Nan Xia

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 994 citations indexed

About

Nan Xia is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Xia has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 994 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in General Health Professions, 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 3 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Nan Xia's work include Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (3 papers), Trace Elements in Health (3 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (2 papers). Nan Xia is often cited by papers focused on Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (3 papers), Trace Elements in Health (3 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (2 papers). Nan Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Nan Xia's co-authors include Shuo Feng, Benjamin J. Cowling, Chen Shen, Wei Song, Yi Dong, Kangkang Chen, Yang Yang, Zhi‐Ying Wu, Xiaoting Liu and Ziwei Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Movement Disorders.

In The Last Decade

Nan Xia

10 papers receiving 956 citations

Hit Papers

Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 250 500 750
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.

  1. Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic
    2020 948 citations Shuo Feng, Chen Shen et al. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nan Xia China 5 334 261 245 214 193 10 994
Helene‐Mari van der Westhuizen United Kingdom 9 386 1.2× 313 1.2× 188 0.8× 211 1.0× 145 0.8× 25 1.1k
Arne von Delft South Africa 11 365 1.1× 289 1.1× 169 0.7× 199 0.9× 136 0.7× 18 1.1k
Gregory L. Watson United States 6 362 1.1× 317 1.2× 165 0.7× 181 0.8× 133 0.7× 7 1.1k
Viola Tang Hong Kong 2 362 1.1× 314 1.2× 164 0.7× 177 0.8× 137 0.7× 2 842
Austin Huang United States 8 354 1.1× 282 1.1× 160 0.7× 167 0.8× 130 0.7× 8 933
Reshama Shaikh United States 3 354 1.1× 282 1.1× 160 0.7× 166 0.8× 130 0.7× 3 814
Vivien Wai‐Man Chuang Hong Kong 12 451 1.4× 340 1.3× 258 1.1× 156 0.7× 289 1.5× 15 1.4k
Christina E. Bax United States 9 883 2.6× 508 1.9× 213 0.9× 203 0.9× 274 1.4× 23 1.7k
Huizhi Gao Hong Kong 13 137 0.4× 422 1.6× 186 0.8× 200 0.9× 83 0.4× 32 968
Wei Lyu China 14 231 0.7× 297 1.1× 172 0.7× 392 1.8× 166 0.9× 70 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Nan Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nan Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nan Xia. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nan Xia. The network helps show where Nan Xia may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Xia

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Xia, Nan, et al.. (2023). Mobile APP-assisted family physician program for improving blood pressure outcome in hypertensive patients. BMC Primary Care. 24(1). 8–8. 3 indexed citations
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Zheng, Ziwei, et al.. (2022). Serum Neurofilament Light Chain in Wilson's Disease: A Promising Indicator but Unparallel to Real‐Time Treatment Response. Movement Disorders. 37(7). 1531–1535. 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Hao, Guo‐Min Yang, Nan Xia, et al.. (2020). Clinical features and outcome of Wilson's disease with generalized epilepsy in Chinese patients. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 26(8). 842–850. 3 indexed citations
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Feng, Shuo, et al.. (2020). Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 8(5). 434–436. 948 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xia, Nan, Wwt Lam, Sungwon Yoon, et al.. (2020). Patterns of Cancer-Related Risk Behaviors Among Construction Workers in Hong Kong: A Latent Class Analysis Approach. Safety and Health at Work. 11(1). 26–32. 3 indexed citations
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Feng, Shuo, Yang Yang, & Nan Xia. (2018). Associations between healthy lifestyles and depressive symptoms among adults in China: a longitudinal study. The Lancet. 392. S59–S59. 5 indexed citations
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Lam, Wwt, Sungwon Yoon, Na Zhang, et al.. (2016). Workplace Health Promotion: Assessing the Cardiopulmonary Risks of the Construction Workforce in Hong Kong. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146286–e0146286. 7 indexed citations

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