Yongkui Sun

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Yongkui Sun is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongkui Sun has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 33 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 19 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yongkui Sun's work include Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques (29 papers), Railway Engineering and Dynamics (16 papers) and Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis (8 papers). Yongkui Sun is often cited by papers focused on Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques (29 papers), Railway Engineering and Dynamics (16 papers) and Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis (8 papers). Yongkui Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and France. Yongkui Sun's co-authors include Yuan Cao, Guo Xie, Peng Li, Tao Wen, Shuai Su, Xiaoxi Hu, Tao Tang, Lianchuan Ma, Clive Roberts and Yue Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yongkui Sun

53 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

A Sound-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Railway Point Ma... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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 Sound-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Railway Point Machines Based on Two-Stage Feature Selection Strategy and Ensemble Classifier
    2021 187 citations Yuan Cao, Yongkui Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems profile →

Peers

Yongkui Sun
Govind Vashishtha India
Tian Han China
Mustapha Ouladsine France
Dingli Yu United Kingdom
Liuyang Song China
Bart Besselink Netherlands
Ke Zhao China
Mei Yuan China
Carl S. Byington United States
Govind Vashishtha India
Yongkui Sun
Citations per year, relative to Yongkui Sun Yongkui Sun (= 1×) peers Govind Vashishtha

Countries citing papers authored by Yongkui Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yongkui Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yongkui Sun. 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 Yongkui Sun. The network helps show where Yongkui Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongkui Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yongkui Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yongkui Sun 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 Yongkui Sun. Yongkui Sun 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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Li, Jian, et al.. (2025). A review on rail remaining useful life prediction. Transportation Safety and Environment. 7(4). 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2025). Modified Hough Transform-Based Registration Method for Heavy-Haul Railway Rail Profile With Intensive Environmental Noise. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 74. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, Yuan Cao, Peng Li, & Shuai Su. (2025). Fault Diagnosis for Railway Point Machines Using VMD Multi-Scale Permutation Entropy and ReliefF Based on Vibration Signals. Chinese Journal of Electronics. 34(1). 204–211. 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2025). A Large-Model-Enhanced Method for Rail Surface Defect Detection in Heavy-Haul Railway. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(12). 23328–23341. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, et al.. (2025). A review of enhancing wind power with AI: applications, economic implications, and green innovations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Lei, et al.. (2024). A dual-robot cooperative arc welding path planning algorithm based on multi-objective cross-entropy optimization. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 89. 102760–102760. 13 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing rail safety through real-time defect detection: A novel lightweight network approach. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 203. 107617–107617. 32 indexed citations
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Liu, Yue, et al.. (2024). Research on Rail Defect Recognition Method Based on Improved RT-DETR Model. 1464–1468. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2023). Vibration signal-based defect detection method for railway signal relay using parameter-optimized VMD and ensemble feature selection. Control Engineering Practice. 139. 105630–105630. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, et al.. (2023). Long-term hydromechanical behaviour of a deep cavity taking into account a simplified sequence of life stages. Computers and Geotechnics. 156. 105256–105256. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2023). Is the safety index of modern safety integrity level(SIL) truly appropriate for the railway?. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 192. 107267–107267. 31 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, Yuan Cao, Peng Li, & Shuai Su. (2023). Sound Based Degradation Status Recognition for Railway Point Machines Based on Soft-Threshold Wavelet Denoising, WPD, and ReliefF. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 73. 1–9. 16 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2022). A statistical study of railway safety in China and Japan 1990–2020. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 175. 106764–106764. 91 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, Yuan Cao, Guo Xie, & Tao Wen. (2021). Sound Based Fault Diagnosis for RPMs Based on Multi-Scale Fractional Permutation Entropy and Two-Scale Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 70(11). 11184–11192. 94 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, Yongkui Sun, Guo Xie, & Peng Li. (2021). A Sound-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Railway Point Machines Based on Two-Stage Feature Selection Strategy and Ensemble Classifier. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(8). 12074–12083. 187 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Yongkui, et al.. (2021). Fault diagnosis for train plug door using weighted fractional wavelet packet decomposition energy entropy. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 166. 106549–106549. 42 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, H.T. Wong, Benoît Pardoen, et al.. (2021). Analytical study of post-closure behaviour of a deep spherical cavity in a dilatant viscoplastic rock mass. Computers and Geotechnics. 139. 104419–104419. 5 indexed citations
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Cao, Yuan, Yongkui Sun, Guo Xie, & Tao Wen. (2019). Fault Diagnosis of Train Plug Door Based on a Hybrid Criterion for IMFs Selection and Fractional Wavelet Package Energy Entropy. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68(8). 7544–7551. 206 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, Guo Xie, Yuan Cao, & Tao Wen. (2018). Strategy for Fault Diagnosis on Train Plug Doors Using Audio Sensors. Sensors. 19(1). 3–3. 24 indexed citations
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Sun, Yongkui, Guangju Chen, & Yongjie Li. (2007). SVM Method for Diagnosing Analog Circuits Fault Based on Testability Analysis. 14. 3452–3456. 2 indexed citations

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