Yan Wang

17.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
698 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Yan Wang is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Wang has authored 698 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 101 papers in Materials Chemistry and 100 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Yan Wang's work include Manufacturing Process and Optimization (41 papers), Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (31 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (30 papers). Yan Wang is often cited by papers focused on Manufacturing Process and Optimization (41 papers), Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (31 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (30 papers). Yan Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yan Wang's co-authors include Dehao Liu, Haixi Wu, M. Y. Chou, Yanglong Lu, Zhonghua Yu, Jie Liu, Zhongxu Hu, Anh Tran, Youmin Hu and J. Karl Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yan Wang

639 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

TransUNet: Rethinking the U-Net architecture design for medical image segmentation through the lens of transformers

2024 287 citations Yan Wang et al. profile →
Digital twin-driven rapid reconfiguration of the automated manufacturing system via an open architecture model

2019 257 citations Yan Wang et al. profile →
Uncertainty quantification in machine learning for engineering design and health prognostics: A tutorial

2023 103 citations Anh Tran, Yan Wang et al. profile →
Large language models for generative information extraction: a survey

2024 71 citations Yan Wang et al. profile →
Diatomic "catalytic/co-catalytic" Fe/Mo catalysts promote Fenton-like reaction to treat organic wastewater through special interfacial reaction enhancement mechanism

2025 28 citations Yan Wang et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yan Wang	2.3k	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	698	9.7k
Wei Chen	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	762 0.6×	706 0.6×	2.6k 2.5×	310	11.2k
Han Wang	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	3.3k 2.4×	845 0.7×	633 0.6×	972	14.6k
Dan Zhang	2.2k 0.9×	630 0.4×	2.3k 1.7×	672 0.6×	641 0.6×	881	13.5k
Lorenz T. Biegler	3.7k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	2.9k 2.2×	927 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	539	28.0k
Wenjun Zhang	2.3k 1.0×	859 0.6×	3.8k 2.8×	1.5k 1.2×	641 0.6×	789	17.1k
Zheng Li	3.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	945 0.8×	509 0.5×	827	16.2k
Youmin Zhang	1.6k 0.7×	960 0.7×	852 0.6×	489 0.4×	599 0.6×	798	25.7k
Jie Liu	2.0k 0.9×	415 0.3×	585 0.4×	486 0.4×	554 0.5×	477	7.2k
Xin Chen	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	4.4k 3.3×	3.0k 2.5×	451 0.4×	694	15.0k
Hongchao Zhang	3.1k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	799 0.6×	2.3k 1.9×	281 0.3×	494	10.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Wang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Yan & Guojiang Xiong. (2025). Metaheuristic optimization algorithms for multi-area economic dispatch of power systems: Part I—a comprehensive survey. Artificial Intelligence Review. 58(4). 7 indexed citations

Wang, Qiong, et al.. (2025). Refocal Loss in Transformer for Long-Tailed Multi-Granularity Cataract Classification. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 30(1). 617–630. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Wei, Huining Zhang, Haoyu Li, et al.. (2025). Thermodynamic drivers of rice glutenin Assembly: Multiscale analysis of Hierarchical structure and intermolecular bonding. Journal of Cereal Science. 125. 104251–104251.

Wang, Yan, et al.. (2024). Establishment and application of a rapid diagnostic method for BVDV and IBRV using recombinase polymerase amplification-lateral flow device. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 11. 1360504–1360504. 3 indexed citations

Aydoğdu, İbrahim & Yan Wang. (2024). Scalable Bayesian optimization based on exploitation-enhanced sparse Gaussian process. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 67(12). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Yan, et al.. (2024). Fault Diagnosis Method for Hydropower Units Based on Dynamic Mode Decomposition and the Hiking Optimization Algorithm–Extreme Learning Machine. Energies. 17(20). 5159–5159. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Hao, Fei Du, Stefan Stolte, et al.. (2024). Enhancement of membrane distillation in seawater desalination process using inhomogeneous electric field. Desalination. 600. 118495–118495. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Chuang, et al.. (2024). Mechanism of stress generation at the epoxy-epoxy interface. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 685. 133209–133209. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yunzhe, Shifeng Liu, Yan Wang, et al.. (2024). Effect of wall thickness on the precipitation behavior, microstructure, electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of copper alloy prepared by electron beam powder bed fusion. Materials Characterization. 218. 114518–114518. 8 indexed citations

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Yu, Jianqun, et al.. (2024). A discrete element method model and experimental verification for wheat root systems. Biosystems Engineering. 244. 146–165. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, Junxiang Yang, Xufeng Xiao, & Xinlong Feng. (2024). Efficient numerical simulation for the dendritic crystal growth with melt convection in complex domains. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 233. 126036–126036. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Jingxiang, et al.. (2023). Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Cu50Zr50 Metallic Glass Based on Two-Temperature Model. Processes. 11(6). 1704–1704. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongkun, et al.. (2023). Evolution of inclusion and microstructure in Ti–Zr deoxidized steel during hot compression. Journal of Iron and Steel Research International. 30(10). 1987–1999. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, et al.. (2023). An efficient dimension splitting p-adaptive method for the binary fluid surfactant phase field model. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 142. 84–96. 2 indexed citations

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Tang, Enling, Yan Wang, Ruizhi Wang, et al.. (2023). Electrical output performance of PZT-5H under the superposition of temperature, temperature change rate and pulse stress. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 307. 128109–128109. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, Yunji Zhang, Xiaonan Hu, et al.. (2023). Digital transformation of agriculture: A new integrated modeling framework for arable farm enterprises. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 212. 108041–108041. 3 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xuan, et al.. (2023). Regenerable glycine induces selective preparation of vaterite CaCO3 by calcium leaching and CO2 mineralization from coal fly ash. Chemical Engineering Journal. 459. 141536–141536. 58 indexed citations

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Sheng, Jie, Huixia Liu, You‐Yu Lin, et al.. (2022). Micromechanism of High-temperature Fatigue Properties of Inconel 718 Nickel-based Alloy Treated by Laser Peening. Journal of Laser Micro/Nanoengineering. 17(1). 1 indexed citations

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Tran, Anh, Dehao Liu, Hoang Tran, & Yan Wang. (2019). Quantifying uncertainty in the process-structure relationship for Al–Cu solidification. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 27(6). 64005–64005. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan. (2008). Transverse vibration characteristics of viscoelastic rectangular plate with crack. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 21(6). 36–36. 2 indexed citations

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