Nian Yu

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 769 citations indexed

About

Nian Yu is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nian Yu has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 769 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Geophysics, 18 papers in Ocean Engineering and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nian Yu's work include Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (23 papers), Geophysical Methods and Applications (16 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (9 papers). Nian Yu is often cited by papers focused on Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (23 papers), Geophysical Methods and Applications (16 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (9 papers). Nian Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Nian Yu's co-authors include Ruiheng Li, Xuben Wang, Tianyang Li, Huaiqing Zhang, Eli Ruckenstein, Yun Hang Hu, Xin Deng, Ke Liu, Yang Liu and Dewei Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letters and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Nian Yu

42 papers receiving 752 citations

Hit Papers

Cenozoic eastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau controlle... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30 40
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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. Cenozoic eastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau controlled by tearing of the Indian slab
    2024 42 citations Zengqian Hou, Haijiang Zhang 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
Nian Yu China 17 324 181 134 128 106 47 769
C. Robert Pinnegar Canada 12 315 1.0× 365 2.0× 147 1.1× 54 0.4× 93 0.9× 19 1.1k
Hao Hu China 15 598 1.8× 62 0.3× 288 2.1× 180 1.4× 120 1.1× 78 1.0k
Shuo Ma United States 21 951 2.9× 75 0.4× 56 0.4× 150 1.2× 120 1.1× 51 1.4k
Subir Ghosh India 18 634 2.0× 136 0.8× 54 0.4× 65 0.5× 92 0.9× 31 1.1k
Xiaojuan Zhang China 17 153 0.5× 235 1.3× 236 1.8× 91 0.7× 136 1.3× 101 902
Yajuan Xue China 17 395 1.2× 102 0.6× 221 1.6× 155 1.2× 56 0.5× 66 823
Zhaolun Liu Saudi Arabia 12 228 0.7× 45 0.2× 121 0.9× 52 0.4× 51 0.5× 42 657
John L. Davidson United Kingdom 16 130 0.4× 248 1.4× 105 0.8× 135 1.1× 14 0.1× 52 705
Huiyong Li China 17 48 0.1× 347 1.9× 97 0.7× 59 0.5× 104 1.0× 134 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nian Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nian Yu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nian Yu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nian 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 Nian Yu. Nian Yu 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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Li, Xin, Yangfan Deng, Nian Yu, et al.. (2025). Magnetotelluric Evidence for Lithospheric Hydration and Thinning Beneath the Youjiang Basin in Southwestern China. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(2).
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2025). Episodic Earthquakes Controlled by the Migration of Crustal Fluids and Fault Valve Behavior. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6). 1 indexed citations
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Hou, Zengqian, Bo Xu, Tiannan Yang, et al.. (2025). Cenozoic Vertically‐tearing of Indian Slab Modified the Asian Lithosphere beneath the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 99(3). 627–633.
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2024). A two-dimensional magnetotelluric deep learning inversion approach based on improved Dense Convolutional Network. Computers & Geosciences. 194. 105765–105765. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2023). A stable analytical expression for magnetotelluric/radiomagnetotelluric impedances in anisotropic layered Earth models. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 217. 105184–105184. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2023). Advancing CO2 Storage Monitoring via Cross-Borehole Apparent Resistivity Imaging Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2023). A Gradient Scaling Scheme for the 3-D Magnetotelluric Inversion With Galvanic Distortion Correction. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–19. 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2023). Hybrid mesh for magnetotelluric forward modeling based on the finite element method. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 532–532. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Tianyang, Yu Jeffrey Gu, Don C. Lawton, et al.. (2022). Monitoring CO2 Injection at the CaMI Field Research Station Using Microseismic Noise Sources. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(12). 6 indexed citations
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Hou, Zengqian, Qingfei Wang, Haijiang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Lithosphere architecture characterized by crust–mantle decoupling controls the formation of orogenic gold deposits. National Science Review. 10(3). nwac257–nwac257. 46 indexed citations
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Li, Tianyang, Ruiheng Li, Nian Yu, Zizhen Wang, & Ruihe Wang. (2021). A NOVEL APPROACH BASED ON FEATURE FUSION FOR FRACTURE IDENTIFICATION USING WELL LOG DATA. Fractals. 29(8). 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Nian, et al.. (2021). Calculation of Earth Surface Potential and Neutral Current Caused by HVDC Considering Three-Dimensional Complex Soil Structure. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 63(5). 1480–1490. 7 indexed citations
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Deng, Xin, et al.. (2021). Advanced TSGL-EEGNet for Motor Imagery EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces. IEEE Access. 9. 25118–25130. 87 indexed citations
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Li, Tianyang, Zizhen Wang, Ruihe Wang, & Nian Yu. (2020). Pore type identification in carbonate rocks using convolutional neural network based on acoustic logging data. Neural Computing and Applications. 33(9). 4151–4163. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Ruiheng, et al.. (2020). Model-Based Synthetic Geoelectric Sampling for Magnetotelluric Inversion With Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–14. 48 indexed citations
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Li, Tianyang, et al.. (2020). NUMERICAL STUDY OF PORE STRUCTURE EFFECTS ON ACOUSTIC LOGGING DATA IN THE BOREHOLE ENVIRONMENT. Fractals. 28(3). 2050049–2050049. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Huaiqing, et al.. (2019). A fast approximation for 1-D inversion of transient electromagnetic data by using a back propagation neural network and improved particle swarm optimization. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 26(4). 445–456. 17 indexed citations
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