Wei Ren

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
235 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Wei Ren is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Ren has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 76 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 71 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Wei Ren's work include Cryptography and Data Security (34 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (32 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (29 papers). Wei Ren is often cited by papers focused on Cryptography and Data Security (34 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (32 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (29 papers). Wei Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Wei Ren's co-authors include Randal W. Beard, Yongcan Cao, Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo, Tandong Yao, Qing Zhao, Ananthram Swami, You He, Xiaoxin Yang, Xiaohan Hao and Yi Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wei Ren

208 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control

2007 2.1k citations Wei Ren et al. profile →
A review of climatic controls on δ¹⁸O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations

2013 722 citations Wei Ren et al. profile →
Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks

2010 710 citations Wei Ren et al. profile →
Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks: Emergent Problems, Models, and Issues

2013 450 citations Wei Ren et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Ren China	27	4.0k	1.5k	827	742	736	235	6.4k
Ji‐Feng Zhang China	43	4.1k 1.0×	4.0k 2.7×	38 0.0×	385 0.5×	861 1.2×	250	7.9k
Nathan S. Netanyahu United States	23	735 0.2×	303 0.2×	600 0.7×	497 0.7×	2.2k 3.0×	90	7.5k
Kaibo Shi China	54	5.7k 1.4×	4.9k 3.4×	163 0.2×	2.1k 2.8×	1.7k 2.4×	539	10.3k
Haifeng Li China	38	297 0.1×	914 0.6×	194 0.2×	368 0.5×	2.0k 2.7×	217	7.6k
Darrell Whitley United States	31	925 0.2×	636 0.4×	813 1.0×	886 1.2×	3.2k 4.3×	143	7.6k
Kai Ming Ting Australia	27	1.8k 0.5×	761 0.5×	522 0.6×	411 0.6×	5.0k 6.8×	99	7.0k
Anastasios Doulamis Greece	31	329 0.1×	405 0.3×	212 0.3×	632 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	225	6.3k
Harris Drucker United States	15	516 0.1×	511 0.3×	924 1.1×	615 0.8×	2.8k 3.7×	31	6.5k
Jie Sun China	36	807 0.2×	229 0.2×	159 0.2×	297 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	186	4.3k
Vladimir Cherkassky United States	30	404 0.1×	871 0.6×	240 0.3×	744 1.0×	2.5k 3.4×	128	6.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Ren

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

Ren, Wei, et al.. (2025). Compression-bending behavior of thin-walled prestressed concrete tower with horizontal joint for wind turbines: Experimental study and calculation model. Thin-Walled Structures. 211. 113154–113154. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Yu, et al.. (2025). Compression-bending behavior of prestressed concrete filled steel tubular tower for onshore wind turbines. Thin-Walled Structures. 209. 112921–112921. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Zhuo, Xia Xu, Wei Ren, et al.. (2025). Glymphatic dysfunction in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and its association with brain structural damage and cognitive impairment. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 100. 106531–106531.

Zhang, Jing‐Jing, Dan Wang, Fangqi Wang, et al.. (2025). Borate-modified magnetic graphene oxide in enrichment and purification of cis-diols compound from natural extract. Food Chemistry. 482. 144199–144199.

Ren, Wei, et al.. (2024). A sampling-based acceleration method for heterogeneous chiplet NoC simulations. Future Generation Computer Systems. 166. 107643–107643. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Wei, Shenghui Zhao, Jie He, et al.. (2024). CoPiFL: A collusion-resistant and privacy-preserving federated learning crowdsourcing scheme using blockchain and homomorphic encryption. Future Generation Computer Systems. 156. 95–104. 13 indexed citations

Ren, Wei, et al.. (2024). CroAuth: A Cross-domain Authentication Scheme based on Blockchain and Decentralized Identity. 2016–2021. 3 indexed citations

Ren, Wei, et al.. (2023). AccShield: a New Trusted Execution Environment with Machine-Learning Accelerators. 1–6. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Liping, et al.. (2023). A Secure, Flexible, and PPG-Based Biometric Scheme for Healthy IoT Using Homomorphic Random Forest. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(1). 612–622. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liping, et al.. (2022). Privacy-Preserving Fast Three-Factor Authentication and Key Agreement for IoT-Based E-Health Systems. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 16(2). 1324–1333. 42 indexed citations

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Qin, Jiwei, et al.. (2022). DTGCN: a method combining dependency tree and graph convolutional networks for Chinese long-interval named entity relationship extraction. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 14(10). 13361–13373. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liping, et al.. (2021). A Privacy-Preserving Proximity Testing Using Private Set Intersection for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 18(10). 7373–7383. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liping, et al.. (2021). An Energy-Efficient Authentication Scheme Based on Chebyshev Chaotic Map for Smart Grid Environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(23). 17120–17130. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liping, Zhen Wei, Wei Ren, et al.. (2021). SIP: An Efficient and Secure Information Propagation Scheme in E-Health Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 8(2). 1502–1516. 7 indexed citations

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Xiong, Feng, et al.. (2019). A Key Protection Scheme Based on Secret Sharing for Blockchain-Based Construction Supply Chain System. IEEE Access. 7. 126773–126786. 52 indexed citations

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Ren, Wei, et al.. (2019). A Mixing Scheme Using a Decentralized Signature Protocol for Privacy Protection in Bitcoin Blockchain. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 18(4). 1793–1803. 33 indexed citations

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Mei, Jie, et al.. (2012). Containment control for multiple unknown second-order nonlinear systems under a directed graph based on neural networks. Chinese Control Conference. 6450–6455. 8 indexed citations

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Ren, Wei. (2011). Thinking on Theoretic Cryptography and Modern Cryptography.

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Ren, Wei, et al.. (2009). Connectivity of Cognitive Radio Networks: Proximity vs. Opportunity. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Ren, Wei. (2004). On a Network Forensics Model For Information Security.. 229–234. 4 indexed citations

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