Jian Ren

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jian Ren is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Ren has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 13 papers in Information Systems and 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jian Ren's work include Software Engineering Research (9 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (8 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (8 papers). Jian Ren is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (9 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (8 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (8 papers). Jian Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Jian Ren's co-authors include Sergey Tulyakov, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Mahmood Reza Rahimi, Chi Harold Liu, Mark Harman, Xi Peng, L. Zhao, Cathy Wu and Mengmeng Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Jian Ren

36 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions

2013 270 citations Mahmood Reza Rahimi, Jian Ren et al. Mobile Networks and Applications profile →
Rethinking Vision Transformers for MobileNet Size and Speed

2023 145 citations Yanyu Li, Hu Ju et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jian Ren China	19	389	375	360	258	176	38	1.2k
Yu Zhou China	24	721 1.9×	406 1.1×	282 0.8×	347 1.3×	225 1.3×	106	1.5k
Mohammed Alweshah Jordan	20	269 0.7×	721 1.9×	183 0.5×	194 0.8×	119 0.7×	57	1.3k
Hui Song China	18	446 1.1×	427 1.1×	134 0.4×	794 3.1×	173 1.0×	155	1.4k
Xiaoke Zhu China	20	549 1.4×	336 0.9×	694 1.9×	195 0.8×	412 2.3×	64	1.5k
Yanjun Wu China	18	390 1.0×	588 1.6×	429 1.2×	257 1.0×	93 0.5×	100	1.3k
Helmi Md Rais Malaysia	11	277 0.7×	620 1.7×	199 0.6×	237 0.9×	39 0.2×	32	1.2k
Xiang Long China	18	248 0.6×	395 1.1×	544 1.5×	319 1.2×	61 0.3×	114	1.2k
Nabendu Chaki India	21	297 0.8×	303 0.8×	289 0.8×	436 1.7×	29 0.2×	164	1.3k
Pradeep Kumar Bhatia India	14	287 0.7×	195 0.5×	195 0.5×	112 0.4×	211 1.2×	63	881
Andrea Ceccarelli Italy	21	168 0.4×	315 0.8×	88 0.2×	400 1.6×	83 0.5×	124	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jian Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Ren

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

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2025). GOAT: a novel global-local optimized graph transformer framework for predicting student performance in collaborative learning. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 9861–9861. 1 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2024). Framework to improve software effort estimation accuracy using novel ensemble rule. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 36(9). 102189–102189. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yanyu, Xian Liu, Hu Ju, et al.. (2024). TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder can be Image Quality Controller. 7985–7995. 1 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2024). Advancing Software Project Effort Estimation: Leveraging a NIVIM for Enhanced Preprocessing. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 37(1).

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Siarohin, Aliaksandr, Willi Menapace, Ivan Skorokhodov, et al.. (2023). Unsupervised Volumetric Animation. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). 458–469. 16 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2023). Make-A-Story: Visual Memory Conditioned Consistent Story Generation. 2493–2502. 27 indexed citations

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Cao, Jun‐Li, Huan Wang, Hu Ju, et al.. (2023). Real-Time Neural Light Field on Mobile Devices. 8328–8337. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Wenjun, et al.. (2023). CLGT: A Graph Transformer for Student Performance Prediction in Collaborative Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(13). 15947–15954. 14 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous Ensemble Model to Optimize Software Effort Estimation Accuracy. IEEE Access. 11. 27759–27792. 23 indexed citations

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Xu, Meng, et al.. (2023). A critical analysis of image-based camera pose estimation techniques. Neurocomputing. 570. 127125–127125. 16 indexed citations

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Wu, Ji, et al.. (2019). Behavior Modeling on ARINC653 to Support the Temporal Verification of Conformed Application Design. IEEE Access. 7. 23852–23863. 7 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, Eric A. Singer, Evita Sadimin, David J. Foran, & Xin Qi. (2019). Statistical Analysis of Survival Models Using Feature Quantification on Prostate Cancer Histopathological Images. Journal of Pathology Informatics. 10(1). 30–30. 3 indexed citations

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Sarro, Federica, et al.. (2017). Adaptive Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Overtime Planning in Software Projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 43(10). 898–917. 36 indexed citations

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Foran, David J., et al.. (2015). Exploring automatic prostate histopathology image gleason grading via local structure modeling. PubMed Central. 2649–2652. 19 indexed citations

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Rahimi, Mahmood Reza, Jian Ren, Chi Harold Liu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, & Nalini Venkatasubramanian. (2013). Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions. Mobile Networks and Applications. 19(2). 133–143. 270 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2013). Multiple Criteria Decision Making Based on Discrete Linguistic Stochastic Variables. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2013. 1–11. 3 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian. (2012). Linguistic-stochastic multi-criterion decision-making method based on cloud model. Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems. 10 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2012). The Preprocessing for Infrared Sea-Surface Target Image. Advanced materials research. 433-440. 4512–4515. 1 indexed citations

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Finkelstein, Anthony, Mark Harman, S. Afshin Mansouri, Jian Ren, & Yuanyuan Zhang. (2009). A search based approach to fairness analysis in requirement assignments to aid negotiation, mediation and decision making. Requirements Engineering. 14(4). 231–245. 80 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, et al.. (2000). VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION FOR EXPRESSWAY CAPACITY ANALYSIS IN CHINA. Transportation research circular. 1 indexed citations

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