Ran Li

4.2k total citations
134 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ran Li is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Li has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 36 papers in Instrumentation and 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ran Li's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (66 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (36 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (25 papers). Ran Li is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (66 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (36 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (25 papers). Ran Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Ran Li's co-authors include Fei Wang, Xingmin Mu, Peng Gao, H. J. Mo, Xiaohu Yang, Frank C. van den Bosch, Liang Gao, Carlos S. Frenk, Surhud More and Marcello Cacciato and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ran Li

121 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ran Li China 25 1.5k 698 287 259 240 134 2.3k
Yu Gao China 30 3.1k 2.1× 618 0.9× 370 1.3× 53 0.2× 77 0.3× 190 3.6k
Anil C. Seth United States 39 3.8k 2.6× 1.8k 2.6× 249 0.9× 153 0.6× 182 0.8× 142 4.2k
R. L. Webster Australia 28 2.5k 1.7× 626 0.9× 699 2.4× 63 0.2× 258 1.1× 125 2.8k
L. K. Hunt Italy 40 5.6k 3.8× 1.5k 2.1× 901 3.1× 198 0.8× 217 0.9× 161 6.2k
Xiaoli Sun United States 30 1.1k 0.8× 672 1.0× 21 0.1× 796 3.1× 532 2.2× 215 3.8k
William F. Welsh United States 25 1.7k 1.2× 417 0.6× 170 0.6× 209 0.8× 64 0.3× 68 2.0k
Enrico Arnone Italy 15 776 0.5× 104 0.1× 184 0.6× 420 1.6× 18 0.1× 41 1.3k
S. L. Baliunas United States 25 3.0k 2.1× 599 0.9× 135 0.5× 271 1.0× 82 0.3× 80 3.7k
A. Schwope Germany 34 3.3k 2.2× 732 1.0× 607 2.1× 707 2.7× 108 0.5× 220 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ran Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ran Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Li

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shan, Huanyuan, Y. Shu, Ji Yao, et al.. (2025). CURLING – II. Improvement on the H 0 inference from pixelized cluster strong lens modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 708–716.
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Qian, Yiguang, et al.. (2025). Nanospecific effect rather than dissolved Cu2+ dominates the impact of CuO nanoparticles on soil microbiota. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 490. 137817–137817. 2 indexed citations
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Amvrosiadis, Aristeidis, J.W Nightingale, Qiuhan He, et al.. (2025). Galaxy mass modelling from multiwavelength JWST strong lens analysis: dark matter substructure, angular mass complexity, or both?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(2). 704–726. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Ran, Chunmei Zhang, Hui Yang, & Huiling Chen. (2024). A graph-theoretic method to the existence of stationary distribution of stochastic multi-layer networks with Markovian switching. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 136. 108092–108092. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Qiang, Wenxiu Zhang, Ran Li, et al.. (2024). Decoding the pathogenesis of spermatogenic failure in cryptorchidism through single-cell transcriptomic profiling. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(9). 101709–101709. 3 indexed citations
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Shan, Huanyuan, Ran Li, Eric Jullo, et al.. (2024). CURLING – I. The influence of point-like image approximation on the outcomes of cluster strong lens modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 1179–1190. 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Zihuang, Man I Lam, Ran Li, et al.. (2024). All-sky Guide Star Catalog for CSST. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 24(4). 45004–45004. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Kai, Michele Cappellari, Ran Li, et al.. (2023). MaNGA DynPop – III. Stellar dynamics versus stellar population relations in 6000 early-type and spiral galaxies: Fundamental Plane, mass-to-light ratios, total density slopes, and dark matter fractions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 706–730. 16 indexed citations
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Du, Wei, et al.. (2023). Mass Reconstruction of Galaxy-scale Strong Gravitational Lenses Using a Broken Power-law Model. The Astrophysical Journal. 953(2). 189–189. 3 indexed citations
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Luo, Yanwei, Xichen Nie, Ran Li, et al.. (2023). Single-cell multi-omics analysis of human testicular germ cell tumor reveals its molecular features and microenvironment. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8462–8462. 16 indexed citations
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Nightingale, J.W, Qiuhan He, Xiaoyue Cao, et al.. (2023). Scanning for dark matter subhaloes in Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 54 strong lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 10480–10506. 24 indexed citations
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Nightingale, J.W, R. Massey, Andrew Robertson, et al.. (2023). Beyond the bulge–halo conspiracy? Density profiles of early-type galaxies from extended-source strong lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 6005–6018. 19 indexed citations
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Nightingale, J.W, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis, Qiuhan He, et al.. (2023). PyAutoGalaxy: Open-Source Multiwavelength GalaxyStructure & Morphology. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(81). 4475–4475. 15 indexed citations
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Xu, Yidong, Yougang Wang, W.-C. Yang, et al.. (2023). The 21-cm forest as a simultaneous probe of dark matter and cosmic heating history. Nature Astronomy. 7(9). 1116–1126. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Rui, N. R. Napolitano, Hai-Cheng Feng, et al.. (2022). Galaxy morphoto-Z with neural Networks (GaZNets). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 666. A85–A85. 9 indexed citations
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Li, Tingyu, Shuoran Liu, Shan Fu, et al.. (2022). Cropland degradation and nutrient overload on Hainan Island: A review and synthesis. Environmental Pollution. 313. 120100–120100. 44 indexed citations
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Cao, Xiaoyue, Ran Li, J.W Nightingale, et al.. (2021). Systematic Errors Induced by the Elliptical Power-law model in Galaxy–Galaxy Strong Lens Modeling. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 22(2). 25014–25014. 24 indexed citations
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Cao, Xiaoyue, Ran Li, Y. Shu, et al.. (2020). LESSER: a catalogue of spectroscopically selected sample of Lyman-α emitters lensed by galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(3). 3610–3619. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Yun, Ran Li, Y. Shu, & Xiaoyue Cao. (2019). Assessing the effect of lens mass model in cosmological application with updated galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 3745–3758. 47 indexed citations

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