Harlan Yu: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Harlan Yu's h-index is 11 (11 i10-index, 2,285+ total citations across 17+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of June 2026. Harlan Yu is affiliated with Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton.
Harlan Yu is a researcher affiliated with Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton, specializing in various fields. Their work has been cited 2,285 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Harlan Yu's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 17 indexed publications. Of these, 10 are original research articles — the rest are literature highlights, conference abstracts or theses.
- H-Index
- 11
- i10-Index
- 11
- Total Citations
- 2,285
- Citing Countries
- 15
As of June 2026.
Harlan Yu has an h-index of 11 and 2,285 total citations across 17 publications, with research cited by institutions in 15 countries.
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The New Ambiguity of "Open Government"
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The researcher established a foundational public Distributed Hash Table service, providing a critical infrastructure layer that enabled diverse applications and advanced the practical deployment of peer-to-peer networking technologies.
The researcher critically examined the evolving conceptual ambiguity of open government, establishing a foundational framework that has significantly influenced subsequent scholarly discourse in the field.
The researcher established a foundational framework analyzing the intersection of government data availability and market efficiency mechanisms, as evidenced by the seminal 2009 publication.
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About Harlan Yu's research
Harlan Yu is a researcher at Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton. Their work has been cited 2,285 times across 17 publications (h-index 11), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “The New Ambiguity of "Open Government"” (2012), has accumulated 789 citations. Other influential works include “OpenDHT: A Public DHT Service and Its Uses” (2005) with 701 citations and “Government Data and the Invisible Hand” (2009) with 415 citations.
Citations of Harlan Yu's research come primarily from United States, United Kingdom and Italy, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
