Gao Cong

16.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
297 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Gao Cong is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Gao Cong has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Signal Processing, 103 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 94 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Gao Cong's work include Data Management and Algorithms (106 papers), Advanced Database Systems and Queries (44 papers) and Geographic Information Systems Studies (43 papers). Gao Cong is often cited by papers focused on Data Management and Algorithms (106 papers), Advanced Database Systems and Queries (44 papers) and Geographic Information Systems Studies (43 papers). Gao Cong collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United States. Gao Cong's co-authors include Christian S. Jensen, Quan Yuan, Aixin Sun, Xin Cao, Dingming Wu, Zongyang Ma, Lisi Chen, Xiucheng Li, Tuan-Anh Nguyen Pham and Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACS Nano and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Gao Cong

281 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Time-aware point-of-interest recommendation

2013 536 citations Gao Cong et al. profile →
Learning Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Spatial-Temporal Graph Data for Traffic Forecasting

2021 434 citations Xiucheng Li, Gao Cong et al. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering profile →
Community-based greedy algorithm for mining top-K influential nodes in mobile social networks

2010 393 citations Gao Cong et al. profile →
Efficient retrieval of the top-k most relevant spatial web objects

2009 383 citations Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment profile →
Personalized ranking metric embedding for next new POI recommendation

2015 237 citations Shanshan Feng, Gao Cong et al. profile →
A Survey on Trajectory Data Management, Analytics, and Learning

2021 164 citations Zhifeng Bao, Gao Cong et al. profile →
Exploring Progress in Multivariate Time Series Forecasting: Comprehensive Benchmarking and Heterogeneity Analysis

2024 61 citations Zezhi Shao, Fei Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering profile →
On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for GeoAI (Vision Paper)

2024 45 citations Gao Cong et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gao Cong Singapore	53	4.1k	4.1k	3.5k	2.8k	2.6k	297	10.8k
Wang-Chien Lee United States	46	2.7k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.4×	263	8.5k
Wei‐Ying Ma China	69	5.8k 1.4×	3.8k 0.9×	6.3k 1.8×	3.4k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	298	18.8k
Kian‐Lee Tan Singapore	49	2.9k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	626 0.2×	4.9k 1.9×	392	11.0k
Kai Zheng China	46	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	357	7.0k
Hongzhi Yin Australia	58	6.6k 1.6×	998 0.2×	6.0k 1.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	308	10.5k
Yannis Manolopoulos Greece	41	2.2k 0.5×	3.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	487 0.2×	2.3k 0.9×	301	7.9k
Aixin Sun Singapore	45	3.7k 0.9×	854 0.2×	4.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.5×	836 0.3×	223	8.7k
Xiaokui Xiao Singapore	53	1.7k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	6.2k 1.8×	570 0.2×	1.7k 0.7×	199	9.6k
Jeffrey Xu Yu Hong Kong	54	2.9k 0.7×	4.7k 1.1×	5.7k 1.6×	491 0.2×	4.8k 1.9×	418	11.8k
Reynold Cheng Hong Kong	40	1.2k 0.3×	2.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	471 0.2×	2.1k 0.8×	185	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Gao Cong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gao Cong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gao Cong

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xiucheng, et al.. (2025). Semantic-Enhanced Representation Learning for Road Networks With Temporal Dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(10). 9413–9427. 1 indexed citations

Cong, Gao, et al.. (2025). ARTS: A General and Efficient Multi-Task Self-Prompt Framework for Explainable Sequential Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 43(3). 1–30. 1 indexed citations

Ge, Hongjuan, et al.. (2025). Aircraft EWIS Safety Risk Topic Recognition Method Based on Enhanced BERT-LDA. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(3). 7153–7164. 1 indexed citations

Cong, Gao, Wei Sun, Weitong Zhang, et al.. (2024). In-situ electrochemical conversion of V2O3@C into Zn3(OH)2V2O7·2H2O@C for high-performance aqueous Zn-ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 613. 234942–234942. 7 indexed citations

Xiao, Guoqing, et al.. (2024). Accurate and Scalable Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommendation Based on Subgraph Propagation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 36(12). 7556–7568. 1 indexed citations

He, Tiantian, et al.. (2024). Differentiable Clustering for Graph Attention. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 36(8). 3751–3764. 16 indexed citations

Tanin, Egemen, et al.. (2024). Trajectory Similarity Measurement: An Efficiency Perspective. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 17(9). 2293–2306. 4 indexed citations

Cong, Gao, et al.. (2024). MMPOI: A Multi-Modal Content-Aware Framework for POI Recommendations. 3454–3463. 7 indexed citations

Li, Xiaofan, Gao Cong, & Rui Zhou. (2024). Quantum Algorithms for the Maximum K-Plex Problem. 24. 2435–2448.

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Jiang, Yue, et al.. (2024). SAGDFN: A Scalable Adaptive Graph Diffusion Forecasting Network for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting. 1255–1268. 8 indexed citations

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Shao, Zezhi, Fei Wang, Yongjun Xu, et al.. (2024). Exploring Progress in Multivariate Time Series Forecasting: Comprehensive Benchmarking and Heterogeneity Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 37(1). 291–305. 61 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Jiayi, et al.. (2024). UnifiedSSR: A Unified Framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation. 3410–3419. 1 indexed citations

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Cong, Gao, et al.. (2023). Effectiveness Perspectives and a Deep Relevance Model for Spatial Keyword Queries. Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 1(1). 1–25. 2 indexed citations

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Feng, Shanshan, Gao Cong, Arijit Khan, et al.. (2018). Inf2vec: Latent Representation Model for Social Influence Embedding. 941–952. 52 indexed citations

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Pham, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, et al.. (2018). Attention-based Group Recommendation. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations

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Cong, Gao. (2008). Numerical Simulation of Liquid-solid Two-phase Flow and Erosion-collision in a Syphon. Journal of Hebei University of Technology. 2 indexed citations

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Cong, Gao, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia, & Shuai Ma. (2007). Improving data quality: consistency and accuracy. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 315–326. 177 indexed citations

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Cong, Gao, et al.. (2007). Mining sequential patterns and tree patterns to detect erroneous sentences. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 925–930. 16 indexed citations

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Pan, Feng, Anthony K. H. Tung, Gao Cong, & Xin Xu. (2004). COBBLER: combining column and row enumeration for closed pattern discovery. 21–30. 38 indexed citations

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Parvin, Bahram, John R. Taylor, & Gao Cong. (1998). A Collaborative Framework for Distributed Microscopy. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 1–16. 4 indexed citations

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