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Wenfei Fan 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 Wenfei Fan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 300 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wenfei Fan 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 Wenfei Fan sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to Web data management
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Wenfei Fan is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions primarily lie within the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their work addresses multiple topics including:

  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Topic Modeling

Among Wenfei Fan's recent papers are:

  • "GraphScope", 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Incrementalization of graph partitioning algorithms", 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Capturing associations in graphs", 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Discovering Graph Functional Dependencies", 2020, ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • "Discovering association rules from big graphs", 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

The primary venues for Wenfei Fan's publications include:

  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
  • Science China Information Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research have been:

  • Ping Lü
  • Chao Tian
  • Yaoshu Wang
  • Qiang Yin
  • Ruochun Jin

Wenfei Fan has published a book titled Big Data in 2021 with Springer Science+Business Media.

The scientist has received several honors, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2018)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (2017)
  • ACM Fellow (2012) for contributions to Web data management
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2011)

Best Publications

  • A cost-based model and effective heuristic for repairing constraints by value modification

    Philip Bohannon;Wenfei Fan;Michael Flaster;Rajeev Rastogi

  • Conditional functional dependencies for capturing data inconsistencies

    Wenfei Fan;Floris Geerts;Xibei Jia;Anastasios Kementsietsidis

  • Conditional Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning

    P. Bohannon;Wenfei Fan;F. Geerts;Xibei Jia

  • Keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem S. Hara

  • Improving data quality: consistency and accuracy

    Gao Cong;Wenfei Fan;Floris Geerts;Xibei Jia

  • Discovering Conditional Functional Dependencies

    Wenfei Fan;F Geerts;Jianzhong Li;Ming Xiong

  • Graph pattern matching: from intractable to polynomial time

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • On XML integrity constraints in the presence of DTDs

    Wenfei Fan;Leonid Libkin

  • Foundations of Data Quality Management

    Wenfei Fan;Floris Geerts

  • Secure XML querying with security views

    Wenfei Fan;Chee-Yong Chan;Minos Garofalakis

  • XPath satisfiability in the presence of DTDs

    Michael Benedikt;Wenfei Fan;Floris Geerts

  • Keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem Hara

  • Integrity constraints for XML

    Wenfei Fan;Jérôme Siméon

  • Reasoning about keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem Hara

  • Dependencies revisited for improving data quality

    Wenfei Fan

  • Reasoning about Keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem S. Hara

  • Towards certain fixes with editing rules and master data

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • Incremental graph pattern matching

    Wenfei Fan;Xin Wang;Yinghui Wu

  • Reasoning about record matching rules

    Wenfei Fan;Xibei Jia;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma

  • Query preserving graph compression

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Xin Wang;Yinghui Wu

  • Structural properties of XPath fragments

    Michael Benedikt;Wenfei Fan;Gabriel Kuper

  • Keys with Upward Wildcards for XML

    Wenfei Fan;Peter Schwenzer;Kun Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Floris Geerts
Floris Geerts University of Antwerp
Shuai Ma
Shuai Ma Beihang University
Yang Cao
Yang Cao University of Edinburgh
Peter Buneman
Peter Buneman University of Edinburgh
Jianzhong Li
Jianzhong Li Harbin Institute of Technology
Nan Tang
Nan Tang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Susan B. Davidson
Susan B. Davidson University of Pennsylvania
Gao Cong
Gao Cong Nanyang Technological University
Leonid Libkin
Leonid Libkin University of Edinburgh
Anastasios Kementsietsidis
Anastasios Kementsietsidis Google (United States)

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