Kai Yu

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 996 citations indexed

About

Kai Yu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Yu has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 996 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 9 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Kai Yu's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (16 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (11 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (10 papers). Kai Yu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (16 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (11 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (10 papers). Kai Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Kai Yu's co-authors include A. Lee Swindlehurst, Pengcheng Zhan, Björn Ottersten, Mats Bengtsson, Peter Karlsson, Mark A Beach, D. McNamara, Yu Hen Hu, Zhi Wang and Yimin D. Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Chromatography A and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Kai Yu

40 papers receiving 945 citations

Hit Papers

Wireless Relay Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicl... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 50 100 150 200 250
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. Wireless Relay Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Optimization
    2011 292 citations Kai Yu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Yu United States 14 638 434 360 97 84 44 996
Aliazam Abbasfar Iran 14 759 1.2× 105 0.2× 484 1.3× 33 0.3× 22 0.3× 79 900
Raymond Lui Australia 9 1.3k 2.1× 109 0.3× 917 2.5× 18 0.2× 19 0.2× 12 1.4k
F.P.S. Chin Singapore 13 383 0.6× 88 0.2× 317 0.9× 70 0.7× 12 0.1× 35 574
Alfonso Caño United States 10 654 1.0× 72 0.2× 772 2.1× 44 0.5× 36 0.4× 22 1.0k
Hui Zhao China 19 847 1.3× 170 0.4× 488 1.4× 11 0.1× 19 0.2× 113 1.0k
Raymond Steele United Kingdom 6 819 1.3× 119 0.3× 669 1.9× 99 1.0× 7 0.1× 8 974
Wanbin Tang China 18 666 1.0× 208 0.5× 462 1.3× 34 0.4× 8 0.1× 96 879
Guangliang Ren China 18 927 1.5× 252 0.6× 546 1.5× 68 0.7× 4 0.0× 112 1.0k
Youlong Wu China 13 324 0.5× 212 0.5× 209 0.6× 13 0.1× 40 0.5× 94 774
Anna Vizziello Italy 14 348 0.5× 79 0.2× 153 0.4× 13 0.1× 9 0.1× 52 517

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Yu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Yu

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

All Works

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Liu, Zejun, et al.. (2025). Effect of prostate volume on the predictive value of prostate-specific antigen density for prostate cancer. Translational Andrology and Urology. 14(1). 70–80.
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Lin, Wei‐Hung, Ching‐Fang Wu, Li‐Jin Hsu, et al.. (2024). O-antigen of uropathogenic Escherichia coli is required for induction of neutrophil extracellular traps. Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection. 58(2). 209–218. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaofang, Ye Yuan, Wei Zhao, et al.. (2021). Preparation of a polyclonal antibody against the non-structural protein, NSs of SFTSV. Protein Expression and Purification. 184. 105892–105892. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, Ralph E. Hudson, Yimin D. Zhang, et al.. (2016). Low-Complexity 2D Direction-of-Arrival Estimation for Acoustic Sensor Arrays. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 23(12). 1791–1795. 16 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, et al.. (2016). Compressive Sensing Based Sampling and Reconstruction for Wireless Sensor Array Network. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2016. 1–11. 8 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, Yimin D. Zhang, Ming Bao, Yu Hen Hu, & Zhi Wang. (2016). DOA Estimation From One-Bit Compressed Array Data via Joint Sparse Representation. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 23(9). 1279–1283. 56 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, et al.. (2016). Wireless Sensor Array Network DoA Estimation from Compressed Array Data via Joint Sparse Representation. Sensors. 16(5). 686–686. 5 indexed citations
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Koutros, Stella, Tamra E. Meyer, Stephen D. Fox, et al.. (2013). Prospective evaluation of serum sarcosine and risk of prostate cancer in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. Carcinogenesis. 34(10). 2281–2285. 41 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, Zhijun Xie, Jiangbo Qian, & Guang Jin. (2013). The Implementation of Electronic Intelligent Tag System Based on Wireless Sensor Network. Communications and Network. 5(1). 39–43. 3 indexed citations
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Boccardi, Federico, Kai Yu, & Angeliki Alexiou. (2009). High data rate relay transmissions with multiple antennas. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 57(12). 3547–3551. 1 indexed citations
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Boccardi, Federico, Kai Yu, & Angeliki Alexiou. (2007). A New Approach for High Data Rate Relay Transmissions using Multiple Antennas. 1–5. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, Mats Bengtsson, & Björn Ottersten. (2005). MIMO channel models. 271–292. 7 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, et al.. (2005). On the tap and cluster angular spreads of indoor WLAN channels. 1. 218–222. 28 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten, et al.. (2003). A wideband statistical model for NLOS indoor MIMO channels. Explore Bristol Research. 1. 370–374. 40 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai. (2002). Modeling of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radio Propagation Channels. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations
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Yu, Kai, Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten, & Mark A Beach. (2002). Narrowband MIMO Channel Modeling for LOS Indoor Scenarios. 14 indexed citations

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