Xiaofei Lu

6.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
135 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Xiaofei Lu is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofei Lu has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 57 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 39 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Xiaofei Lu's work include Second Language Acquisition and Learning (52 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (33 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (30 papers). Xiaofei Lu is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Acquisition and Learning (52 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (33 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (30 papers). Xiaofei Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Iran. Xiaofei Lu's co-authors include Haiyang Ai, Weiwei Yang, Sara Cushing Weigle, J. Elliott Casal, Jie Zhang, Yingying Liu, Olesya Kisselev, Matthew E. Poehner, Tan Jin and Xian Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Pollution and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Xiaofei Lu

125 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second lang... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2011 2012 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing
    2010 588 citations Xiaofei Lu profile →
  2. A Corpus‐Based Evaluation of Syntactic Complexity Measures as Indices of College‐Level ESL Writers' Language Development
    2011 467 citations Xiaofei Lu profile →
  3. The Relationship of Lexical Richness to the Quality of ESL Learners’ Oral Narratives
    2012 307 citations Xiaofei Lu Modern Language Journal profile →
  4. Different topics, different discourse: Relationships among writing topic, measures of syntactic complexity, and judgments of writing quality
    2015 192 citations Xiaofei Lu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaofei Lu United States 28 2.1k 1.5k 1.3k 1.2k 636 135 3.6k
Rod D. Roscoe United States 24 1.3k 0.6× 801 0.5× 202 0.2× 170 0.1× 1.2k 1.8× 86 2.6k
Dorothy M. Chun United States 24 1.6k 0.8× 525 0.3× 708 0.5× 1.8k 1.5× 1000 1.6× 53 3.6k
Russell G. Almond United States 23 806 0.4× 851 0.6× 108 0.1× 127 0.1× 734 1.2× 78 2.3k
Steve Graham United States 34 2.5k 1.2× 361 0.2× 785 0.6× 753 0.6× 3.2k 5.1× 88 4.3k
Yating Yang China 17 469 0.2× 218 0.1× 172 0.1× 230 0.2× 619 1.0× 71 1.9k
Robert Godwin‐Jones United States 25 552 0.3× 270 0.2× 474 0.4× 636 0.5× 756 1.2× 73 2.1k
Kwangsu Cho South Korea 16 639 0.3× 157 0.1× 211 0.2× 192 0.2× 1.4k 2.1× 47 2.0k
Lee W. Gregg United States 14 747 0.4× 360 0.2× 222 0.2× 226 0.2× 574 0.9× 39 1.7k
Martin Lamb United Kingdom 17 424 0.2× 93 0.1× 916 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 600 0.9× 35 2.0k
Kuo-En Chang Taiwan 29 1.1k 0.5× 253 0.2× 121 0.1× 218 0.2× 1.3k 2.0× 74 2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaofei Lu

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All Works

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Liu, Yingying, et al.. (2025). Comparing GPT-based approaches in automated writing evaluation. Assessing Writing. 66. 100961–100961.
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Jin, Tan, et al.. (2024). Exploring the differences in syntactic complexity between lay summaries and abstracts: A case study of The New England Journal of Medicine. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 72. 101444–101444. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yingying & Xiaofei Lu. (2024). Development of verb argument constructions in L2 English learners: A close replication of research question 3 in Römer and Berger (2019). Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 46(5). 1373–1391. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Macrogenomic Analysis Reveals Soil Microbial Diversity in Different Regions of the Antarctic Peninsula. Microorganisms. 12(12). 2444–2444. 1 indexed citations
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Tabari, Mahmoud Abdi, et al.. (2024). Mapping the associations among task complexity, emotionality, and linguistic complexity in L2 writing. Language Awareness. 34(2). 345–372. 1 indexed citations
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Zuo, Lei, et al.. (2024). Joint Design of Transmit Waveforms and Receive Filters for MIMO-STAP Radar With Two Sequential Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 60(4). 5035–5048. 11 indexed citations
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Zuo, Lei, et al.. (2024). Joint Transmit–Receive Filter Design With Lower APSL and ICPL to Suppress Interference. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 60(3). 3673–3687. 7 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). IMD-Net: Interpretable multi-scale detection network for infrared dim and small objects. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering. 21(1). 1712–1737. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Cecilia Guanfang, et al.. (2023). A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals. English for Specific Purposes. 73. 33–45. 6 indexed citations
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Tabari, Mahmoud Abdi, Xiaofei Lu, & Yizhou Wang. (2023). The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study. System. 114. 103021–103021. 26 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei, et al.. (2023). An interpretable measure of semantic similarity for predicting eye movements in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(4). 1227–1242. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei, et al.. (2022). Predicting native Chinese readers’ perception of sentence boundaries in written Chinese texts. Reading and Writing. 35(8). 1889–1910. 3 indexed citations
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Zuo, Lei, Shan Gao, Yachao Li, et al.. (2022). A Fast and Robust Algorithm with Reinforcement Learning for Large UAV Cluster Mission Planning. Remote Sensing. 14(6). 1304–1304. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jie & Xiaofei Lu. (2013). Variability in Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners' Development of the Chinese Numeral Classifier System. Modern Language Journal. 97(S1). 46–60. 13 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei. (2008). Automatic Measurement of Syntactic Complexity Using the Revised Developmental Level Scale.. The Florida AI Research Society. 153–158. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei. (2007). Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 188–195. 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaofei. (2007). Combining Machine Learning with Linguistic Heuristics for Chinese Word Segmentation.. The Florida AI Research Society. 241–246. 2 indexed citations

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