Rentong Chen

655 total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 411 citations indexed

About

Rentong Chen is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rentong Chen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 411 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 14 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 8 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rentong Chen's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (19 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (12 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (7 papers). Rentong Chen is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (19 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (12 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (7 papers). Rentong Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Italy and France. Rentong Chen's co-authors include Chao Zhang, Shaoping Wang, Hongyan Dui, Yadong Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Yaohui Lu, Enrico Zio, Shaoping Wang, Rui Mu and Mileta Tomovic and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Reliability Engineering & System Safety and Computers & Industrial Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Rentong Chen

25 papers receiving 400 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.

Reliability model and maintenance cost optimization of wind-photovoltaic hybrid power systems

2024 54 citations Chao Zhang, Hongyan Dui et al. Reliability Engineering & System Safety profile →
Resilience-based complex system early design using dynamic Copula Bayesian network: Heave compensation hydraulic system design as a case study

2025 22 citations Chao Zhang, Yaohui Lu et al. Ocean Engineering profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rentong Chen China	12	138	132	110	83	53	31	411
Shang-Kuo Yang Taiwan	8	103 0.7×	184 1.4×	61 0.6×	74 0.9×	34 0.6×	22	341
Rasa Remenyte‐Prescott United Kingdom	13	123 0.9×	109 0.8×	136 1.2×	103 1.2×	205 3.9×	48	532
Gaoyang Li China	6	130 0.9×	137 1.0×	43 0.4×	47 0.6×	27 0.5×	9	346
Hanwen Zhang China	14	194 1.4×	264 2.0×	86 0.8×	164 2.0×	19 0.4×	44	519
Ivo Paixão de Medeiros Brazil	9	155 1.1×	237 1.8×	57 0.5×	69 0.8×	19 0.4×	15	437
William H. VerDuin United States	5	167 1.2×	277 2.1×	65 0.6×	106 1.3×	39 0.7×	6	447
Xuewen Miao China	5	97 0.7×	146 1.1×	37 0.3×	51 0.6×	23 0.4×	7	308
Luca Bellani Italy	10	116 0.8×	154 1.2×	45 0.4×	20 0.2×	19 0.4×	12	328
Piero Baraldi Italy	8	74 0.5×	140 1.1×	83 0.8×	52 0.6×	51 1.0×	11	364

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Jianhua, et al.. (2026). CINAS-PINN: Causal inference-based neural architecture search in physics-informed neural networks for fatigue life prediction with welding strain energy. International Journal of Fatigue. 208. 109539–109539.

Chen, Rentong, et al.. (2026). Bivariate-dependent remaining useful life prediction based on copulas and Tweedie exponential dispersion process. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 274. 112422–112422.

Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2026). Degradation Prediction of Proportional Solenoid Based on Data–Model Interactive Method. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 75. 1–14.

Zhang, Chao, et al.. (2026). A stage-dependent Markov-switching fractional Brownian motion model for reliability analysis considering random effects and long-term memory. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 271. 112208–112208.

Zhang, Yadong, et al.. (2025). Model-guided system operational reliability assessment based on gradient boosting decision trees and dynamic Bayesian networks. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 259. 110949–110949. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Shaoping, Chao Zhang, Rentong Chen, et al.. (2025). Energy-based multi-axial fatigue prediction for tubular structures under non-proportional loading. International Journal of Fatigue. 197. 108897–108897. 15 indexed citations

Wang, Shaoping, Rentong Chen, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2025). ZSTT: A Zero-Shot Time-Series Prediction Model Based on Transformer and Its Application to Hydraulic Actuator Performance Degradation Prediction. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 1–12.

Chen, Rentong, et al.. (2025). Improving fMRI-Based Autism Severity Identification via Brain Network Distance and Adaptive Label Distribution Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 33. 162–174. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Yadong, et al.. (2025). Application of physics-informed machine learning in performance degradation and RUL prediction of hydraulic piston pumps. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 261. 111108–111108. 6 indexed citations

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Lu, Yaohui, Shaoping Wang, Rentong Chen, et al.. (2025). Reliability estimation method based on nonlinear Tweedie exponential dispersion process and evidential reasoning rule. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 206. 111205–111205. 6 indexed citations

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Lu, Yaohui, Shaoping Wang, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Industrial IoT-driven condition-based maintenance plus for complex system with multiple dependencies. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 69. 103939–103939. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chao, Yaohui Lu, Rentong Chen, et al.. (2025). Resilience-based complex system early design using dynamic Copula Bayesian network: Heave compensation hydraulic system design as a case study. Ocean Engineering. 320. 120314–120314. 22 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shi, Jian, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Event-Triggering Resilient Coordination for Time-Varying Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. 11. 329–341. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Yaohui, Shaoping Wang, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2025). A dynamic imperfect inspection-based maintenance optimization considering dependent competing failure. Measurement. 253. 117470–117470. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chao, et al.. (2024). Reliability model and maintenance cost optimization of wind-photovoltaic hybrid power systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 255. 110673–110673. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Chao, et al.. (2024). Importance measures based on system performance loss for multi-state phased-mission systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 256. 110776–110776. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Shaoping, et al.. (2024). Multi-objective maintenance strategy for complex systems considering the maintenance uncertain impact by adaptive multi-strategy particle swarm optimization. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 256. 110671–110671. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Rentong, Shaoping Wang, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Component uncertainty importance measure in complex multi-state system considering epistemic uncertainties. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 37(12). 31–54. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Shaoping, et al.. (2022). Reliability-Oriented Configuration Optimization of More Electrical Control Systems. Aerospace. 9(2). 85–85.

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Zhang, Chao, Rentong Chen, Guanghan Bai, Shaoping Wang, & Mileta Tomovic. (2019). Reliability estimation of rotary lip seal in aircraft utility system based on time-varying dependence degradation model and its experimental validation. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 33(8). 2230–2241. 16 indexed citations

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