Ligen Yao

892 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 719 citations indexed

About

Ligen Yao is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Ligen Yao has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 719 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Ligen Yao's work include Grey System Theory Applications (6 papers), Diverse Interdisciplinary Research Innovations (3 papers) and Energy Load and Power Forecasting (3 papers). Ligen Yao is often cited by papers focused on Grey System Theory Applications (6 papers), Diverse Interdisciplinary Research Innovations (3 papers) and Energy Load and Power Forecasting (3 papers). Ligen Yao collaborates with scholars based in China. Ligen Yao's co-authors include Sifeng Liu, Lifeng Wu, Shuli Yan, Dinglin Liu, Wei Cui and Chen Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as Natural Hazards, Applied Mathematical Modelling and Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.

In The Last Decade

Ligen Yao

6 papers receiving 700 citations

Hit Papers

Grey system model with the fractional order accumulation 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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. Grey system model with the fractional order accumulation
    2012 481 citations Lifeng Wu, Sifeng Liu et al. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ligen Yao China 6 648 363 122 73 32 7 719
Dinglin Liu China 4 557 0.9× 328 0.9× 205 1.7× 124 1.7× 18 0.6× 8 701
Tzu-Li Tien Taiwan 11 524 0.8× 187 0.5× 78 0.6× 46 0.6× 13 0.4× 17 614
Lianyi Liu China 8 413 0.6× 292 0.8× 106 0.9× 57 0.8× 24 0.8× 17 538
Weijie Zhou China 13 559 0.9× 404 1.1× 203 1.7× 130 1.8× 14 0.4× 28 761
Jing Ye China 10 265 0.4× 185 0.5× 145 1.2× 64 0.9× 10 0.3× 25 426
Yu Lin China 11 241 0.4× 237 0.7× 286 2.3× 31 0.4× 13 0.4× 26 539
Yufeng Zhao China 12 212 0.3× 142 0.4× 112 0.9× 73 1.0× 7 0.2× 33 438
Chongchong Zhang China 12 105 0.2× 234 0.6× 269 2.2× 170 2.3× 13 0.4× 26 621

Countries citing papers authored by Ligen Yao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ligen Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ligen Yao

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Wu, Lifeng, et al.. (2015). FRACTIONAL ORDER GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION. Scientia Iranica. 22(3). 1171–1178. 7 indexed citations
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Wu, Lifeng, et al.. (2014). Using fractional order accumulation to reduce errors from inverse accumulated generating operator of grey model. Soft Computing. 19(2). 483–488. 55 indexed citations
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Wu, Lifeng, Sifeng Liu, Ligen Yao, & Shuli Yan. (2013). The effect of sample size on the grey system model. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 37(9). 6577–6583. 111 indexed citations
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Wu, Lifeng, Sifeng Liu, Chen Ding, Ligen Yao, & Wei Cui. (2013). Using gray model with fractional order accumulation to predict gas emission. Natural Hazards. 71(3). 2231–2236. 34 indexed citations
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Wu, Lifeng, Sifeng Liu, Ligen Yao, & Shuli Yan. (2012). Grey convex relational degree and its application to evaluate regional economic sustainability. Scientia Iranica. 31 indexed citations
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Wu, Lifeng, Sifeng Liu, Ligen Yao, Shuli Yan, & Dinglin Liu. (2012). Grey system model with the fractional order accumulation. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 18(7). 1775–1785. 481 indexed citations breakdown →
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