Yifan Song

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 939 citations indexed

About

Yifan Song is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Song has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 939 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Yifan Song's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (6 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (4 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (4 papers). Yifan Song is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (6 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (4 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (4 papers). Yifan Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yifan Song's co-authors include Gordon Baym, Toru Kojo, Philip D. Powell, Tetsuo Hatsuda, T. Takatsuka, Christopher Bogart, Majd Sakr, Jaromír Šavelka, Arav Agarwal and Nan Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Reports on Progress in Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Song

28 papers receiving 915 citations

Hit Papers

From hadrons to quarks in neutron stars: a review 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. From hadrons to quarks in neutron stars: a review
    2018 491 citations Yifan Song et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yifan Song China 13 544 292 198 128 101 35 939
Xin Zhou China 19 635 1.2× 281 1.0× 24 0.1× 29 0.2× 27 0.3× 91 1.6k
Fang‐Zheng Peng United States 30 338 0.6× 446 1.5× 83 0.4× 91 0.7× 63 0.6× 81 3.5k
M. A. Barton United States 13 171 0.3× 14 0.0× 73 0.4× 123 1.0× 17 0.2× 33 450
Jintao Cao China 16 338 0.6× 264 0.9× 80 0.4× 234 1.8× 9 0.1× 55 756
Keiji Hayashi United States 23 2.1k 3.9× 29 0.1× 36 0.2× 69 0.5× 370 3.7× 84 2.4k
S. C. Tripathy India 23 456 0.8× 36 0.1× 27 0.1× 19 0.1× 71 0.7× 135 1.8k
V. V. Bochkarev Russia 10 126 0.2× 76 0.3× 54 0.3× 15 0.1× 45 0.4× 77 378
Tsung‐Han Yeh Taiwan 9 683 1.3× 676 2.3× 4 0.0× 71 0.6× 25 0.2× 17 1.1k
Xiaohui Song China 17 263 0.5× 398 1.4× 6 0.0× 95 0.7× 99 1.0× 51 696
Roger A. Freedman United States 8 39 0.1× 116 0.4× 22 0.1× 65 0.5× 20 0.2× 18 405

Countries citing papers authored by Yifan Song

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifan Song

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yifan Song. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yifan Song. The network helps show where Yifan Song may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Song

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yifan Song. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yifan Song 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 Yifan Song. Yifan Song 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, Jiebin, Yifan Song, Cuiping Kuang, et al.. (2025). More Tokens, Lower Precision: Towards the Optimal Token-Precision Trade-off in KV Cache Compression. 8092–8105.
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2025). Study on the lateral constitutive model for aged laminated rubber bearings considering frictional sliding. Engineering Structures. 340. 120724–120724. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2025). The role of gallic acid in liver disease: a review of its phytochemistry, pharmacology, and safety. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 16. 1595508–1595508.
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Trial and Error: Exploration-Based Trajectory Optimization of LLM Agents. 7584–7600. 5 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Programming Plagiarism Detection with Learner Data. 1826–1827. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Weipeng, et al.. (2024). Orbit-Attitude-Rotating Coupling Dynamics of Space Manipulator Assembled with Camera. Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies. 12(7). 8567–8580. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Watch Every Step! LLM Agent Learning via Iterative Step-level Process Refinement. 1556–1572. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2024). A Learning-Based Multi-Node Fusion Positioning Method Using Wearable Inertial Sensors. 1976–1980. 7 indexed citations
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Šavelka, Jaromír, Arav Agarwal, Christopher Bogart, Yifan Song, & Majd Sakr. (2023). Can Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) Pass Assessments in Higher Education Programming Courses?. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 117–123. 64 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2022). Cheating Detection in Online Assessments via Timeline Analysis. 98–104. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Peiyi, Yifan Song, Tianyu Liu, et al.. (2022). Learning Robust Representations for Continual Relation Extraction via Adversarial Class Augmentation. 6264–6278. 13 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2022). Hummingbird E203 RISC-V processor core-based traffic flow detection system design. 823–826. 1 indexed citations
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Escudero, Daniel, Vipul Goyal, Antigoni Polychroniadou, & Yifan Song. (2022). TurboPack. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 951–964. 8 indexed citations
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Song, Yifan, et al.. (2022). Skill requirements in job advertisements: A comparison of skill-categorization methods based on wage regressions. Information Processing & Management. 60(2). 103185–103185. 20 indexed citations
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Dong, Qingxiu, Damai Dai, Yifan Song, et al.. (2022). Calibrating Factual Knowledge in Pretrained Language Models. 5937–5947. 17 indexed citations

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