Zhiyong Yang

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 844 citations indexed

About

Zhiyong Yang is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Civil and Structural Engineering and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhiyong Yang has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 844 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 28 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 11 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Zhiyong Yang's work include Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (28 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (11 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (11 papers). Zhiyong Yang is often cited by papers focused on Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (28 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (11 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (11 papers). Zhiyong Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Taiwan. Zhiyong Yang's co-authors include Jianye Ching, Xueyou Li, Kok‐Kwang Phoon, Dianqing Li, Lin Wang, Luqi Wang, Yadong Liu, Jiayan Nie, Zi-Jun Cao and Siu‐Kui Au and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Optics Express and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Zhiyong Yang

51 papers receiving 824 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.

Deep learning methods for time-dependent reliability analysis of reservoir slopes in spatially variable soils

2023 77 citations Lin Wang, Lin Wang et al. Computers and Geotechnics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhiyong Yang China	18	480	402	244	134	98	58	844
Massimiliano Giorgio Italy	22	528 1.1×	427 1.1×	51 0.2×	278 2.1×	197 2.0×	73	1.4k
Yiannis Tsompanakis Greece	22	953 2.0×	114 0.3×	98 0.4×	215 1.6×	31 0.3×	78	1.3k
Ikumasa Yoshida Japan	15	589 1.2×	275 0.7×	108 0.4×	139 1.0×	11 0.1×	86	863
Hasan Basri Başağa Türkiye	15	395 0.8×	67 0.2×	66 0.3×	122 0.9×	21 0.2×	52	706
Wolfgang Betz Germany	10	489 1.0×	224 0.6×	61 0.3×	599 4.5×	19 0.2×	17	907
Shuping Huang China	11	535 1.1×	211 0.5×	53 0.2×	646 4.8×	22 0.2×	11	1.0k
Ping Yi China	16	445 0.9×	172 0.4×	61 0.3×	463 3.5×	13 0.1×	48	924
Ali R. Kashani United States	15	517 1.1×	292 0.7×	84 0.3×	17 0.1×	24 0.2×	26	726
Kang Zhang China	19	729 1.5×	103 0.3×	141 0.6×	8 0.1×	43 0.4×	31	942

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhiyong Yang

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Li, Xueyou, Yongxin Zhang, Zhiwen Li, Zhiyong Yang, & Xiaohui Qi. (2025). A coupled probabilistic site characterization method for estimating soil stratification and spatial variability using multiple-source site investigation data. Engineering Geology. 351. 108024–108024. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2025). Probabilistic analysis of offshore single pile composite foundation considering rotated anisotropy spatial variability of multi-layered soils. Computers and Geotechnics. 182. 107159–107159. 12 indexed citations

Li, Yuhua, et al.. (2025). A real-time tumor position prediction based multi-dimensional respiratory motion compensation puncture method. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 70(3). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2025). A big indirect data – Informed probabilistic method for three-dimensional site reconstruction. Engineering Geology. 353. 108097–108097. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Lifei, et al.. (2025). Binding Mechanism of Inhibitors to CDK6 Deciphered by Multiple Independent Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Free Energy Predictions. Molecules. 30(5). 979–979.

He, Ren, Dakun Wu, Fei Yu, et al.. (2025). Low-loss chalcogenide anti-resonant hollow-core fiber for mid-infrared power delivery at wavelengths beyond 8 μm. Optical Materials. 162. 116844–116844. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yuhua, Shan Jiang, Zhiyong Yang, Shuo Yang, & Zeyang Zhou. (2025). Microscopic augmented reality calibration with contactless line-structured light registration for surgical navigation. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 63(5). 1463–1479.

Li, Xueyou, et al.. (2024). Multisource monitoring data-driven slope stability prediction using ensemble learning techniques. Computers and Geotechnics. 169. 106255–106255. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Xian, Yadong Liu, Zhiyong Yang, & Xueyou Li. (2024). A novel dimension reduction-based metamodel approach for efficient slope reliability analysis considering soil spatial variability. Computers and Geotechnics. 172. 106423–106423. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Xian, Yadong Liu, Xueyou Li, & Zhiyong Yang. (2023). Dynamic Reliability-Based Design of Slopes in Spatially Variable Soils Based on an Inverse FORM. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Xueyou, Xian Liu, Yadong Liu, Zhiyong Yang, & Limin Zhang. (2023). Probabilistic slope stability analysis considering the non-stationary and spatially variable permeability under rainfall infiltration-redistribution. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 82(9). 16 indexed citations

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Ren, Ziliang, et al.. (2023). SlowFast Multimodality Compensation Fusion Swin Transformer Networks for RGB-D Action Recognition. Mathematics. 11(9). 2115–2115. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Lin, Lin Wang, Chongzhi Wu, et al.. (2023). Deep learning methods for time-dependent reliability analysis of reservoir slopes in spatially variable soils. Computers and Geotechnics. 159. 105413–105413. 77 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Xueyou, et al.. (2021). Efficient slope reliability analysis using adaptive classification-based sampling method. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 80(12). 8977–8993. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2021). Dim-small targets detection of infrared images in complex backgrounds. Journal of Applied Optics. 42(4). 643–650. 9 indexed citations

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Huang, Kaide & Zhiyong Yang. (2020). Robust Sparse Bayesian Learning for Sparse Signal Recovery Under Unknown Noise Distributions. Circuits Systems and Signal Processing. 40(3). 1365–1382. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Dianqing, Zhiyong Yang, Zi-Jun Cao, Siu‐Kui Au, & Kok‐Kwang Phoon. (2017). System reliability analysis of slope stability using generalized Subset Simulation. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 46. 650–664. 76 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2016). Reliability Analysis of Slope Under Seismic Load Based on Checking Point Method. Zhongguo gonglu xuebao. 29(11). 18.

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Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2014). An Exponential Smoothing Adaptive Failure Detector in the Dual Model of Heartbeat and Interaction. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering. 8(1). 17–24.

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Zhang, Jing, et al.. (2006). Fusion Recognition Method of Target's SAR Images Based on Modified D-S Evidence Theory. 32. 10280–10284. 1 indexed citations

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