The Role of Time, Engagement, and Self-Perceived Leadership on Peer-Nominated Emergent Leadership in Small Group Online Collaborative Learning. - Kui Xie; Zhiru Sun; Lin Lu (CSCL, 2015)

The Effects of Self-Regulated Learning on Students' Performance Trajectory in the Flipped Math Classroom. - Zhiru Sun; Lin Lu; Kui Xie (ICLS, 2016)

The role of self-regulated learning in students' success in flipped undergraduate math courses. - Zhiru Sun; Kui Xie; Lynley H. Anderman (Internet High. Educ., 2018)

Self-regulation as a function of perceived leadership and cohesion in small group online collaborative learning. - Kui Xie; Lauren C. Hensley; Victor Law; Zhiru Sun (Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2019)

How do students prepare in the pre-class setting of a flipped undergraduate math course? A latent profile analysis of learning behavior and the impact of achievement goals. - Zhiru Sun; Kui Xie (Internet High. Educ., 2020)

An Exact Algorithm for Group Formation to Promote Collaborative Learning. - Zhiru Sun; Marco Chiarandini (LAK, 2021)

Assessing negotiation skill and its development in an online collaborative simulation game: A social network analysis study. - Zhiru Sun; Amelie Theussen (Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2023)

The mediating role of learner empowerment in the relationship between the community of inquiry and online learning outcomes. - Zhiru Sun; Yuqin Yang (Internet High. Educ., 2023)

LLM-Supervised Multilingual Skill Extraction and Classification from Job Ads. - Jakob Mørup Wang; Zhiru Sun (NLDB (2), 2025)