Zhang et al. [4]	Information and Documentation Services	7	598	T-value and N	Yes
16	Liao et al. [7]	Information and Documentation Services	2	24500	Correlation coefficient	Yes
17	Hou [40]	Discovering value	3	213	N	No
18	Wang [41]	Master’s thesis	11	185	Correlation coefficient	No
19	Wu [42]	Master’s thesis	4	291	N	No
20	Wang [43]	Master’s thesis	10	295	Correlation coefficient	No