Cheng Li

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Cheng Li is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Li has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 11 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Cheng Li's work include Space Satellite Systems and Control (10 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (6 papers) and Nuclear physics research studies (5 papers). Cheng Li is often cited by papers focused on Space Satellite Systems and Control (10 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (6 papers) and Nuclear physics research studies (5 papers). Cheng Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Cheng Li's co-authors include Chen Change Loy, Xiaoou Tang, Shizhan Zhu, Wenfu Xu, Bin Liang, Chen Qian, Yangsheng Xu, Bin Liang, Wenyi Qiang and Junlong Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, ACS Nano and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Li

69 papers receiving 1.6k 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. Face alignment by coarse-to-fine shape searching
    2015 294 citations Cheng Li 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
Cheng Li China 20 598 253 208 163 159 81 1.7k
Qin Liu China 22 210 0.4× 107 0.4× 801 3.9× 153 0.9× 59 0.4× 225 2.5k
Masayuki Okamoto Japan 26 331 0.6× 109 0.4× 87 0.4× 405 2.5× 379 2.4× 194 2.7k
Tae Hee Han South Korea 11 432 0.7× 138 0.5× 67 0.3× 39 0.2× 18 0.1× 67 1.2k
Xiao Yang China 17 299 0.5× 68 0.3× 128 0.6× 264 1.6× 133 0.8× 125 1.4k
Satya P. Singh India 28 343 0.6× 200 0.8× 327 1.6× 593 3.6× 6 0.0× 127 3.1k
Yi Zheng United States 23 430 0.7× 88 0.3× 175 0.8× 112 0.7× 17 0.1× 126 1.9k
Moawad I. Dessouky Egypt 25 682 1.1× 528 2.1× 304 1.5× 78 0.5× 35 0.2× 269 2.7k
David Akopian United States 25 294 0.5× 523 2.1× 216 1.0× 919 5.6× 33 0.2× 185 2.7k
Reinhard Männer Germany 19 521 0.9× 153 0.6× 297 1.4× 90 0.6× 23 0.1× 150 1.6k
Tsuyoshi Hamada Japan 15 179 0.3× 147 0.6× 119 0.6× 153 0.9× 36 0.2× 36 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Cheng Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cheng Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cheng Li. 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 Cheng Li. The network helps show where Cheng Li may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng Li 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 Cheng Li. Cheng Li 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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Li, Cheng, Wenping Song, Yu Kong, et al.. (2025). Enhancing vaccine half-life as a novel strategy for improving immune response durability of subunit vaccines. PLoS Pathogens. 21(1). e1012845–e1012845.
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Yin, Yi‐Chen, Bin Hu, Zheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Thermo-responsive and biodegradable MoS2-based nanoplatform for tumor therapy and postoperative wound management. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 686. 634–649. 2 indexed citations
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He, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2025). Transient chemical-mediated epigenetic modulation confers unrestricted lineage potential on human primed pluripotent stem cells. Science China Life Sciences. 68(4). 1084–1101. 1 indexed citations
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Fu, Tianyu, et al.. (2024). A robotic skill transfer learning framework of dynamic manipulation for fabric placement. Computers in Industry. 165. 104216–104216.
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Zhou, Fangyue, Lulu Wang, Yanhui Hao, et al.. (2024). Associations between antenatal depressive symptoms in different trimesters and perinatal outcomes: A prospective multicenter cohort study in China. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 100. 104165–104165. 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Fangyue, Yishu Wang, Yujie Niu, et al.. (2024). Associations between maternal early pregnancy depression and longitudinal fetal growth. Journal of Affective Disorders. 362. 808–815. 1 indexed citations
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Ouyang, Zhangyi, Feng Liu, Wanying Li, et al.. (2024). The developmental and evolutionary characteristics of transcription factor binding site clustered regions based on an explainable machine learning model. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(13). 7610–7626. 2 indexed citations
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Yao, Zhewei, et al.. (2024). DeepSpeed Data Efficiency: Improving Deep Learning Model Quality and Training Efficiency via Efficient Data Sampling and Routing. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(16). 18490–18498. 7 indexed citations
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Cheng, Houyi, Boyu Zhang, Sylvain Eimer, et al.. (2023). An integrated ultra-high vacuum cluster for atomic-scale deposition, interface regulation, and characterization of spintronic multilayers. Review of Scientific Instruments. 94(7).
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Cao, Qing, Cheng Li, Xuejie Chen, et al.. (2023). Molecular basis of inherited protein C deficiency results from genetic variations in the signal peptide and propeptide regions. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 21(11). 3124–3137. 6 indexed citations
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Hong, Hao, Shuai Jiang, Hao Li, et al.. (2020). DeepHiC: A generative adversarial network for enhancing Hi-C data resolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(2). e1007287–e1007287. 50 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li‐Qun, Ke Chen, Lin Han, et al.. (2020). Recognition of calcifications in thyroid nodules based on attention-gated collaborative supervision network of ultrasound images. Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology. 28(6). 1123–1139. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Yanling, Cheng Li, Shuai Xia, et al.. (2020). Identification of Human Single-Domain Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Cell Host & Microbe. 27(6). 891–898.e5. 181 indexed citations
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Li, Cheng, et al.. (2016). Fine needle aspiration cytology guided by ultrasound in the diagnosis of subcentimetre thyroid nodules. SpringerPlus. 5(1). 876–876. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Cheng, Apoorva Gogna, Bien Soo Tan, et al.. (2015). Technical Note: Automatic real‐time ultrasound tracking of respiratory signal using selective filtering and dynamic template matching. Medical Physics. 42(8). 4536–4541. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Cheng, et al.. (2014). A Novel Wireless Sensor Network Node Localization Algorithm Based on BP Neural Network. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 12(8). 6254–6258. 1 indexed citations
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Wehrli, Félix W., Zachary B. Rodgers, Varsha Jain, et al.. (2014). Time-Resolved MRI Oximetry for Quantifying CMRO2 and Vascular Reactivity. Academic Radiology. 21(2). 207–214. 24 indexed citations
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