Zi Lin

2.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zi Lin is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zi Lin has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zi Lin's work include Wind Energy Research and Development (13 papers), Energy Load and Power Forecasting (11 papers) and Wave and Wind Energy Systems (7 papers). Zi Lin is often cited by papers focused on Wind Energy Research and Development (13 papers), Energy Load and Power Forecasting (11 papers) and Wave and Wind Energy Systems (7 papers). Zi Lin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and China. Zi Lin's co-authors include Xiaolei Liu, Zi‐Ming Feng, Saeid Lotfian, Shahram Hanifi, Wanqing Zhang, Maurizio Collu, Hengxu Liu, Liyun Lao, Tenghui Li and Hongxin Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy and Renewable Energy.

In The Last Decade

Zi Lin

31 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Short-term offshore wind speed forecast by seasonal ARIMA... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2021 2020 2020 2021 100 200 300
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. Short-term offshore wind speed forecast by seasonal ARIMA - A comparison against GRU and LSTM
    2021 327 citations Xiaolei Liu, Zi Lin et al. Energy profile →
  2. Wind power forecasting – A data-driven method along with gated recurrent neural network
    2020 285 citations Zi Lin, Xiaolei Liu et al. Renewable Energy profile →
  3. A Critical Review of Wind Power Forecasting Methods—Past, Present and Future
    2020 266 citations Shahram Hanifi, Xiaolei Liu et al. Energies profile →
  4. Short-term offshore wind power forecasting - A hybrid model based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA), and deep-learning-based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
    2021 187 citations Zi Lin, Xiaolei Liu et al. Renewable Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zi Lin United Kingdom 15 1.3k 588 414 332 179 31 1.9k
Mehdi Neshat Australia 23 641 0.5× 580 1.0× 443 1.1× 214 0.6× 78 0.4× 89 1.9k
H.M.I. Pousinho Portugal 28 1.9k 1.4× 546 0.9× 200 0.5× 317 1.0× 261 1.5× 55 2.3k
Yongqi Liu China 19 842 0.6× 415 0.7× 180 0.4× 125 0.4× 150 0.8× 43 1.5k
Shuang Han China 23 1.7k 1.3× 650 1.1× 664 1.6× 262 0.8× 148 0.8× 75 2.2k
Xiwei Mi China 18 1.7k 1.3× 751 1.3× 381 0.9× 243 0.7× 351 2.0× 29 2.2k
Yaoyao He China 24 1.2k 0.9× 492 0.8× 116 0.3× 173 0.5× 396 2.2× 76 1.9k
Zhendong Zhang China 17 795 0.6× 393 0.7× 165 0.4× 115 0.3× 143 0.8× 25 1.3k
Jianming Hu China 14 1.2k 0.9× 446 0.8× 278 0.7× 148 0.4× 297 1.7× 30 1.4k
Jesús Manuel Riquelme Santos Spain 25 1.7k 1.3× 258 0.4× 1.0k 2.5× 499 1.5× 98 0.5× 83 2.5k
Jiejin Cai China 23 1.3k 1.0× 283 0.5× 513 1.2× 384 1.2× 50 0.3× 108 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zi Lin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zi Lin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zi Lin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zi Lin 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 Zi Lin. Zi Lin 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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Lin, Zi, et al.. (2025). Study on aerodynamic performance of floating offshore wind turbine with fusion winglets under yaw motion. Ships and Offshore Structures. 1–15. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuewu, et al.. (2024). A novel trajectory planning method for mobile robotic grinding wind turbine blade. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 132. 142–158. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Tenghui, Xiaolei Liu, Zi Lin, Jin Yang, & Αναστασία Ιωάννου. (2023). A linear quadratic regulator with integral action of wind turbine based on aerodynamics forecasting for variable power production. Renewable Energy. 223. 119605–119605. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaolei, et al.. (2021). Anomaly detection in wind turbine SCADA data for power curve cleaning. Renewable Energy. 184. 473–486. 73 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi, Xiaolei Liu, & Saeid Lotfian. (2021). Impacts of water depth increase on offshore floating wind turbine dynamics. Ocean Engineering. 224. 108697–108697. 26 indexed citations
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Hanifi, Shahram, Xiaolei Liu, Zi Lin, & Saeid Lotfian. (2020). A Critical Review of Wind Power Forecasting Methods—Past, Present and Future. Energies. 13(15). 3764–3764. 266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lin, Zi & Xiaolei Liu. (2020). Wind power forecasting of an offshore wind turbine based on high-frequency SCADA data and deep learning neural network. Energy. 201. 117693–117693. 175 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi & Xiaolei Liu. (2020). Assessment of Wind Turbine Aero-Hydro-Servo-Elastic Modelling on the Effects of Mooring Line Tension via Deep Learning. Energies. 13(9). 2264–2264. 25 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi, Xiaolei Liu, & Maurizio Collu. (2020). Wind power prediction based on high-frequency SCADA data along with isolation forest and deep learning neural networks. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 118. 105835–105835. 116 indexed citations
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Dong, Hongyang, Mohamed Edrah, Xiaowei Zhao, et al.. (2020). Model-Free Semi-Active Structural Control of Floating Wind Turbines. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi, Xiaolei Liu, Liyun Lao, & Hengxu Liu. (2020). Prediction of two-phase flow patterns in upward inclined pipes via deep learning. Energy. 210. 118541–118541. 100 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi, et al.. (2019). A methodology to develop reduced-order models to support the operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines. Applied Energy. 259. 114228–114228. 33 indexed citations
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Liu, Hengxu, et al.. (2019). Investigation on PTO control of a Combined Axisymmetric Buoy-WEC(CAB-WEC). Ocean Engineering. 188. 106245–106245. 9 indexed citations
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Collu, Maurizio, et al.. (2018). O&M Cost-Based FMECA: Identification and Ranking of the Most Critical Components for 2-4 MW Geared Offshore Wind Turbines. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1102. 12039–12039. 13 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi, et al.. (2008). A Multipurpose Public-Key Cryptosystem Based Image Watermarking. 10. 1–4. 3 indexed citations
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Lin, Zi, et al.. (2006). Simulation of paraxial pinhole photon sieves model based on Fresnel zone plates. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6149. 61493A–61493A. 6 indexed citations

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