Hongbo Xu

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Hongbo Xu is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongbo Xu has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 21 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 20 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Hongbo Xu's work include Topic Modeling (28 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (21 papers) and Web Data Mining and Analysis (17 papers). Hongbo Xu is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (28 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (21 papers) and Web Data Mining and Analysis (17 papers). Hongbo Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Hongbo Xu's co-authors include Changqing Tian, Shuangquan Shao, Hainan Zhang, Huiming Zou, Xueqi Cheng, Yimo Luo, Bin Wang, Huiming Zou, Moustafa Ghanem and Yuping Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Hongbo Xu

80 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Free cooling of data centers: A review 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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.

  1. Free cooling of data centers: A review
    2014 304 citations Hainan Zhang, Shuangquan Shao et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hongbo Xu China 19 793 317 227 166 138 86 1.4k
Amin Hadidi Iran 13 447 0.6× 138 0.4× 54 0.2× 74 0.4× 80 0.6× 41 876
Xiaohong Hao China 18 278 0.4× 162 0.5× 25 0.1× 56 0.3× 218 1.6× 135 1.3k
Rob Hovsapian United States 19 215 0.3× 78 0.2× 51 0.2× 42 0.3× 171 1.2× 74 1.2k
Mirco Rampazzo Italy 15 366 0.5× 113 0.4× 22 0.1× 359 2.2× 121 0.9× 73 935
Miguel Delgado-Prieto Spain 22 678 0.9× 192 0.6× 37 0.2× 100 0.6× 36 0.3× 90 1.8k
Zhenghong Wu China 24 847 1.1× 352 1.1× 37 0.2× 233 1.4× 163 1.2× 45 1.8k
Xiaohui Yang China 20 503 0.6× 97 0.3× 28 0.1× 63 0.4× 59 0.4× 98 1.6k
R. Sitharthan India 26 109 0.1× 157 0.5× 169 0.7× 51 0.3× 129 0.9× 72 1.7k
Rafał Madoński China 20 274 0.3× 86 0.3× 32 0.1× 32 0.2× 104 0.8× 70 1.9k
Luca Cecchinato Italy 22 1.1k 1.3× 90 0.3× 15 0.1× 486 2.9× 167 1.2× 56 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hongbo Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongbo Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongbo Xu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Xinghua, et al.. (2024). Cross-Domain NER under a Divide-and-Transfer Paradigm. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 42(5). 1–32.
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Zhang, Xinghua, et al.. (2024). Exogenous and Endogenous Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Complex Named Entity Recognition. 630–640. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hainan, Shuangquan Shao, Hongbo Xu, & Changqing Tian. (2018). Experimental investigation on a loop thermosyphon with three evaporators: Unique startup and oscillation phenomena. International Journal of Refrigeration. 99. 363–370. 23 indexed citations
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Tian, Shen, Yuping Gao, Shuangquan Shao, Hongbo Xu, & Changqing Tian. (2016). An experimental investigation of the single-sided infiltration through doorways of the cold store. International Journal of Refrigeration. 73. 175–182. 9 indexed citations
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Tian, Shen, et al.. (2015). A study on a real-time leak detection method for pressurized liquid refrigerant pipeline based on pressure and flow rate. Applied Thermal Engineering. 95. 462–470. 44 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hainan, Shuangquan Shao, Hongbo Xu, et al.. (2015). Numerical investigation on integrated system of mechanical refrigeration and thermosyphon for free cooling of data centers. International Journal of Refrigeration. 60. 9–18. 44 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hainan, Shuangquan Shao, Hongbo Xu, Huiming Zou, & Changqing Tian. (2014). Free cooling of data centers: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 35. 171–182. 304 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Hongbo, et al.. (2014). Experimental investigation on heat transfer of spray cooling with isobutane (R600a). International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 86. 21–27. 19 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hainan, Shuangquan Shao, Hongbo Xu, Huiming Zou, & Changqing Tian. (2014). Integrated system of mechanical refrigeration and thermosyphon for free cooling of data centers. Applied Thermal Engineering. 75. 185–192. 83 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongbo, et al.. (2009). ICTNET at Blog Track TREC 2009. Text REtrieval Conference. 5 indexed citations
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Guan, Feng, et al.. (2009). ICTNET at Web Track 2009 Ad-hoc task. Text REtrieval Conference. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jin, et al.. (2008). ICTCAS's ICTGrasper at TAC 2008: Summarizing Dynamic Information with Signature Terms Based Content Filtering. Theory and applications of categories. 5 indexed citations
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Cao, Donglin, et al.. (2008). Blog post and comment extraction using information quantity of web format. 298–309. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongbo. (2008). Survey of Automatic Summarization Evaluation Methods. Zhongwen xinxi xuebao. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongbo. (2007). Important email account discovering method based on structure. Computer Engineering and Applications Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Huaping, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai, Bin Wang, & Xueqi Cheng. (2004). Experiments in TREC 2004 Novelty Track at CAS-ICT.. Text REtrieval Conference. 11 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongbo, Hao Zhang, & Shuo Bai. (2002). ICT Experiments in TREC 11 QA Main Task.. Text REtrieval Conference. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongbo, Zhifeng Yang, Bin Wang, et al.. (2002). TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and Web.. Text REtrieval Conference. 13 indexed citations

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