Bo Yan

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 809 citations indexed

About

Bo Yan is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Yan has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 809 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Signal Processing and 7 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Bo Yan's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (7 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (6 papers) and Topic Modeling (4 papers). Bo Yan is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (7 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (6 papers) and Topic Modeling (4 papers). Bo Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and New Zealand. Bo Yan's co-authors include Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, Rui Zhu, Ling Cai, Song Gao, Yingjie Hu, Ni Lao, Peiyuan Qiu, Kang Liu and Feng Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, International Journal of Production Research and IEEE Sensors Journal.

In The Last Decade

Bo Yan

24 papers receiving 790 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Traffic transformer: Capturing the continuity and periodicity of time series for traffic forecasting
    2020 248 citations Ling Cai, Krzysztof Janowicz et al. Transactions in GIS profile →
  2. A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications
    2022 92 citations Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bo Yan China 12 338 255 208 191 175 28 809
Xiucheng Li China 11 396 1.2× 476 1.9× 41 0.2× 335 1.8× 258 1.5× 27 1.1k
Hsun-Ping Hsieh Taiwan 11 440 1.3× 177 0.7× 42 0.2× 164 0.9× 219 1.3× 62 1.3k
Jilin Hu Denmark 15 221 0.7× 253 1.0× 49 0.2× 334 1.7× 187 1.1× 39 744
Anahid Basiri United Kingdom 14 138 0.4× 84 0.3× 108 0.5× 136 0.7× 77 0.4× 53 706
Xianyuan Zhan China 18 599 1.8× 449 1.8× 21 0.1× 75 0.4× 95 0.5× 43 1.1k
Paul Newson United Kingdom 9 334 1.0× 328 1.3× 66 0.3× 356 1.9× 84 0.5× 25 982
Silvia Nittel United States 14 102 0.3× 54 0.2× 74 0.4× 174 0.9× 110 0.6× 43 609
Pengyuan Liu China 14 106 0.3× 122 0.5× 43 0.2× 30 0.2× 37 0.2× 53 643
Kyungmi Lee Australia 12 180 0.5× 30 0.1× 73 0.4× 192 1.0× 129 0.7× 50 529

Countries citing papers authored by Bo Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bo Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bo Yan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bo Yan. The network helps show where Bo Yan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bo Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bo Yan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bo Yan. Bo Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yang, Jinyu, Ruijia Wang, Cheng Yang, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Language Model for Cross-Heterogeneity Graph Knowledge Transfer. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 39(12). 13026–13034.
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Chen, Yang, Xiao Lin, Bo Yan, et al.. (2024). Meta-Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Mean Field Games via Probabilistic Context Variables. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(10). 11407–11415. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Congchun, et al.. (2023). A Bilayer Thin-Film Strain Gauge With Temperature Self-Compensation. IEEE Sensors Journal. 23(6). 5601–5608. 8 indexed citations
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Cai, Ling, Krzysztof Janowicz, Rui Zhu, et al.. (2022). HyperQuaternionE: A hyperbolic embedding model for qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. GeoInformatica. 27(2). 159–197. 8 indexed citations
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Mai, Gengchen, Krzysztof Janowicz, Yingjie Hu, et al.. (2022). A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 36(4). 639–673. 92 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Rong, et al.. (2022). Use of machine learning models to predict in‐hospital mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Clinical Cardiology. 46(2). 184–194. 11 indexed citations
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Mai, Gengchen, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, et al.. (2020). Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Spatial Feature Distributions using Grid Cells. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Cai, Ling, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, Bo Yan, & Rui Zhu. (2020). Traffic transformer: Capturing the continuity and periodicity of time series for traffic forecasting. Transactions in GIS. 24(3). 736–755. 248 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Zheng, et al.. (2019). Performance degradation assessment of rolling bearing based on convolutional neural network and deep long-short term memory network. International Journal of Production Research. 58(13). 3931–3943. 27 indexed citations
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Mai, Gengchen, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, & Simon Scheider. (2019). Deeply integrating Linked Data with Geographic Information Systems. Transactions in GIS. 23(3). 579–600. 18 indexed citations
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Yan, Bo, et al.. (2018). Place2Vec: Visualizing and Reasoning About Place Type Similarity and Relatedness by Learning Context Embeddings. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Bo, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, & Rui Zhu. (2018). xNet+SC: Classifying Places Based on Images by Incorporating Spatial Contexts. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 15. 7 indexed citations
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Yan, Bo, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, & Song Gao. (2017). From ITDL to Place2Vec. 1–10. 128 indexed citations
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Zhu, Rui, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, & Yingjie Hu. (2016). Which Kobani? A Case Study on the Role of Spatial Statistics and Semantics for Coreference Resolution Across Gazetteers. 1. 3 indexed citations
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Yan, Bo, Yingjie Hu, Brandon Kuczenski, et al.. (2015). An Ontology For Specifying Spatiotemporal Scopes in Life Cycle Assessment.. 25–30. 6 indexed citations
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Yan, Bo. (2007). Emergency Open Chest CPR for Chest Injuny.
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Yan, Bo, et al.. (2004). Inverse Kinematics Analysis of Weld Inspection Manipulator at Pipe Joint in Nuclear Industry. 9(3). 25–30. 2 indexed citations
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Kong, Feng, et al.. (2003). [Hearing impairment in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type].. PubMed. 38(3). 198–201. 4 indexed citations

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