Duan Xu

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
168 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Duan Xu is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Duan Xu has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 54 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 48 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Duan Xu's work include Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (90 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (53 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (48 papers). Duan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (90 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (53 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (48 papers). Duan Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Duan Xu's co-authors include Daniel B. Vigneron, A. James Barkovich, Donna M. Ferriero, Steven P. Miller, Christopher P. Hess, Patrick S. McQuillen, Pratik Mukherjee, Sarah J. Nelson, Douglas A.C. Kelley and Shannon E. G. Hamrick and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Duan Xu

162 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Abnormal Brain Development in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease

2007 593 citations Steven P. Miller, Patrick S. McQuillen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Duan Xu United States	44	3.0k	1.8k	1.2k	1.1k	1.1k	168	6.1k
Robert V. Mulkern United States	52	6.0k 2.0×	1.4k 0.8×	547 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	845 0.8×	264	9.9k
Peter R. Luijten Netherlands	57	7.0k 2.3×	428 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	881 0.8×	283	11.4k
Xavier Golay United Kingdom	55	8.2k 2.7×	1.3k 0.7×	788 0.7×	1.8k 1.6×	329 0.3×	223	12.6k
Robert J. Ogg United States	34	2.3k 0.8×	886 0.5×	350 0.3×	674 0.6×	431 0.4×	92	4.8k
Roger J. Ordidge United Kingdom	46	4.9k 1.6×	619 0.3×	478 0.4×	350 0.3×	777 0.7×	206	7.1k
Stefan Blüml United States	39	2.2k 0.7×	988 0.5×	559 0.5×	389 0.3×	346 0.3×	132	4.7k
Jeffrey J. Neil United States	58	4.4k 1.5×	4.6k 2.5×	678 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	243 0.2×	143	9.7k
Elias R. Melhem United States	52	5.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	704 0.6×	785 0.7×	154 0.1×	186	9.1k
Sean Deoni United States	44	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	491 0.4×	255 0.2×	389 0.4×	148	7.5k
Lothar R. Schad Germany	56	8.4k 2.8×	401 0.2×	545 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	406	12.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Duan Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Duan Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Duan Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Duan Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Duan Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Duan Xu. Duan Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ye, Jing, Liping Chen, Duan Xu, et al.. (2025). Inverse association between CALLY index and angina pectoris in US adults: a population-based study. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. 25(1). 94–94. 4 indexed citations

Cui, Di, Peder E. Z. Larson, Dirk Mayer, et al.. (2025). Open‐source implementation of X‐nuclear sequences using the Pulseq framework. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 94(2). 651–664.

George, Elizabeth, Camilo Jaimes, Duan Xu, Gregor Kasprian, & Orit A. Glenn. (2024). How to Perform Fetal MR Imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America. 32(3). 443–457.

Manninen, Tiina, et al.. (2024). Brain metabolism after therapeutic hypothermia for murine hypoxia‐ischemia using hyperpolarized [1‐¹³C] pyruvate magnetic resonance spectroscopy. NMR in Biomedicine. 37(10). e5196–e5196. 1 indexed citations

Bøgh, Nikolaj, Yaewon Kim, Adam Autry, et al.. (2023). Investigating cerebral perfusion with high resolution hyperpolarized [1‐¹³C]pyruvate MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 90(6). 2233–2241. 4 indexed citations

Cui, Di, Duan Xu, Robert Bok, et al.. (2023). Dynamic T2* relaxometry of hyperpolarized [1‐¹³C]pyruvate MRI in the human brain and kidneys. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 91(3). 1030–1042. 3 indexed citations

Ratiney, H., et al.. (2023). Evaluation of deep learning models for quality control of MR spectra. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1 indexed citations

Barkovich, A. James, Vann Chau, Martina A. Steurer, et al.. (2021). The Effect of Size and Asymmetry at Birth on Brain Injury and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatric Cardiology. 43(4). 868–877. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Mengting, Claude Lepage, Sharon Kim, et al.. (2021). Robust Cortical Thickness Morphometry of Neonatal Brain and Systematic Evaluation Using Multi-Site MRI Datasets. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15. 650082–650082. 15 indexed citations

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Bonifacio, Sonia L., Elizabeth E. Rogers, J. Colin Partridge, et al.. (2021). Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predicts 30-Month Outcomes after Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy. The Journal of Pediatrics. 238. 94–101.e1. 21 indexed citations

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Gordon, Jeremy W., Adam Autry, Shuyu Tang, et al.. (2020). A variable resolution approach for improved acquisition of hyperpolarized ¹³C metabolic MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 84(6). 2943–2952. 35 indexed citations

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Peyvandi, Shabnam, Duan Xu, Yan Wang, et al.. (2020). Fetal Cerebral Oxygenation Is Impaired in Congenital Heart Disease and Shows Variable Response to Maternal Hyperoxia. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(1). e018777–e018777. 33 indexed citations

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Barkovich, Matthew J., Chin Hong Tan, Yi Li, et al.. (2018). Abnormal Morphology of Select Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Radiology. 289(2). 499–508. 11 indexed citations

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Tymofiyeva, Olga, Dawn Gano, Hannah C. Glass, et al.. (2018). Aberrant Structural Brain Connectivity in Adolescents with Attentional Problems Who Were Born Prematurely. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 39(11). 2140–2147. 4 indexed citations

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Henje, Eva, Yiran Chen, Tiffany C. Ho, et al.. (2018). Test–Retest Reliability of Graph Theoretic Metrics in Adolescent Brains. Brain Connectivity. 9(2). 144–154. 19 indexed citations

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Stanco, Amelia, Ramón Pla, Daniel Vogt, et al.. (2014). NPAS1 Represses the Generation of Specific Subtypes of Cortical Interneurons. Neuron. 84(5). 940–953. 56 indexed citations

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Ziv, Etay, et al.. (2013). A Machine Learning Approach to Automated Structural Network Analysis: Application to Neonatal Encephalopathy. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e78824–e78824. 20 indexed citations

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Takanashi, Jun‐ichi, et al.. (2011). Metabolic changes in early childhood using LCModel with corrected water scaling method. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 35(1). 174–180. 12 indexed citations

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Kerchner, Geoffrey A., Christopher P. Hess, Duan Xu, et al.. (2010). Hippocampal CA1 apical neuropil atrophy in mild Alzheimer disease visualized with 7-T MRI. Neurology. 75(15). 1381–1387. 139 indexed citations

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Wu, Bing, Chunsheng Wang, Roland Krug, et al.. (2009). 7T Human Spine Imaging Arrays With Adjustable Inductive Decoupling. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 57(2). 397–403. 62 indexed citations

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