Numerous UM papers ranked most downloaded papers
澳大科研成績卓越 多篇論文成最熱門下載文章
09 May 2014
UM sees a marked increase in both the quality and quantity of published papers in recent years
近年澳大學術論文發表的質與量均有顯著提升
Numerous papers by academics and PhD students from the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) have been ranked among the most downloaded papers in the Science Direct database and the IEEE Xplore database, which include millions of articles.
In the last three years, more than 14 papers from FST have been ranked among the most downloaded papers in academic databases. “Visiting Power Laws in Cyber-Physical Networking Systems”, which is co-authored by UM Rector Wei Zhao, participants in the national 973 programme, and Prof. Li Ming from the East China Normal University, last year was ranked by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, which is under the Ministry of Science and Technology of PRC, among China’s 100 most influential international papers for the year 2012. Another article by these authors, “IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems”, has been ranked among the most highly cited articles in the Science Direct database.
“Data-intensive Applications, Challenges, Techniques and Technologies: A Survey on Big Data”, co-authored by FST Dean Prof. Philip Chen and PhD student Zhang Chunyang, was published in the Information Sciences journal in January 2014, and was ranked the No.1 most downloaded article within four months of the inclusion. “A Multiple-Kernel Fuzzy C-mean Algorithm for Image Segmentation”, co-authored by Dr. Chen Long, Prof. Philip Chen, and Dr. M. Lu, has been ranked the 25th most downloaded paper in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B. In 2013 it was downloaded 447 times in the Science Direct database.
“A 2.3 mW 10-bit 170 MS/s Two-Step Binary-Search Assisted Time-Interleaved SAR ADC”, co-authored by Dr. Wong Si Seng, Dr. Chio U Fat, Dr. Zhu Yan, Dr. Sin Sai Weng, Prof. U Seng Pan, and Prof. Rui Martins, was published in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits in August 2013. It was ranked among the 100 most downloaded papers in the whole IEEE Xplore database for two consecutive months. “Engine Idle-speed System Modelling and Control Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence”, co-authored by Prof. Wong Pak Kin, Prof. Tam Lap Mou, Dr. Li Ke, and Prof. Vong Chi Man, has been ranked among the top five most cited articles in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, in the last five years.
Three papers by Dr. Zhou Yicong have been ranked among the most downloaded and most cited articles in more than one journal and database in the last three years. Other authors whose articles have been cited or ranked the most downloaded in the last three years include Prof. Tang Yuanyan, Dr. Zhou Jiantao, Prof. Simon Fong, as well as 12 PhD students.
In recent years, UM has increased funding and other resources to support scientific research, in an attempt to achieve excellence in research and elevate the level of research in Macao. As a result, UM has seen a marked increase in both the quality and quantity of published papers. In 2013, UM published 398 SCI-indexed research papers, compared to 88 in 2008, an increase of 350 per cent. In terms of citation frequency, there has been an over three-fold increase.
澳門大學科研屢獲肯定，不只師生的研究成果經常被國際知名期刊刊載，澳大科技學院最近更有多篇論文在國際權威學術資料庫Science Direct和美國電機及電子工程師學會IEEE Xplore等資料庫數百萬篇專業文章中，被標識為最熱門下載文章之一，顯示澳大的科研實力和學術影響力達到國際一流水平。
澳大科技學院三年來有多達十四篇論文被學術資料庫標識為最熱門下載文章。由校長趙偉教授與國家973計劃的團隊成員和華東師範大學李明教授合著的《關於“冪次現象”在物聯網中的應用》，去年更被國家科技部屬下的中國科學技術信息研究所選為二○一二年度中國百篇最具影響國際學術論文之一。他們的另一篇刊載於期刊《IEEE平行及分佈系統》的文章“隨機通信量界限陳術”也被資料庫Science Direct列為高引用文章之一。
由科技學院院長陳俊龍教授與博士生張春陽合撰的論文“大數據在資源密集的應用、挑戰、及技術的總覽”，於今年一月才被期刊《信息科學》收錄，四個月內則已晉身為該期刊被下載次數最多的第一名。而由陳龍博士、陳俊龍教授及盧明珠博士共同撰寫，刊載於《IEEE 系統、人和控制論學會會刊B》中的“圖像分割的多核模糊C均值算法”，過去一年僅在資料庫Science Direct中，就被下載高達四百四十七次，成為該期刊最熱門下載文章的前二十五名。
在去年八月收錄於《IEEE 固態電路期刊》由博士生黃士成、趙汝法博士、諸嫣博士、助理教授冼世榮博士、余成斌教授和馬許願教授合撰的“10位元2.3毫瓦特170兆赫之二步並行式模數轉換器”，亦曾在IEEE Xplore電機電子工程文獻中脫穎而出，連續兩個月登上最熱門下載文章前一百名榜。由科技學院王百鍵教授、譚立武教授、李科博士和黃志文教授撰寫，在二○一○年發表於《英國機械工程師學會期刊D：汽車工程學報》內的“基於人工智能技術對汽車引擎之怠速系統作建模與優化控制”，五年來成為該學報被引用次數最多的文章之前五名。
此外，科技學院助理教授周怡聰博士表現非凡，在三年內就有三篇文章被所屬期刊的資料庫列為熱門下載及高引用的文章。過去三年有份上榜被引用或被下載次數最多的論文作者還包括唐遠炎教授、周建濤博士、方正天教授以及十二名博士生等。
澳大近年加大了對科研領域的經費撥款，並為各科研領域提供了更多資源，藉以推動卓越科研，擴建澳大科研人才隊伍，提升澳門的科研水準，而過去幾年澳大學術論文發表的質與量均有顯著提升，與二○○八年相比，二○一三年澳大發表於SCI檢索的科研論文由八十八增加至三百九十八篇，增幅超過百分之三百五十，引用次數增幅超過三倍。澳大的學術論文能夠從眾多學術文獻中獲得青睞，成為被引用和被下載次數最多的文章之一，表明澳大已具備一定的科研實力。