Yefa Hu

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Yefa Hu is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yefa Hu has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 47 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 22 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yefa Hu's work include Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics (42 papers), Tribology and Lubrication Engineering (18 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (13 papers). Yefa Hu is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics (42 papers), Tribology and Lubrication Engineering (18 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (13 papers). Yefa Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yefa Hu's co-authors include Shuang Yang, Zude Zhou, Guoping Ding, Fei Tao, Dongming Zhao, Jun Wang, Jianwen Cheng, Siqi Huo, Qianqian Zhang and Qiaoxin Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, European Journal of Operational Research and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Yefa Hu

109 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

  1. A liquid phosphorus-containing imidazole derivative as flame-retardant curing agent for epoxy resin with enhanced thermal latency, mechanical, and flame-retardant performances
    2019 334 citations Siqi Huo, Shuang Yang et al. Journal of Hazardous Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yefa Hu China 25 1.3k 736 443 384 289 116 2.6k
Xu Ji China 33 1.8k 1.4× 417 0.6× 114 0.3× 254 0.7× 106 0.4× 152 4.8k
Qasim Zeeshan Cyprus 19 262 0.2× 440 0.6× 317 0.7× 183 0.5× 38 0.1× 61 1.6k
Mohammed Asmael Cyprus 23 281 0.2× 765 1.0× 334 0.8× 189 0.5× 46 0.2× 76 1.9k
Lee Luong Australia 25 569 0.5× 522 0.7× 661 1.5× 124 0.3× 41 0.1× 73 2.5k
Hao Zheng China 23 64 0.1× 598 0.8× 591 1.3× 98 0.3× 103 0.4× 92 1.7k
Hongfei Guo China 20 274 0.2× 382 0.5× 460 1.0× 34 0.1× 85 0.3× 67 1.7k
Bo Hyun Kim South Korea 28 155 0.1× 1.4k 1.9× 787 1.8× 55 0.1× 55 0.2× 87 3.5k
Shahrul Kamaruddin Malaysia 22 118 0.1× 664 0.9× 437 1.0× 354 0.9× 27 0.1× 128 2.3k
Sanjay K. Chaturvedi India 20 104 0.1× 193 0.3× 77 0.2× 137 0.4× 64 0.2× 100 1.7k
Qinglei Zhang China 21 210 0.2× 275 0.4× 208 0.5× 108 0.3× 60 0.2× 136 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yefa Hu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yefa Hu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yefa Hu

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

All Works

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Ding, Guoping, et al.. (2025). Identification of distributed loads on propellers based on strain modal. Applied Ocean Research. 162. 104712–104712.
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2024). Research on the construction of digital twin virtual model of coal mills. Measurement. 242. 116235–116235. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2024). Fault Detection in Active Magnetic Bearings Using Digital Twin Technology. Applied Sciences. 14(4). 1384–1384. 9 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2023). Fault diagnosis of coal mills based on a dynamic model and deep belief network. Measurement Science and Technology. 34(12). 125052–125052. 8 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2023). Structure Design and Optimization of the Radial Magnetic Bearing. Actuators. 12(1). 27–27. 11 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2023). Modeling of a Digital Twin for Magnetic Bearings. Applied Sciences. 13(14). 8534–8534. 6 indexed citations
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Huo, Siqi, Shuang Yang, Jun Wang, et al.. (2020). A Liquid Phosphaphenanthrene-Derived Imidazole for Improved Flame Retardancy and Smoke Suppression of Epoxy Resin. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2(8). 3566–3575. 105 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2020). Crashworthiness of CFRP/aluminum alloy hybrid tubes under quasi-static axial crushing. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 9(4). 7740–7753. 41 indexed citations
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Yang, Xinyu & Yefa Hu. (2019). Maintenance, repair and overhaul/operations service resource scheduling optimization for complex products in uncertain environment. Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science). 53(5). 852–861. 1 indexed citations
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Huo, Siqi, Shuang Yang, Jun Wang, et al.. (2019). A liquid phosphorus-containing imidazole derivative as flame-retardant curing agent for epoxy resin with enhanced thermal latency, mechanical, and flame-retardant performances. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 386. 121984–121984. 334 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2016). Design and Analysis of a Flywheel Supported by Hybrid Magnetic Bearing. Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology. 12(1). 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoguang, et al.. (2014). The Redundant Design and Reliability Analysis of Magnetic Bearings Used for Aeroengine. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 6. 157461–157461. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa, et al.. (2011). FBG Based Air-gap Magnetic Flux Density Dynamic Measurement and Analysis. Zhongguo jixie gongcheng. 22(22). 2677. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Huachun, et al.. (2009). Development of Small Wind Generator Based on Hybrid Magnetic Bearing. 1–4. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Yefa. (2008). Coupled dynamic model of magnetic bearings-rotor-base system. Machinery Design and Manufacture.

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