Zhenyu Chen

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
169 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Zhenyu Chen is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhenyu Chen has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Software, 99 papers in Information Systems and 49 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Zhenyu Chen's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (107 papers), Software Engineering Research (88 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (58 papers). Zhenyu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (107 papers), Software Engineering Research (88 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (58 papers). Zhenyu Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Zhenyu Chen's co-authors include Baowen Xu, Yang Feng, Chunrong Fang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Weiqin Zou, Zhihong Zhao, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, James A. Jones and Quanjun Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, International Journal of Computer Vision and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Zhenyu Chen

156 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 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. Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities
    2019 441 citations Yang Feng, Zhenyu Chen et al. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhenyu Chen China 27 1.7k 1.4k 671 531 395 169 2.6k
Earl T. Barr United Kingdom 23 2.5k 1.5× 2.0k 1.5× 985 1.5× 763 1.4× 647 1.6× 71 3.4k
Weiyi Shang Canada 30 2.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 696 1.0× 1.7k 3.2× 227 0.6× 117 2.7k
Yi Li China 23 937 0.6× 364 0.3× 1.1k 1.6× 357 0.7× 345 0.9× 153 2.1k
Ying Zou Canada 35 2.7k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 724 1.1× 970 1.8× 444 1.1× 169 3.4k
Mohammad Alshayeb Saudi Arabia 23 1.7k 1.0× 891 0.7× 539 0.8× 443 0.8× 252 0.6× 114 2.2k
Reid Holmes Canada 28 2.5k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 688 1.0× 670 1.3× 335 0.8× 87 3.1k
Lingxiao Jiang Singapore 25 2.6k 1.6× 1.7k 1.3× 654 1.0× 577 1.1× 1.0k 2.6× 104 3.1k
Serge Demeyer Belgium 33 3.4k 2.0× 2.2k 1.6× 1.2k 1.7× 970 1.8× 569 1.4× 166 3.7k
Yang Feng China 18 918 0.6× 467 0.3× 368 0.5× 271 0.5× 233 0.6× 90 1.3k
Ian Gorton United States 27 1.5k 0.9× 321 0.2× 1.1k 1.6× 1.1k 2.1× 57 0.1× 184 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhenyu Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhenyu Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhenyu Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhenyu Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhenyu Chen 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 Zhenyu Chen. Zhenyu Chen 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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Wang, Zhenting, et al.. (2025). Token-Budget-Aware LLM Reasoning. 24842–24855. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuchen, Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, et al.. (2025). Security of Language Models for Code: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiawei, et al.. (2025). Automated Detection and Repair of Floating-point Precision Problems in Convolutional Neural Network Operators. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
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Xu, Sheng, Shuai Wang, Guofa Li, et al.. (2025). pFedLVM: A Large Vision Model (LVM)-Driven and Latent Feature-Based Personalized Federated Learning Framework in Autonomous Driving. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(10). 15915–15931. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Weisong, et al.. (2025). Mutual Information Guided Backdoor Mitigation for Pre-Trained Encoders. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 3414–3428. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Feng, et al.. (2025). A decarbonization strategy for lattice girders in primary support: A case study in Wanrong tunnel on Meng-Hua railway. Case Studies in Construction Materials. 22. e04877–e04877. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Weisong, Chunrong Fang, Yuchen Chen, et al.. (2024). A Survey of Source Code Search: A 3-Dimensional Perspective. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(6). 1–51. 9 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yuming, et al.. (2024). Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(4). 854–883. 1 indexed citations
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Fang, Chunrong, Weisong Sun, Yuchen Chen, et al.. (2024). Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(8). 2077–2095. 11 indexed citations
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Fang, Chunrong, et al.. (2024). Practical, Automated Scenario-Based Mobile App Testing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(7). 1949–1966. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Weisong, Chunrong Fang, Yuchen Chen, et al.. (2023). An Extractive-and-Abstractive Framework for Source Code Summarization. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(3). 1–39. 24 indexed citations
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Gao, Ruizhi, Yabin Wang, Yang Feng, Zhenyu Chen, & W. Eric Wong. (2018). Successes, challenges, and rethinking – an industrial investigation on crowdsourced mobile application testing. Empirical Software Engineering. 24(2). 537–561. 30 indexed citations
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Yang, Haoyu, Chen Wang, Qingkai Shi, Yang Feng, & Zhenyu Chen. (2014). Bug Inducing Analysis to Prevent Fault Prone Bug Fixes.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 620–625. 8 indexed citations
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Fang, Chunrong, et al.. (2013). A Hybrid Coverage Criterion for DynamicWeb Testing (S).. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 210–213. 5 indexed citations
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Wu, Kun, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, & Zhihong Zhao. (2012). Test case prioritization incorporating ordered sequence of program elements. 124–130. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhenyu, et al.. (2012). Identifying Coincidental Correctness for Fault Localization by Clustering Test Cases.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 267–272. 31 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jie M., et al.. (2012). Automated EFSM-based test case generation with scatter search. 76–82. 8 indexed citations
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Feng, Yang & Zhenyu Chen. (2012). Multi-label software behavior learning. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1305–1308. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhenyu, et al.. (2009). A Novel Method of Mutation Clustering Based on Domain Analysis.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 422–425. 36 indexed citations
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Belli, Fevzi, et al.. (2009). Mutant-Based Model-Checking to Ensure Accessibility and Safety Aspects of Human Computer Interfaces.. 65–74. 1 indexed citations

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