Wenying Xu

3.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
65 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wenying Xu is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenying Xu has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 13 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wenying Xu's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (37 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (29 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (10 papers). Wenying Xu is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (37 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (29 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (10 papers). Wenying Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. Wenying Xu's co-authors include Daniel W. C. Ho, Jinde Cao, Xiaoyang Liu, Jie Zhong, Lulu Li, Wangli He, Jürgen Kurths, Guanghui Wen, Guoqiang Hu and Bo Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Wenying Xu

58 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

4 papers align trajectories

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.

Event-Triggered Schemes on Leader-Following Consensus of General Linear Multiagent Systems Under Different Topologies

2015 295 citations Wenying Xu, Daniel W. C. Ho et al. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
Finite/Fixed-Time Pinning Synchronization of Complex Networks With Stochastic Disturbances

2018 240 citations Xiaoyang Liu, Daniel W. C. Ho et al. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
Secure Control of Multiagent Systems Against Malicious Attacks: A Brief Survey

2021 183 citations Wangli He, Wenying Xu et al. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics profile →
Fully distributed observer-based consensus protocol: Adaptive dynamic event-triggered schemes

2022 147 citations Wenying Xu, Wangli He et al. Automatica profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenying Xu China	24	1.9k	1.1k	498	289	229	65	2.5k
Qiang Song China	28	3.4k 1.7×	880 0.8×	579 1.2×	948 3.3×	263 1.1×	71	3.7k
S. Marshal Anthoni India	32	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	312 0.6×	492 1.7×	491 2.1×	107	2.9k
Xiaomei Lu China	25	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	246 0.5×	636 2.2×	294 1.3×	74	2.0k
Baotong Cui China	27	1.5k 0.8×	847 0.8×	307 0.6×	723 2.5×	645 2.8×	178	2.2k
Paolo Frasca France	23	1.4k 0.7×	708 0.6×	217 0.4×	402 1.4×	146 0.6×	105	2.1k
Wenbing Zhang China	32	3.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.5×	482 1.0×	986 3.4×	490 2.1×	89	3.8k
K. Mathiyalagan India	37	2.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.8×	662 1.3×	789 2.7×	544 2.4×	114	3.4k
Changhong Wang China	23	839 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	240 0.5×	266 0.9×	233 1.0×	134	1.9k
Wangli He China	36	4.6k 2.4×	2.2k 1.9×	815 1.6×	1.1k 3.9×	465 2.0×	131	5.4k
Meng Ji United States	12	1.5k 0.8×	439 0.4×	145 0.3×	163 0.6×	77 0.3×	23	1.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Wenying, Zidong Wang, Shaofu Yang, & Wenwu Yu. (2025). Data-driven adaptive consensus for linear multi-agent systems: A scalable distributed protocol. Automatica. 174. 112126–112126. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhongyi, Zidong Wang, Jinling Liang, & Wenying Xu. (2025). Zonotopic Polynomial Set-Membership Fusion Estimation for Nonlinear Systems via Carleman Approximation: An Encoding-Decoding Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 1–16.

Yang, Shaofu, Wenying Xu, Wangli He, & Jinde Cao. (2024). Distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking: event-triggered coding-decoding-based secure communication. Science China Information Sciences. 67(7). 2 indexed citations

Xu, Wenying, et al.. (2024). Privacy-Preserving Average Consensus Algorithm Under Round-Robin Scheduling Protocol. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. 11(7). 1705–1707.

Xu, Wenying, et al.. (2024). Distributed online optimization subject to long-term constraints and time-varying topology: An event-triggered and bandit feedback approach. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 361(16). 107132–107132.

Yang, Chengyu, Jinling Liang, & Wenying Xu. (2023). PI Observer-Based Synchronization Control for Singularly Perturbed Complex Dynamical Networks: An Improved Coding-Decoding Protocol Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 11(1). 858–871. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Meirong, Jianqiang Hu, Wenying Xu, & Jinde Cao. (2023). Leader-following event-triggered consensus control of MASs under false data injection attacks. Systems & Control Letters. 178. 105579–105579. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhen, Shaofu Yang, & Wenying Xu. (2023). Decentralized ADMM with compressed and event-triggered communication. Neural Networks. 165. 472–482. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Wenying, et al.. (2023). Distributed inertial online game algorithm for tracking generalized Nash equilibria. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 33(10). 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenying, et al.. (2023). Distributed Nash Equilibrium Computation Under Round-Robin Scheduling Protocol. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 69(1). 339–346. 8 indexed citations

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Tan, Xuegang, Changcheng Xiang, Jinde Cao, et al.. (2021). Synchronization of Neural Networks via Periodic Self-Triggered Impulsive Control and Its Application in Image Encryption. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 52(8). 8246–8257. 76 indexed citations

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He, Wangli, Wenying Xu, Xiaohua Ge, et al.. (2021). Secure Control of Multiagent Systems Against Malicious Attacks: A Brief Survey. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 18(6). 3595–3608. 183 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Xuegang, Ming Cao, Jinde Cao, Wenying Xu, & Yiping Luo. (2021). Event-Triggered Synchronization of Multiagent Systems With Partial Input Saturation. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 8(3). 1406–1416. 29 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoyang, Daniel W. C. Ho, Qiang Song, & Wenying Xu. (2018). Finite/Fixed-Time Pinning Synchronization of Complex Networks With Stochastic Disturbances. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 49(6). 2398–2403. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Wenying, Zidong Wang, & Daniel W. C. Ho. (2017). Finite-Horizon $H_\infty $ Consensus for Multiagent Systems With Redundant Channels via An Observer-Type Event-Triggered Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 48(5). 1567–1576. 41 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenying, et al.. (2017). STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF SECOND PHASE SYRDARYA CONTROL AND NORTHERN ARAL SEA (SYNAS) PROJECT.. International Journal of Advanced Research. 5(2). 1659–1674.

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Liu, Xiaoyang, Daniel W. C. Ho, Jinde Cao, & Wenying Xu. (2016). Discontinuous Observers Design for Finite-Time Consensus of Multiagent Systems With External Disturbances. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 28(11). 2826–2830. 114 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuming, Jinde Cao, & Wenying Xu. (2015). Stability and Hopf bifurcation of a Goodwin model with four different delays. Neurocomputing. 165. 144–151. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenying, Daniel W. C. Ho, Lulu Li, & Jinde Cao. (2015). Event-Triggered Schemes on Leader-Following Consensus of General Linear Multiagent Systems Under Different Topologies. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 47(1). 212–223. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Wenying, et al.. (2015). Investigations of low resource multi-accent mandarin speech recognition. 62–66. 1 indexed citations

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