Douxi Yan

1.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Douxi Yan is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Douxi Yan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 2 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 2 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Douxi Yan's work include Digital Transformation in Industry (9 papers), Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (7 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (6 papers). Douxi Yan is often cited by papers focused on Digital Transformation in Industry (9 papers), Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (7 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (6 papers). Douxi Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Douxi Yan's co-authors include Jiewu Leng, Qiang Liu, Xin Chen, Lijun Wei, Ding Zhang, Hao Zhang, Hao Zhang, Ailin Yu, Rongli Zhao and Ding Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, IEEE Access and International Journal of Production Research.

In The Last Decade

Douxi Yan

10 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Digital twin-driven manufacturing cyber-physical system for parallel controlling of smart workshop

2018 346 citations Jiewu Leng, Hao Zhang et al. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing profile →
Digital twin-based designing of the configuration, motion, control, and optimization model of a flow-type smart manufacturing system

2020 250 citations Qiang Liu, Jiewu Leng et al. Journal of Manufacturing Systems profile →
ManuChain: Combining Permissioned Blockchain With a Holistic Optimization Model as Bi-Level Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing

2019 209 citations Jiewu Leng, Douxi Yan et al. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douxi Yan China	7	811	175	135	88	84	11	1.1k
Huiyue Huang New Zealand	5	969 1.2×	96 0.5×	85 0.6×	97 1.1×	149 1.8×	11	1.2k
Olaf Sauer Germany	7	1.1k 1.3×	81 0.5×	117 0.9×	93 1.1×	84 1.0×	20	1.3k
Cunbo Zhuang China	14	1.3k 1.6×	130 0.7×	100 0.7×	152 1.7×	131 1.6×	44	1.7k
Roland Rosen Germany	7	898 1.1×	92 0.5×	85 0.6×	79 0.9×	104 1.2×	19	1.1k
Weinan Sha China	5	605 0.7×	128 0.7×	97 0.7×	56 0.6×	58 0.7×	8	895
Andrei Lobov Finland	19	740 0.9×	206 1.2×	127 0.9×	115 1.3×	67 0.8×	100	1.2k
Xudong Chai China	12	449 0.6×	150 0.9×	164 1.2×	109 1.2×	63 0.8×	90	882
Bilal Ahmad United Kingdom	18	637 0.8×	98 0.6×	96 0.7×	113 1.3×	60 0.7×	67	911
Theodor Borangiu Romania	18	656 0.8×	115 0.7×	146 1.1×	137 1.6×	71 0.8×	102	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Douxi Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douxi Yan

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

Yan, Douxi, Lingyun Dai, Jiewu Leng, et al.. (2025). A complex network theory-based changes propagation control approach for variant design of production line. Journal of Engineering Design. 1–29. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Douxi, et al.. (2025). Heterogeneous network modelling and robustness analysis of production line operation under the influence of design changes. International Journal of Production Research. 1–21.

Yan, Douxi, et al.. (2023). Digital twin-driven parameter change propagation path optimization for production line variant design. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 37(10-11). 1318–1334. 5 indexed citations

Yan, Douxi, et al.. (2023). Digital twin and parameter correlation-enabled variant design of production lines. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 38(1). 136–157. 5 indexed citations

Yan, Douxi, et al.. (2022). Digital twin-driven variant design of a 3C electronic product assembly line. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 3846–3846. 22 indexed citations

Yan, Douxi, Qiang Liu, Jiewu Leng, et al.. (2021). Digital Twin-Driven Rapid Customized Design of Board-Type Furniture Production Line. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 21(3). 27 indexed citations

Liu, Qiang, Jiewu Leng, Douxi Yan, et al.. (2020). Digital twin-based designing of the configuration, motion, control, and optimization model of a flow-type smart manufacturing system. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 58. 52–64. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Leng, Jiewu, Douxi Yan, Qiang Liu, et al.. (2019). Digital twin-driven joint optimisation of packing and storage assignment in large-scale automated high-rise warehouse product-service system. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 34(7-8). 783–800. 148 indexed citations

Leng, Jiewu, Douxi Yan, Qiang Liu, et al.. (2019). ManuChain: Combining Permissioned Blockchain With a Holistic Optimization Model as Bi-Level Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 50(1). 182–192. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Rongli, Douxi Yan, Qiang Liu, et al.. (2019). Digital Twin-Driven Cyber-Physical System for Autonomously Controlling of Micro Punching System. IEEE Access. 7. 9459–9469. 69 indexed citations

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Leng, Jiewu, Hao Zhang, Douxi Yan, et al.. (2018). Digital twin-driven manufacturing cyber-physical system for parallel controlling of smart workshop. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 10(3). 1155–1166. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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