Boyuan Chen: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Boyuan Chen's h-index is 12 (12 i10-index, 2,528+ total citations across 17+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of June 2026. Boyuan Chen is affiliated with MIT.
Boyuan Chen is a researcher affiliated with MIT, specializing in various fields. Their work has been cited 2,528 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Boyuan Chen's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 17 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 12
- i10-Index
- 12
- Total Citations
- 2,528
- Citing Countries
- 33
As of June 2026.
Boyuan Chen has an h-index of 12 and 2,528 total citations across 17 publications, with research cited by institutions in 33 countries.
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SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
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The researcher pioneered diffusion forcing, a novel framework integrating next-token prediction with full-sequence diffusion, subsequently extending this generative approach to video stitching and generalizable robot control.
The researcher developed SpatialVLM, a framework that endows vision-language models with spatial reasoning capabilities, establishing a foundational approach for integrating spatial understanding into multimodal AI systems.
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About Boyuan Chen's research
Boyuan Chen is a researcher at MIT. Their work has been cited 2,528 times across 17 publications (h-index 12), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities” (2024), has accumulated 929 citations. Other influential works include “Diffusion forcing: Next-token prediction meets full-sequence diffusion” (2024) with 496 citations and “Reasoning or reciting? exploring the capabilities and limitations of language models through counterfactual tasks” (2023) with 399 citations.
Citations of Boyuan Chen's research come primarily from United States, China and United Kingdom, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.











