Yi’En Cheng

708 total citations
28 papers, 425 citations indexed

About

Yi’En Cheng is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi’En Cheng has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 425 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Education and 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Yi’En Cheng's work include Socioeconomic Development in Asia (13 papers), Global Education and Multiculturalism (8 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 papers). Yi’En Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Socioeconomic Development in Asia (13 papers), Global Education and Multiculturalism (8 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 papers). Yi’En Cheng collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and Australia. Yi’En Cheng's co-authors include Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Shanthi Robertson, Heng Leng Chee, Juan Zhang, Kong Chong Ho, Sin Yee Koh, Francis L. Collins, Ravinder Sidhu, Mark Holton and Peidong Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Antipode and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

In The Last Decade

Yi’En Cheng

28 papers receiving 398 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yi’En Cheng Singapore 13 249 131 116 86 57 28 425
Peter Hervik Denmark 12 276 1.1× 72 0.5× 130 1.1× 57 0.7× 59 1.0× 47 482
Ted Cantle United States 7 317 1.3× 83 0.6× 88 0.8× 44 0.5× 28 0.5× 12 417
Valentina Cuzzocrea Italy 12 253 1.0× 91 0.7× 84 0.7× 37 0.4× 36 0.6× 38 382
Vinay Lal United States 10 239 1.0× 36 0.3× 139 1.2× 39 0.5× 14 0.2× 58 441
Steven Salaita Egypt 10 308 1.2× 33 0.3× 82 0.7× 36 0.4× 13 0.2× 31 445
Wanda Vrasti Germany 9 285 1.1× 51 0.4× 74 0.6× 150 1.7× 6 0.1× 11 395
Peter G. Mandaville United Kingdom 8 542 2.2× 60 0.5× 223 1.9× 167 1.9× 38 0.7× 8 640
Suvendrini Perera Australia 12 300 1.2× 30 0.2× 48 0.4× 67 0.8× 14 0.2× 45 435
Maruška Svašek United Kingdom 8 368 1.5× 27 0.2× 51 0.4× 159 1.8× 17 0.3× 34 494
Gert Pickel Germany 15 459 1.8× 62 0.5× 185 1.6× 28 0.3× 22 0.4× 80 693

Countries citing papers authored by Yi’En Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi’En Cheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi’En Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yi’En Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yi’En Cheng 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 Yi’En Cheng. Yi’En Cheng 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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Cheng, Yi’En, et al.. (2025). The internationalisation of education and ‘Belt and Road’ student mobilities in Southeast Asia. Asian Population Studies. 21(1). 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En, et al.. (2024). Migration infrastructures and (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures, and repairs. 9(4). 269–276. 3 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, & Peidong Yang. (2023). Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic. Mobilities. 18(5). 839–854. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En, et al.. (2023). Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50(5). 1138–1156. 11 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2022). Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values. Social & Cultural Geography. 24(8). 1478–1479. 6 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En & Sin Yee Koh. (2022). The ‘soft infrastructure’ of the Belt and Road Initiative: Imaginaries, affinities and subjectivities in Chinese transnational education. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 43(3). 250–269. 12 indexed citations
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Sidhu, Ravinder, Yi’En Cheng, Francis L. Collins, Kong Chong Ho, & Brenda S. A. Yeoh. (2021). International student mobilities in a contagion: (Im)mobilising higher education?. Geographical Research. 59(3). 313–323. 27 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En, et al.. (2020). Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction. Space and Polity. 24(1). 1–11. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En & Jane M. Jacobs. (2019). Urban custodians and hospitable citizens: citizenship and social actions at two liberal arts universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Space and Polity. 24(1). 12–29. 5 indexed citations
10.
Cheng, Yi’En & Mark Holton. (2018). Geographies of citizenship in higher education: An introduction. Area. 51(4). 613–617. 8 indexed citations
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Robertson, Shanthi, Yi’En Cheng, & Brenda S. A. Yeoh. (2018). Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 39(6). 613–625. 30 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2018). Educational Friction: Striated Routes, Transition Velocity, and Value Recuperation among Singaporean Private Degree Students. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 39(6). 642–657. 5 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2017). Passing through Shanghai: ethnographic insights into the mobile lives of expatriate youths. Children s Geographies. 16(2). 220–221. 3 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2016). Educated non-elites’ pathways to cosmopolitanism: the case of private degree students in Singapore. Social & Cultural Geography. 19(2). 151–170. 27 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2015). Biopolitical Geographies of Student Life: Private Higher Education and Citizenship Life-Making in Singapore. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(5). 1078–1093. 18 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2014). Time protagonists: student migrants, practices of time and cultural construction of the Singapore-educated person. Social & Cultural Geography. 15(4). 385–405. 27 indexed citations
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Yeoh, Brenda S. A., et al.. (2013). Between two families: the social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore. Global Networks. 13(4). 441–458. 37 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2013). Telling Stories of the City. Space and Culture. 17(3). 211–223. 69 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yi’En. (2011). Transnational masculinities in situ: Singaporean husbands and their international marriage experiences. Area. 44(1). 76–82. 13 indexed citations

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