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D-Index
39
Citations
4912
World Ranking
2182
National Ranking
259

Zhichun Yang publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhichun Yang sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 237 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Zhichun Yang D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhichun Yang sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Zhichun Yang is affiliated with Northwestern Polytechnical University in China, focusing on research within engineering, with extensive contributions across various specialized subfields. Their work spans civil and structural engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, and control and systems engineering.

The body of research includes significant attention to topics such as acoustic wave phenomena research, vibration control and rheological fluids, vibration and dynamic analysis, innovative energy harvesting technologies, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, aeroelasticity and vibration control, and fluid dynamics and vibration analysis.

Yang has published in several journals, demonstrating frequent contributions to:

  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Thin-Walled Structures
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration

Recent publications highlight work in energy harvesting and wave manipulation, including the following papers:

  • Enhancing energy harvesting in low-frequency rotational motion by a quad-stable energy harvester with time-varying potential wells, 2020, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Characterizing nonlinear characteristics of asymmetric tristable energy harvesters, 2021, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Flexural wave absorption by lossy gradient elastic metasurface, 2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Exploiting the advantages of the centrifugal softening effect in rotational impact energy harvesting, 2020, Applied Physics Letters
  • Pillared elastic metasurface with constructive interference for flexural wave manipulation, 2020, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Frequent collaborators have included Yanlong Xu, Shengxi Zhou, Feng Liu, Yingsong Gu, and Wei Tian, indicating a network of joint research focused on overlapping technical themes.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of limit cycle flutter of an airfoil in incompressible flow

    Z.C. Yang;L.C. Zhao

  • Chaotic motions of an airfoil with non-linear stiffness in incompressible flow

    L.C. Zhao;Z.C. Yang

  • Characterizing nonlinear characteristics of asymmetric tristable energy harvesters

    Xiaoqing Ma;Haitao Li;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang

  • Enhancing energy harvesting in low-frequency rotational motion by a quad-stable energy harvester with time-varying potential wells

    Xutao Mei;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang;Tsutomu Kaizuka

  • A tri-stable energy harvester in rotational motion: Modeling, theoretical analyses and experiments

    Xutao Mei;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang;Tsutomu Kaizuka

  • Flexural wave absorption by lossy gradient elastic metasurface

    Liyun Cao;Liyun Cao;Zhichun Yang;Yanlong Xu;Shi-Wang Fan

  • Structural damage detection using cross correlation functions of vibration response

    Le Wang;Zhichun Yang;T.P. Waters

  • Deflecting flexural wave with high transmission by using pillared elastic metasurface

    Liyun Cao;Zhichun Yang;Yanlong Xu;Badreddine Assouar;Badreddine Assouar

  • Asymmetric flexural wave transmission based on dual-layer elastic gradient metasurfaces

    Liyun Cao;Liyun Cao;Yanlong Xu;Badreddine Assouar;Zhichun Yang

  • Exploiting the advantages of the centrifugal softening effect in rotational impact energy harvesting

    Shitong Fang;Suo Wang;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang

  • Pillared elastic metasurface with constructive interference for flexural wave manipulation

    Liyun Cao;Liyun Cao;Zhichun Yang;Yanlong Xu;Zhaolin Chen

  • Disordered Elastic Metasurfaces

    Liyun Cao;Liyun Cao;Zhichun Yang;Yanlong Xu;Shi-Wang Fan

  • Comprehensive theoretical and experimental investigation of the rotational impact energy harvester with the centrifugal softening effect

    Shitong Fang;Shitong Fang;Suo Wang;Gang Miao;Shengxi Zhou

  • Hybrid feedback PID-FxLMS algorithm for active vibration control of cantilever beam with piezoelectric stack actuator

    Weiguang Li;Zhichun Yang;Kui Li;Wei Wang

  • Suppression of nonlinear aeroelastic responses for a cantilevered trapezoidal plate in hypersonic airflow using an energy harvester enhanced nonlinear energy sink

    Wei Tian;Yueming Li;Zhichun Yang;Ping Li

  • Recent progress on flutter‐based wind energy harvesting

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  • Analytical and experimental investigation of the centrifugal softening and stiffening effects in rotational energy harvesting

    Shitong Fang;Shitong Fang;Suo Wang;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang

  • On the cross correlation function amplitude vector and its application to structural damage detection

    Zhichun Yang;Zhefeng Yu;Hao Sun

  • Damage detection in composite structures using vibration response under stochastic excitation

    Zhichun Yang;Le Wang;Hui Wang;Yan Ding

  • Coupling mechanical and electrical nonlinearities: The effect of synchronized discharging on tristable energy harvesters

    Mickaël Lallart;Mickaël Lallart;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang;Linjuan Yan

  • Deflecting incident flexural waves by nonresonant single-phase meta-slab with subunits of graded thicknesses

    Yanlong Xu;Liyun Cao;Zhichun Yang

  • Steering elastic SH waves in an anomalous way by metasurface

    Liyun Cao;Zhichun Yang;Yanlong Xu

  • High-performance low-frequency bistable vibration energy harvesting plate with tip mass blocks

    Yi Li;Shengxi Zhou;Zhichun Yang;Tong Guo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mickaël Lallart
Mickaël Lallart Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Wei-Hsin Liao
Wei-Hsin Liao Chinese University of Hong Kong
Grzegorz Litak
Grzegorz Litak Lublin University of Technology
Hualing Chen
Hualing Chen Xi'an Jiaotong University

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