Yan Chen

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
525 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Yan Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Chen has authored 525 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 218 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 124 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 81 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yan Chen's work include Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (76 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (51 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (37 papers). Yan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (76 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (51 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (37 papers). Yan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Yan Chen's co-authors include K. J. Ray Liu, Yang Hu, Bing Zeng, Chunxiao Jiang, Dongheng Zhang, Yi Han, Yin Zhang⋆, Chengrun Qiu, Subhabrata Sen and Balachander Krishnamurthy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yan Chen

484 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

OceanStore

2000 677 citations Yan Chen et al. profile →
Integrated Sensing and Communication in 6G: Motivations, Use Cases, Requirements, Challenges and Future Directions

2021 288 citations Yan Chen et al. profile →
Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG)-Based Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications

2019 276 citations Yang Hu, Yan Chen et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Chen China	50	4.3k	3.7k	1.3k	1.3k	1.2k	525	10.3k
Liang Xiao China	63	6.1k 1.4×	5.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	852 0.7×	403	13.7k
Yu Wang China	54	4.8k 1.1×	6.6k 1.8×	2.3k 1.7×	564 0.4×	2.0k 1.7×	633	13.6k
Jiming Chen China	67	9.0k 2.1×	9.8k 2.6×	2.4k 1.8×	773 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	609	18.4k
Okyay Kaynak Türkiye	65	2.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	3.5k 2.7×	646 0.5×	774 0.7×	335	16.6k
Chang Liu China	45	3.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	2.1k 1.6×	540 0.4×	622 0.5×	574	10.1k
Qian Zhang China	62	8.4k 2.0×	10.7k 2.9×	2.0k 1.5×	735 0.6×	2.7k 2.2×	893	17.9k
Tim Blackwell United Kingdom	19	3.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	6.4k 4.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	52	16.7k
Yudong Yao United States	54	4.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	3.0k 2.3×	753 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	383	10.5k
Quoc‐Viet Pham South Korea	47	3.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	3.0k 2.3×	388 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	169	10.3k
Wei Zhang China	55	7.7k 1.8×	6.4k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	695 0.5×	605 0.5×	800	13.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan 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 Yan Chen. Yan Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Yan, et al.. (2025). Object tracking based on temporal and spatial context information. Image and Vision Computing. 157. 105488–105488. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Jinbo, Juan Tong, Yadong Li, et al.. (2025). OSense: Omni-Directional Heartbeat Sensing With Radio Signal. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(13). 25269–25285.

Zhang, Dongheng, Yadong Li, Zhi Wu, et al.. (2025). Attacking mmWave Imaging With Neural Meta-Material Rendering. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 5340–5355. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Dongheng, et al.. (2025). Enhancing CSI-Based Wireless Sensing With Open-Source Linux 802.11ax CSI Tool. IEEE Sensors Journal. 25(10). 18041–18052.

Chen, Jinbo, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Lu, et al.. (2025). Atrial fibrillation detection via contactless radio monitoring and knowledge transfer. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4317–4317. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Dongheng, et al.. (2025). SRAL-IRS: Swift, Robust, and Accurate IRS-Aided Localization With COTS WiFi. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(10). 8376–8390.

Zhang, Dongheng, et al.. (2024). Practical Passive Indoor Localization With Intelligent Reflecting Surface. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 23(12). 12477–12490. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Binbin, Dongheng Zhang, Yadong Li, et al.. (2024). Monitoring long-term cardiac activity with contactless radio frequency signals. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10598–10598. 14 indexed citations

Lu, Zhi, Dongheng Zhang, Liang Fang, et al.. (2024). Unleashing the Potential of Self-Supervised RF Learning With Group Shuffle. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(4). 2612–2627. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, et al.. (2023). Communication-efficient estimation for distributed subset selection. Statistics and Computing. 33(6). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, et al.. (2023). Artificial Intelligence-enabled contactless sensing for medical diagnosis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 195–197. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, et al.. (2023). Grey forecasting the impact of population and GDP on the carbon emission in a Chinese region. Journal of Cleaner Production. 425. 139025–139025. 20 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, et al.. (2023). A dual fusion deep convolutional network for blind universal image denoising. Signal Processing Image Communication. 120. 117077–117077. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Dongheng, et al.. (2022). Hierarchical Dynamic Programming Module for Human Pose Refinement. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 32(9). 6214–6226. 5 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhi, et al.. (2022). Personalized Fashion Recommendation With Discrete Content-Based Tensor Factorization. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 5053–5064. 7 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhi, et al.. (2022). RFGAN: RF-Based Human Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 2926–2938. 21 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhi, et al.. (2022). Learning Fashion Compatibility With Context Conditioning Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 5516–5526. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhi, et al.. (2022). RFMask: A Simple Baseline for Human Silhouette Segmentation With Radio Signals. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 4730–4741. 31 indexed citations

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Liu, Chen, et al.. (2021). Joint spectral efficiency optimization of uplink and downlink for massive MIMO-enabled wireless energy harvesting systems. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2021(1). 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaoqin, S.F. Ledgard, Jiafa Luo, et al.. (2021). Life cycle assessment of alfalfa production and potential environmental improvement measures in Northwest China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 304. 127025–127025. 12 indexed citations

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