Zhenhua Xu

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 971 citations indexed

About

Zhenhua Xu is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhenhua Xu has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 971 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 12 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Zhenhua Xu's work include High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (13 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (10 papers) and Automated Road and Building Extraction (7 papers). Zhenhua Xu is often cited by papers focused on High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (13 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (10 papers) and Automated Road and Building Extraction (7 papers). Zhenhua Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Zhenhua Xu's co-authors include Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu, Rende Mu, Jinping Cheng, Jiefu Jin, Huaishan Wang, Wing‐Tak Wong, Cornelia Man, Shuk Han Cheng and Yue Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Journal of Cleaner Production and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Zhenhua Xu

39 papers receiving 945 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-End Autonomous Driving Via Large Language Model
    2024 137 citations Zhenhua Xu, Enze Xie et al. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhenhua Xu China 16 383 226 164 147 134 42 971
Youquan Liu China 21 265 0.7× 134 0.6× 351 2.1× 76 0.5× 62 0.5× 96 1.4k
Takayuki Nakamura Japan 13 183 0.5× 125 0.6× 139 0.8× 122 0.8× 82 0.6× 170 859
Lin Bai China 19 212 0.6× 170 0.8× 203 1.2× 63 0.4× 119 0.9× 92 1.0k
B.S.B. Reddy India 12 165 0.4× 377 1.7× 842 5.1× 79 0.5× 137 1.0× 18 1.6k
Sun Sun China 14 119 0.3× 145 0.6× 60 0.4× 79 0.5× 66 0.5× 282 1.1k
Shaohua Gao China 19 228 0.6× 324 1.4× 165 1.0× 47 0.3× 177 1.3× 88 1.5k
Adnan Maqsood Pakistan 20 132 0.3× 558 2.5× 157 1.0× 46 0.3× 77 0.6× 96 1.1k
Yan Yan United States 16 84 0.2× 173 0.8× 142 0.9× 61 0.4× 142 1.1× 240 1.2k
Guoyun Zhang China 20 222 0.6× 84 0.4× 332 2.0× 28 0.2× 113 0.8× 85 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhenhua Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhenhua Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhenhua Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhenhua Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhenhua Xu 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 Zhenhua Xu. Zhenhua Xu 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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Xu, Zhenhua, Yan Bai, Yujia Zhang, et al.. (2025). DriveGPT4-V2: Harnessing Large Language Model Capabilities for Enhanced Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving. 17261–17270.
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Li, Hongda, et al.. (2025). Current Status and Reflections on Ocean CO2 Sequestration: A Review. Energies. 18(4). 942–942. 6 indexed citations
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Huang, Yating, Zhenhua Xu, Xiang Liu, et al.. (2025). Research progress on hydrate replacement mechanism and enhancement methods: A review. Gas Science and Engineering. 139. 205631–205631. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, et al.. (2024). Experimental study on mechanical damage and creep characteristics of Gonghe granite under real-time high temperature. Geothermics. 123. 103100–103100. 13 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, Enze Xie, Zhao Zhen, et al.. (2024). DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-End Autonomous Driving Via Large Language Model. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(10). 8186–8193. 137 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xin, et al.. (2024). Thermal shock behavior of novel (Yb0.1Gd0.9)2Zr2O7 thermal barrier coatings with a Cr modified (Ni, Pt)Al bond coat. Ceramics International. 50(19). 36935–36947. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, et al.. (2023). Efficient numerical methods for hypersingular finite-part integrals with highly oscillatory integrands. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 433. 115316–115316. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, et al.. (2023). CenterLineDet: CenterLine Graph Detection for Road Lanes with Vehicle-mounted Sensors by Transformer for HD Map Generation. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 3553–3559. 11 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, Yuxuan Liu, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu, & Lujia Wang. (2023). RNGDet++: Road Network Graph Detection by Transformer With Instance Segmentation and Multi-Scale Features Enhancement. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(5). 2991–2998. 28 indexed citations
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Liu, Yuxuan, Zhenhua Xu, Huaiyang Huang, Lujia Wang, & Ming Liu. (2023). FSNet: Redesign Self-Supervised MonoDepth for Full-Scale Depth Prediction for Autonomous Driving. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 21(3). 3955–3965. 4 indexed citations
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Zhen, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Thermo-physical properties, morphology and thermal shock behavior of EB-PVD thermal barrier coating with DLC YbGdZrO/YSZ system. Materials Today Communications. 35. 106265–106265. 14 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, Yuxuan Liu, Yuxiang Sun, et al.. (2022). RNGDet: Road Network Graph Detection by Transformer in Aerial Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–12. 50 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, et al.. (2022). csBoundary: City-Scale Road-Boundary Detection in Aerial Images for High-Definition Maps. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 5063–5070. 23 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, Yuxiang Sun, & Ming Liu. (2021). iCurb: Imitation Learning-Based Detection of Road Curbs Using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(2). 1097–1104. 33 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, Yuxiang Sun, & Ming Liu. (2021). Topo-Boundary: A Benchmark Dataset on Topological Road-Boundary Detection Using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(4). 7248–7255. 29 indexed citations
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Xiang, Shuhuang, et al.. (2016). A Chebyshev collocation method for a class of Fredholm integral equations with highly oscillatory kernels. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 300. 354–368. 15 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua. (2013). Progress in Processing Techniques and Ceramic Materials of Thermal Barrier Coatings. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua, et al.. (2013). Efficient evaluation of oscillatory Bessel Hilbert transforms. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 258. 57–66. 25 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua. (2012). Technique of large-scale artificial breeding of Sinonovacula constricta. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenhua. (2005). Newly applying foreground of 3S technologies in urban planning. Information technology newsletter. 1 indexed citations

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