Sung Joon Ahn

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sung Joon Ahn is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sung Joon Ahn has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 8 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sung Joon Ahn's work include Image and Object Detection Techniques (11 papers), Graphene research and applications (8 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (7 papers). Sung Joon Ahn is often cited by papers focused on Image and Object Detection Techniques (11 papers), Graphene research and applications (8 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (7 papers). Sung Joon Ahn collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Germany and Japan. Sung Joon Ahn's co-authors include Wolfgang Rauh, Hans‐Jürgen Warnecke, Joung Real Ahn, Dongmok Whang, Cheol‐Woong Yang, Yamujin Jang, Jae‐Hyun Lee, Minho Park, Byoung Lyong Choi and Byung‐Sung Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Sung Joon Ahn

23 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

  1. Wafer-Scale Growth of Single-Crystal Monolayer Graphene on Reusable Hydrogen-Terminated Germanium
    2014 795 citations Jae‐Hyun Lee, Yamujin Jang et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sung Joon Ahn South Korea 12 812 429 418 290 161 24 1.5k
Teng Cheng China 18 170 0.2× 378 0.9× 423 1.0× 282 1.0× 190 1.2× 89 1.2k
Xiaoming Sun China 15 420 0.5× 216 0.5× 125 0.3× 407 1.4× 145 0.9× 56 1.2k
Yongkang Luo China 20 265 0.3× 205 0.5× 436 1.0× 198 0.7× 449 2.8× 71 1.0k
Jiaxin Li China 23 319 0.4× 319 0.7× 244 0.6× 367 1.3× 362 2.2× 82 1.9k
Lingbao Kong China 21 204 0.3× 233 0.5× 330 0.8× 606 2.1× 231 1.4× 145 1.9k
Shuncong Zhong China 20 174 0.2× 125 0.3× 713 1.7× 430 1.5× 121 0.8× 91 1.8k
Chien‐Ching Ma Taiwan 23 280 0.3× 143 0.3× 461 1.1× 516 1.8× 121 0.8× 224 2.4k
Diego B. Haddad Brazil 20 176 0.2× 145 0.3× 183 0.4× 110 0.4× 126 0.8× 107 1.0k
Shien Ri Japan 20 143 0.2× 745 1.7× 358 0.9× 158 0.5× 251 1.6× 86 1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sung Joon Ahn

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kim, Hyunwoo, Tae‐Hoon Kim, Sung Joon Ahn, et al.. (2018). Millimeter-Scale Growth of Single-Oriented Graphene on a Palladium Silicide Amorphous Film. ACS Nano. 13(2). 1127–1135. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Eun‐Hye, et al.. (2018). Influence of hydrophobicity on the chemical treatments of graphene. Journal of the Korean Physical Society. 72(1). 107–110. 4 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (2018). Electronic Structure of Graphene Grown on a Hydrogen-terminated Ge (110) Wafer. Journal of the Korean Physical Society. 73(5). 656–660. 7 indexed citations
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Jung, Wonsuk, et al.. (2015). Effects of graphene imperfections on the structure of self-assembled pentacene films. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 48(39). 395304–395304. 2 indexed citations
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Jang, Yamujin, Tae‐Hoon Kim, Dong‐Hwa Oh, et al.. (2015). Epitaxial Growth of a Single-Crystal Hybridized Boron Nitride and Graphene Layer on a Wide-Band Gap Semiconductor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(21). 6897–6905. 45 indexed citations
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Kim, Soohyun, et al.. (2014). A Visual Measurement System for Coil Shipping Automation. 11. 57–60.
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Yoo, Chae-Kyoung, et al.. (2014). QTL analysis of body weight and carcass body length traits in an F2intercross between Landrace and Korean native pigs. Animal Genetics. 45(4). 589–592. 18 indexed citations
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Tran, Dieu Linh, et al.. (2011). Genome sequence analysis of H5N1 influenza a virus isolated from a vietnamese in 2007. The Journal of Microbiology. 49(2). 274–279. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Sung Il & Sung Joon Ahn. (2005). Extraction of Geometric Primitives from Point Cloud Data. 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집. 2010–2014. 5 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon. (2004). Least Squares Orthogonal Distance Fitting of Curves and Surfaces in Space (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon. (2004). Least Squares Orthogonal Distance Fitting of Curves and Surfaces in Space. Lecture notes in computer science. 109 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (2003). Circular coded landmark for optical 3D-measurement and robot vision. 2. 1128–1133. 23 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (2002). The coenzyme thiamine pyrophosphate inhibits the self-splicing of the group I intron. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 35(2). 157–167. 7 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (2002). Automatic segmentation and model identification in unordered 3D-point cloud. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4902. 723–723. 3 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (2002). Orthogonal distance fitting of implicit curves and surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 24(5). 620–638. 76 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, Wolfgang Rauh, & Sung Il Kim. (2001). CIRCULAR CODED TARGET FOR AUTOMATION OF OPTICAL 3D-MEASUREMENT AND CAMERA CALIBRATION. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. 15(6). 905–919. 50 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, Wolfgang Rauh, & Hans‐Jürgen Warnecke. (2001). Least-squares orthogonal distances fitting of circle, sphere, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola. Pattern Recognition. 34(12). 2283–2303. 285 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (1999). Geometric Fitting of Line, Plane, Circle, Sphere, and Ellipse. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 6 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon & Wolfgang Rauh. (1999). GEOMETRIC LEAST SQUARES FITTING OF CIRCLE AND ELLIPSE. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. 13(7). 987–996. 25 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sung Joon, et al.. (1999). Ellipse fitting and parameter assessment of circular object targets for robot vision. 525–530 vol.1. 16 indexed citations

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