Recently, according to the latest updated data of Essential Science Indicators, the paper Health information privacy concerns antecedents, and information disclosure intention in online health communities, written by the professor Zhang Xing as the first author of the school of management of Wuhan Textile University, has been successfully listed in the global top 1% of ESI highly cited papers in the field of "social sciences".

As the leader in the direction of decision-making theory and methodology in management science and engineering, Professor Zhang Xing has taken charge of the National Natural Science Foundation, the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education, the Science and Technology Project of the Education Department of Hubei Province (outstanding youth), the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Education Department of Hubei Province, the Star of Science and Technology Future of Wuhan Textile University and the Management Consulting Project of Wuhan Iron and Steel Magnet and many other projects. He has already published a series of academic papers in SSCI, including Information& Management, Computers in Human Behavior and Management Decision etc; In addition, professor Zhang has received many honors in teaching and research. Also, he made positive contribution to academic discipline construction and scientific research.