Zhijian Cheng

745 total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 548 citations indexed

About

Zhijian Cheng is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhijian Cheng has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 548 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 8 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhijian Cheng's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (5 papers), Smart Grid Security and Resilience (4 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (3 papers). Zhijian Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (5 papers), Smart Grid Security and Resilience (4 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (3 papers). Zhijian Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China. Zhijian Cheng's co-authors include Hongru Ren, Renquan Lu, Jiahu Qin, Hongyi Li, Liang Cao, Yang Liu, Hui Ma, Bin Zhang, Cheng Shen and Yang Lan and has published in prestigious journals such as Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Zhijian Cheng

9 papers receiving 544 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.

  1. Deception attacks on event-triggered distributed consensus estimation for nonlinear systems
    2023 273 citations Hongru Ren, Zhijian Cheng et al. Automatica profile →
  2. Event-Based Adaptive NN Fixed-Time Cooperative Formation for Multiagent Systems
    2022 172 citations Liang Cao, Zhijian Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhijian Cheng China 6 414 290 111 93 64 13 548
Renquan Lu China 10 315 0.8× 355 1.2× 108 1.0× 86 0.9× 44 0.7× 14 481
Xiyue Guo China 10 457 1.1× 384 1.3× 156 1.4× 67 0.7× 49 0.8× 17 606
Yanmin Wu China 4 290 0.7× 203 0.7× 75 0.7× 73 0.8× 48 0.8× 12 391
Lin‐Xing Xu China 11 402 1.0× 267 0.9× 121 1.1× 49 0.5× 35 0.5× 23 527
Yanming Wu China 12 291 0.7× 284 1.0× 116 1.0× 61 0.7× 53 0.8× 27 439
Yanyan Yin China 19 835 2.0× 355 1.2× 129 1.2× 86 0.9× 52 0.8× 66 954
Ping Zhao China 15 706 1.7× 320 1.1× 150 1.4× 54 0.6× 107 1.7× 54 849

Countries citing papers authored by Zhijian Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhijian Cheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhijian Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhijian Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhijian Cheng 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 Zhijian Cheng. Zhijian Cheng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Cheng, Zhijian, Hongru Ren, Jiahu Qin, & Renquan Lu. (2025). Distributed Secure Consensus Estimation for Power Systems Against False Data Injection Attacks. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 35(11). 4724–4737. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaomeng, et al.. (2024). Event-based secure control for cyber-physical systems against false data injection attacks. Information Sciences. 679. 121093–121093. 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Zhijian, et al.. (2024). Consensus-Based Power System State Estimation Algorithm Under Collaborative Attack. Sensors. 24(21). 6886–6886.
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Cheng, Zhijian, et al.. (2024). Distributed Consensus Estimation for Networked Multi-Sensor Systems under Hybrid Attacks and Missing Measurements. Sensors. 24(13). 4071–4071. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Hongru, et al.. (2023). Data-Driven Event-Triggered Control for Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems With Uniform Quantization. IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs. 71(2). 712–716. 34 indexed citations
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Ren, Hongru, Zhijian Cheng, Jiahu Qin, & Renquan Lu. (2023). Deception attacks on event-triggered distributed consensus estimation for nonlinear systems. Automatica. 154. 111100–111100. 273 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shen, Cheng, Zhijian Cheng, Hongru Ren, & Renquan Lu. (2022). Adaptive fault‐tolerant containment control for stochastic nonlinear multi‐agent systems with input saturation. Optimal Control Applications and Methods. 44(3). 1491–1509. 6 indexed citations
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Cao, Liang, Zhijian Cheng, Yang Liu, & Hongyi Li. (2022). Event-Based Adaptive NN Fixed-Time Cooperative Formation for Multiagent Systems. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35(5). 6467–6477. 172 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Zhijian, Hongru Ren, Jiahu Qin, & Renquan Lu. (2021). Security Analysis for Dynamic State Estimation of Power Systems With Measurement Delays. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 53(4). 2087–2096. 36 indexed citations
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Cheng, Zhijian, Hongru Ren, Bin Zhang, & Renquan Lu. (2020). Distributed Kalman Filter for Large-Scale Power Systems With State Inequality Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 68(7). 6238–6247. 22 indexed citations
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