Wen-Ping Chen

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Wen-Ping Chen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wen-Ping Chen has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Wen-Ping Chen's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (66 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (55 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (36 papers). Wen-Ping Chen is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (66 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (55 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (36 papers). Wen-Ping Chen collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, United States and China. Wen-Ping Chen's co-authors include Chi‐Cheng Chang, Kuo‐Hung Tseng, B. Paczyński, A. K. Pandey, D. K. Ojha, G. Maheswar, Jessy Jose, Chakali Eswaraiah, S. K. Ghosh and B. C. Bhatt and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Macromolecules and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Wen-Ping Chen

87 papers receiving 1.3k 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. Attitudes towards science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in a project-based learning (PjBL) environment
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wen-Ping Chen Taiwan 17 806 339 169 100 81 93 1.4k
M. Zeilik United States 18 509 0.6× 458 1.4× 74 0.4× 41 0.4× 218 2.7× 83 1.1k
Alexander Rudolph United States 16 422 0.5× 127 0.4× 41 0.2× 38 0.4× 43 0.5× 53 740
M. H. Schneps United States 17 344 0.4× 110 0.3× 16 0.1× 41 0.4× 216 2.7× 41 799
Bethany R. Wilcox United States 12 146 0.2× 289 0.9× 48 0.3× 16 0.2× 76 0.9× 46 594
Sarah L. Gilbert United States 13 140 0.2× 559 1.6× 11 0.1× 5 0.1× 133 1.6× 32 1.1k
Chris Impey United States 13 187 0.2× 176 0.5× 75 0.4× 14 0.1× 69 0.9× 62 503
E. Puddu Italy 14 420 0.5× 79 0.2× 256 1.5× 71 0.7× 38 0.5× 42 568
John W. O’Byrne Australia 8 105 0.1× 123 0.4× 71 0.4× 3 0.0× 21 0.3× 40 326
S. Leccia Italy 16 403 0.5× 76 0.2× 170 1.0× 58 0.6× 37 0.5× 37 531
B. Campbell United States 9 142 0.2× 29 0.1× 40 0.2× 39 0.4× 26 0.3× 30 257

Countries citing papers authored by Wen-Ping Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wen-Ping Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wen-Ping Chen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wen-Ping Chen. The network helps show where Wen-Ping Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wen-Ping Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wen-Ping Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wen-Ping Chen 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 Wen-Ping Chen. Wen-Ping Chen 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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Lata, Sneh, et al.. (2025). Stellar Variability toward the Galactic Open Cluster NGC 7209. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(1). 26–26.
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Pang, Xiaoying, et al.. (2023). Binary Star Evolution in Different Environments: Filamentary, Fractal, Halo, and Tidal Tail Clusters. The Astronomical Journal. 166(3). 110–110. 13 indexed citations
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Rawat, Vineet, M. R. Samal, Daniel L. Walker, et al.. (2023). Probing the global dust properties and cluster formation potential of the giant molecular cloud G148.24+00.41. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(2). 2786–2805. 4 indexed citations
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Biller, Beth, Loïc Albert, Michael C. Liu, et al.. (2023). A novel survey for young substellar objects with the W-band filter IV: detection and characterization of low-mass brown dwarfs in Serpens Core. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 3383–3395. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Wen-Ping, Beth Biller, Loïc Albert, et al.. (2022). A Novel Survey for Young Substellar Objects with the W-band Filter. V. IC 348 and Barnard 5 in the Perseus Cloud. The Astronomical Journal. 164(4). 125–125. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Wen-Ping, Jinzhong Liu, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Simultaneous Detection of Optical Flares of the Magnetically Active M-dwarf Wolf359. The Astronomical Journal. 163(4). 164–164. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Wen-Ping, et al.. (2022). Diagnosing Triggered Star Formation in the Galactic H ii region Sh 2-142. The Astrophysical Journal. 928(1). 17–17. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Wen-Ping, et al.. (2022). Interplay between Young Stars and Molecular Clouds in the Ophiuchus Star-forming Complex. The Astronomical Journal. 163(5). 233–233. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Yan, et al.. (2022). Star and Cluster Formation in the Sh2-112 Filamentary Cloud Complex. The Astrophysical Journal. 939(1). 46–46. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Hauyu Baobab, An-Li Tsai, Wen-Ping Chen, et al.. (2021). Millimeter-sized Dust Grains Surviving the Water-sublimating Temperature in the Inner 10 au of the FU Ori Disk. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2). 270–270. 27 indexed citations
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Biller, Beth, Katelyn Allers, Jessy Jose, et al.. (2021). A novel survey for young substellar objects with the W-band filter III: Searching for very low-mass brown dwarfs in Serpens South and Serpens Core. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(3). 4215–4234. 5 indexed citations
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Takami, M., Tracy L. Beck, P. C. Schneider, et al.. (2020). Possible Time Correlation between Jet Ejection and Mass Accretion for RW Aur A*. The Astrophysical Journal. 901(1). 24–24. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Jia-Wei, S. Lai, D. P. Clemens, et al.. (2019). Multiwavelength Polarimetry of the Filamentary Cloud IC 5146. II. Magnetic Field Structures. The Astrophysical Journal. 888(1). 13–13. 13 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Anupam, Neelam Panwar, Gregory J. Herczeg, Wen-Ping Chen, & Harinder P. Singh. (2019). Variability of young stellar objects in the star-forming region Pelican Nebula. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 10 indexed citations
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Yu, Po‐Chieh, Chien-De Lee, Chien-Cheng Lin, et al.. (2018). Searching for Be Stars in the Open Clusters with PTF/iPTF. I. Cluster Sample and Be Star Candidates. The Astronomical Journal. 155(2). 91–91. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Wen-Ping, et al.. (2018). Characterization of Stellar and Substellar Members in the Coma Berenices Star Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 862(2). 106–106. 18 indexed citations
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Lee, Chien-De, Chakali Eswaraiah, Wen-Ping Chen, & A. K. Pandey. (2018). A Multicolor Study of Polarization Variability in Isolated B[e] Stars HD 45677 and HD 50138. The Astronomical Journal. 156(3). 115–115. 4 indexed citations
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Takami, M., Jennifer L. Karr, Tracy L. Beck, et al.. (2016). STABLE AND UNSTABLE REGIMES OF MASS ACCRETION ONTO RW AUR A. The Astrophysical Journal. 820(2). 139–139. 13 indexed citations
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Chen, Ying-Tung, Hsing Wen Lin, Matthew J. Holman, et al.. (2016). DISCOVERY OF A NEW RETROGRADE TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECT: HINT OF A COMMON ORBITAL PLANE FOR LOW SEMIMAJOR AXIS, HIGH-INCLINATION TNOs AND CENTAURS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 827(2). L24–L24. 35 indexed citations
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Chen, Wen-Ping, et al.. (2001). IAC volume 183 Cover and Front matter. International Astronomical Union Colloquium. 183. f1–f11. 1 indexed citations

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