Yongfei Yang

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
263 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Yongfei Yang is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongfei Yang has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Ocean Engineering, 131 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 130 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Yongfei Yang's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (123 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (119 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (119 papers). Yongfei Yang is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (123 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (119 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (119 papers). Yongfei Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yongfei Yang's co-authors include Jun Yao, Hai Sun, Kai Zhang, Lei Zhang, Wenhui Song, Jianlin Zhao, Stefan Iglauer, Senyou An, Chuanjin Yao and Chenchen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Energy & Environmental Science and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yongfei Yang

248 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

New pore space characterization method of shale matrix formation by considering organic and inorganic pores

2015 230 citations Yongfei Yang, Jun Yao et al. profile →
Adsorption behaviors of shale oil in kerogen slit by molecular simulation

2020 209 citations Yongfei Yang, Jun Yao et al. Chemical Engineering Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yongfei Yang China	41	3.5k	2.9k	2.6k	931	577	263	5.5k
Hai Sun China	42	3.2k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	938 1.0×	669 1.2×	251	5.8k
Maša Prodanović United States	35	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	773 0.8×	678 1.2×	151	3.9k
Ryan T. Armstrong Australia	50	4.9k 1.4×	3.3k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.9×	913 1.6×	199	7.0k
Wendong Wang China	35	2.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	691 0.7×	351 0.6×	214	4.3k
Peyman Mostaghimi Australia	46	5.2k 1.5×	3.7k 1.3×	2.8k 1.1×	2.1k 2.2×	1.1k 1.9×	161	7.8k
Sen Wang China	33	2.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	624 0.7×	273 0.5×	135	4.1k
Pejman Tahmasebi United States	47	2.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	556 1.0×	122	5.5k
Qihong Feng China	34	2.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	690 0.7×	207 0.4×	113	4.1k
Gensheng Li China	46	4.1k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	3.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	663 1.1×	353	6.9k
Mingzhen Wei United States	39	3.4k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	674 0.7×	254 0.4×	159	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yongfei Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongfei Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Yongfei, et al.. (2025). Interfacial wettability evolution in underground hydrogen storage: Key factors, multiscale effects, and challenges. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 350. 103763–103763.

Yang, Yongfei, Yingwen Li, Fugui Liu, et al.. (2024). Microscopic mechanism of CO2 huff-n-puff promoting shale oil mobilization in nanopores. Fuel. 371. 131841–131841. 13 indexed citations

Yin, Xia, et al.. (2024). Numerical simulations of depleted (CH4) and cushion (CO2) gases impacts on H2 withdrawal and CO2 storage efficiencies in a depleted gas reservoir. Fuel. 380. 133095–133095. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Hao, Shang Gao, Kai Zhang, et al.. (2024). Recent advances in machine learning-assisted fatigue life prediction of additive manufactured metallic materials: A review. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 198. 111–136. 54 indexed citations

Yang, Yongfei, Chao Liang, Fugui Liu, et al.. (2024). Predicting carbonate rock dissolution using multi-scale residual neural networks with prior knowledge. Gas Science and Engineering. 124. 205268–205268. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yongfei, Jin‐Ye Wang, Fugui Liu, et al.. (2024). Super-resolution of digital rock images with hybrid attention multi-branch neural network. Gas Science and Engineering. 128. 205395–205395. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yingwen, Yongfei Yang, Mingzhe Dong, et al.. (2024). Micro-scale experimental investigations of CO2-WAG injection and Ostwald ripening analysis in carbonate rocks with different pore structures. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 241. 213092–213092. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Kai, Zhongzheng Wang, Wenjuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). A maximum entropy deep reinforcement learning method for sequential well placement optimization using multi-discrete action spaces. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 240. 213004–213004. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Yongfei, Lei Zhang, Hai Sun, et al.. (2024). Pore-scale flow simulation of CO2 sequestration in deep shale based on thermal-hydro-mechanical coupled model. Physics of Fluids. 36(2). 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongfei, Lei Zhang, Hai Sun, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen adsorption and diffusion behavior in kaolinite slit for underground hydrogen storage: A hybrid GCMC-MD simulation study. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150517–150517. 30 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kai, Zhongzheng Wang, Xiaopeng Ma, et al.. (2024). A latent space method with maximum entropy deep reinforcement learning for data assimilation. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 243. 213275–213275. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongfei, et al.. (2024). Pore-scale fluid distribution and remaining oil during tertiary low-salinity waterflooding in a carbonate. Petroleum Science. 21(6). 4130–4140. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kai, Huaqing Zhang, Liming Zhang, et al.. (2024). Predicting Oil Production After Enhancement Techniques Using Multidimensional Feature Representation Learning: A Case Study of Profile Control Technique. SPE Journal. 29(8). 3876–3891.

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Yang, Yongfei, Qi Zhang, Fugui Liu, et al.. (2023). Adsorption behavior of shale oil and water in the kerogen-kaolinite pore by molecular simulations. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 393. 123549–123549. 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinlei, et al.. (2023). Pore-scale modelling on hydrogen transport in porous media: Implications for hydrogen storage in saline aquifers. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(37). 13922–13933. 75 indexed citations

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Li, Yingwen, Yongfei Yang, & Mingzhe Dong. (2023). CO2 capillary trapping in layered sandstone dominated by inertial force and gravity. 10(1). 22–28. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, Hai Sun, Dongyan Fan, et al.. (2023). Effect of roughness on droplet motion in a capillary channel: A numerical study. Physics of Fluids. 35(11). 7 indexed citations

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Martyushev, Dmitriy A., et al.. (2023). Study of void space structure and its influence on carbonate reservoir properties: X-ray microtomography, electron microscopy, and well testing. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 151. 106192–106192. 49 indexed citations

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Sui, Hongguang, Fengyun Zhang, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Competitive sorption of CO2/CH4 and CO2 capture on modified silica surfaces: A molecular simulation. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168356–168356. 15 indexed citations

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Ma, Li & Yongfei Yang. (2017). Nanoscale TiO2 nanotubes as a basis for governing cell behaviors and application challenges. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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