Gui‐Quan Sun

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
214 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Gui‐Quan Sun is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gui‐Quan Sun has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 61 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 58 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Gui‐Quan Sun's work include Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (103 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (57 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (53 papers). Gui‐Quan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (103 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (57 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (53 papers). Gui‐Quan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Gui‐Quan Sun's co-authors include Zhen Jin, Li Li, Quan‐Xing Liu, Zi‐Ke Zhang, Mingtao Li, Bai-Lian Li, Joshua Kiddy K. Asamoah, Lili Chang, Lipeng Song and Yong-Ping Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Gui‐Quan Sun

204 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Optimal control and comprehensive cost-effectiveness analysis for COVID-19

2022 141 citations Joshua Kiddy K. Asamoah, Eric Okyere et al. Results in Physics profile →
Epidemic spreading on higher-order networks

2024 84 citations Yi‐Cheng Zhang, Gui‐Quan Sun et al. Physics Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gui‐Quan Sun China	48	3.5k	2.2k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	214	6.3k
Zhen Jin China	54	5.2k 1.5×	3.7k 1.6×	2.7k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	474	10.8k
Odo Diekmann Netherlands	43	4.9k 1.4×	3.8k 1.7×	3.2k 1.7×	853 0.7×	516 0.5×	140	9.6k
Mercedes Pascual United States	52	3.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	527 0.4×	234 0.2×	160	12.9k
Mark A. Lewis Canada	62	5.5k 1.6×	2.2k 1.0×	4.7k 2.6×	383 0.3×	881 0.8×	305	16.5k
Pejman Rohani United States	50	4.7k 1.4×	4.6k 2.1×	2.8k 1.5×	891 0.7×	291 0.3×	165	12.9k
Xiao‐Qiang Zhao Canada	48	7.1k 2.1×	4.2k 1.9×	4.0k 2.2×	406 0.3×	962 0.9×	201	8.2k
Ottar N. Bjørnstad United States	67	2.6k 0.8×	3.2k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	403 0.3×	230 0.2×	202	14.9k
Weiming Wang China	36	3.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.5×	2.1k 1.1×	343 0.3×	730 0.7×	200	6.8k
Lewi Stone Israel	44	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	173	7.4k
Shigui Ruan United States	65	11.4k 3.3×	6.2k 2.8×	6.3k 3.4×	1.3k 1.1×	2.8k 2.5×	271	15.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Gui‐Quan Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gui‐Quan Sun

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Xuan, et al.. (2025). Modelling multiscale infectious disease in complex systems. Physics Reports. 1113. 1–57. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Wei, Juan Zhang, Quan-Hui Liu, et al.. (2025). Behavior changes influence mpox transmission in the United States, 2022–2023: Insights from homogeneous and heterogeneous models. PNAS Nexus. 4(2). pgaf025–pgaf025. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Gui‐Quan, Xiaofeng Luo, Shupeng Gao, et al.. (2025). Optimal control of spatial diseases spreading in networked reaction–diffusion systems. Physics Reports. 1111. 1–64. 9 indexed citations

Fan, Peiyi, et al.. (2024). Analysis of global vegetation resilience under different future climate scenarios. Climate Dynamics. 62(8). 7967–7980. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Gui‐Quan, et al.. (2024). Global dynamics of a periodic brucellosis model with time delay and environmental factors. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 130. 288–309. 7 indexed citations

Tripathi, Deepak, Jai Prakash Tripathi, Debaldev Jana, et al.. (2024). Modified Holling Tanner diffusive and non-diffusive predator–prey models: The impact of prey refuge and fear effect. Results in Physics. 65. 107995–107995. 1 indexed citations

Tan, Suoyi, et al.. (2024). Influential nodes identification based on hierarchical structure. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 186. 115227–115227. 5 indexed citations

Luo, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2024). The relationship between clustering and networked Turing patterns. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(7). 7 indexed citations

Li, Bai-Lian, et al.. (2023). Interplays between different secretases in the generation of Amyloid-β lead to the emergence of ‘Amyloid-β rise’. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 174. 113875–113875. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Min, et al.. (2023). Exploration of spatial heterogeneity in the effect of woodland proportion on PM2.5: An empirical study from the Yangtze River economic Belt, China. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 14(12). 101914–101914. 3 indexed citations

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Chang, Lili, Xinyu Wang, Gui‐Quan Sun, Zhen Wang, & Zhen Jin. (2023). A time independent least squares algorithm for parameter identification of Turing patterns in reaction–diffusion systems. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 88(1). 5–5. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Mingtao, et al.. (2023). Cost assessment of optimal control strategy for brucellosis dynamic model based on economic factors. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 124. 107310–107310. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiyu, et al.. (2023). Physical Explanation for Paradoxical Climate Change in Semi-Arid Inland Eurasia Based on a Remodeled Precipitation Recycling Ratio and Clausius–Clapeyron Equation. Atmosphere. 14(2). 376–376. 2 indexed citations

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Shi, Yu, Xiaofeng Luo, Yongxin Zhang, & Gui‐Quan Sun. (2023). An indicator of Crohn’s disease severity based on Turing patterns. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 171. 113455–113455. 1 indexed citations

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Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy K., et al.. (2023). Optimal control dynamics of Gonorrhea in a structured population. Heliyon. 9(10). e20531–e20531. 27 indexed citations

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Chang, Lili, Wei Gong, Zhen Jin, & Gui‐Quan Sun. (2022). Sparse Optimal Control of Pattern Formations for an SIR Reaction-Diffusion Epidemic Model. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 82(5). 1764–1790. 53 indexed citations

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Sun, Gui‐Quan, Hongtao Zhang, Lili Chang, et al.. (2022). On the Dynamics of a Diffusive Foot-and-Mouth Disease Model with Nonlocal Infections. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 82(4). 1587–1610. 35 indexed citations

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Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy K., Zhen Jin, Gui‐Quan Sun, et al.. (2021). Sensitivity assessment and optimal economic evaluation of a new COVID-19 compartmental epidemic model with control interventions. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 146. 110885–110885. 107 indexed citations

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Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy K., Ernest Yankson, Eric Okyere, et al.. (2021). Optimal control and cost-effectiveness analysis for dengue fever model with asymptomatic and partial immune individuals. Results in Physics. 31. 104919–104919. 53 indexed citations

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Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy K., Zhen Jin, Gui‐Quan Sun, & Michael Y. Li. (2020). A Deterministic Model for Q Fever Transmission Dynamics within Dairy Cattle Herds: Using Sensitivity Analysis and Optimal Controls. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2020. 1–18. 36 indexed citations

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