Hengcong Liu

621 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 249 citations indexed

About

Hengcong Liu is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Hengcong Liu has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 249 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 8 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Hengcong Liu's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 papers). Hengcong Liu is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 papers). Hengcong Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Slovakia. Hengcong Liu's co-authors include Hongjie Yu, Marco Ajelli, Qianhui Wu, Kaiyuan Sun, Xiaowei Deng, Xinhua Chen, Cheng Peng, Jun Cai, Juan Yang and Zeyao Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hengcong Liu

10 papers receiving 242 citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China

2022 175 citations Jun Cai, Xiaowei Deng et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hengcong Liu China	6	142	136	49	33	33	11	249
Zihao Guo Hong Kong	10	136 1.0×	160 1.2×	69 1.4×	31 0.9×	27 0.8×	41	298
Anna Nguyen United States	7	131 0.9×	170 1.3×	82 1.7×	32 1.0×	33 1.0×	20	356
Nolan N. Pokpongkiat United States	3	131 0.9×	145 1.1×	57 1.2×	31 0.9×	33 1.0×	4	264
Shu Yang China	8	136 1.0×	111 0.8×	51 1.0×	27 0.8×	54 1.6×	17	321
Sebastián Contreras Chile	11	154 1.1×	94 0.7×	34 0.7×	16 0.5×	38 1.2×	27	289
Anmol Seth United States	3	130 0.9×	141 1.0×	40 0.8×	19 0.6×	33 1.0×	4	268
Stephanie Djajadi United States	3	130 0.9×	141 1.0×	40 0.8×	19 0.6×	33 1.0×	3	246
Zirui Guo China	5	102 0.7×	163 1.2×	53 1.1×	14 0.4×	24 0.7×	10	256
Anthony Hauser Switzerland	7	108 0.8×	127 0.9×	47 1.0×	29 0.9×	21 0.6×	15	232
Jessica R. E. Bridgen United Kingdom	4	166 1.2×	116 0.9×	43 0.9×	11 0.3×	59 1.8×	6	226

Countries citing papers authored by Hengcong Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hengcong Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hengcong Liu

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

1.

Cai, Jun, Hengcong Liu, Zhu Deng, et al.. (2025). China’s post-zero-COVID Omicron wave: A Bayesian analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(48). e2514157122–e2514157122.

2.

Liu, Hengcong, Jun Cai, Jiaxin Zhou, et al.. (2024). Assessing the impact of interventions on the major Omicron BA.2 outbreak in spring 2022 in Shanghai. Infectious Disease Modelling. 9(2). 519–526. 1 indexed citations

3.

Liu, Hengcong, Xiangyanyu Xu, Xiaowei Deng, et al.. (2024). Counterfactual analysis of the 2023 Omicron XBB wave in China. Infectious Disease Modelling. 9(1). 195–203. 4 indexed citations

4.

Xu, Xiangyanyu, et al.. (2023). Assessing changes in incubation period, serial interval, and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 374–374. 29 indexed citations

5.

Xu, Xiangyanyu, et al.. (2023). Assessing changes in incubation period, serial interval, and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: a systematic review and meta-analysis. medRxiv. 4 indexed citations

6.

Wang, Yan, Kaiyuan Sun, Zhaomin Feng, et al.. (2022). Assessing the feasibility of sustaining SARS-CoV-2 local containment in China in the era of highly transmissible variants. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 442–442. 11 indexed citations

7.

Cai, Jun, Xiaowei Deng, Juan Yang, et al.. (2022). Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China. Nature Medicine. 28(7). 1468–1475. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Liu, Hengcong, Juanjuan Zhang, Jun Cai, et al.. (2022). Investigating vaccine-induced immunity and its effect in mitigating SARS-CoV-2 epidemics in China. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 37–37. 12 indexed citations

9.

Cai, Jun, Juan Yang, Xiaowei Deng, et al.. (2022). Assessing the transition of COVID-19 burden towards the young population while vaccines are rolled out in China*. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 11(1). 1205–1214. 5 indexed citations

10.

Liu, Hengcong, Muhua Zheng, & Zonghua Liu. (2018). A paradox of epidemics between the state and parameter spaces. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7517–7517. 1 indexed citations

11.

Liu, Hengcong, et al.. (2016). Hysteresis loop of nonperiodic outbreaks of recurrent epidemics. Physical review. E. 94(6). 62318–62318. 7 indexed citations

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