2026 Rong Zhang: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	35	9045	8711	577	548	202	4324

Overview

Rong Zhang is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, focusing on research that spans multiple disciplines including engineering, computer science, and mathematics. Their work encompasses a diverse range of topics and subfields, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to complex problems.

Their primary fields of study include:

Engineering (28 publications)
Computer Science (28 publications)
Mathematics (23 publications)

Within these broad areas, Zhang has contributed to several subfields, notably:

Electrical and Electronic Engineering (13 publications)
Geometry and Topology (10 publications)
Marketing (9 publications)
Computational Theory and Mathematics (9 publications)
Computer Networks and Communications (8 publications)

Zhang's research topics focus on both theoretical and applied aspects, among which are:

Graph theory and applications (20 publications)
Supply Chain and Inventory Management (10 publications)
Consumer Retail Behavior Studies (8 publications)
Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (8 publications)
Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (8 publications)
Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics (8 publications)
Quantum Mechanics and Applications (8 publications)

Publications by Rong Zhang are distributed across a range of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
Discrete Applied Mathematics (2 publications)
Linear Algebra and its Applications (2 publications)
International Journal of Theoretical Physics (2 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (2 publications)

Some recent papers by Zhang include:

"Pricing and advertising decisions in O2O supply chain with the presence of consumers' anticipated regret", 2022, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
"Applications of lasers: A promising route toward low-cost fabrication of high-efficiency full-color micro-LED displays", 2023, Opto-Electronic Science
"Far-End Crosstalk Mitigation for Future Wireline Networks Beyond G.mgfast: A Survey and an Outlook", 2020, IEEE Access
"Fixed, flexible, and dynamics pricing decisions of Airbnb mode with social learning", 2020, Tourism Economics
"Sharp upper bounds on the Q-index of (minimally) 2-connected graphs with given size", 2022, Discrete Applied Mathematics

Collaboration forms an important part of Zhang's research, with frequent co-authors including:

Shu-Guang Guo (7 joint publications)
Bin Liu (5 joint publications)
Qi Han (5 joint publications)
Shuai Wang (5 joint publications)
Lijie Gou (5 joint publications)

Best Publications

Cooperative Load Balancing in Hybrid Visible Light Communications and WiFi

Xuan Li;Rong Zhang;Lajos Hanzo

273
Citations
Generalised Pre-Coding Aided Spatial Modulation

Rong Zhang;Lie-Liang Yang;Lajos Hanzo

222
Citations
Visible light communications in heterogeneous networks: Paving the way for user-centric design

Rong Zhang;Jiaheng Wang;Zhaocheng Wang;Zhengyuan Xu

163
Citations
Speeding up search in peer-to-peer networks with a multi-way tree structure

H. V. Jagadish;Beng Chin Ooi;Kian-Lee Tan;Quang Hieu Vu

141
Citations
A thermoresponsive and chemically defined hydrogel for long-term culture of human embryonic stem cells

Rong Zhang;Heidi K. Mjoseng;Marieke A. Hoeve;Nina G. Bauer

138
Citations
Multiuser MISO Transceiver Design for Indoor Downlink Visible Light Communication Under Per-LED Optical Power Constraints

Baolong Li;Jiaheng Wang;Rong Zhang;Hong Shen

137
Citations
Resource Allocation Under Delay-Guarantee Constraints for Heterogeneous Visible-Light and RF Femtocell

Fan Jin;Rong Zhang;Lajos Hanzo

124
Citations
A Unified Treatment of Superposition Coding Aided Communications: Theory and Practice

Rong Zhang;Lajos Hanzo

117
Citations
Error Probability and Capacity Analysis of Generalised Pre-Coding Aided Spatial Modulation

Rong Zhang;Lie-Liang Yang;Lajos Hanzo

116
Citations
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access: A Unified Perspective

Qi Wang;Rong Zhang;Lie-Liang Yang;Lajos Hanzo

115
Citations
Biodegradable pH-responsive hydrogels for controlled dual-drug release.

Liang Xu;Linzi Qiu;Yang Sheng;Yixin Sun

99
Citations
Transmitter Precoding-Aided Spatial Modulation for Secrecy Communications

Feilong Wu;Rong Zhang;Lie-Liang Yang;Wenjie Wang

91
Citations
Grain refinement of superalloy K4169 by addition of refiners: cast structure and refinement mechanisms

Lin Liu;Taiwen Huang;Yuhua Xiong;Aimin Yang

91
Citations
PAPR analysis for OFDM visible light communication.

Jiaheng Wang;Yang Xu;Xintong Ling;Rong Zhang

90
Citations
Energy Harvesting Aided Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying the Cellular Downlink

Shruti Gupta;Rong Zhang;Lajos Hanzo

84
Citations
Reconfigurable rateless codes

N. Bonello;Rong Zhang;Sheng Chen;L. Hanzo

83
Citations
Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene with Supported Transition Metal Catalysts in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Fengyu Zhao;Fengyu Zhao;Rong Zhang;Maya Chatterjee;Yutaka Ikushima

80
Citations
Fractional Frequency Reuse Aided Twin-Layer Femtocell Networks: Analysis, Design and Optimization

Fan Jin;Rong Zhang;L. Hanzo

77
Citations
Users First: User-Centric Cluster Formation for Interference-Mitigation in Visible-Light Networks

Xuan Li;Fan Jin;Rong Zhang;Jiaheng Wang

76
Citations
A Direct Matrix Synthesis for In-Line Filters With Transmission Zeros Generated by Frequency-Variant Couplings

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75
Citations
Microarrays of over 2000 hydrogels--identification of substrates for cellular trapping and thermally triggered release.

Rong Zhang;Albert Liberski;Rosario Sanchez-Martin;Mark Bradley

74
Citations
Hybrid membranes of metal–organic molecule nanocages for aromatic/aliphatic hydrocarbon separation by pervaporation

Cui Zhao;Naixin Wang;Lin Wang;Hongliang Huang

73
Citations
Wireless information and power transfer: from scientific hypothesis to engineering practice

Rong Zhang;Robert G. Maunder;Lajos Hanzo

72
Citations
Inkjet fabrication of hydrogel microarrays using in situ nanolitre-scale polymerisation

Rong Zhang;Albert Liberski;Ferdous Khan;Juan Jose Diaz-Mochon

70
Citations
Energy Efficient Visible Light Communications Relying on Amorphous Cells

Rong Zhang;Holger Claussen;Harald Haas;Lajos Hanzo

70
Citations