Yanfeng Han

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Yanfeng Han is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanfeng Han has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 28 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanfeng Han's work include Tribology and Lubrication Engineering (43 papers), Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis (37 papers) and Lubricants and Their Additives (18 papers). Yanfeng Han is often cited by papers focused on Tribology and Lubrication Engineering (43 papers), Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis (37 papers) and Lubricants and Their Additives (18 papers). Yanfeng Han collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Israel. Yanfeng Han's co-authors include Guo Xiang, Jiaxu Wang, Ke Xiao, Junyang Li, Jianlin Cai, Tianyou Yang, Guangwu Zhou, Juan Guo, Yijia Wang and Tao He and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Journal of Materials Processing Technology and Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Yanfeng Han

55 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Coupled hydrodynamic lubrication and unbalanced magnetic ... 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15
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. Coupled hydrodynamic lubrication and unbalanced magnetic force analysis in water-lubricated bearings for rim-driven thrusters
    2025 19 citations Yanfeng Han, Guo Xiang et al. Physics of Fluids profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanfeng Han China 21 1.0k 497 127 56 43 61 1.1k
Bernd Sauer Germany 16 779 0.8× 452 0.9× 135 1.1× 59 1.1× 87 2.0× 84 941
Luigi Solazzi Italy 18 565 0.6× 344 0.7× 105 0.8× 47 0.8× 109 2.5× 81 757
Fernando Cortés Spain 18 328 0.3× 430 0.9× 156 1.2× 122 2.2× 67 1.6× 52 800
S. Raadnui Thailand 10 474 0.5× 240 0.5× 72 0.6× 82 1.5× 113 2.6× 24 628
Xinglin Guo China 17 485 0.5× 501 1.0× 51 0.4× 84 1.5× 87 2.0× 38 856
Carlos A. Rossit Argentina 12 271 0.3× 439 0.9× 233 1.8× 60 1.1× 61 1.4× 56 681
Qiyin Lin China 14 416 0.4× 258 0.5× 40 0.3× 32 0.6× 65 1.5× 47 675
Fangyan Zheng China 17 634 0.6× 153 0.3× 109 0.9× 158 2.8× 42 1.0× 56 763
Carlo Gorla Italy 25 1.2k 1.2× 332 0.7× 132 1.0× 35 0.6× 88 2.0× 60 1.3k
Farjad Shadmehri Canada 15 248 0.2× 426 0.9× 99 0.8× 38 0.7× 46 1.1× 42 605

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanfeng Han

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanfeng Han

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

All Works

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Zhang, Xueqian, et al.. (2025). The rhizosphere microecological mechanisms of stress-induced quality enhancement in medicinal plants. Plant Stress. 17. 100965–100965. 1 indexed citations
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Han, Yanfeng, et al.. (2025). Coupled hydrodynamic lubrication and unbalanced magnetic force analysis in water-lubricated bearings for rim-driven thrusters. Physics of Fluids. 37(5). 19 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xiao, Ke, Feifei Yuan, Jianlin Wang, et al.. (2025). Spatial mapping tooth profile design and transmission characteristics analysis of harmonic drive based on scaling factor. Meccanica. 60(2). 475–495.
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Han, Yanfeng, Wenfeng Ding, T. Li, et al.. (2025). Superior wear performance of titanium alloys from TiN coatings and ultrafine-grained gradient structures. Surface and Coatings Technology. 513. 132514–132514. 2 indexed citations
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Yuan, Feifei, Yanfeng Han, Ke Xiao, et al.. (2025). Spatial modification optimization methods for harmonic drives using a 3D non-uniform line-contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication model. Tribology International. 214. 111288–111288.
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Li, Rui, Xuanrui Zhang, Pingan Yang, et al.. (2024). Magnetic-controlled friction behavior of a water-lubricated magnetorheological rubber bearing under boundary lubrication. Tribology International. 194. 109499–109499. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Fengjie, Meng Jia, Yanfeng Han, et al.. (2024). An overview of the direct interaction of synthesized silver nanostructures and enzymes. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 279(Pt 2). 135154–135154. 6 indexed citations
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Xiang, Guo, et al.. (2024). A mixed visco-hyperelastic hydrodynamic lubrication model for water-lubricated rubber bearings. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 286. 109887–109887. 41 indexed citations
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Xiao, Ke, et al.. (2023). Estimation of rolling bearing remaining useful life using DReLU-RA-ConvGRU model based on the encoder–decoder structure. Measurement Science and Technology. 35(3). 36001–36001. 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Juan, et al.. (2022). Effects of wall slip on the dynamic characteristics of water-lubricated bearing considering rough contact. Industrial Lubrication and Tribology. 74(9). 1040–1048. 4 indexed citations
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Han, Yanfeng, et al.. (2022). Numerical and experimental investigations on the wear behavior of water-lubricated bearings with different materials. Industrial Lubrication and Tribology. 74(1). 134–143. 9 indexed citations
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Cai, Jianlin, et al.. (2022). Influence of the mass conservation cavitation boundary on the tribo-dynamic responses of the micro-groove water-lubricated bearing. Surface Topography Metrology and Properties. 10(4). 45011–45011. 24 indexed citations
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Xia, Yu, et al.. (2022). Barrier Lyapunov function-based adaptive prescribed performance control of the PMSM used in robots with full-state and input constraints. Journal of Vibration and Control. 29(5-6). 1400–1416. 18 indexed citations
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Zheng, Xiaolin, et al.. (2021). Leakage-free optimization of micro herringbone grooved journal bearings with a virtual node method. Industrial Lubrication and Tribology. 73(7). 1061–1073. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Wei, et al.. (2020). Tribological and physical properties of PTFE-NBR self-lubricating composites under water lubrication. Industrial Lubrication and Tribology. 73(1). 82–87. 14 indexed citations
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Han, Yanfeng, et al.. (2020). An experimental study on the tribological performance of water-lubricated journal bearings with three different materials. Industrial Lubrication and Tribology. 72(10). 1159–1165. 12 indexed citations
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Xiang, Guo, Yanfeng Han, Tao He, et al.. (2020). Wear and fluid-solid-thermal transient coupled model for journal bearings. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 85. 19–45. 31 indexed citations
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Li, Junyang, et al.. (2020). A lubricated wear model for determining wear surface geometry on journal-bearing surfaces. Surface Topography Metrology and Properties. 8(3). 35002–35002. 7 indexed citations

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