Yi Ren

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
337 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Yi Ren is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Ren has authored 337 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 47 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 44 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yi Ren's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (37 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (31 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (30 papers). Yi Ren is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (37 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (31 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (30 papers). Yi Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, Norway and United States. Yi Ren's co-authors include Qiang Feng, Bo Sun, Bin Tang, Zili Wang, Dongming Fan, Mark Lautens, Dezhen Yang, Cheng Qian, Quan Xia and Jianfeng Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yi Ren

302 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Video-based Facial Micro-Expression Analysis: A Survey of Datasets, Features and Algorithms

2021 181 citations Yi Ren et al. profile →
Study on very long-term creep tests and nonlinear creep-damage constitutive model of salt rock

2021 132 citations Yi Ren et al. profile →
A CNN-SAM-LSTM hybrid neural network for multi-state estimation of lithium-ion batteries under dynamical operating conditions

2024 62 citations Cheng Qian, Binghui Xu et al. Energy profile →
Uneven internal SOC distribution estimation of lithium-ion batteries using ultrasonic transmission signals: A new data screening technique and an improved deep residual network

2025 20 citations Ting Tang, Quan Xia et al. eTransportation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Ren China	39	1.1k	775	773	677	673	337	5.4k
Bo Sun China	32	696 0.6×	510 0.7×	504 0.7×	374 0.6×	289 0.4×	148	3.0k
Jie Liu China	37	713 0.6×	255 0.3×	567 0.7×	920 1.4×	308 0.5×	294	4.5k
Deyi Li China	44	1.1k 1.0×	428 0.6×	514 0.7×	329 0.5×	376 0.6×	282	7.5k
Zijun Zhang China	47	2.8k 2.5×	405 0.5×	484 0.6×	1.7k 2.5×	473 0.7×	298	8.7k
Cheng Cheng China	36	966 0.9×	548 0.7×	792 1.0×	1.5k 2.2×	304 0.5×	221	5.2k
Chao Hu United States	41	2.7k 2.4×	1.1k 1.5×	2.6k 3.3×	2.1k 3.1×	566 0.8×	183	6.8k
Chen Lü China	47	2.5k 2.3×	444 0.6×	915 1.2×	2.9k 4.2×	939 1.4×	440	8.3k
Seung‐Chul Lee South Korea	41	1.3k 1.1×	237 0.3×	379 0.5×	825 1.2×	462 0.7×	348	6.2k
Yan Wang China	49	887 0.8×	154 0.2×	875 1.1×	712 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	698	9.7k
Xiaojun Zhou China	38	786 0.7×	974 1.3×	159 0.2×	856 1.3×	141 0.2×	279	4.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Ren

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Ren, Yi, Ting Tang, Zeyu Wu, et al.. (2025). A physics-enhanced online joint estimation method for SOH and SOC of lithium-ion batteries in eVTOL aircraft applications. Journal of Energy Storage. 112. 115567–115567. 6 indexed citations

Kang, Ying, Yi Ren, Xue Meng, et al.. (2025). Nickel-catalyzed C(sp2)–H alkynylation of free α-substituted benzylamines using a transient directing group. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(10). 110901–110901. 5 indexed citations

Tang, Ting, Quan Xia, Zhe Deng, et al.. (2025). Uneven internal SOC distribution estimation of lithium-ion batteries using ultrasonic transmission signals: A new data screening technique and an improved deep residual network. eTransportation. 24. 100406–100406. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Qian, Cheng, et al.. (2024). A CNN-SAM-LSTM hybrid neural network for multi-state estimation of lithium-ion batteries under dynamical operating conditions. Energy. 294. 130764–130764. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Ren, Yi, Ting Tang, Zeyu Wu, et al.. (2024). An adaptive semi-supervised self-learning method for online state of health estimation of lithium-ion batteries. Energy. 305. 132213–132213. 13 indexed citations

Chang, Cheng, Xia Liu, Shihong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Microstructure and tribological properties of CrB2-enhanced NiCrBSi composite coatings prepared by high-velocity oxygen-fuel under different kerosene flow rates. Surface and Coatings Technology. 496. 131677–131677. 4 indexed citations

Ren, Yi, et al.. (2024). Health assessment of a brushless direct current motor stator using a physics-informed long short-term memory network. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 164. 110402–110402. 3 indexed citations

Feng, Qiang, Meng Liu, Hongyan Dui, et al.. (2024). A general design-oriented resilience measurement and evaluation method for engineering systems: Resilience cube. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 245. 110038–110038. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Kang, et al.. (2024). Do national innovation policies lead to technological specialization or diversification? The role of path dependence and spatial spillovers. Economic Analysis and Policy. 84. 499–520. 5 indexed citations

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Hu, Kai, Xia Liu, Cheng Chang, et al.. (2023). Microstructure and tribological properties of ZrB2-enhanced NiCrBSi coatings prepared by high-velocity oxy-fuel spraying. Surface and Coatings Technology. 468. 129745–129745. 14 indexed citations

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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2023). Full-spectrum photo-thermal conversion enabled by plasmonic titanium carbide modified phase change microcapsules. Journal of Energy Storage. 72. 108458–108458. 16 indexed citations

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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2023). Design and tribological performance of CrN/Mo2N/MoSx composite coating in wide temperature range inspired by oxidation kinetics principle. Tribology International. 180. 108229–108229. 10 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yuanyou, et al.. (2023). Nanoscale nucleation and growth of MgAl2O4 inclusion in Al-Mg deoxidized steel. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 970. 172621–172621. 3 indexed citations

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Feng, Qiang, Meng Liu, Bo Sun, et al.. (2023). Resilience Measure and Formation Reconfiguration Optimization for Multi-UAV Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(6). 10616–10626. 14 indexed citations

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Ren, Yi, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Zhou Zhao, & Tie‐Yan Liu. (2022). Revisiting Over-Smoothness in Text to Speech. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 8197–8213. 25 indexed citations

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Ren, Yi, Shuai Chen, Chip-Hong Chang, et al.. (2022). Scalable and Conflict-Free NTT Hardware Accelerator Design: Methodology, Proof, and Implementation. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 42(5). 1504–1517. 32 indexed citations

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Liao, Baopeng, Bo Sun, Li Yu, et al.. (2019). Sealing reliability modeling of aviation seal based on interval uncertainty method and multidimensional response surface. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 32(9). 2188–2198. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Bo, Yu Li, Zili Wang, et al.. (2018). Remaining useful life prediction of aviation circular electrical connectors using vibration-induced physical model and particle filtering method. Microelectronics Reliability. 92. 114–122. 37 indexed citations

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Sun, Bo, et al.. (2018). Gamma Degradation Process and Accelerated Model Combined Reliability Analysis Method for Rubber O-Rings. IEEE Access. 6. 10581–10590. 31 indexed citations

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Qian, Cheng, et al.. (2017). Photometric and Colorimetric Assessment of LED Chip Scale Packages by Using a Step-Stress Accelerated Degradation Test (SSADT) Method. Materials. 10(10). 1181–1181. 12 indexed citations

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