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Many other factors affecting citation of publications, except for research area coverage, have been studied. This study aims to investigate impact of research area coverage. Bibliometric papers and their related papers (referred papers, citing papers and first author's papers) were screened and matched by Python program. Papers' research areas were classified according to Web of Science. Bibliometric parameters of the most cited 5% and the least cited 5% papers were compared. Firstly, coverage of related papers' research areas impacts the citation of their original papers. The impact of references and citing papers are positive and negative, separately, while the first author's papers have no influence. Secondly, high-influence papers tend to cite references from a wider area and are cited by followers from a wider area. Additionally, the pattern of knowledge flow differs significantly between high- and low-influence papers. Low-influence papers narrow knowledge flow, whereas high-influence papers broaden it. This study has shown that both depth and breadth of research area coverage can influence citations. It is recommended that authors should extensively cite high-influence publications, both within and beyond their own area.

On a Hermitian manifold, the Chern connection can induce a metric connection on the background Riemannian manifold. We call the sectional curvature of the metric connection induced by the Chern connection the Chern sectional curvature of this Hermitian manifold. First, we derive expression of the Chern sectional curvature in local complex coordinates. As an application, we find that a Hermitian metric is K\"ahler if the Riemann sectional curvature and the Chern sectional curvature coincide. As subsequent results, Ricci curvature and scalar curvature of the metric connection induced by the Chern connection are obtained.

Due to the rapid increase of air cargo and postal transport volume, an efficient automated multi-dimensional warehouse with elevating transfer vehicles (ETVs) should be established and an effective scheduling strategy should be designed for improving the cargo handling efficiency. In this paper, artificial bee colony algorithm, which possesses strong global optimization ability and fewer parameters, is firstly introduced to simultaneously optimize the route of ETV and the assignment of entrances and exits. Moreover, for further improve the optimization performance of ABC, novel full-dimensional search strategy with parallelization, and random multi-dimensional search strategy are incorporated in the framework of ABC to improve the diversity of the population and the convergence speed respectively. Our proposed algorithms are evaluated on several benchmark functions, and then applied to solve the combinatorial optimization problem with multitask, multiple entrances and exits in air cargo terminal. The simulations show that the proposed algorithms can achieve much more desired performance than the traditional artificial bee colony algorithm at balancing the exploitation and exploration abilities.

Munteanu defined the canonical connection associated to a strongly pseudoconvex complex Finsler manifold $(M,F)$. We first prove that the holomorphic sectional curvature tensors of the canonical connection coincide with those of the Chern-Finsler connection associated to $F$ if and only if $F$ is a K\"ahler-Finsler metric. We also investigate the relationship of the Ricci curvatures (resp. scalar curvatures) of these two connections when $M$ is compact. As an application, two characterizations of balanced complex Finsler metrics are given. Next, we obtain a sufficient and necessary condition for a balanced complex Finsler metric to be K\"ahler-Finsler. Finally, we investigate conformal transformations of a balanced complex Finsler metric., Comment: I misquoted the definition of canonical connection?