Zu-Cheng Chen

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Zu-Cheng Chen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Zu-Cheng Chen has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Zu-Cheng Chen's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (42 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (42 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers). Zu-Cheng Chen is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (42 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (42 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers). Zu-Cheng Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Portugal. Zu-Cheng Chen's co-authors include Qing-Guo Huang, Chen Yuan, Lang Liü, Yu-Mei Wu, You Wu, Zhi-Qiang You, Hao Wei, Zhu Yi, Qingguo Huang and Jing Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Zu-Cheng Chen

58 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Probing the equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

2023 75 citations Lang Liü, Zu-Cheng Chen et al. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics profile →
Implications for the non-Gaussianity of curvature perturbation from pulsar timing arrays

2024 67 citations Lang Liü, Zu-Cheng Chen et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zu-Cheng Chen China	24	1.4k	695	300	72	37	63	1.5k
Aaron Zimmerman United States	21	1.3k 0.9×	664 1.0×	109 0.4×	101 1.4×	121 3.3×	40	1.3k
Naoki Seto Japan	23	2.1k 1.4×	904 1.3×	278 0.9×	144 2.0×	89 2.4×	80	2.1k
Valerie Domcke Switzerland	23	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	195 0.7×	105 1.5×	18 0.5×	51	1.7k
Xavier Siemens United States	19	1.5k 1.0×	704 1.0×	238 0.8×	120 1.7×	65 1.8×	36	1.6k
Angelo Ricciardone Italy	21	1.3k 0.9×	594 0.9×	298 1.0×	58 0.8×	18 0.5×	45	1.4k
P. H. R. S. Moraes Brazil	24	1.8k 1.3×	1.5k 2.1×	433 1.4×	53 0.7×	17 0.5×	59	1.9k
Niels Warburton Ireland	26	1.6k 1.1×	598 0.9×	57 0.2×	81 1.1×	102 2.8×	48	1.7k
S. Abraham United States	5	960 0.7×	221 0.3×	114 0.4×	73 1.0×	164 4.4×	5	1.0k
Jonathan R. Gair United Kingdom	15	792 0.6×	256 0.4×	84 0.3×	39 0.5×	79 2.1×	25	824
Sylvain Marsat France	23	1.7k 1.2×	538 0.8×	182 0.6×	68 0.9×	216 5.8×	37	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Zu-Cheng Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zu-Cheng Chen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Zu-Cheng, et al.. (2026). Scalar-gravitational quasinormal modes and echoes in a five dimensional thick brane. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2026(1).

Chen, Zu-Cheng & Lang Liü. (2025). Can we distinguish between adiabatic and isocurvature fluctuations with pulsar timing arrays?. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 68(5). 10 indexed citations

Chen, Zu-Cheng, et al.. (2025). Detecting cosmological phase transitions with Taiji: sensitivity analysis and parameter estimation*. Chinese Physics C. 49(10). 105103–105103.

You, Zhi-Qiang, X. J. Zhu, Bernhard Mueller, et al.. (2025). Determination of the birth-mass function of neutron stars from observations. Nature Astronomy. 9(4). 552–563. 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Chen, Yizhou Lu, Zu-Cheng Chen, & Lang Liü. (2025). On the gauge invariance of secondary gravitational waves. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(7). 16–16.

Chen, Zu-Cheng, et al.. (2025). PINNs for solving unsteady Maxwell’s equations: convergence issues and comparative assessment with compact schemes. Neural Computing and Applications. 37(29). 24103–24122. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Zu-Cheng, Dumitru Mihalache, Milivoj R. Belić, et al.. (2025). Bright solitons under fractional diffraction and various harmonic potentials. Physics Letters A. 549. 130577–130577. 1 indexed citations

Rogers, Axl F., W. van Straten, Sergei Gulyaev, et al.. (2024). Reducing Instrumental Errors in Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Data. The Astrophysical Journal. 973(2). 94–94. 1 indexed citations

Yuan, Chen, et al.. (2024). GW230529_181500: a potential primordial binary black hole merger in the mass gap. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(8). 30–30. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Yu-Mei, et al.. (2024). Constraints on the velocity of gravitational waves from the NANOGrav 15-year data set. Physical review. D. 109(6). 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Zu-Cheng, et al.. (2024). Search for nontensorial gravitational-wave backgrounds in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset. Physical review. D. 109(8). 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Zu-Cheng & Lang Liü. (2024). Detecting a gravitational wave background from inflation with null energy condition violation: prospects for Taiji. The European Physical Journal C. 84(11). 1 indexed citations

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Reardon, Daniel J., M. Bailes, R. M. Shannon, et al.. (2024). The Neutron Star Mass, Distance, and Inclination from Precision Timing of the Brilliant Millisecond Pulsar J0437-4715. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 971(1). L18–L18. 27 indexed citations

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Wu, Yu-Mei, et al.. (2024). Constraining the graviton mass with the NANOGrav 15 year data set. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(7). 75002–75002. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Zu-Cheng, Jun Li, Lang Liü, & Zhu Yi. (2024). Probing the speed of scalar-induced gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. Physical review. D. 109(10). 20 indexed citations

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Liü, Lang, et al.. (2024). Implications for the non-Gaussianity of curvature perturbation from pulsar timing arrays. Physical review. D. 109(6). 67 indexed citations breakdown →

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You, Zhi-Qiang, et al.. (2024). On the Spin Period Distribution of Millisecond Pulsars. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 80–80. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Zu-Cheng, Qing-Guo Huang, Chang Liu, et al.. (2024). Prospects for Taiji to detect a gravitational-wave background from cosmic strings. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(3). 22–22. 8 indexed citations

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Wei, Jun-Jie, et al.. (2023). Model-independent determination of H0 and ΩK, 0 using time-delay galaxy lenses and gamma-ray bursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 4963–4975. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Zu-Cheng, Sang Pyo Kim, & Lang Liü. (2023). Gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges: hyperbolic orbits on a cone. Communications in Theoretical Physics. 75(6). 65401–65401. 23 indexed citations

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