Yan Lei

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yan Lei is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Lei has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Information Systems, 52 papers in Software and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Yan Lei's work include Software Engineering Research (56 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (50 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (36 papers). Yan Lei is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (56 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (50 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (36 papers). Yan Lei collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Australia. Yan Lei's co-authors include Xiaoguang Mao, Yuhua Qi, Chengsong Wang, Ziying Dai, Meng Yan, Ling Xu, Xin Xia, Zhuo Zhang, Zhuo Zhang and Chao Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Yan Lei

67 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

The strength of random search on automated program repair 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200
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. The strength of random search on automated program repair
    2014 212 citations Yuhua Qi, Xiaoguang Mao 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
Yan Lei China 19 905 855 277 261 141 74 1.3k
Zan Wang China 16 334 0.4× 332 0.4× 498 1.8× 244 0.9× 119 0.8× 56 980
Chengying Mao China 14 324 0.4× 329 0.4× 142 0.5× 217 0.8× 58 0.4× 77 603
Wei Dong China 14 278 0.3× 249 0.3× 245 0.9× 114 0.4× 112 0.8× 126 659
Yansheng Lu China 16 360 0.4× 236 0.3× 267 1.0× 241 0.9× 276 2.0× 121 956
Silvio Ranise Italy 16 256 0.3× 155 0.2× 575 2.1× 298 1.1× 154 1.1× 114 922
Artur Andrzejak Germany 21 738 0.8× 220 0.3× 225 0.8× 906 3.5× 116 0.8× 73 1.3k
Ping Yu China 12 341 0.4× 156 0.2× 282 1.0× 250 1.0× 45 0.3× 101 685
Kenji Yoshihira United States 18 502 0.6× 110 0.1× 317 1.1× 779 3.0× 78 0.6× 45 936
Zheng Zheng China 18 484 0.5× 438 0.5× 175 0.6× 365 1.4× 141 1.0× 106 897
Kehan Gao United States 19 880 1.0× 788 0.9× 403 1.5× 275 1.1× 24 0.2× 51 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Lei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Lei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yan Lei. 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 Yan Lei. The network helps show where Yan Lei may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Lei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Lei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Lei 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 Lei. Yan Lei 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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Liu, Kui, Yan Lei, Li Li, et al.. (2024). Demystifying API misuses in deep learning applications. Empirical Software Engineering. 29(2).
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Sun, Weifeng, et al.. (2024). Method-Level Test-to-Code Traceability Link Construction by Semantic Correlation Learning. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(10). 2656–2676.
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Lei, Yan, et al.. (2024). MetaMFL: Metamorphic Multiple Fault Localization Without Test Oracles. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 74(3). 3236–3250.
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Sun, Weifeng, et al.. (2024). Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(1). 1–38. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhuo, Ya Li, Sha Yang, Zhanjun Zhang, & Yan Lei. (2023). Code-aware fault localization with pre-training and interpretable machine learning. Expert Systems with Applications. 238. 121689–121689. 1 indexed citations
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Lei, Yan, et al.. (2022). Feature-FL: Feature-Based Fault Localization. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 71(1). 264–283. 15 indexed citations
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Lei, Yan, et al.. (2022). Context-based cluster fault localization. 482–493. 5 indexed citations
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Lei, Yan, et al.. (2022). A universal data augmentation approach for fault localization. 48–60. 32 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhuo, Yan Lei, Xiaoguang Mao, Meng Yan, & Xin Xia. (2022). Improving Fault Localization Using Model-domain Synthesized Failing Test Generation. 199–210. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Kui, Dongsun Kim, Anil Koyuncu, et al.. (2021). Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs?. Empirical Software Engineering. 26(6). 19 indexed citations
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Xu, Ling, et al.. (2021). Two-Stage Attention-Based Model for Code Search with Textual and Structural Features. 342–353. 32 indexed citations
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Li, Yongming, Yan Lei, Pin Wang, Mingfeng Jiang, & Yuchuan Liu. (2020). Embedded stacked group sparse autoencoder ensemble with L1 regularization and manifold reduction. Applied Soft Computing. 101. 107003–107003. 15 indexed citations
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Zeng, Ping, Qingping Tan, Haoyu Zhang, et al.. (2018). Character Feature Learning for Named Entity Recognition. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E101.D(7). 1811–1815. 1 indexed citations
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Lei, Yan. (2015). Integrity checking protocol with identity-based proxy signature in mobile cloud computing. Journal of Communications. 2 indexed citations
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Lei, Yan, et al.. (2015). The Impact of Information Richness on Fault Localization. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E99.D(1). 265–269. 1 indexed citations
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Qi, Yuhua, Xiaoguang Mao, Yan Lei, Ziying Dai, & Chengsong Wang. (2014). The strength of random search on automated program repair. 254–265. 212 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lei, Yan, Chengsong Wang, Xiaoguang Mao, & Quanyuan Wu. (2012). Enhancing Contexts for Automated Debugging Techniques. International Conference on Software Engineering Advances. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Lei, Yan, et al.. (2012). Effective Fault Localization Approach Using Feedback. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E95.D(9). 2247–2257. 13 indexed citations

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