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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 40 4425 4246 670 668 362 8510
Computer Science 40 9174 8908 1171 1165 370 8528

Wei Chen publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Wei Chen between 2004 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Wei Chen published across 22 years, from 2004 to 2025, averaging 22.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 51 publications in 2021. 59 of the 491 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2004 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 51. Peak 51 publications in 2021. 2004: 1 publication 2005: 1 publication 2006: 4 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 32 publications 2015: 26 publications 2016: 30 publications 2017: 39 publications 2018: 27 publications 2019: 31 publications 2020: 31 publications 2021: 51 publications 2022: 28 publications 2023: 32 publications 2024: 34 publications 2025: 25 publications
2004 2025

491 publications in total across all disciplines

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Wei Chen: publications per year, 2004 to 2025
Year Publications
2004 1
2005 1
2006 4
2007 6
2008 10
2009 15
2010 20
2011 18
2012 15
2013 15
2014 32
2015 26
2016 30
2017 39
2018 27
2019 31
2020 31
2021 51
2022 28
2023 32
2024 34
2025 25
Total 491
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Wei Chen 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 Wei Chen 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, 354–373 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: 362 publications — 69th percentile

69% 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
354–373 214 362
374–393 187
394–413 152
414–433 169
434–453 147
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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Wei Chen 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 Wei Chen 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, 40 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: 40 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% 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 40
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
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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Overview

Wei Chen is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a substantial body of work in engineering and computer science, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, computer networks and communications, and artificial intelligence. Their research spans 252 publications in engineering and 173 in computer science, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to networked systems and wireless communications.

The scientist's recent papers address various aspects of wireless communication technologies, mobile edge computing, and the integration of intelligent systems. Notable works include:

  • "Federated Machine Learning for Intelligent IoT via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface," 2020, published in IEEE Network
  • "Resource Allocation for NOMA-MEC Systems in Ultra-Dense Networks: A Learning Aided Mean-Field Game Approach," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • "Over-the-Air Computation via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "Joint Channel and Queue Aware Scheduling for Latency Sensitive Mobile Edge Computing With Power Constraints," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • "Millimeter-Wave Networking in the Sky: A Machine Learning and Mean Field Game Approach for Joint Beamforming and Beam-Steering," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Wei Chen collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Khaled B. Letaief, H. Vincent Poor, Yuanming Shi, Zhu Han, and Joohyun Lee. These collaborative efforts have contributed to 29, 21, 14, 11, and 8 co-authored publications respectively.

The scientist's research contributions have appeared extensively in prominent publication venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), with 23 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, with 22 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications, with 17 publications
  • 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), with 7 publications
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, with 6 publications

Their work covers multiple specialized topics within wireless communications and network optimization, with emphasis on:

  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
  • Age of Information Optimization
  • Advanced Wireless Network Optimization
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Wireless Body Area Networks

Best Publications

  • The Roadmap to 6G: AI Empowered Wireless Networks

    Khaled B. Letaief;Wei Chen;Yuanming Shi;Jun Zhang

  • Charging Scheduling of Electric Vehicles With Local Renewable Energy Under Uncertain Electric Vehicle Arrival and Grid Power Price

    Tian Zhang;Wei Chen;Zhu Han;Zhigang Cao

  • Charging Unplugged: Will Distributed Laser Charging for Mobile Wireless Power Transfer Work?

    Qingwen Liu;Jun Wu;Pengfei Xia;Shengjie Zhao

  • Federated Machine Learning for Intelligent IoT via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

    Kai Yang;Yuanming Shi;Yong Zhou;Zhanpeng Yang

  • Caching based socially-aware D2D communications in wireless content delivery networks: a hypergraph framework

    Bo Bai;Li Wang;Zhu Han;Wei Chen

  • Dynamic Power and Sub-Carrier Allocation for OFDMA-Based Wireless Multicast Systems

    Juan Liu;Wei Chen;Zhigang Cao;K.B. Letaief

  • Federated Learning via Intelligent Reflecting Surface

    Zhibin Wang;Jiahang Qiu;Yong Zhou;Yuanming Shi

  • Opportunistic Network Coding for Wireless Networks

    Wei Chen;K.B. Letaief;Zhigang Cao

  • GreenDelivery: proactive content caching and push with energy-harvesting-based small cells

    Sheng Zhou;Jie Gong;Zhenyu Zhou;Wei Chen

  • Large-scale convex optimization for ultra-dense cloud-RAN

    Yuanming Shi;Jun Zhang;Khaled B. Letaief;Bo Bai

  • Hypergraph-Based Wireless Distributed Storage Optimization for Cellular D2D Underlays

    Li Wang;Huaqing Wu;Yinan Ding;Wei Chen

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Content Caching in Cache-Enabled D2D Networks

    Lixin Li;Yang Xu;Jiaying Yin;Wei Liang

  • A Prediction-Based Charging Policy and Interference Mitigation Approach in the Wireless Powered Internet of Things

    Lixin Li;Yang Xu;Zihe Zhang;Jiaying Yin

  • A Unified Cross-Layer Framework for Resource Allocation in Cooperative Networks

    Wei Chen;Lin Dai;K. Ben Letaief;Zhigang Cao

  • Achieving High Energy Efficiency and Physical-Layer Security in AF Relaying

    Dong Wang;Bo Bai;Wei Chen;Zhu Han

  • Smoothed $L_p$ -Minimization for Green Cloud-RAN With User Admission Control

    Yuanming Shi;Jinkun Cheng;Jun Zhang;Bo Bai

  • Over-the-Air Computation via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

    Wenzhi Fang;Yuning Jiang;Yuanming Shi;Yong Zhou

  • Resource Allocation for NOMA-MEC Systems in Ultra-Dense Networks: A Learning Aided Mean-Field Game Approach

    Lixin Li;Qianqian Cheng;Xiao Tang;Tong Bai

  • Cooperative Beamforming for Cognitive Radio Networks: A Cross-Layer Design

    Juan Liu;Wei Chen;Zhigang Cao;Ying Jun Angela Zhang

  • Energy Efficient Secure Communication Over Decode-and-Forward Relay Channels

    Dong Wang;Bo Bai;Wei Chen;Zhu Han

  • Content Pushing With Request Delay Information

    Wei Chen;H. Vincent Poor

  • Federated Learning via Intelligent Reflecting Surface

    Zhibin Wang;Jiahang Qiu;Yong Zhou;Yuanming Shi

  • Smoothed Lp-Minimization for Green Cloud-RAN with User Admission Control

    Yuanming Shi;Jinkun Cheng;Jun Zhang;Bo Bai

Frequent Co-Authors

Khaled Ben Letaief
Khaled Ben Letaief Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zhu Han
Zhu Han University of Houston
H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor Princeton University
Yuanming Shi
Yuanming Shi ShanghaiTech University
Ying Jun Zhang
Ying Jun Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jun Zhang
Jun Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lajos Hanzo
Lajos Hanzo University of Southampton
Ness B. Shroff
Ness B. Shroff The Ohio State University
Yuguang Fang
Yuguang Fang City University of Hong Kong
Huaiyu Dai
Huaiyu Dai North Carolina State University

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