2026 Heng Ji: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	64	2628	2548	1304	1255	333	14697

Heng Ji publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heng Ji sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 333 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Heng Ji D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heng Ji sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Heng Ji is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, information systems, management science and operations research, and molecular biology.

The scientist has published extensively, with a total of 161 publications in computer science. Within this domain, 115 publications focus on artificial intelligence, 21 on computer vision and pattern recognition, 13 on information systems, 8 on management science and operations research, and another 8 on molecular biology. Their main research topics include topic modeling, natural language processing techniques, multimodal machine learning applications, software engineering research, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, data quality and management, and advanced text analysis techniques.

Heng Ji's recent papers cover a range of topics and venues, including:

"A hypochlorite-activated strategy for realizing fluorescence turn-on, type I and type II ROS-combined photodynamic tumor ablation" (2023) published in Biomaterials
"Chemical-Reaction-Aware Molecule Representation Learning" (2021) published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Constrained Abstractive Summarization: Preserving Factual Consistency with Constrained Generation" (2020) published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models" (2023) published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Dynamic Global Memory for Document-level Argument Extraction" (2022) published in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

The scholar frequently publishes in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Biomaterials
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of Heng Ji's research activity. They have worked multiple times with coauthors including Yi R. Fung, Jiawei Han, Manling Li, Revanth Gangi Reddy, and Yangyi Chen.

Best Publications

Incremental Joint Extraction of Entity Mentions and Relations

Qi Li;Heng Ji

539
Citations
Joint Event Extraction via Structured Prediction with Global Features

Qi Li;Heng Ji;Liang Huang

529
Citations
Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference

Heng Ji;Ralph Grishman

512
Citations
Overview of the TAC 2010 Knowledge Base Population Track

Heng Ji;Heng Ji;Ralph Grishman;Hoa Trang Dang;Kira Griffitt

474
Citations
Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges

Heng Ji;Ralph Grishman

398
Citations
Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages

Xiaoman Pan;Boliang Zhang;Jonathan May;Joel Nothman

373
Citations
A Joint Neural Model for Information Extraction with Global Features.

Ying Lin;Heng Ji;Fei Huang;Lingfei Wu

368
Citations
CoType: Joint Extraction of Typed Entities and Relations with Knowledge Bases

Xiang Ren;Zeqiu Wu;Wenqi He;Meng Qu

309
Citations
Visual Attention Model for Name Tagging in Multimodal Social Media

Di Lu;Leonardo Neves;Vitor Carvalho;Ning Zhang

262
Citations
A Dependency-Based Neural Network for Relation Classification

Yang Liu;Furu Wei;Sujian Li;Heng Ji

258
Citations
A Language-Independent Neural Network for Event Detection.

Xiaocheng Feng;Lifu Huang;Duyu Tang;Heng Ji

256
Citations
Moralization in social networks and the emergence of violence during protests.

Marlon Mooijman;Joe Hoover;Ying Lin;Heng Ji

239
Citations
FaitCrowd: Fine Grained Truth Discovery for Crowdsourced Data Aggregation

Fenglong Ma;Yaliang Li;Qi Li;Minghui Qiu

231
Citations
A Survey of Knowledge-Enhanced Text Generation.

Wenhao Yu;Chenguang Zhu;Zaitang Li;Zhiting Hu

228
Citations
Document-Level Event Argument Extraction by Conditional Generation

Sha Li;Heng Ji;Jiawei Han

228
Citations
Text Classification Using Label Names Only: A Language Model Self-Training Approach

Yu Meng;Yunyi Zhang;Jiaxin Huang;Chenyan Xiong

203
Citations
A novel neural topic model and its supervised extension

Ziqiang Cao;Sujian Li;Yang Liu;Wenjie Li

190
Citations
Zero-shot transfer learning for event extraction

Lifu Huang;Heng Ji;Kyunghyun Cho;Ido Dagan

182
Citations
The Age of Social Sensing

Dong Wang;Boleslaw K. Szymanski;Tarek Abdelzaher;Heng Ji

173
Citations
Exploring Context and Content Links in Social Media: A Latent Space Method

Guo-Jun Qi;C. Aggarwal;Qi Tian;Heng Ji

163
Citations
Zero-Shot Transfer Learning for Event Extraction

Lifu Huang;Heng Ji;Kyunghyun Cho;Clare R. Voss

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiawei Han University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kevin Knight University of Southern California

Ralph Grishman New York University

Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University

Xiang Ren University of Southern California

Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dilek Hakkani-Tur University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sujian Li Peking University

Arkaitz Zubiaga Queen Mary University of London

Dan Roth University of Pennsylvania

External Links

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