William Liu

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

William Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, William Liu has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 52 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 12 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in William Liu's work include Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (18 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (13 papers) and Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (12 papers). William Liu is often cited by papers focused on Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (18 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (13 papers) and Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (12 papers). William Liu collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Italy. William Liu's co-authors include Jinsong Wu, Huawei Huang, Yong Xiang, Song Guo, Jairo Gutiérrez, Luca Chiaraviglio, B. Bayraktaroglu, James S. Harris, Nicola Bléfari-Melazzi and M. Fujimoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

William Liu

130 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Information and Communications Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: State-of-the-Art, Needs and Perspectives

2018 429 citations Jinsong Wu, William Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Liu New Zealand	21	1.0k	409	219	202	174	136	2.2k
Matthew N. O. Sadiku United States	23	1.5k 1.5×	331 0.8×	418 1.9×	373 1.8×	353 2.0×	310	3.3k
Zhiyu Chen China	27	945 0.9×	156 0.4×	373 1.7×	256 1.3×	244 1.4×	225	2.4k
William H. Robinson United States	27	1.1k 1.1×	264 0.6×	112 0.5×	215 1.1×	143 0.8×	144	3.3k
Takehiko Yorozu Japan	8	604 0.6×	213 0.5×	155 0.7×	168 0.8×	118 0.7×	26	2.4k
Wei Pan China	28	376 0.4×	509 1.2×	292 1.3×	114 0.6×	168 1.0×	158	3.1k
Ross Schaller United States	6	768 0.8×	174 0.4×	110 0.5×	192 1.0×	46 0.3×	12	2.0k
Faheem Khan South Korea	25	502 0.5×	475 1.2×	101 0.5×	575 2.8×	92 0.5×	122	2.3k
J. Paraszczak United States	18	861 0.9×	166 0.4×	176 0.8×	148 0.7×	97 0.6×	56	1.8k
Gang Xu China	27	848 0.8×	180 0.4×	223 1.0×	407 2.0×	291 1.7×	208	2.5k
S. A. Kozlov Russia	25	1.1k 1.1×	518 1.3×	743 3.4×	169 0.8×	38 0.2×	161	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by William Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Liu

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All Works

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Jha, Naresh, et al.. (2025). Smell and Taste Impairments in Head and Neck Cancer Patients—A Scoping Review. Nutrients. 17(6). 1087–1087.

Aghi, Krisha, R Steven Stowers, William Liu, et al.. (2025). Balanced synapse-to-synapse short-term plasticity ensures constant transmitter release. Current Biology. 35(12). 2881–2892.e6.

Liu, William, R Steven Stowers, Adam Hoagland, et al.. (2024). Synapse-specific catecholaminergic modulation of neuronal glutamate release. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2420496121–e2420496121. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Celimuge, et al.. (2024). Proximal Policy Optimization for Efficient D2D-Assisted Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Multi-Access Edge Computing. Future Internet. 16(1). 19–19. 15 indexed citations

Blackard, Jason T., Jennifer L. Brown, Luis Alberto Gómez, et al.. (2024). An updated overview on long-acting therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from a perspective of pharmaceutics. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 670. 125157–125157.

Liu, William, et al.. (2022). Perancangan Film Pendek sebagai Media Informasi Mengenai Strategi Alternatif Mengembangkan Usaha Micro Kecil Menengah. Bulletin KNOB. 10(1). 105–105.

Liu, Yue, et al.. (2022). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Healthcare Resource Allocation in Disasters. 126. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Liu, William, et al.. (2021). A Possible Predictor of Visual Discomfort of Viewing Stereoscopic 3D Maps: The Imbalance of Disparity Distributions. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 65(1). 1432–1436. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Bo, Jinsong Wu, Shuang Song, & William Liu. (2020). Assuring Privacy-Preservation in Mining Medical Text Materials for COVID-19 Cases - A Natural Language Processing Perspective. The Internet of Things. 6(1). 6–13. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Jianhua, Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo, Hui-Huang Hsu, et al.. (2016). Perspectives on Cyber Science and Technology for Cyberization and Cyber-Enabled Worlds. 1–9. 12 indexed citations

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Airehrour, David, Jairo Gutiérrez, William Liu, & Jinsong Wu. (2015). When Internet Raised to the Things Power: Are Energy Efficiency Standards Sufficient to Curb Carbon Footprints?. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Lavraud, B., J. C. Vial, R. A. Harrison, et al.. (2014). INSTANT: INvestigation of Solar-Terrestrial Associated Natural Threats. 40. 1 indexed citations

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Al‐Anbuky, Adnan, et al.. (2014). An Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 3(3). 181–206. 6 indexed citations

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Al‐Anbuky, Adnan, et al.. (2012). A Fast and Efficient Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. 231–237. 6 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Tomofumi, Toshiyuki Fujiwara, William Liu, & Meigen Liu. (2012). Effects of pedaling exercise on the intracortical inhibition of cortical leg area. Experimental Brain Research. 218(3). 401–406. 40 indexed citations

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Liu, William, Nikolai Dechev, Ian G. Foulds, et al.. (2009). A novel permalloy based magnetic single cell micro array. Lab on a Chip. 9(16). 2381–2381. 51 indexed citations

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Foulds, Ian G., et al.. (2009). RoboSCell: an automated single cell arraying and analysis instrument. Biomedical Microdevices. 11(6). 1317–1330. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, William, et al.. (2009). Utility of algebraic connectivity metric in topology design of survivable networks. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 131–138. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Feng‐Yu, et al.. (2006). Knowledge-based Multi-site Capacity Planning using Agents. 509–514. 1 indexed citations

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Dilworth‐Anderson, Peggye, et al.. (1995). Panel V: Adaptive health behaviors among ethnic minorities.. Health Psychology. 14(7). 632–640. 20 indexed citations

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