Puning Zhang

803 total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 548 citations indexed

About

Puning Zhang is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Puning Zhang has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 548 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Puning Zhang's work include Caching and Content Delivery (14 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (14 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (12 papers). Puning Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (14 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (14 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (12 papers). Puning Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Russia. Puning Zhang's co-authors include Ruyan Wang, Dapeng Wu, Zhigang Yang, Boran Yang, Xinqiang Ma, Honggang Wang, Fan Wu, Yuanan Liu, Bihua Tang and Chonggang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

In The Last Decade

Puning Zhang

51 papers receiving 536 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Puning Zhang China	13	268	195	156	131	65	59	548
Mohammad Hayajneh United Arab Emirates	11	339 1.3×	176 0.9×	257 1.6×	103 0.8×	52 0.8×	52	646
Konstantin Igorevich Kostromitin Russia	12	219 0.8×	168 0.9×	179 1.1×	104 0.8×	54 0.8×	38	542
Weijia Jia China	17	319 1.2×	159 0.8×	110 0.7×	153 1.2×	127 2.0×	74	682
Zhanyang Xu China	11	314 1.2×	161 0.8×	119 0.8×	178 1.4×	92 1.4×	30	539
Zhidu Li China	12	312 1.2×	101 0.5×	250 1.6×	66 0.5×	72 1.1×	67	544
Wenjuan Tang China	13	242 0.9×	261 1.3×	108 0.7×	217 1.7×	59 0.9×	25	539
Hani Sami Lebanon	12	375 1.4×	157 0.8×	205 1.3×	208 1.6×	53 0.8×	24	583
Miaojiang Chen China	10	307 1.1×	139 0.7×	153 1.0×	103 0.8×	59 0.9×	14	469
Alsharif Abuadbba Australia	13	194 0.7×	359 1.8×	109 0.7×	112 0.9×	77 1.2×	52	578
Victor Sucasas Portugal	13	321 1.2×	237 1.2×	215 1.4×	227 1.7×	62 1.0×	34	644

Countries citing papers authored by Puning Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Puning Zhang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Puning Zhang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Puning Zhang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Puning Zhang 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 Puning Zhang. Puning Zhang 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

Wang, Ruyan, et al.. (2025). Efficient encrypted semantic search method toward internet of vehicles. The Journal of Supercomputing. 81(4).

Chang, Lin, Puning Zhang, Ruyan Wang, & Zhigang Yang. (2025). Task-oriented semantic communication towards industrial anomaly detection. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 362(14). 107886–107886.

Zhang, Puning, et al.. (2025). Fine-Grained Personalized Hierarchical Federated Learning Toward Heterogeneous Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(11). 16349–16362.

Zhang, Puning, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Routing Mechanism for LEO Satellite Network Based on Control Domain Partition. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 9(1). 70–82. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ruyan, et al.. (2024). Information Freshness Optimal Resource Allocation for LEO-Satellite Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(10). 17372–17387. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Puning, et al.. (2024). PURE: Personality-Coupled Multi-Task Learning Framework for Aspect-Based Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 37(1). 462–477. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Dapeng, et al.. (2024). Distributed Secure Data Sharing Method for Internet of Vehicles Based on Homomorphic Hash Tree. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(11). 17572–17585. 2 indexed citations

Chi, Cheng, et al.. (2023). A compatible carbon efficiency information service framework based on the industrial internet identification. Digital Communications and Networks. 10(4). 884–894. 1 indexed citations

Wan, Lingyun, et al.. (2023). Survivability Mapping Strategy for Virtual Wireless Sensor Networks for Link Failures in the Internet of Things. Electronics. 12(11). 2498–2498. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Puning, Xiaolan Fu, Rongjian Zhao, et al.. (2023). ECMER: Edge-Cloud Collaborative Personalized Multimodal Emotion Recognition Framework in the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Network. 37(4). 192–199. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yuexian, et al.. (2023). Frequent words and syntactic context integrated biomedical discontinuous named entity recognition method. The Journal of Supercomputing. 79(12). 13670–13695. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Puning, et al.. (2022). Multiauthority Attribute‐Based Keyword Search over Cloud‐Edge‐End Collaboration in IoV. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hong, et al.. (2022). Traffic-Aware Transmission Strategy of Fog Cell in Green Industrial Internet. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(18). 16758–16769. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhigang, et al.. (2022). Efficient Asynchronous Federated Learning Research in the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(9). 7737–7748. 24 indexed citations

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Jing, Yang, et al.. (2022). Diversified Demands Integration‐Based Proactive Caching Strategy towards Edge Networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hong, et al.. (2021). Energy-Efficient Frame Aggregation Scheme in IoT Over Fiber-Wireless Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(13). 10779–10791. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhigang, Ruyan Wang, Dapeng Wu, Boran Yang, & Puning Zhang. (2021). Blockchain-Enabled Trust Management Model for the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(14). 12044–12054. 42 indexed citations

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Li, Liang, et al.. (2019). Secure Data Aggregation Mechanism based on Constrained Supervision for Wireless Sensor Network. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications. 259–266. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Puning, et al.. (2019). Overlapping Community Deep Exploring-Based Relay Selection Method Toward Multi-Hop D2D Communication. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 8(5). 1357–1360. 45 indexed citations

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Zhang, Puning. (2011). Adaptive cache management method for opportunistic network based on number of message copies. Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

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