Cen Nan

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 886 citations indexed

About

Cen Nan is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Cen Nan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 886 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 7 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 5 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Cen Nan's work include Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (7 papers), Smart Grid Security and Resilience (6 papers) and Simulation Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Cen Nan is often cited by papers focused on Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (7 papers), Smart Grid Security and Resilience (6 papers) and Simulation Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Cen Nan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Canada and Germany. Cen Nan's co-authors include Giovanni Sansavini, Irene Eusgeld, Faisal Khan, M. Tariq Iqbal and Wolfgang Kröger and has published in prestigious journals such as Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Process Safety and Environmental Protection and IEEE Systems Journal.

In The Last Decade

Cen Nan

11 papers receiving 847 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.

A quantitative method for assessing resilience of interdependent infrastructures

2016 344 citations Cen Nan, Giovanni Sansavini Reliability Engineering & System Safety profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cen Nan Switzerland	9	559	345	254	145	115	11	886
Barry Horowitz United States	13	519 0.9×	248 0.7×	281 1.1×	183 1.3×	150 1.3×	52	942
Devanandham Henry United States	9	625 1.1×	219 0.6×	318 1.3×	147 1.0×	34 0.3×	17	956
Kenneth G. Crowther United States	11	580 1.0×	143 0.4×	301 1.2×	221 1.5×	69 0.6×	24	777
Andrés D. González United States	12	544 1.0×	172 0.5×	158 0.6×	156 1.1×	103 0.9×	51	750
Thomas C. Sharkey United States	18	584 1.0×	183 0.5×	173 0.7×	219 1.5×	153 1.3×	60	1.1k
Ningxiong Xu United States	15	311 0.6×	147 0.4×	121 0.5×	78 0.5×	40 0.3×	34	929
Barry Ezell United States	12	291 0.5×	101 0.3×	167 0.7×	124 0.9×	56 0.5×	35	647
Irene Eusgeld Switzerland	7	302 0.5×	165 0.5×	110 0.4×	72 0.5×	84 0.7×	12	471
Yasser Almoghathawi Saudi Arabia	10	403 0.7×	127 0.4×	125 0.5×	114 0.8×	58 0.5×	21	551
Reza Faturechi United States	7	804 1.4×	98 0.3×	235 0.9×	227 1.6×	22 0.2×	10	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Cen Nan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cen Nan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cen Nan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cen Nan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cen Nan 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 Cen Nan. Cen Nan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Nan, Cen & Giovanni Sansavini. (2016). Developing an agent-based hierarchical modeling approach to assess human performance of infrastructure systems. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. 53. 340–354. 22 indexed citations

2.

Nan, Cen & Giovanni Sansavini. (2016). A quantitative method for assessing resilience of interdependent infrastructures. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 157. 35–53. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Nan, Cen & Giovanni Sansavini. (2015). Multilayer hybrid modeling framework for the performance assessment of interdependent critical infrastructures. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection. 10. 18–33. 12 indexed citations

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Nan, Cen, Irene Eusgeld, & Wolfgang Kröger. (2013). Analyzing vulnerabilities between SCADA system and SUC due to interdependencies. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 113. 76–93. 35 indexed citations

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Kröger, Wolfgang, et al.. (2013). Performance of Electric Power Systems Under Physical Malicious Attacks. IEEE Systems Journal. 7(4). 854–865. 67 indexed citations

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Nan, Cen & Irene Eusgeld. (2011). Exploring impacts of single failure propagation between SCADA and SUC. 1564–1568. 5 indexed citations

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Eusgeld, Irene, et al.. (2011). “System-of-systems” approach for interdependent critical infrastructures. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 96(6). 679–686. 230 indexed citations

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Nan, Cen & Irene Eusgeld. (2010). Adopting HLA standard for interdependency study. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 96(1). 149–159. 43 indexed citations

9.

Eusgeld, Irene & Cen Nan. (2009). Creating a simulation environment for critical infrastructure interdependencies study. 2104–2108. 17 indexed citations

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Nan, Cen, Faisal Khan, & M. Tariq Iqbal. (2008). Real-time fault diagnosis using knowledge-based expert system. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 86(1). 55–71. 104 indexed citations

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Nan, Cen, Faisal Khan, & M. Tariq Iqbal. (2007). Abnormal Process Condition Prediction (Fault Diagnosis) Using G2 Expert System. 1507–1510. 7 indexed citations

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