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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 54 2278 2185 891 835 452 11589

Guifang Li publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Guifang Li between 1992 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Guifang Li published across 35 years, from 1992 to 2026, averaging 15.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 42 publications in 2018. 29 of the 552 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1992 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 42. Peak 42 publications in 2018. 1992: 2 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 8 publications 2001: 9 publications 2002: 7 publications 2003: 7 publications 2004: 14 publications 2005: 24 publications 2006: 21 publications 2007: 21 publications 2008: 19 publications 2009: 21 publications 2010: 17 publications 2011: 19 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 17 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 31 publications 2017: 33 publications 2018: 42 publications 2019: 28 publications 2020: 36 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 19 publications 2024: 30 publications 2025: 27 publications 2026: 2 publications
1992 2026

552 publications in total across all disciplines

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Guifang Li: publications per year, 1992 to 2026
Year Publications
1992 2
1993 0
1994 0
1995 1
1996 1
1997 1
1998 4
1999 6
2000 8
2001 9
2002 7
2003 7
2004 14
2005 24
2006 21
2007 21
2008 19
2009 21
2010 17
2011 19
2012 16
2013 13
2014 17
2015 18
2016 31
2017 33
2018 42
2019 28
2020 36
2021 20
2022 18
2023 19
2024 30
2025 27
2026 2
Total 552
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Guifang Li publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guifang Li sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 34–53 to 1,065+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 445. Most scientists, 445, have 174–193 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 434–453 publications, is where this scientist sits. 34–53 publications: 24 scientists 54–73 publications: 52 scientists 74–93 publications: 114 scientists 94–113 publications: 203 scientists 114–133 publications: 269 scientists 134–153 publications: 355 scientists 154–173 publications: 403 scientists 174–193 publications: 445 scientists 194–213 publications: 430 scientists 214–233 publications: 431 scientists 234–253 publications: 399 scientists 254–273 publications: 366 scientists 274–293 publications: 335 scientists 294–313 publications: 300 scientists 314–333 publications: 276 scientists 334–353 publications: 250 scientists 354–373 publications: 214 scientists 374–393 publications: 187 scientists 394–413 publications: 152 scientists 414–433 publications: 169 scientists 434–453 publications: 147 scientists 454–473 publications: 111 scientists 474–493 publications: 117 scientists 494–513 publications: 103 scientists 514–533 publications: 99 scientists 534–553 publications: 92 scientists 554–573 publications: 75 scientists 574–593 publications: 58 scientists 594–613 publications: 69 scientists 614–633 publications: 50 scientists 634–653 publications: 62 scientists 654–673 publications: 54 scientists 674–693 publications: 44 scientists 694–713 publications: 37 scientists 714–733 publications: 28 scientists 734–753 publications: 26 scientists 754–773 publications: 26 scientists 774–793 publications: 19 scientists 794–813 publications: 23 scientists 814–833 publications: 20 scientists 834–853 publications: 16 scientists 854–873 publications: 20 scientists 874–893 publications: 11 scientists 894–913 publications: 11 scientists 914–933 publications: 16 scientists 934–953 publications: 13 scientists 954–973 publications: 10 scientists 974–993 publications: 11 scientists 994–1,013 publications: 9 scientists 1,014–1,033 publications: 9 scientists 1,034–1,053 publications: 10 scientists 1,054–1,064 publications: 6 scientists 1,065+ publications: 99 scientists
34–53 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 452 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
34–53 24
54–73 52
74–93 114
94–113 203
114–133 269
134–153 355
154–173 403
174–193 445
194–213 430
214–233 431
234–253 399
254–273 366
274–293 335
294–313 300
314–333 276
334–353 250
354–373 214
374–393 187
394–413 152
414–433 169
434–453 147 452
454–473 111
474–493 117
494–513 103
514–533 99
534–553 92
554–573 75
574–593 58
594–613 69
614–633 50
634–653 62
654–673 54
674–693 44
694–713 37
714–733 28
734–753 26
754–773 26
774–793 19
794–813 23
814–833 20
834–853 16
854–873 20
874–893 11
894–913 11
914–933 16
934–953 13
954–973 10
974–993 11
994–1,013 9
1,014–1,033 9
1,034–1,053 10
1,054–1,064 6
1,065+ 99
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Guifang Li D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guifang Li sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 82 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 111+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 263. Most scientists, 263, have 32 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 54 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 262 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 178
31 257
32 263
33 262
34 244
35 236
36 211
37 220
38 214
39 214
40 205
41 187
42 194
43 201
44 155
45 189
46 148
47 160
48 134
49 130
50 141
51 156
52 108
53 130
54 112 54
55 97
56 111
57 102
58 108
59 120
60 103
61 93
62 92
63 74
64 77
65 73
66 64
67 69
68 60
69 39
70 57
71 59
72 46
73 49
74 38
75 35
76 32
77 35
78 31
79 22
80 34
81 31
82 34
83 23
84 18
85 30
86 19
87 19
88 20
89 8
90 17
91 7
92 14
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 12
97 10
98 10
99 12
100 16
101 5
102 7
103 7
104 8
105 9
106 13
107 4
108 5
109 10
110 8
111+ 96
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2006 - OSA Fellows For seminal contributions to all-optical clock recovery, all-optical regeneration, advanced modulation formats for optical transmission and RF photonics.
  • 2005 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Guifang Li is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States and specializes in Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. The research work also spans Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research broadly covers the following main topics:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Guifang Li has published extensively in well-known venues, including:

  • Optics Letters
  • Optics Express
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advances in Optics and Photonics

Frequent collaborators include Dingrong Deng, Qi-Hui Wu, Zheyuan Zhu, Jian-Chun Weng, and Shuo Pang. These coauthors have appeared recurrently alongside Guifang Li's work, indicating ongoing collaborative efforts in research.

