Heng Peng

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Heng Peng is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Heng Peng has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Statistics and Probability, 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Heng Peng's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (35 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (16 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (16 papers). Heng Peng is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (35 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (16 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (16 papers). Heng Peng collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Heng Peng's co-authors include Jianqing Fan, Gaorong Li, Lixing Zhu, Tao Huang, Jun Zhang, Li Zhu, Miao Bai-qi, Ying Lü, Yacine Aı̈t-Sahalia and Kun Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Heng Peng

54 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

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2004 671 citations Jianqing Fan, Heng Peng profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heng Peng China	18	1.3k	478	201	169	162	59	2.0k
Chenlei Leng Singapore	22	1.4k 1.0×	498 1.0×	194 1.0×	168 1.0×	129 0.8×	75	2.1k
Yanyuan Ma United States	23	1.4k 1.1×	397 0.8×	106 0.5×	104 0.6×	170 1.0×	137	1.9k
Heng Lian China	24	1.3k 1.0×	578 1.2×	112 0.6×	250 1.5×	125 0.8×	222	1.9k
Xuming He United States	31	1.5k 1.2×	378 0.8×	309 1.5×	137 0.8×	144 0.9×	107	2.8k
Young K. Truong United States	22	980 0.7×	307 0.6×	112 0.6×	191 1.1×	169 1.0×	52	1.9k
Lan Wang United States	19	1.0k 0.8×	337 0.7×	155 0.8×	86 0.5×	70 0.4×	60	1.5k
Sadanori Konishi Japan	20	898 0.7×	469 1.0×	139 0.7×	171 1.0×	96 0.6×	88	1.9k
Lixing Zhu China	27	2.5k 1.9×	627 1.3×	77 0.4×	227 1.3×	205 1.3×	190	3.0k
Jianhua Z. Huang United States	18	607 0.5×	378 0.8×	247 1.2×	108 0.6×	45 0.3×	39	1.4k
Pascal Sarda France	15	1.2k 0.9×	489 1.0×	59 0.3×	295 1.7×	150 0.9×	27	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Heng Peng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heng Peng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heng Peng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heng Peng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heng Peng 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 Heng Peng. Heng Peng 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

Peng, Heng, et al.. (2026). The genome of Phlebotomus chinensis, the primary vector of visceral leishmaniasis in China: insights from chromosome-level assembly and comparative analysis. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 15(1). 20–20.

Dai, Yunqian, et al.. (2025). Microneedle Arrays for Near-Infrared-Controlled Insulin Delivery Based on Thermosensitive Microgel. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(23). 33483–33497. 3 indexed citations

Peng, Heng, et al.. (2025). Component selection and variable selection for mixture regression models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 206. 108124–108124.

Peng, Heng, et al.. (2024). Text-Centric Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Sentiment Analysis. Electronics. 13(6). 1149–1149. 1 indexed citations

Peng, Heng, et al.. (2023). Bacterial Diversity Analysis of Chaozhou Sauerkraut Based on High-Throughput Sequencing of Different Production Methods. Fermentation. 9(3). 282–282. 5 indexed citations

Peng, Heng, et al.. (2022). A latent class Cox model for heterogeneous time-to-event data. Journal of Econometrics. 239(2). 105351–105351. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Song, et al.. (2022). Apathy following Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation of Subthalamic Nucleus and Globus Pallidus Internus in Parkinson’s Disease: A Meta‐Analysis. Parkinson s Disease. 2022(1). 4204564–4204564. 6 indexed citations

Fang, Kai‐Tai, et al.. (2021). A new type of robust designs for chemometrics and computer experiments. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 221. 104474–104474. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Qing, Yi Yang, Xingjie Shi, et al.. (2020). MR-LDP: a two-sample Mendelian randomization for GWAS summary statistics accounting for linkage disequilibrium and horizontal pleiotropy. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2(2). lqaa028–lqaa028. 33 indexed citations

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Zhang, Feipeng, Heng Peng, & Yong Zhou. (2016). Composite partial likelihood estimation for length-biased and right-censored data with competing risks. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 149. 160–176. 3 indexed citations

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Tong, Tiejun & Heng Peng. (2014). Tail Probability Ratios of Normal and Student’s t Distributions. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 43(18). 3797–3811. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Yiping, Gaorong Li, & Heng Peng. (2014). Empirical likelihood of varying coefficient errors-in-variables models with longitudinal data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 127. 1–18. 21 indexed citations

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Tang, Yi, Hua He, Ning Cheng, et al.. (2014). PDGF, NT-3 and IGF-2 in Combination Induced Transdifferentiation of Muscle-Derived Stem Cells into Schwann Cell-Like Cells. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e73402–e73402. 16 indexed citations

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Peng, Heng, et al.. (2013). The connection between cross-validation and Akaike information criterion in a semiparametric family. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 25(2). 475–485. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Huazhen & Heng Peng. (2012). Smoothed rank correlation of the linear transformation regression model. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 57(1). 615–630. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Gaorong, Heng Peng, & Lixing Zhu. (2011). NONCONCAVE PENALIZED M-ESTIMATION WITH A DIVERGING NUMBER OF PARAMETERS. Statistica Sinica. 21(1). 391–419. 74 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenyang & Heng Peng. (2010). Simultaneous confidence band and hypothesis test in generalised varying-coefficient models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 101(7). 1656–1680. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Gaorong, Sanying Feng, & Heng Peng. (2010). A profile-type smoothed score function for a varying coefficient partially linear model. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 102(2). 372–385. 16 indexed citations

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Cheng, Chung Wah, et al.. (2009). Cancer patients' attitudes towards Chinese medicine: a Hong Kong survey. Chinese Medicine. 4(1). 25–25. 39 indexed citations

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Aı̈t-Sahalia, Yacine, Jianqing Fan, & Heng Peng. (2005). Nonparametric Transition-Based Tests for Jump-Diffusions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 9 indexed citations

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