Dingxin Fan

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Dingxin Fan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Structural Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dingxin Fan has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Structural Biology and 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dingxin Fan's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (7 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Dingxin Fan is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (7 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Dingxin Fan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Dingxin Fan's co-authors include Zhenhua Zeng, Jeffrey Greeley, Siddharth Deshpande, Jakub Drnec, Jing Zhu, Peter Strasser, Jorge Ferreira de Araújo, Ilya Sinev, Arno Bergmann and Detre Teschner and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Dingxin Fan

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

In-situ structure and catalytic mechanism of NiFe and CoFe layered double hydroxides during oxygen evolution

2020 920 citations Fabio Dionigi, Zhenhua Zeng et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dingxin Fan United States	8	931	754	351	199	121	15	1.1k
Guoyu Xian China	5	728 0.8×	566 0.8×	386 1.1×	176 0.9×	107 0.9×	18	946
Wei‐Qiong Li China	7	626 0.7×	515 0.7×	237 0.7×	164 0.8×	90 0.7×	7	774
Reyimjan A. Sidik United States	8	972 1.0×	887 1.2×	319 0.9×	228 1.1×	142 1.2×	8	1.1k
Xinhui Zhang China	16	644 0.7×	540 0.7×	583 1.7×	131 0.7×	99 0.8×	38	1.0k
C. Strebel Denmark	11	674 0.7×	518 0.7×	383 1.1×	131 0.7×	72 0.6×	11	877
Md Kamrul Alam United States	8	639 0.7×	665 0.9×	456 1.3×	73 0.4×	103 0.9×	14	991
Yao Sha United States	12	691 0.7×	593 0.8×	341 1.0×	157 0.8×	35 0.3×	14	899
Tomoyuki Tada Japan	4	794 0.9×	635 0.8×	372 1.1×	209 1.1×	63 0.5×	8	921
Mohammed H. Atwan Canada	7	874 0.9×	726 1.0×	528 1.5×	148 0.7×	100 0.8×	9	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dingxin Fan

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15 of 15 papers shown

Fan, Dingxin, et al.. (2025). Role of doping in probe microscopies for the Si(111) 7×7 surface. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 2 indexed citations

Fan, Dingxin, et al.. (2025). Anomalous Saturation of CO Adsorption at 26% on Cu(111) Governed by Nanometer-Scale Substrate-Mediated Interactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 148(1). 360–367.

Fan, Dingxin, Pengcheng Chen, Jianqing Fan, & Nan Yao. (2025). Surface Atomic Defects and Self-Regulated CO Adsorption on Cu(111): Insights from High-Resolution Scanning Probe Microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 31(Supplement_1).

Tang, Zhao, Dingxin Fan, & James R. Chelikowsky. (2025). Real space simulation for state-resolved high-resolution atomic force microscopy of defects in monolayer h-BN. Physical Review Materials. 9(8).

Fan, Dingxin, Pengcheng Chen, & Nan Yao. (2024). Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Individual CO Molecules Adsorbed on a Cu(111) Surface. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Fan, Dingxin, Pengcheng Chen, James R. Chelikowsky, & Nan Yao. (2023). Individual Iron and Cobalt Atoms Identification using Atomic Force Microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 581–582.

Chen, Pengcheng, Dingxin Fan, Annabella Selloni, et al.. (2023). Observation of electron orbital signatures of single atoms within metal-phthalocyanines using atomic force microscopy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1460–1460. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Pengcheng, Dingxin Fan, Yunlong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Breaking a dative bond with mechanical forces. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5635–5635. 24 indexed citations

Fan, Dingxin & James R. Chelikowsky. (2021). Atomic Fingerprinting of Heteroatoms Using Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy. Small. 17(51). e2102977–e2102977. 7 indexed citations

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Dionigi, Fabio, Zhenhua Zeng, Ilya Sinev, et al.. (2020). In-situ structure and catalytic mechanism of NiFe and CoFe layered double hydroxides during oxygen evolution. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2522–2522. 920 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fan, Dingxin, Yuki Sakai, & James R. Chelikowsky. (2020). Chemical and steric effects in simulating noncontact atomic force microscopy images of organic molecules on a Cu (111) substrate. Physical Review Materials. 4(5). 7 indexed citations

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Chelikowsky, James R., et al.. (2019). Simulating noncontact atomic force microscopy images. Physical Review Materials. 3(11). 13 indexed citations

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Fan, Dingxin, et al.. (2019). Discrimination of Bond Order in Organic Molecules Using Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy. Nano Letters. 19(8). 5562–5567. 10 indexed citations

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Fan, Dingxin, Yuki Sakai, & James R. Chelikowsky. (2018). Real-space pseudopotential calculations for simulating noncontact atomic force microscopy images. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 36(4). 11 indexed citations

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Zeng, Zhenhua, Maria K. Y. Chan, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, et al.. (2015). Towards First Principles-Based Prediction of Highly Accurate Electrochemical Pourbaix Diagrams. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(32). 18177–18187. 123 indexed citations

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