Decui Liang

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Decui Liang is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Decui Liang has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 50 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 40 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Decui Liang's work include Multi-Criteria Decision Making (59 papers), Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic (49 papers) and Optimization and Mathematical Programming (17 papers). Decui Liang is often cited by papers focused on Multi-Criteria Decision Making (59 papers), Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic (49 papers) and Optimization and Mathematical Programming (17 papers). Decui Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Ghana. Decui Liang's co-authors include Dun Liu, Zeshui Xu, Adjei Peter Darko, Mingwei Wang, Tianrui Li, Witold Pedrycz, Kobina Agbodah, Hu Pei, Yao Wu and Yuanyuan Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Decui Liang

113 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Method for three-way decisions using ideal TOPSIS solutions at Pythagorean fuzzy information

2018 260 citations Decui Liang, Zeshui Xu et al. Information Sciences profile →
The new extension of TOPSIS method for multiple criteria decision making with hesitant Pythagorean fuzzy sets

2017 259 citations Decui Liang, Zeshui Xu Applied Soft Computing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Decui Liang China	36	2.9k	2.3k	1.2k	770	731	122	4.3k
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo Spain	35	4.0k 1.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.6k 2.2×	627 0.8×	587 0.8×	127	6.5k
Jian Wu China	42	3.8k 1.3×	945 0.4×	2.4k 2.0×	491 0.6×	738 1.0×	148	5.9k
José Carlos R. Alcantud Spain	41	3.7k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	716 0.6×	231 0.3×	773 1.1×	179	4.5k
Benedetto Matarazzo Italy	23	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	997 0.9×	769 1.0×	248 0.3×	48	3.2k
Yejun Xu China	44	4.6k 1.6×	1.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.9×	245 0.3×	1.1k 1.5×	158	5.7k
Rosa M. Rodríguez Spain	34	5.6k 1.9×	2.2k 0.9×	2.5k 2.2×	418 0.5×	980 1.3×	119	6.7k
Da Ruan Belgium	45	3.6k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	1.1k 1.5×	207	7.0k
Xunjie Gou China	33	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	211 0.3×	863 1.2×	89	4.3k
Madhumangal Pal India	41	4.3k 1.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	235 0.3×	1.3k 1.8×	358	6.4k
Hengjie Zhang China	32	3.6k 1.2×	910 0.4×	2.1k 1.8×	330 0.4×	334 0.5×	77	5.0k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liang, Decui, et al.. (2025). The three-way decision model and multi-attribute decision-making: Methodological traps and challenges. European Journal of Operational Research. 324(1). 351–360. 2 indexed citations

Liang, Decui, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Climate Resilience through Sustainable Agricultural Intensification: An Attention-Based Neural Network for Climate-Smart Agriculture Modeling in Ghana.. 163–170.

Liang, Decui, et al.. (2025). Grading of Cartilage Damage in Degenerative Knee Osteoarthritis Based on Quantitative Parameters of the Infrapatellar Fat Pad: A Cross-Sectional Study. Cartilage. 3536435115–3536435115.

Liang, Decui, et al.. (2025). Sustainable mining development in Ghana: An integrated AHP-TOPSIS-Manhattan distance approach. Resources Policy. 110. 105757–105757. 1 indexed citations

Liang, Decui, et al.. (2025). User disambiguation learning for precise shared-account marketing: A hierarchical self-attentive sequential recommendation method. Knowledge-Based Systems. 315. 113328–113328.

Liang, Decui, Chun‐Quan Ou, & Zeshui Xu. (2024). A customer-driven quality function deployment approach for intelligent product design: A case of automatic-dishwasher. Applied Soft Computing. 167. 112403–112403. 2 indexed citations

Liang, Decui, Mingwei Wang, & Zeshui Xu. (2024). Collective Wisdom-Driven Three-Way Decision in Risk Management. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Mingwei, et al.. (2024). Multi-period share pledging with sequential three-way proportion decision. Omega. 127. 103102–103102. 3 indexed citations

Fu, Yuanyuan, Decui Liang, Alessio Ishizaka, & Deng-Feng Li. (2024). Reaching heterogeneous group consensus with classification error for sorting medical emerging technology service providers. Information Sciences. 680. 121173–121173.

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Liang, Decui, et al.. (2024). Diagnosing Electric Vehicle Failures With Long-Tailed Multilabel Consumer Reviews: A Bilateral-Branch Deep Learning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 71. 14485–14499. 3 indexed citations

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Zu, X.T., Feng Hu, Decui Liang, & Yanfei Liu. (2024). Dynamic Incentive Mechanism Design for Distributed Learning in 5G Private Networks: A Generalized Benders Decomposition Approach. 990–996.

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Zhou, Jing, Yu Liu, Decui Liang, & Maochun Tang. (2023). A new risk analysis approach to seek best production action during new product introduction. International Journal of Production Economics. 262. 108911–108911. 6 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jing, et al.. (2023). Two-stage three-way enhanced multi-criteria classification optimization for risk-averse product design programming. Information Sciences. 632. 757–775. 5 indexed citations

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Fu, Yuanyuan, Decui Liang, & Zeshui Xu. (2023). Higher-order interaction of stability simplicial complex driven group consensus reaching in social network. Information Fusion. 103. 102095–102095. 8 indexed citations

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Liang, Decui, et al.. (2023). Multiple granularity user intention fairness recognition of intelligent government Q & A system via three-way decision. Information Sciences. 631. 305–326. 6 indexed citations

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Liang, Decui, et al.. (2023). Large-scale three-way group consensus decision considering individual competition behavior in social networks. Information Sciences. 641. 119077–119077. 19 indexed citations

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Serrão, Carlos, et al.. (2023). A Relevance-Based Technology–Organisation–Environment Model of Critical Success Factors for Digital Procurement Adoption in Chinese Construction Companies. Sustainability. 15(16). 12260–12260. 7 indexed citations

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Liang, Decui, et al.. (2023). Failure mode and effect analysis by exploiting text mining and multi-view group consensus for the defect detection of electric vehicles in social media data. Annals of Operations Research. 340(1). 289–324. 9 indexed citations

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Liang, Decui, Yuanyuan Fu, & Zeshui Xu. (2021). Novel AQM analysis approach based on similarity and dissimilarity measures of interval set for multi-expert multi-criterion decision making. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 142. 266–289. 3 indexed citations

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Liang, Decui, et al.. (2019). Pythagorean fuzzy VIKOR approaches based on TODIM for evaluating internet banking website quality of Ghanaian banking industry. Applied Soft Computing. 78. 583–594. 113 indexed citations

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