Publications

Journal & Conference Paper

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• Cheng Zhou, Deyun YIN, Shaodan Zhou, Aruhan Bai, Xiaoxi Xiao (2026), Lessons of Japan’s support on Basic Research and inspirations to China, Comparative Studies, 142, 118-130 (in Chinese)
• Georgios TSIACHTSIRAS, Deyun YIN, Ernest MIGUELEZ, Rosina MORENO (2025), Trains of Thought: High-Speed Rail and Innovation in China, *Industry and Innovation. 2541679.
• Xin DAI, Jie TANG, Deyun YIN (2025), Science and City: Exploring science’s contribution to China’s urban technological innovation. China Economic Review. Vol 93. 102461.
• Jingjing JIANG, Deyun YIN, Zhuoluo SUN, Bin YE, Nan ZHOU (2024), Global innovative trend of methane abatement technologies and widening mismatch with methane emissions, Nature Climate Change, 14, 393–401 (corresponding author). Code
  • Reported by Nature Briefing: Jingjing JIANG & Deyun YIN (2024), Trends in the global invention and international diffusion of methane abatement technologies, Nature Portfolio.
• Deyun YIN, Zhao WU, Sotaro SHIBAYAMA (2023), Measuring Risk in Science. Journal of Informetrics. 17(3). Code
  • The first paper measuring and predicating scientific risk with text information and machine learning algorithm.
• Deyun YIN, Zhao WU, Kazuki YOKOTA, Kuniko MATSUMOTO, Sotaro SHIBAYAMA (2023), Identify Novel Elements of Knowledge with Word Embedding. PLOS ONE. 18(6). Code
• Sotaro SHIBAYAMA, Deyun YIN, Kuniko MATSUMOTO (2021). Measuring novelty in science with word embedding PLOS ONE, 16(7). Code
• Deyun YIN, Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI, Jianwei DANG (2020). Large-scale Name Disambiguation of Chinese Patent Inventors (1985-2016), Scientometrics, 122, 765–790.
  • The first paper disambiguates full CNIPA Inventor databases with large-scale training and testing data and high accuracy. As result, 4 million unique inventors are identified from 1.8 million Chinese names.
• Charles ZHANG, Tsukioka, KOICHI, Deyun YIN, & Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI. (2019). Innovation Strategy and Technological Catch-Up of Chinese Internet Giants: Evidence Based on Patent Data, 2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 1–14. (corresponding author)

Books & Reports

• Miguelez Ernest, Raffo Julio, Coda-Zabetta, Massimiliano, Chacua Christian, Deyun Yin, Lissoni Francesco, Gianluca Tarasconi (2025), Creative ties: the Global Network of Local Innovation. In Handbook of Creative Regions, ed by Rafael Boix and Luciana Lazzeretti, Edward Elgar.
• Jie Tang, Deyun Yin, Xin Dai (2023). Shenzhen’s High-Quality Development In The New Era. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
• Deyun Yin, Julio Raffo, Jie Tang (2022), Innovation ecosystem and catch-up in developing countries: Evidence from Shenzhen. WIPO Development Studies Series, World Intellectual Property Organization. Geneva.
• WIPO (2022). World Intellectual Property Report 2022: The Direction of Innovation. World Intellectual Property Organization. Geneva.
• Jie Tang, Dai Xin & Qiang Pan ed. (2022). Shenzhen’s Innovation Growth: Past and Future. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. (in Chinese)
• Coda-Zabetta, Massimiliano, Chacua Christian, Lissoni Francesco, Miguelez Ernest, Raffo Julio, Deyun Yin (2021), The missing link: international migration in global clusters of innovation, In: Cross-border Innovation in a Changing World. Oxford University Press.
• WIPO (2019). World Intellectual Property Report 2019: The Geography of Innovation: Local Hotspots, Global Networks. World Intellectual Property Organization. Geneva.

Working papers

• Zhao Wu , Deyun Yin, Kazuki Yokota, Sotaro Shibayama(2026), Knowledge Recombination in Science, SSRN.
• Sotaro Shibayama, Zhao Wu, Deyun Yin, Kazuki Yokota, (2025), State of the Art of Novelty Indicators. SSRN.
• Deyun YIN*, Alvin Shijie DING, Xinyi NIE, Andrew PLUME, Carsten GUDERIAN, Local scientific knowledge sourcing and catch-up of urban innovation: evidence from China.
• Gema Lax MARTÍNEZ , Helena Saenz de JUANO-I-RIBES , Deyun YIN, Bruno Le FEUVRE, Intan Hamdan-Livramento, Kaori Saito and Julio Raffo (2021), Expanding the World Gender-Name Dictionary: WGND 2.0, WIPO working paper series 64.
• Ernest MIGUELEZ, Julio RAFFO, Christian CHACUA, Massimiliano CODA-ZABETTA, Deyun YIN*, Francesco LISSONI, Gianluca TARASCONI (2019), Tied In: The Global Network of Local Innovation. WIPO Working Paper Series 58. (corresponding author)
• Deyun YIN, Julio RAFFO, Ernest MIGUELEZ, Massimiliano CODA-ZABETTA, Christian CHACUA, Francesco LISSONI, Gianluca TARASCONI, Identification and Analysis of Innovation Clusters based on Global Geocoding Data, GEOINNO 2020. (is corresponding author)
• Deyun YIN, Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI. Inventor Name Disambiguation with Gradient Boosting Decision Tree and Inventor Mobility in China (1985-2016), RIETI Discussion Paper, 18-E-018, RIETI, 2018/03
• Deyun YIN, Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI (2019). Stay or leave? Mobility of Chinese knowledge workers under context
• Deyun YIN, Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI (2019). Patterns of Inventor Mobility and its Impact on Urban Innovation

Reports

• China’s Blue Innovation in Cities: analysis based on large-scale patent data
• Analysis of Shenzhen’s R&D inputs-outputs in recent ten years
• Organizational and Geographical Mobility of Chinese Inventors 1985-2020