Jianlai Chen

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jianlai Chen is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jianlai Chen has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jianlai Chen's work include Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (52 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (44 papers) and Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis (19 papers). Jianlai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (52 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (44 papers) and Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis (19 papers). Jianlai Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Jianlai Chen's co-authors include Mengdao Xing, Guang‐Cai Sun, Hanwen Yu, Buge Liang, Degui Yang, Junchao Zhang, Gang Xu, Zhenyu Li, Bangjie Zhang and Wei Hong and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jianlai Chen

64 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed S... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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. Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends
    2022 133 citations Gang Xu, Bangjie Zhang et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jianlai Chen China 22 1.1k 478 224 208 139 69 1.4k
Chibiao Ding China 21 1.4k 1.3× 456 1.0× 286 1.3× 191 0.9× 112 0.8× 161 1.8k
Zegang Ding China 21 1.2k 1.1× 450 0.9× 132 0.6× 50 0.2× 135 1.0× 181 1.4k
Daoxiang An China 19 960 0.9× 406 0.8× 180 0.8× 77 0.4× 77 0.6× 120 1.1k
Zhaoda Zhu China 17 1.2k 1.1× 449 0.9× 121 0.5× 63 0.3× 142 1.0× 62 1.2k
Ron Goodman Canada 5 1.2k 1.2× 535 1.1× 106 0.5× 91 0.4× 120 0.9× 8 1.5k
Xiaolan Qiu China 21 1.5k 1.4× 401 0.8× 250 1.1× 106 0.5× 71 0.5× 184 1.8k
Daniel E. Wahl United States 14 2.1k 2.0× 690 1.4× 233 1.0× 346 1.7× 163 1.2× 40 2.4k
Elisa Giusti Italy 20 1.2k 1.1× 478 1.0× 105 0.5× 45 0.2× 113 0.8× 106 1.4k
Yunkai Deng China 27 2.1k 2.0× 600 1.3× 181 0.8× 111 0.5× 116 0.8× 155 2.4k
Qian Song China 19 667 0.6× 280 0.6× 215 1.0× 126 0.6× 316 2.3× 128 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jianlai Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jianlai Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jianlai Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jianlai Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jianlai Chen 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 Jianlai Chen. Jianlai Chen 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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Gao, Yuexin, Min Xue, Hanwen Yu, & Jianlai Chen. (2025). A Nonparametric Translational Motion Compensation Algorithm for ISAR Imaging by Using the Alternating Iteration and LBFGS Algorithm. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 11623–11633.
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Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2025). High Phase-Preserving Autofocus Imaging for Squinted Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15.
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Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2024). Nonparametric Full-Aperture Autofocus Imaging for Microwave Photonic SAR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 23 indexed citations
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Li, Yongkang, et al.. (2024). A New Ground Accelerating Target Imaging Method for Airborne CSSAR. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bangjie, Gang Xu, Xiang‐Gen Xia, et al.. (2024). Multichannel Enhanced Millimeter-Wave SAR Imaging via Low-Rank Tensor-Train Decomposition. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 1551–1561.
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Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2024). An NCS-Based WLS Estimator for Airborne Microwave Photonic SAR Autofocus. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Su, Tao, et al.. (2024). MIGA-Net: Multi-View Image Information Learning Based on Graph Attention Network for SAR Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(11). 10779–10792. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2024). Microwave Photonic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems, experiments, and imaging processing [Technical Committees]. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 13(2). 314–328. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, Xiaoqing Xu, Junchao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ship Target Detection Algorithm Based on Decision-Level Fusion of Visible and SAR Images. 4(3). 242–249. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, Mengliang Li, Mengdao Xing, et al.. (2023). Processing of Airborne Microwave Photonic SAR Raw Data With Inaccurate RSF. 4(2). 86–92. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2023). Integrated Convolution Network for ISAR Imaging and Target Recognition. 4(4). 431–437. 5 indexed citations
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Lin, Hao, et al.. (2022). Time-Domain Autofocus for Ultrahigh Resolution SAR Based on Azimuth Scaling Transformation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–12. 13 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, Junchao Zhang, Hanwen Yu, et al.. (2022). Blind NCS-Based Autofocus for Airborne Wide-Beam SAR Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 8. 626–638. 17 indexed citations
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Xu, Gang, et al.. (2022). High-Resolution mmWave SAR Imagery for Automotive Parking Assistance. 4(1). 54–61. 9 indexed citations
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Xu, Gang, Bangjie Zhang, Hanwen Yu, et al.. (2022). Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 10(4). 32–69. 133 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Gang, Bangjie Zhang, Jianlai Chen, et al.. (2021). Sparse Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Using Structured Low-Rank Method. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–12. 40 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, Hanwen Yu, Gang Xu, et al.. (2021). Airborne SAR Autofocus Based on Blurry Imagery Classification. Remote Sensing. 13(19). 3872–3872. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2020). Efficiency and Robustness Improvement of Airborne SAR Motion Compensation With High Resolution and Wide Swath. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 26 indexed citations
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Xing, Mengdao, et al.. (2019). A Review of Imaging Algorithms in Multi-platform-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(6). 732–757. 13 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2014). A Subaperture Imaging Algorithm to Highly Squinted TOPS SAR Based on SPECAN and Deramping. 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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