Fan Li

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
269 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Fan Li is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Li has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Statistics and Probability, 31 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 23 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Fan Li's work include Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (99 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (97 papers) and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (60 papers). Fan Li is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (99 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (97 papers) and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (60 papers). Fan Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Fan Li's co-authors include Laine Thomas, Elizabeth L. Turner, David M. Murray, Nancy R. Zhang, John S. Preisser, John A. Gallis, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Mary Beth Landrum, Mélanie Prague and Peng Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Fan Li

244 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Addressing Extreme Propensity Scores via the Overlap Weights

2018 423 citations Fan Li, Laine Thomas American Journal of Epidemiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fan Li United States	33	1.5k	524	492	409	359	269	4.3k
Nigel Stallard United Kingdom	36	2.0k 1.3×	789 1.5×	376 0.8×	249 0.6×	225 0.6×	193	4.4k
Shirley Wang United States	32	676 0.4×	919 1.8×	339 0.7×	434 1.1×	143 0.4×	147	4.1k
Gerald J. Dal Pan United States	30	391 0.3×	709 1.4×	287 0.6×	429 1.0×	358 1.0×	106	4.1k
Tim Friede Germany	45	1.7k 1.1×	649 1.2×	524 1.1×	592 1.4×	141 0.4×	331	7.5k
Sengwee Toh United States	40	735 0.5×	719 1.4×	356 0.7×	560 1.4×	112 0.3×	200	5.5k
John Whitehead United Kingdom	33	2.7k 1.7×	906 1.7×	379 0.8×	365 0.9×	136 0.4×	147	4.8k
Weichung Joe Shih United States	37	924 0.6×	402 0.8×	1.2k 2.5×	266 0.7×	73 0.2×	139	5.4k
Abraham G. Hartzema United States	37	351 0.2×	534 1.0×	339 0.7×	680 1.7×	159 0.4×	113	4.4k
Jessica M. Franklin United States	45	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 3.4×	504 1.0×	563 1.4×	171 0.5×	160	6.5k
KyungMann Kim United States	39	1.2k 0.8×	387 0.7×	1.4k 2.8×	1.3k 3.1×	104 0.3×	176	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Fan Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fan Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fan Li 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 Fan Li. Fan Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yang, Jian, et al.. (2025). Cost-Effectiveness of Sorafenib, Lenvatinib, and FOLFOX4 for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma in China. Journal of Health Science and Medical Research. 20251153–20251153. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Aifen, Adam J. Lamble, Rhonda E. Ries, et al.. (2025). TP53 inactivation confers resistance to the menin inhibitor revumenib in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Blood. 146(Supplement 1). 3470–3470.

Niu, Zhigao, Lasse Ingerslev Blaabjerg, Henrik D. Pedersen, et al.. (2024). Salcaprozate-based ionic liquids for GLP-1 gastric delivery: A mechanistic understanding of in vivo performance. Journal of Controlled Release. 377. 267–276. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Bingkai, et al.. (2024). How to achieve model-robust inference in stepped wedge trials with model-based methods?. Biometrics. 80(4). 8 indexed citations

Ma, Fuzhe, et al.. (2024). A new perspective on selenium’s impact on renal function: European population-based analysis of plasma proteome-mediated Mendelian randomization study. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 15. 1410463–1410463. 1 indexed citations

Dreyer, Rachel P., Fan Li, Erica S. Spatz, et al.. (2024). Association of marital/partner status with hospital readmission among young adults with acute myocardial infarction. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0287949–e0287949.

Li, Fan, Andrea J. Cook, Patrick J. Heagerty, et al.. (2024). Evaluating analytic models for individually randomized group treatment trials with complex clustering in nested and crossed designs. Statistics in Medicine. 43(25). 4796–4818. 3 indexed citations

Preisser, John S., et al.. (2023). GEEMAEE: A SAS macro for the analysis of correlated outcomes based on GEE and finite-sample adjustments with application to cluster randomized trials. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 230. 107362–107362. 5 indexed citations

Kahan, Brennan C, Suzie Cro, Fan Li, & Michael O. Harhay. (2023). Eliminating Ambiguous Treatment Effects Using Estimands. American Journal of Epidemiology. 192(6). 987–994. 24 indexed citations

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Li, Fan, et al.. (2023). Planning stepped wedge cluster randomized trials to detect treatment effect heterogeneity. Statistics in Medicine. 43(5). 890–911. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Mingwei, et al.. (2023). Biallelic truncating TTN variants in M‐band encoding exons cause a fetal lethal titinopathy. Prenatal Diagnosis. 44(1). 81–87. 1 indexed citations

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Dreyer, Rachel P., Fan Li, Erica S. Spatz, et al.. (2023). Impact of Marital Stress on 1‐Year Health Outcomes Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(17). e030031–e030031. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Siyun, et al.. (2023). Propensity score weighting methods for causal subgroup analysis with time-to-event outcomes. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 32(10). 1919–1935. 1 indexed citations

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Ghazi, Lama, Fan Li, Xinyuan Chen, et al.. (2022). Severe inpatient hypertension prevalence and blood pressure response to antihypertensive treatment. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 24(3). 339–349. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Fan & Rui Wang. (2022). Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials: A Methodological Overview. World Neurosurgery. 161. 323–330. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Fan, Wenhan Lu, Yuxuan Wang, et al.. (2022). A comparison of analytical strategies for cluster randomized trials with survival outcomes in the presence of competing risks. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 31(7). 1224–1241. 7 indexed citations

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Kahan, Brennan C, Fan Li, Andrew Copas, & Michael O. Harhay. (2022). Estimands in cluster-randomized trials: choosing analyses that answer the right question. International Journal of Epidemiology. 52(1). 107–118. 57 indexed citations

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Hu, Liangyuan, Jiayi Ji, & Fan Li. (2021). Estimating heterogeneous survival treatment effect in observational data using machine learning. Statistics in Medicine. 40(21). 4691–4713. 41 indexed citations

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Yang, Siyun, Fan Li, & Laine Thomas. (2021). Covariate adjustment in subgroup analyses of randomized clinical trials: A propensity score approach. Clinical Trials. 18(5). 570–581. 9 indexed citations

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Majoros, William H., Young‐Sook Kim, Alejandro Barrera, et al.. (2019). Bayesian estimation of genetic regulatory effects in high-throughput reporter assays. Bioinformatics. 36(2). 331–338. 2 indexed citations

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