Changhai Nie

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Changhai Nie is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Changhai Nie has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Software, 34 papers in Information Systems and 19 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Changhai Nie's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (55 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (43 papers) and Software Engineering Research (28 papers). Changhai Nie is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (55 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (43 papers) and Software Engineering Research (28 papers). Changhai Nie collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Changhai Nie's co-authors include Hareton Leung, Baowen Xu, Huayao Wu, Fei‐Ching Kuo, Charles J. Colbourn, Xiaofang Zhang, Yu Lei, Yue Jia, Mark Harman and Justyna Petke and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, Pattern Recognition and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Changhai Nie

67 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

A survey of combinatorial testing 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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. A survey of combinatorial testing
    2011 482 citations Changhai Nie et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Changhai Nie China 16 1.1k 597 266 198 154 72 1.3k
Moonzoo Kim South Korea 20 947 0.9× 615 1.0× 276 1.0× 230 1.2× 168 1.1× 52 1.2k
G.C. Patton United States 5 1.2k 1.2× 566 0.9× 282 1.1× 210 1.1× 232 1.5× 5 1.4k
Renée Bryce United States 16 1.1k 1.0× 606 1.0× 289 1.1× 84 0.4× 130 0.8× 47 1.2k
Vu Le United States 16 922 0.9× 760 1.3× 259 1.0× 426 2.2× 236 1.5× 43 1.4k
Marcelo d’Amorim Brazil 20 728 0.7× 619 1.0× 271 1.0× 315 1.6× 80 0.5× 67 1.1k
Muzammil Shahbaz United Kingdom 9 663 0.6× 422 0.7× 165 0.6× 201 1.0× 44 0.3× 15 839
Eitan Farchi Israel 13 610 0.6× 341 0.6× 383 1.4× 254 1.3× 355 2.3× 58 1.0k
Peter Zoeteweij Netherlands 13 1.6k 1.5× 1.3k 2.1× 601 2.3× 188 0.9× 65 0.4× 22 1.8k
Arnaud Gotlieb Norway 19 809 0.8× 472 0.8× 184 0.7× 275 1.4× 108 0.7× 83 1.1k
Michael W. Whalen United States 19 973 0.9× 534 0.9× 193 0.7× 338 1.7× 174 1.1× 91 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Changhai Nie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Changhai Nie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Changhai Nie

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Li, et al.. (2025). Effective REST APIs Testing with Error Message Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 2(ISSTA). 1978–2000.
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Shen, Furao, et al.. (2024). RADAP: A Robust and Adaptive Defense Against Diverse Adversarial Patches on face recognition. Pattern Recognition. 157. 110915–110915. 3 indexed citations
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Shen, Furao, et al.. (2024). EAP: An effective black-box impersonation adversarial patch attack method on face recognition in the physical world. Neurocomputing. 580. 127517–127517. 8 indexed citations
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Shen, Furao, et al.. (2024). RandoMix: a mixed sample data augmentation method with multiple mixed modes. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 84(8). 4343–4359. 5 indexed citations
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Shen, Furao, et al.. (2023). Self-supervised learning of monocular 3D geometry understanding with two- and three-view geometric constraints. The Visual Computer. 40(2). 1193–1204. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Shun, Chao Ni, Jianbo Wang, & Changhai Nie. (2022). Detecting and Defending CSRF at API-Level. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Jia, Bin Xiao, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2019). Efficient Polling-Based Information Collection in RFID Systems. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 27(3). 948–961. 25 indexed citations
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Wu, Huayao, Changhai Nie, Justyna Petke, Yue Jia, & Mark Harman. (2019). Comparative Analysis of Constraint Handling Techniques for Constrained Combinatorial Testing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(11). 2549–2562. 13 indexed citations
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Wu, Linbo, et al.. (2019). A Test Case Design Method Based on Path Depth Coverage. 58. 89–96.
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Li, Jie, Changhai Nie, & Yu Lei. (2012). Improved Delta Debugging Based on Combinatorial Testing. 102–105. 13 indexed citations
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Nie, Changhai, et al.. (2009). Test Case Prioritization Based on Test Suite Design Information. Chinese Journal of Computers. 31(3). 431–439. 9 indexed citations
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Nie, Changhai, et al.. (2008). A Dynamic Adjusting Method for Test Case Prioritization.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 484–487. 1 indexed citations
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Nie, Changhai. (2008). Survey of test suite reduction problem. Jisuanji kexue yu tansuo. 3 indexed citations
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Nie, Changhai, et al.. (2006). A New Heuristic for Test Suite Generation for Pair-wise Testing.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 517–521. 8 indexed citations
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Xie, Xiaoyuan, Baowen Xu, Changhai Nie, Liang Shi, & Lei Xu. (2005). Configuration strategies for evolutionary testing. 13–14. 8 indexed citations
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Shi, Liang, Baowen Xu, & Changhai Nie. (2005). Combinatorial design approaches for automatic test generation. Journal of Electronics (China). 22(2). 205–208. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Baowen, Changhai Nie, Liang Shi, et al.. (2003). Test Plan Design for Software Configuration Testing. Software Engineering Research and Practice. 686–692. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Baowen, et al.. (2003). An algorithm for automatically generating black-box test cases. Journal of Electronics (China). 20(1). 74–77. 4 indexed citations

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