Changhai Yu

870 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 483 citations indexed

About

Changhai Yu is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Changhai Yu has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 483 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Changhai Yu's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (25 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (11 papers) and Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (9 papers). Changhai Yu is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (25 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (11 papers) and Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (9 papers). Changhai Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and South Korea. Changhai Yu's co-authors include Wentao Wang, Zhiyong Qin, Rong Qi, Yi Xu, Ming Fang, Fenxiang Wu, Lintong Ke, Ke Feng, Yuxin Leng and Zhijun Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Changhai Yu

23 papers receiving 465 citations

Hit Papers

Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometres based on a laser wa... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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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. Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometres based on a laser wakefield accelerator
    2021 192 citations Wentao Wang, Ke Feng 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 Yu China 8 419 251 198 158 120 29 483
Benno Zeitler Germany 6 398 0.9× 208 0.8× 160 0.8× 184 1.2× 134 1.1× 10 464
Fenxiang Wu China 10 473 1.1× 394 1.6× 168 0.8× 266 1.7× 93 0.8× 34 620
Hai-En Tsai United States 13 312 0.7× 198 0.8× 137 0.7× 175 1.1× 61 0.5× 34 455
O. Lundh Sweden 8 449 1.1× 230 0.9× 231 1.2× 113 0.7× 140 1.2× 8 498
Christopher M. S. Sears United States 7 364 0.9× 263 1.0× 177 0.9× 123 0.8× 72 0.6× 10 434
G. R. Plateau United States 7 503 1.2× 284 1.1× 236 1.2× 162 1.0× 131 1.1× 24 569
A. Ben‐Ismaïl France 9 565 1.3× 290 1.2× 275 1.4× 164 1.0× 189 1.6× 11 636
Zhijun Zhang China 8 285 0.7× 177 0.7× 138 0.7× 117 0.7× 88 0.7× 27 338
S. Chen United States 8 527 1.3× 330 1.3× 216 1.1× 92 0.6× 214 1.8× 13 605

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Fields of papers citing papers by Changhai Yu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Changhai Yu

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

All Works

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Zhang, Zhijun, Shi-Yi Zhou, Zhiyong Qin, et al.. (2025). Radiation Dynamics and Manipulation of Extreme Terahertz Surface Wave on a Metal Wire (Laser Photonics Rev. 19(2)/2025). Laser & Photonics Review. 19(2).
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Zhang, Zhijun, Shi-Yi Zhou, Zhiyong Qin, et al.. (2024). Radiation Dynamics and Manipulation of Extreme Terahertz Surface Wave on a Metal Wire. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(2). 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Changhai, et al.. (2024). Ultrahigh-brightness 50 MeV electron beam generation from laser wakefield acceleration in a weakly nonlinear regime. Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 9(3). 2 indexed citations
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Qin, Zhiyong, et al.. (2023). Enhanced XUV Harmonics Generation with an Intense Laser Field in the Overdriven Regime. Photonics. 10(9). 964–964. 1 indexed citations
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Ke, Lintong, Ke Feng, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2021). Near-GeV Electron Beams at a Few Per-Mille Level from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator via Density-Tailored Plasma. Physical Review Letters. 126(21). 214801–214801. 61 indexed citations
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Yu, Changhai, Zhiyong Qin, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2019). Dual-color γ -rays via all-optical Compton scattering from a cascaded laser-driven wakefield accelerator. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61(8). 85030–85030. 5 indexed citations
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Feng, Ke, Changhai Yu, Jiansheng Liu, et al.. (2018). Dispersion effects on performance of free-electron laser based on laser wakefield accelerator. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 6.
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Qin, Zhiyong, Changhai Yu, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2018). Ultralow-emittance measurement of high-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator. Physics of Plasmas. 25(2). 9 indexed citations
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Qin, Zhiyong, Wentao Li, Jiansheng Liu, et al.. (2018). Optimization of gas-filled quartz capillary discharge waveguide for high-energy laser wakefield acceleration. Physics of Plasmas. 25(4). 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Changhai, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2018). Brilliant x-ray sources generation based on high-quality laser-driven wakefield accelerator. 77. 3–3.
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Zhang, Zhijun, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2018). Controlled injection using a channel pinch in a plasma-channel-guided laser wakefield accelerator. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60(6). 65011–65011. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Changhai, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2018). Enhanced betatron radiation by steering a laser-driven plasma wakefield with a tilted shock front. Applied Physics Letters. 112(13). 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiansheng, Zhiyong Qin, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2018). Measurement of the matched spot size in a capillary discharge waveguide with a collimated laser. AIP Advances. 8(10). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Wentao, Rong Qi, Changhai Yu, et al.. (2016). High-Brightness High-Energy Electron Beams from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator via Energy Chirp Control. Physical Review Letters. 117(12). 124801–124801. 122 indexed citations
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Yu, Changhai, Aihua Deng, Ye Tian, et al.. (2016). Enhanced hole boring with two-color relativistic laser pulses in the fast ignition scheme. Physics of Plasmas. 23(8).
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Zhang, Zhijun, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2016). Energy spread minimization in a cascaded laser wakefield accelerator via velocity bunching. Physics of Plasmas. 23(5). 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Wentao, Jiansheng Liu, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2015). Developments in laser wakefield accelerators: From single-stage to two-stage. Chinese Physics B. 24(1). 15205–15205. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhijun, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang, et al.. (2015). Generation of high quality electron beams from a quasi-phase-stable cascaded laser wakefield accelerator with density-tailored plasma segments. New Journal of Physics. 17(10). 103011–103011. 14 indexed citations
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