Fang Xia

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 963 citations indexed

About

Fang Xia is a scholar working on Soil Science, Economics and Econometrics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Fang Xia has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 963 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Soil Science, 11 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 10 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Fang Xia's work include Land Rights and Reforms (17 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 papers). Fang Xia is often cited by papers focused on Land Rights and Reforms (17 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 papers). Fang Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and India. Fang Xia's co-authors include Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Feng Song, Jikun Huang, Sara Savastano, Lingling Hou, Scott Rozelle, Qihui Chen, Rose Nathan and Yong He and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Energy Policy and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Fang Xia

34 papers receiving 922 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.

Grassland ecological compensation policy in China improves grassland quality and increases herders’ income

2021 197 citations Lingling Hou, Fang Xia et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Fang Xia

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Kyle Emerick United States

Helen X. H. Bao United Kingdom

Rong Tan China

Konrad Hagedorn Germany

Xianli Xia China

Fangting Xie China

Kunqiu Chen China

A. Kuyvenhoven Netherlands

Thomas L. Daniels United States

Miao Zeng China

Kyle Emerick United States

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375 ×1.1

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62 ×0.4

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Countries citing papers authored by Fang Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fang Xia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fang Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fang Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fang Xia 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 Fang Xia. Fang Xia 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

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Sun, Ang, et al.. (2025). The motherhood penalty on health: Evidence from China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 238. 107241–107241.

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Yang, Jintao, Bingbo Gao, Fang Xia, H. Wei, & Shenggen Fan. (2025). Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China. Food Policy. 132. 102857–102857. 1 indexed citations

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Song, Feng, et al.. (2024). Speeding Up Renewable Energy Integration with Invisible Hands: Ancillary Service Market and the COVID-19 Natural Experiment. The Energy Journal. 45(5). 1–31. 2 indexed citations

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Hou, Lingling, et al.. (2023). Intergenerational altruism, pessimism bias on tenure insecurity, and sustainable land use: Evidence from household grassland management in China. Ecological Economics. 215. 108003–108003.

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Zhou, Jincheng, et al.. (2023). Role of digital finance, investment, and trade in technological progress. Global Finance Journal. 57. 100853–100853. 20 indexed citations

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Xia, Fang. (2022). Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone. The Journal of Development Studies. 58(10). 2001–2020. 1 indexed citations

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Hou, Lingling, Fang Xia, Qihui Chen, et al.. (2021). Grassland ecological compensation policy in China improves grassland quality and increases herders’ income. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4683–4683. 197 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jin, Songqing, Klaus Deininger, Hari K. Nagarajan, & Fang Xia. (2019). Second-Generation Effects from India. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 1 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus & Fang Xia. (2018). Assessing the long-term performance of large-scale land transfers: Challenges and opportunities in Malawi’s estate sector. World Development. 104. 281–296. 33 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus & Fang Xia. (2017). Assessing Effects of Large-Scale Land Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities in Malawi's Estate Sector. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Xia, Fang & Feng Song. (2017). Evaluating the economic impact of wind power development on local economies in China. Energy Policy. 110. 263–270. 31 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus, Sara Savastano, & Fang Xia. (2016). Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?. Food Policy. 67. 78–92. 91 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus, Fang Xia, & Sara Savastano. (2015). Smallholders? Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Landscape?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Jin, Songqing, Klaus Deininger, Shouying Liu, & Fang Xia. (2015). Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China's Rural-Urban Integration: Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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Xia, Fang, et al.. (2015). Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Farm Establishments: The Case of Mozambique. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Xia, Fang, Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, & Hari K. Nagarajan. (2014). Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation: Second-Generation Effects from India. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 12 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Hari K. Nagarajan, & Fang Xia. (2014). Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India. The Journal of Development Studies. 51(1). 32–49. 33 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Hari K. Nagarajan, & Fang Xia. (2014). Does Female Reservation affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 1 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Hari K. Nagarajan, & Fang Xia. (2013). How Far Does the Amendment to the Hindu Succession Act Reach? Evidence from Two-Generation Females in Urban India. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Hari K. Nagarajan, & Fang Xia. (2013). Does Inheritance Law Reform Improve Women's Access to Capital? Evidence from Urban India. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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