Don Chen

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Don Chen is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Don Chen has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 5 papers in Building and Construction and 3 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Don Chen's work include Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (10 papers), Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (8 papers) and BIM and Construction Integration (5 papers). Don Chen is often cited by papers focused on Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (10 papers), Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (8 papers) and BIM and Construction Integration (5 papers). Don Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Don Chen's co-authors include Reid Ewing, Rolf Pendall, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, Sherry S. Y. Aw, Vivien K. G. Lim, Kevin Lambirth, Neha Mittal and Md Ariful Islam Juel and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes and Journal of Vocational Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Don Chen

23 papers receiving 933 citations

Hit Papers

Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Cli... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300
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. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
    2008 335 citations Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew 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
Don Chen United States 11 428 219 163 161 156 25 1.1k
Rong Han China 22 76 0.2× 98 0.4× 654 4.0× 101 0.6× 258 1.7× 35 1.8k
Xueying Wu China 16 340 0.8× 272 1.2× 88 0.5× 119 0.7× 17 0.1× 46 1.2k
Roel Faber Netherlands 9 360 0.8× 91 0.4× 130 0.8× 39 0.2× 169 1.1× 13 798
Md Kamrul Islam Bangladesh 16 46 0.1× 175 0.8× 38 0.2× 89 0.6× 26 0.2× 104 1.1k
Dohyung Kim United States 15 160 0.4× 336 1.5× 51 0.3× 34 0.2× 28 0.2× 48 961
Henrik Andersson France 17 148 0.3× 100 0.5× 582 3.6× 36 0.2× 10 0.1× 36 1.2k
Hemant Bherwani India 20 21 0.0× 418 1.9× 213 1.3× 66 0.4× 56 0.4× 37 1.3k
Bartosz Bończak United States 7 85 0.2× 132 0.6× 57 0.3× 124 0.8× 11 0.1× 12 513
Anne Knol Netherlands 13 60 0.1× 178 0.8× 68 0.4× 24 0.1× 11 0.1× 21 1.2k
Danyang Cheng China 6 28 0.1× 112 0.5× 311 1.9× 77 0.5× 37 0.2× 13 823

Countries citing papers authored by Don Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Don Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Don Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Don Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Don Chen 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 Don Chen. Don Chen 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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Gibas, Cynthia, Kevin Lambirth, Neha Mittal, et al.. (2021). Implementing building-level SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance on a university campus. The Science of The Total Environment. 782. 146749–146749. 165 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2020). Determination of Performance Jumps for Treatments of Asphalt Pavements in North Carolina’s Pavement Management System. Journal of Transportation Engineering Part B Pavements. 146(3). 4020046–4020046. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2020). BIMing Construction Engineering Curricula. 25.263.1–25.263.14.
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2020). Implementing Building Information Modeling in Construction Engineering Curricula. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 22.818.1–22.818.18. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2019). Determination of IRI Limits and Thresholds for Flexible Pavements. Journal of Transportation Engineering Part B Pavements. 145(2). 4019013–4019013. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2018). Assessment of Heavy Equipment Operating Cost Estimates from Annual Data. 7(4). 125–132. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2015). Sigmoidal Models for Predicting Pavement Performance Conditions. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. 30(4). 25 indexed citations
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Lim, Vivien K. G., et al.. (2015). Unemployed and exhausted? Job-search fatigue and reemployment quality. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 92. 68–78. 48 indexed citations
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Chen, Don. (2013). Method to Show Dynamic Process of Soil Disintegration. Soils. 5 indexed citations
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Cho, Chung-Suk, et al.. (2012). BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)-BASED DESIGN OF ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS. 2(1). 1–6. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Don & Zhili Gao. (2011). A Multi-Objective Generic Algorithm Approach for Optimization of Building Energy Performance. 51–58. 11 indexed citations
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Cho, Chung-Suk, et al.. (2011). Building Information Modeling (BIM)-Based Design of Energy Efficient Buildings. Proceedings of the ... ISARC. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (2009). Effects of Recycled Materials on Long-Term Performance of Cold In-Place Recycled Asphalt Roads. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. 24(3). 275–280. 11 indexed citations
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Ewing, Reid, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, & Don Chen. (2008). Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. 335 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jahren, Charles T., et al.. (2007). Evaluation of Long-Term Field Performance of Cold In-Place Recycled Roads: Summary Report. 4 indexed citations
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Jahren, Charles T., et al.. (2007). Evaluation of Long-Term Field Performance of Cold In-Place Recycled Roads. 1 indexed citations
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Ewing, Reid, et al.. (2005). Endangered by Sprawl. How Runaway Development Threatens America's Wildlife. 41 indexed citations
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Ewing, Reid, Rolf Pendall, & Don Chen. (2003). Measuring Sprawl and Its Transportation Impacts. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 1831(1). 175–183. 322 indexed citations
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Chen, Don, et al.. (1982). Kinetic characteristics of bicarbonate-chloride exchange across the neonatal human red cell membrane. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 685(2). 196–202. 8 indexed citations

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