03 / Legitimacy Layer

Publications

Has the theory entered a public academic system?

A cumulative chain from public registration to academic object, research identity, intellectual lineage, and future dissemination: DOI → Preprint → ORCID → Citation Structure → Submission Pipeline.

Zenodo / Registered

Registered Research Output

The core structural research paper is registered through Zenodo with an international DOI, establishing a persistent public record for academic traceability, citation, and archival access.

Public Preprint / Open Access

The Visual Stability Problem

A Node–Path–Field Framework for Perceptual Organization in Visual Composition

This paper establishes a foundational model for studying visual structural stability and attentional coherence in complex, dense, and functionally layered visual fields.

Persistent Research Identity

Research Identity

Pan Yao's ORCID provides persistent international researcher identification and supports long-term continuity across current and future publication records.

Research Context

Citation Structure

The research is being positioned through references across attention systems, structural cognition, and visual stability studies.

This citation architecture connects the work to a broader interdisciplinary discourse while making its original propositions and source relationships explicit.

Status-Labeled Research Record

Submission Pipeline

The Visual Stability Problem was submitted to Visual Communication Quarterly in March 2026. The editorial receipt is recorded in the author archive, and the review status is recorded as in progress.