Fuyan Bian

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Fuyan Bian is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fuyan Bian has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Fuyan Bian's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (71 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (34 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (29 papers). Fuyan Bian is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (71 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (34 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (29 papers). Fuyan Bian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and China. Fuyan Bian's co-authors include Xiaohui Fan, Linhua Jiang, Ian D. McGreer, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Xue-Bing Wu, Ran Wang, Lisa J. Kewley, Qian Yang and Wenwen Zuo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Fuyan Bian

78 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30

2015 445 citations Xue-Bing Wu, Feige Wang et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fuyan Bian United States	25	2.3k	698	470	79	75	85	2.4k
Ian D. McGreer United States	24	2.2k 1.0×	671 1.0×	588 1.3×	72 0.9×	78 1.0×	40	2.3k
Renske Smit United Kingdom	23	2.1k 0.9×	990 1.4×	317 0.7×	86 1.1×	105 1.4×	50	2.2k
Gwen C. Rudie United States	23	2.2k 0.9×	716 1.0×	510 1.1×	78 1.0×	102 1.4×	67	2.3k
Eduardo Bañados Germany	29	2.7k 1.2×	768 1.1×	783 1.7×	80 1.0×	86 1.1×	85	2.9k
Thibault Garel Switzerland	28	1.7k 0.7×	628 0.9×	406 0.9×	104 1.3×	84 1.1×	53	1.8k
Michael V. Maseda Netherlands	25	1.7k 0.7×	790 1.1×	262 0.6×	75 0.9×	75 1.0×	84	1.8k
Guillermo A. Blanc United States	27	1.8k 0.8×	678 1.0×	295 0.6×	69 0.9×	89 1.2×	76	1.9k
Yuichi Harikane Japan	23	2.0k 0.9×	898 1.3×	322 0.7×	50 0.6×	69 0.9×	73	2.2k
Andrea Lapi Italy	25	2.0k 0.9×	714 1.0×	481 1.0×	40 0.5×	77 1.0×	140	2.0k
James Aird United Kingdom	28	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	578 1.2×	51 0.6×	48 0.6×	66	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fuyan Bian

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Wang, Xin, Matthew A. Malkan, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2025). MAMMOTH-MOSFIRE: Environmental Effects on Galaxy Interstellar Medium at z ∼ 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 231–231.

Bian, Fuyan, et al.. (2025). Episodic Feedback in Triple Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate SDSS J0849+1114 Revealed by Extended Ionized Gas. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 35–35. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Xiaojing, Zheng Cai, Yunjing Wu, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the Escape of Lyα at z ≈ 5–6: A Census of Lyα Escape Fraction with Hα-emitting Galaxies Spectroscopically Confirmed by JWST and VLT/MUSE. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 272(2). 33–33. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Feige, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2024). A Spatially Resolved [C ii] Survey of 31 z ∼ 7 Massive Galaxies Hosting Luminous Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 968(1). 9–9. 10 indexed citations

Lai, Samuel, Christopher A. Onken, Christian Wolf, Fuyan Bian, & Xiaohui Fan. (2023). XQz5: a new ultraluminous z ∼ 5 quasar legacy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3912–3931. 6 indexed citations

Lai, Samuel, Christopher A. Onken, Christian Wolf, et al.. (2023). Virial black hole mass estimates of quasars in the XQ-100 legacy survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(3). 3230–3247. 6 indexed citations

Lai, Samuel, Christian Wolf, Christopher A. Onken, & Fuyan Bian. (2023). Characterising SMSS J2157–3602, the most luminous known quasar, with accretion disc models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(3). 3682–3698. 5 indexed citations

Zheng, Xianzhong, Stijn Wuyts, Jiasheng Huang, et al.. (2023). Understanding the universal dust attenuation scaling relation of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 658–675. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhiyu, Ping Zhou, Junzhi Wang, et al.. (2022). Multiple gas phases in supernova remnant IC 443: mapping shocked H2 with VLT/KMOS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(2). 2320–2340. 3 indexed citations

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Lai, Samuel, Fuyan Bian, Christopher A. Onken, et al.. (2022). Chemical abundance of z ~ 6 quasar broad-line regions in the XQR-30 sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 1801–1819. 22 indexed citations

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Bian, Fuyan, et al.. (2021). The major mechanism to drive turbulence in star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 5075–5083. 11 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yongda, George D. Becker, Sarah E. I. Bosman, et al.. (2021). Chasing the Tail of Cosmic Reionization with Dark Gap Statistics in the Lyα Forest over 5 < z < 6. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2). 223–223. 56 indexed citations

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Onken, Christopher A., Fuyan Bian, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2020). A thirty-four billion solar mass black hole in SMSS J2157–3602, the most luminous known quasar. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(2). 2309–2314. 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Jinyi, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2019). Filling in the Quasar Redshift Gap at z ∼ 5.5. II. A Complete Survey of Luminous Quasars in the Post-reionization Universe. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(2). 199–199. 20 indexed citations

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Fan, Xiaohui, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, et al.. (2019). The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 870(2). L11–L11. 46 indexed citations

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Just, Dennis W., Dennis Zaritsky, Gregory Rudnick, et al.. (2019). Preprocessing among the Infalling Galaxy Population of EDisCS Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(1). 6–6. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Jinyi, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2019). Exploring Reionization-era Quasars. IV. Discovery of Six New z ≳ 6.5 Quasars with DES, VHS, and unWISE Photometry. The Astronomical Journal. 157(6). 236–236. 64 indexed citations

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Wolf, Christian, Fuyan Bian, Christopher A. Onken, et al.. (2019). Ultra-luminous quasars at redshift z > 4.5 from SkyMapper. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(2). 1970–1979. 18 indexed citations

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Jiang, Linhua, Yue Shen, Fuyan Bian, et al.. (2017). A Magellan M2FS Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxies at 5.5 < z < 6.8: Program Overview and a Sample of the Brightest Lyα Emitters. The Astrophysical Journal. 846(2). 134–134. 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Feige, Xue-Bing Wu, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2016). A SURVEY OF LUMINOUS HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASARS WITH SDSS AND WISE. I. TARGET SELECTION AND OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY. The Astrophysical Journal. 819(1). 24–24. 51 indexed citations

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