Hongjian Sun

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Hongjian Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongjian Sun has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 53 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 50 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hongjian Sun's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (48 papers), Microgrid Control and Optimization (23 papers) and Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing (22 papers). Hongjian Sun is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (48 papers), Microgrid Control and Optimization (23 papers) and Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing (22 papers). Hongjian Sun collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Hongjian Sun's co-authors include Jing Jiang, Arumugam Nallanathan, Cheng‐Xiang Wang, Wei‐Yu Chiu, Yunfei Chen, Nan Zhao, F. Richard Yu, H. Vincent Poor, Weiqi Hua and Xiaolin Mou and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Hongjian Sun

155 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks: a survey

2013 414 citations Hongjian Sun, Arumugam Nallanathan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongjian Sun United Kingdom	33	2.4k	1.4k	664	362	347	172	3.5k
Catherine Rosenberg Canada	33	3.3k 1.4×	3.7k 2.7×	437 0.7×	159 0.4×	326 0.9×	195	5.2k
Kan Xie China	30	931 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	92 0.3×	192 0.6×	99	2.9k
Hamid Sharif United States	33	2.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.7×	1.4k 2.1×	49 0.1×	297 0.9×	318	4.9k
Cailian Chen China	36	2.0k 0.8×	3.0k 2.2×	1.2k 1.8×	84 0.2×	248 0.7×	439	5.2k
Suzhi Bi China	33	4.2k 1.7×	3.1k 2.3×	647 1.0×	48 0.1×	517 1.5×	126	6.1k
Hassan Noura France	34	961 0.4×	985 0.7×	2.0k 3.0×	48 0.1×	294 0.8×	231	4.6k
Satyajayant Misra United States	24	2.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.7×	1.6k 2.4×	45 0.1×	105 0.3×	116	4.3k
Kui Wu Canada	33	1.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.8×	284 0.4×	52 0.1×	339 1.0×	212	4.1k
Dingde Jiang China	34	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.5×	257 0.4×	133 0.4×	51 0.1×	148	3.5k
Hao Liang Canada	39	3.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.3×	2.3k 3.4×	33 0.1×	626 1.8×	139	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Hongjian Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongjian Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongjian Sun

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Harsh, Pratik, et al.. (2025). Stochastic Incentive-Based Demand Response Program for Virtual Power Plant With Distributed Energy Resources. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 61(3). 4862–4875. 4 indexed citations

Tang, Huijun, Jieling Zhang, Zhidong Zhao, et al.. (2025). Joint Optimization Based on Two-Phase GNN in RIS- and DF-Assisted MISO Systems With Fine-Grained Rate Demands. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(12). 9989–10002.

Jiang, Jing, et al.. (2025). A scalable and resilient protection framework for hybrid microgrids using zero injection cluster and graph learning. Applied Energy. 391. 125927–125927.

Cavus, Muhammed, Jing Jiang, Adib Allahham, & Hongjian Sun. (2025). Resilient Smart Grid Management through Weather-Informed and Economic Dispatch. 1–6.

Sun, Hongjian, et al.. (2024). A Preference-Based Online Reinforcement Learning With Embedded Communication Failure Solutions in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 21(3). 2422–2431. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yunfei, et al.. (2024). Dual‐user joint sensing and communications with time‐divisioned bi‐static radar. IET Communications. 18(17). 1126–1139.

Cao, Yue, Sifan Li, Di Wang, et al.. (2023). Towards cyber security for low-carbon transportation: Overview, challenges and future directions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 183. 113401–113401. 27 indexed citations

Michaels, Hannes, Andrew F. Crossland, Natasha Shirshova, et al.. (2023). Decarbonising electrical grids using photovoltaics with enhanced capacity factors. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(10). 4650–4659. 3 indexed citations

Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, et al.. (2023). Techno-Economic-Environmental Analysis for Net-Zero Sustainable Residential Buildings. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Piper, William E., Hongjian Sun, & Jing Jiang. (2022). Digital Twins for Smart Cities: Case Study and Visualisation via Mixed Reality. 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall). 1–5. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Hongjian, et al.. (2021). Reinforcement Learning Based Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Data centres. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jie, Prasanna Date, Nicholas Chancellor, et al.. (2021). Energy Efficient Mobile Network Routing using Hybrid Quantum Algorithm. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

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Mou, Xiaolin, Daniel T. Gladwin, Rui Zhao, Hongjian Sun, & Zhile Yang. (2020). Coil Design for Wireless Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging Systems. IEEE Access. 8. 172723–172733. 34 indexed citations

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Hua, Weiqi, et al.. (2019). Stackelberg game‐theoretic model for low carbon energy market scheduling. IET Smart Grid. 3(1). 31–41. 17 indexed citations

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Sun, Hongjian, et al.. (2018). ADMM-Based Distributed OPF Problem Meets Stochastic Communication Delay. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 10(5). 5046–5056. 43 indexed citations

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Chiu, Wei‐Yu, et al.. (2017). Multiobjective Optimization for Demand Side Management Program in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 14(4). 1482–1490. 105 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhutian, Wei Qiu, Hongjian Sun, & Arumugam Nallanathan. (2016). Robust Radar Emitter Recognition Based on the Three-Dimensional Distribution Feature and Transfer Learning. Sensors. 16(3). 289–289. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Shancang, Hongjian Sun, Arumugam Nallanathan, et al.. (2014). Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 10(8). 218050–218050. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Hongjian & Rigmor C. Baraas. (2008). The influences of local and lateral cone modulation on rod thresholds. Perception. 37. 146–146. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Hongjian, et al.. (2006). Adaptive Cooperation Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks. 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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