Zihan Lin

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 655 citations indexed

About

Zihan Lin is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zihan Lin has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 655 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 11 papers in Information Systems and 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Zihan Lin's work include Recommender Systems and Techniques (9 papers), Topic Modeling (5 papers) and Advanced Graph Neural Networks (5 papers). Zihan Lin is often cited by papers focused on Recommender Systems and Techniques (9 papers), Topic Modeling (5 papers) and Advanced Graph Neural Networks (5 papers). Zihan Lin collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Zihan Lin's co-authors include Wayne Xin Zhao, Changxin Tian, Yupeng Hou, Ji-Rong Wen, Pengfei Wang, Xingyu Pan, Zhichao Feng, Yushuo Chen, Hui Wang and Kaiyuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Geological Society of America Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Zihan Lin

26 papers receiving 644 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.

Improving Graph Collaborative Filtering with Neighborhood-enriched Contrastive Learning

2022 297 citations Zihan Lin, Changxin Tian et al. profile →
RecBole: Towards a Unified, Comprehensive and Efficient Framework for Recommendation Algorithms

2021 220 citations Wayne Xin Zhao, Shanlei Mu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zihan Lin China	9	533	459	129	102	58	32	655
Changxin Tian China	9	648 1.2×	558 1.2×	159 1.2×	103 1.0×	68 1.2×	11	743
Ziwei Fan China	11	437 0.8×	396 0.9×	99 0.8×	103 1.0×	63 1.1×	37	570
Yuhan Quan China	5	342 0.6×	344 0.7×	109 0.8×	61 0.6×	53 0.9×	7	498
Bo Long United States	10	381 0.7×	304 0.7×	106 0.8×	107 1.0×	47 0.8×	21	506
Ali Elkahky United States	6	471 0.9×	431 0.9×	210 1.6×	78 0.8×	72 1.2×	10	661
Qiaoyu Tan United States	12	222 0.4×	359 0.8×	104 0.8×	43 0.4×	57 1.0×	27	478
Wanyu Chen China	13	424 0.8×	407 0.9×	97 0.8×	100 1.0×	51 0.9×	36	562
Maheedhar Kolla Canada	5	465 0.9×	300 0.7×	138 1.1×	72 0.7×	76 1.3×	12	648
Wendi Ji China	9	254 0.5×	246 0.5×	66 0.5×	66 0.6×	26 0.4×	18	395
Shengxian Wan China	6	378 0.7×	516 1.1×	170 1.3×	87 0.9×	46 0.8×	6	704

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zihan Lin

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Zihan, Weili Li, Fan Yang, et al.. (2025). Investigating the Impact of Interference on the Structure and Characteristics of Self‐Stratifying Coatings. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 142(19). 2 indexed citations

Li, Chunxia, et al.. (2025). The transition metal oxide grown on porous nickel foam for efficient benzyl alcohol oxidation and hydrogen evolution performance. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 179. 114743–114743. 1 indexed citations

Mei, May Lei, Lin Deng, Zihan Lin, et al.. (2025). Effects of Triphenyl phosphate (TPHP) on Microcystis aeruginosa: Growth stimulation and adaptability mechanisms. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 496. 139238–139238.

Lin, Zihan, Ting Wang, Fuxun Ai, et al.. (2025). Microcystis aeruginosa copes with toxic effects of micro/nano-plastics with varying particle sizes through different self-regulatory mechanisms. Aquatic Toxicology. 289. 107589–107589.

Dong, Hong, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive evaluation index system for low-carbon development of power systems in a load-intensive city. Frontiers in Energy Research. 12. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Yanna, et al.. (2024). A Morphing-Based Future Scenario Generation Method for Stochastic Power System Analysis. Sustainability. 16(7). 2762–2762. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Juanjuan, Zihan Lin, Fuxun Ai, et al.. (2024). Effect of ultraviolet aged polytetrafluoroethylene microplastics on copper bioavailability and Microcystis aeruginosa growth. Aquatic Toxicology. 272. 106967–106967. 8 indexed citations

Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2024). Promoting Two-sided Fairness with Adaptive Weights for Providers and Customers in Recommendation. 918–923.

Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2023). Correlation knowledge extraction based on data mining for distribution network planning. Global Energy Interconnection. 6(4). 485–492. 3 indexed citations

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Lin, Zihan. (2023). A Study on the Effects of Multimedia on Childrens Second Language Acquisition Take Childrens Song, Picture Book, and Animation as Examples. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media. 18(1). 216–221. 1 indexed citations

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Pan, Xingyu, Yushuo Chen, Changxin Tian, et al.. (2022). Multimodal Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management. 3421–3430. 23 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wayne Xin, Zihan Lin, Zhichao Feng, Pengfei Wang, & Ji-Rong Wen. (2022). A Revisiting Study of Appropriate Offline Evaluation for Top- N Recommendation Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 41(2). 1–41. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wayne Xin, Shanlei Mu, Yupeng Hou, et al.. (2021). RecBole: Towards a Unified, Comprehensive and Efficient Framework for Recommendation Algorithms. 4653–4664. 220 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2018). A Feed-Forward Neural Network Model For The Accurate Prediction Of Diabetes Mellitus. International journal of scientific and technology research. 7(8). 151–155. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Ze, et al.. (2017). Detecting event-related changes in organizational networks using optimized neural network models. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0188733–e0188733. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2016). Research on the structural characteristic of global terrorist organization cooperation network. 58. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Tang, Min, et al.. (2015). Research on the Evaluation Method of National Military Development Based on Net Assessment. 129–132. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2014). Agent-based simulation research on group emotion evolution of public emergency. 497–502. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2014). Agent Based Simulation of Group Emotions Evolution and Strategy Intervention in Extreme Events. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society. 2014. 1–17. 4 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xiaotian, et al.. (2013). Novel Boosting Frameworks to Improve the Performance of Collaborative Filtering. Asian Conference on Machine Learning. 87–99. 8 indexed citations

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