Nian Xue

625 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 419 citations indexed

About

Nian Xue is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Nian Xue has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 419 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 5 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Nian Xue's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (4 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (3 papers) and User Authentication and Security Systems (3 papers). Nian Xue is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (4 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (3 papers) and User Authentication and Security Systems (3 papers). Nian Xue collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Nian Xue's co-authors include Xin Huang, Jie Zhang, Christina Pöpper, Zhen Li, Jie Zhang, Sheng-Uei Guan, Lulu Liang, Jiehao Zhang, Xuan Zhao and Ka Lok Man and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Applied Sciences and Multimedia Tools and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Nian Xue

20 papers receiving 402 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.

A Secure System For Pervasive Social Network-Based Healthcare

2016 245 citations Jie Zhang, Nian Xue et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nian Xue China	8	237	215	113	48	48	24	419
Dawei Li China	12	267 1.1×	144 0.7×	157 1.4×	45 0.9×	36 0.8×	61	432
R. Lakshmana Kumar India	12	226 1.0×	206 1.0×	84 0.7×	50 1.0×	20 0.4×	25	403
Zhe Ji China	9	148 0.6×	232 1.1×	83 0.7×	23 0.5×	103 2.1×	25	390
Ao Xiong China	11	159 0.7×	222 1.0×	109 1.0×	24 0.5×	37 0.8×	46	411
Samiha Ayed France	13	117 0.5×	177 0.8×	148 1.3×	28 0.6×	65 1.4×	37	382
Huangxun Chen China	9	186 0.8×	142 0.7×	91 0.8×	46 1.0×	29 0.6×	26	371
Asif Iqbal Baba United States	8	143 0.6×	106 0.5×	55 0.5×	43 0.9×	68 1.4×	20	348
Zainab Salih Ageed Iraq	10	246 1.0×	205 1.0×	103 0.9×	42 0.9×	21 0.4×	20	487
Juha Partala Finland	9	175 0.7×	134 0.6×	120 1.1×	88 1.8×	26 0.5×	20	367
Yixin Li China	9	307 1.3×	321 1.5×	91 0.8×	27 0.6×	15 0.3×	45	512

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nian Xue

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nian Xue. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nian Xue 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 Nian Xue. Nian Xue 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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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2025). GridNet: Vision-based Mitigation of GPS Attacks for Aerial Vehicles. 1–10.

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Che, Chang, et al.. (2025). Automatic cassava disease recognition using object segmentation and progressive learning. PeerJ Computer Science. 11. e2721–e2721. 1 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2025). Security Analysis of the Quantum (t, m, n) Threshold Group Blind Signature Scheme and its Improvement. International Journal of Theoretical Physics. 64(1).

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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2024). SPCL: A Smart Access Control System That Supports Blockchain. Applied Sciences. 14(7). 2978–2978.

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Xue, Nian, Yuzhu Zhang, & Sensen Liu. (2024). Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Aqueous Solubility Prediction in Drug Discovery. 26–33. 1 indexed citations

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Guan, Sheng-Uei, et al.. (2023). Dual-Track Lifelong Machine Learning-Based Fine-Grained Product Quality Analysis. Applied Sciences. 13(3). 1241–1241. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Di, Chenxu Wang, Nian Xue, et al.. (2023). Blockchain papers depository system based on web 3.0. 90–90. 1 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2022). PLA: progressive learning algorithm for efficient person re-identification. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 81(17). 24493–24513. 4 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2021). Trust the Crowd: Wireless Witnessing to Detect Attacks on ADS-B-Based Air-Traffic Surveillance. 10 indexed citations

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Guan, Sheng-Uei, Prudence W. H. Wong, Nian Xue, et al.. (2021). Lifelong Machine Learning-Based Quality Analysis for Product Review. 1–5. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaoyi, et al.. (2021). Multiple Object Tracking with GRU Association and Kalman Prediction. 1–8. 13 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2021). OpenFunction for Software Defined IoT. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, et al.. (2020). DeepSIM: GPS Spoofing Detection on UAVs using Satellite Imagery Matching. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. 304–319. 66 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiehao, et al.. (2017). Incremental Maximum Gaussian Mixture Partition For Classification. 5 indexed citations

15.

Xue, Nian, Lulu Liang, Jie Zhang, & Xin Huang. (2016). An Access Control System for Intelligent Buildings. 11–17. 7 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, Lulu Liang, Jie Zhang, & Xin Huang. (2016). An Access Control System for Intelligent Buildings. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiehao, et al.. (2016). Maximum Gaussian Mixture Model for Classification. 587–591. 13 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian, Xin Huang, & Jie Zhang. (2016). S2Net: A Security Framework for Software Defined Intelligent Building Networks. 3. 654–661. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Mi, Nian Xue, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2016). Improving Efficiency of Authenticated OpenFlow Handshake Using Coprocessors. 16. 576–580. 3 indexed citations

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Xue, Nian. (2003). Improvement of the BP Network with Automatically Adjusting the S Function. 2 indexed citations

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