Selected recent publications provide insight into the scope and impact of the scientist's research contributions:

  • "Perspective on mode-division multiplexing", 2021, Applied Physics Letters
  • "Accelerating the Rate-Determining Steps of Sulfur Conversion Reaction for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Working at an Ultrawide Temperature Range", 2024, Advanced Materials
  • "Responses and comprehensive evaluation of growth characteristics of ephemeral plants in the desert-oasis ecotone to soil types", 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Construction of ZIF-67/MIL-88(Fe, Ni) catalysts as a novel platform for efficient overall water splitting", 2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "High-throughput sequencing analysis of the rhizosphere arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) community composition associated with Ferula sinkiangensis", 2020, BMC Microbiology

Guifang Li has been recognized by several professional organizations, having received distinctions such as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015, OSA Fellow in 2006 for contributions to all-optical clock recovery, regeneration, advanced modulation formats for optical transmission, and RF photonics, and SPIE Fellow in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Space-division multiplexing: the next frontier in optical communication

    Guifang Li;Neng Bai;Ningbo Zhao;Cen Xia

  • Ultra-high-density spatial division multiplexing with a few-mode multicore fibre

    R. G. H. van Uden;R. Amezcua Correa;E. Antonio Lopez;F. M. Huijskens

  • Supermodes for optical transmission.

    Cen Xia;Neng Bai;Ibrahim Ozdur;Xiang Zhou

  • Electronic post-compensation of WDM transmission impairments using coherent detection and digital signal processing.

    Xiaoxu Li;Xin Chen;Gilad Goldfarb;Eduardo Mateo

  • Recent advances in coherent optical communication

    Guifang Li

  • Mode-division multiplexed transmission with inline few-mode fiber amplifier.

    Neng Bai;Ezra Ip;Yue-Kai Huang;Eduardo Mateo

  • Coherent optical communication using polarization multiple-input-multiple-output

    Yan Han;Guifang Li

  • Capacity limits of spatially multiplexed free-space communication

    Ningbo Zhao;Xiaoying Li;Guifang Li;Guifang Li;Joseph M. Kahn

  • Multimode fiber amplifier with tunable modal gain using a reconfigurable multimode pump

    Neng Bai;Ezra Ip;Ting Wang;Guifang Li

  • Long distance transmission in few-mode fibers

    Fatih Yaman;Neng Bai;Benyuan Zhu;Ting Wang

  • Ultrahigh-speed reconfigurable logic gates based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

    Zhihong Li;Guifang Li

  • All-fiber mode-group-selective photonic lantern using graded-index multimode fibers.

    Bin Huang;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;Binbin Guan

  • Adaptive frequency domain equalization for mode-division multiplexed transmission

    Neng Bai;Guifang Li

  • 88×3×112-Gb/s WDM transmission over 50 km of three-mode fiber with inline few-mode fiber amplifier

    Ezra Ip;Neng Bai;Yue-Kai Huang;Eduardo Mateo

  • Hole-Assisted Few-Mode Multicore Fiber for High-Density Space-Division Multiplexing

    Cen Xia;R. Amezcua-Correa;Neng Bai;E. Antonio-Lopez

  • Nonlinear Impairment Compensation for Polarization-Division Multiplexed WDM Transmission Using Digital Backward Propagation

    Fatih Yaman;Guifang Li

  • Impact of XPM and FWM on the digital implementation of impairment compensation for WDM transmission using backward propagation

    Eduardo Mateo;Likai Zhu;Guifang Li

  • Phase and Amplitude Regeneration of Differential Phase-Shift Keyed Signals Using Phase-Sensitive Amplification

    K. Croussore;Guifang Li

  • All-optical regeneration of differential phase-shift keying signals based on phase-sensitive amplification.

    Kevin Croussore;Cheolhwan Kim;Guifang Li

  • Integrated cladding-pumped multicore few-mode erbium-doped fibre amplifier for space-division-multiplexed communications

    H. Chen;C. Jin;C. Jin;B. Huang;B. Huang;N. K. Fontaine

  • Capacity limits for free-space channels

    Joseph M. Kahn;Guifang Li;Xiaoying Li;Ningbo Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Lin Zhang
Lin Zhang Tianjin University
Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa
Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa University of Central Florida
Pierre Sillard
Pierre Sillard Prysmian Group (Germany)
Nicolas K. Fontaine
Nicolas K. Fontaine Nokia (United States)
Roland Ryf
Roland Ryf Nokia (United States)
Haoshuo Chen
Haoshuo Chen Nokia Bell Labs
Axel Schülzgen
Axel Schülzgen University of Central Florida
Bahaa E. A. Saleh
Bahaa E. A. Saleh University of Central Florida

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