Kangwen Sun

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 991 citations indexed

About

Kangwen Sun is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kangwen Sun has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 991 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kangwen Sun's work include Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (41 papers), Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies (18 papers) and Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (14 papers). Kangwen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (41 papers), Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies (18 papers) and Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (14 papers). Kangwen Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Australia. Kangwen Sun's co-authors include Mingyun Lv, Ming Zhu, Weiyu Zhu, Zewei Zheng, Li Jun, Jin Cheng, Huafei Du, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yù Zhang and Fei Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Energy and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Kangwen Sun

67 papers receiving 956 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kangwen Sun China 16 429 336 150 116 112 76 991
Yiqun Wang China 11 156 0.4× 171 0.5× 88 0.6× 9 0.1× 48 0.4× 61 690
Wenrui Wang China 12 63 0.1× 76 0.2× 76 0.5× 70 0.6× 83 0.7× 64 588
Yukun Guo China 14 68 0.2× 195 0.6× 153 1.0× 40 0.3× 19 0.2× 72 706
Junwoo Park South Korea 13 89 0.2× 277 0.8× 199 1.3× 25 0.2× 19 0.2× 51 601
Juan Francisco Sánchez Pérez Spain 14 120 0.3× 34 0.1× 65 0.4× 173 1.5× 28 0.3× 56 503
Guoyi Li China 13 77 0.2× 119 0.4× 47 0.3× 45 0.4× 47 0.4× 46 435
Takayuki Nakamura Japan 13 125 0.3× 207 0.6× 183 1.2× 16 0.1× 69 0.6× 170 859
Bohao Huang United States 11 134 0.3× 201 0.6× 19 0.1× 36 0.3× 21 0.2× 35 712
Yvan Dutil Canada 13 36 0.1× 98 0.3× 51 0.3× 55 0.5× 18 0.2× 42 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kangwen Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kangwen Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kangwen Sun

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

All Works

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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2025). Stratospheric airship fixed-time trajectory planning based on reinforcement learning. Electronic Research Archive. 33(4). 1946–1967. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Siliang, et al.. (2025). Hierarchical decision-making model for multi-aircraft formation in forest firefighting missions. Aerospace Science and Technology. 163. 110242–110242. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2024). Stratospheric wind field feature extraction and energy management for hybrid electric solar airship with deep reinforcement learning. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 71. 103993–103993. 4 indexed citations
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Tian, Yongliang, et al.. (2024). A methodology for aircraft mission effectiveness evaluation and design space exploration based on virtual operational test. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 38(2). 103233–103233.
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2024). Mission-oriented dynamic reconfiguration of airborne photovoltaic array based on multidisciplinary model. Renewable Energy. 234. 121201–121201. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2024). Online Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling of Stratospheric Airship Solar Array Output Power. Aerospace. 11(3). 232–232. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2024). Output power prediction of stratospheric airship solar array based on surrogate model under global wind field. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 38(4). 103244–103244. 38 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, Guangyao Dai, Songhua Wu, et al.. (2024). Effect of wind speed on marine aerosol optical properties over remote oceans with use of spaceborne lidar observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(7). 4389–4409. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuchen, et al.. (2024). Overall parameter design method and sensitivity analysis for solar aircraft. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2820(1). 12011–12011.
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2023). A reconfiguration method for photovoltaic array of stratospheric airship based on multilevel optimization algorithm. Applied Energy. 352. 121881–121881. 9 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2023). Trajectory planning of stratospheric airship for station-keeping mission based on improved rapidly exploring random tree. Advances in Space Research. 73(1). 992–1005. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2023). Prescribed-time error-constrained moving path following control for a stratospheric airship with disturbances. Acta Astronautica. 212. 307–315. 12 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, et al.. (2023). Receiving energy analysis and optimal design of crystalline silicon solar cell array on solar airship. Energy. 282. 128988–128988. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Songhua, Kangwen Sun, Guangyao Dai, et al.. (2022). Inter-comparison of wind measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer and the lower troposphere with Aeolus and a ground-based coherent Doppler lidar network over China. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(1). 131–148. 19 indexed citations
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Dai, Guangyao, et al.. (2022). Dust transport and advection measurement with spaceborne lidars ALADIN and CALIOP and model reanalysis data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(12). 7975–7993. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Jun, Mingyun Lv, Kangwen Sun, & Yuanyuan Zhang. (2016). Stratospheric Aerostat - A New High Altitude Scientific Platform. Current Science. 111(8). 1296–1297. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Kangwen, Yang Yang, Shun Wang, et al.. (2014). Thermal Characteristics of Multilayer Insulation Materials for Flexible Thin-Film Solar Cell Array of Stratospheric Airship. Advances in Materials Science and Engineering. 2014. 1–8. 14 indexed citations

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