Zheng Chen

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Zheng Chen is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zheng Chen has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 32 papers in Ocean Engineering and 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zheng Chen's work include Dielectric materials and actuators (33 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (31 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (22 papers). Zheng Chen is often cited by papers focused on Dielectric materials and actuators (33 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (31 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (22 papers). Zheng Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Zheng Chen's co-authors include Xiaobo Tan, Xiaobo Tan, Hilary Bart‐Smith, Gangbing Song, Furui Wang, Zhihang Ye, Alexander Will, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi and Arash Khalilnejad and has published in prestigious journals such as Nanoscale, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Zheng Chen

96 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Modeling of Biomimetic Robotic Fish Propelled by An Ionic Polymer–Metal Composite Caudal Fin

2009 375 citations Zheng Chen et al. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zheng Chen United States	22	1.2k	528	463	442	375	102	2.2k
Xin Fu China	27	1.1k 0.9×	237 0.4×	815 1.8×	189 0.4×	253 0.7×	206	2.6k
Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado Singapore	24	857 0.7×	326 0.6×	351 0.8×	126 0.3×	431 1.1×	75	1.7k
Heng Zhang China	27	615 0.5×	128 0.2×	1.6k 3.4×	516 1.2×	493 1.3×	154	2.4k
Rocco Vertechy Italy	27	1.5k 1.2×	240 0.5×	616 1.3×	249 0.6×	256 0.7×	104	2.1k
Xu Wang China	32	556 0.5×	389 0.7×	1.0k 2.2×	233 0.5×	219 0.6×	155	2.4k
Zhilong Huang China	14	763 0.6×	130 0.2×	457 1.0×	87 0.2×	140 0.4×	37	1.3k
Seungjun Kim South Korea	23	524 0.4×	386 0.7×	203 0.4×	341 0.8×	37 0.1×	137	2.1k
Jiamei Jin China	23	562 0.5×	64 0.1×	497 1.1×	116 0.3×	269 0.7×	103	1.4k
J. R. Culham Canada	36	939 0.8×	84 0.2×	2.6k 5.6×	627 1.4×	281 0.7×	130	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zheng Chen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Zheng, Ting Liu, Xiangyu Wang, et al.. (2025). Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type kappa (PTPRK) revisited: evolving insights into structure, function, and pathology. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 534–534.

Yi, Haiyang, et al.. (2025). Experimental Investigation of the Mesostructural Damage in Bedded Rock Salt During Creep Deformation. Crystals. 15(4). 305–305.

Chen, Zheng, Atif Zafar, Chuanyong Zhu, et al.. (2025). Numerical study on the heat recovery of fractured rock under thermal-hydraulic coupling. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 255. 127734–127734. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Lei, Peng Du, Minghao Xie, Zheng Chen, & Jason Gu. (2024). Prototype Design and Experimental Test for A Hydraulic-Driven Soft Robotic Arm. Procedia Computer Science. 250. 88–94.

Li, Chuanjian, Zheng Chen, Dong Wang, et al.. (2023). A Novel Strategy for Detecting Permittivity and Loss Tangent of Low-Loss Materials Based on Cylindrical Resonant Cavity. Sensors. 23(12). 5469–5469. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Bo, et al.. (2023). A Novel Integrated Method for the Risk Assessment of Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering Operations. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A Civil Engineering. 10(1). 3 indexed citations

Li, Gen, et al.. (2023). A Fractional-Order Creep Model of Water-Immersed Coal. Applied Sciences. 13(23). 12839–12839. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Zheng, et al.. (2023). Underwater bolted flange looseness detection using percussion-induced sound and Feature-reduced Multi-ROCKET model. Structural Health Monitoring. 23(1). 495–511. 11 indexed citations

Ghorbel, Fathi H., et al.. (2022). Reversible fuel cell enabled underwater buoyancy control. Mechatronics. 86. 102865–102865. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, et al.. (2021). AUV Tool Manipulation With Hard and Soft Actuators. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(4). 8553–8560. 1 indexed citations

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Chakravarthy, Animesh, et al.. (2020). Model-Based Control of a Robotic Fish to Enable 3D Maneuvering Through a Moving Orifice. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(3). 4719–4726. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, et al.. (2020). PIDA Control of Buoyancy Device Enabled by Water Electrolysis. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 25(3). 1202–1210. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, Bin Xiao, Xing Liu, et al.. (2020). Composition Refinement of 6061 Aluminum Alloy Using Active Machine Learning Model Based on Bayesian Optimization Sampling. Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 57(6). 797–810. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, et al.. (2020). AUV Buoyancy Control With Hard and Soft Actuators. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 5(6). 1874–1879. 5 indexed citations

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Ghorbel, Fathi H., et al.. (2020). Underwater Buoyancy and Depth Control Using Reversible PEM Fuel Cells. 54–59. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, Ruiqing Zhang, Qingju Wu, et al.. (2019). Variations in Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Structures Across Eastern Tibet and Adjacent Regions: Implications of Crustal Flow and Asthenospheric Upwelling Combined for Expansions of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics. 38(8). 3167–3181. 23 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng. (2017). A review on robotic fish enabled by ionic polymer–metal composite artificial muscles. PubMed. 4(1). 24–24. 76 indexed citations

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Ye, Zhihang, et al.. (2016). Robust control of dielectric elastomer diaphragm actuator for replicating human pulse. 188–193. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, et al.. (2011). Bio-Inspired Robotic Cownose Ray Propelled by Electroactive Polymer Pectoral Fin. 817–824. 31 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng. (2004). Radio remote monitoring system for geological disaster based on GPRS technology. Ziran zaihai xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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