Biography

 

Example of Citations

  • Statistics (mainly based on SCI, Scopus, Google Scholar) indicate that Dr. Chen's research findings have been cited in 42 overview papers, 29 books or book chapters, and 3 handbooks or sourcebooks.

  • 33 of Dr. Chen's papers have been cited over 10 times, 15 of his papers have been cited over 20 times, and 9 of his papers have been cited over 30 times by other researchers.

  • Paper "N. Afrin, D.L. Chen, X. Cao and M. Jahazi, Microstructure and tensile properties of friction stir welded AZ31B magnesium alloy, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2008, 472(1-2), 179-186." is listed as one of the journal's five-year (2007-2012) top 25 "Most Cited Materials Science and Engineering A Articles".

  • Paper "S. Begum, D.L. Chen, S. Xu and A.A. Luo, Low cycle fatigue properties of an extruded AZ31 magnesium alloy, International Journal of Fatigue, 2009, 31(4), 726-735." is listed as one of the journal's five-year (2007-2012) top 25 "Most Cited International Journal of Fatigue Articles".

  • Paper "Z. Zhang and D.L. Chen, Consideration of Orowan strengthening effect in particulate-reinforced metal matrix nanocomposites: A model for predicting their yield strength, Scripta Materialia, 2006, 54(7), 1321-1326." was listed as one of the journal's five-year (2006-2011) top 25 "Most Cited Scripta Materialia Articles". The method reported in this Scripta Materialia paper is now called by other researchers as the “Zhang and Chen method”, “Zhang and Chen approach”, or “Zhang and Chen model”, e.g., in a Materials Science and Engineering A paper (2012, vol.531, pp.112-118) for 9 times including twice in the abstract.

  • Three of Dr. Chen's papers have been cited in Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the book (H.Y. Zhang and J. Senkara, Resistance Welding: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4398-5371-9, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2012), where the three papers were extensively described on 22 different pages of this book (i.e., pages 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 16, 46, 49, 115, 116, 135, 159, 160, 161, 171, 174, 175, 180, 181, 200, 216, 217). Especially, 12 figures (i.e., Figures 1.2, 1.9, 1.12, 1.13, 1.42, 3.26, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22, 5.2, 5.7, 5.31) in this book were directly from Dr. Chen's three papers.

  • Dr. Chen's papers on fatigue crack closure effect have been cited 151 times by other researchers. Eight citations of his closure papers were found in the book “Advances in Fatigue Crack Closure Measurement and Analysis (ASTM STP 1343)”, ISBN 0803126115, R.C. McClung and J.C. Newman, Jr., eds., American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 1999.

  • Dr. Chen's papers about force balance method for the determination of non-dimensional stress intensity factors in fracture mechanics have been cited 68 times by other researchers.

  • Dr. Chen's fatigue test data have been cited to be eight full pages (pp.83-90) in the “Sourcebook on Fatigue Crack Propagation: Thresholds and Crack Closure”, ISBN 0947817700, authored by D. Taylor and J.C. Li, Engineering Materials Advisory Services Ltd., Warley, West Midlands, U.K., 1993.

The citation data exclude all the citations of joint papers quoted by co-authors (i.e., all self-citations are excluded). That is, “by others” or “by other researchers” means that no authors between a cited paper and citing papers are overlapped.