Ran Wang

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ran Wang is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Wang has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 15 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Ran Wang's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (66 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (33 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (31 papers). Ran Wang is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (66 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (33 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (31 papers). Ran Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Ran Wang's co-authors include Xiaohui Fan, Linhua Jiang, C. L. Carilli, Fabian Walter, Xue-Bing Wu, Fuyan Bian, F. Bertoldi, Ian D. McGreer, Feige Wang and Jinyi Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ran Wang

70 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

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. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Wang China	26	2.1k	585	498	60	48	72	2.3k
Jun Ma China	22	1.5k 0.7×	566 1.0×	260 0.5×	121 2.0×	3 0.1×	169	1.8k
James D. Lowenthal United States	22	1.5k 0.7×	639 1.1×	303 0.6×	71 1.2×	1 0.0×	56	1.6k
Mark Dijkstra United States	32	3.0k 1.4×	905 1.5×	930 1.9×	137 2.3×	4 0.1×	70	3.1k
P. Santini Italy	30	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 2.1×	397 0.8×	88 1.5×		86	2.7k
Jonathan McDowell United States	24	2.6k 1.2×	356 0.6×	908 1.8×	42 0.7×	2 0.0×	93	2.7k
Gavin Dalton United Kingdom	23	1.7k 0.8×	620 1.1×	205 0.4×	88 1.5×		82	1.9k
Xiangcheng Ma United States	31	2.6k 1.2×	946 1.6×	348 0.7×	40 0.7×		39	2.7k
John Chisholm United States	24	1.5k 0.7×	543 0.9×	186 0.4×	55 0.9×		75	1.6k
M. J. Thompson United Kingdom	27	2.4k 1.1×	94 0.2×	112 0.2×	31 0.5×		87	2.7k
Emanuele Paolo Farina Germany	23	2.0k 0.9×	563 1.0×	569 1.1×	52 0.9×		68	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ran Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ran Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Wang

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

All Works

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Silverman, J. D., Seiji Fujimoto, Ran Wang, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Dark Matter Content of Two Quasar Host Galaxies at z ∼ 6 through Gas Kinematics. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 84–84. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Xiaolong, Su Yao, Luigi Gallo, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the Small-scale Jets in the Rapidly Growing Supermassive Black Hole IZw1. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 151–151. 2 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

Molina, Juan, Luis C. Ho, Ran Wang, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Star Formation Efficiency in the Central Regions of Nearby Quasar Hosts. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(1). 30–30. 14 indexed citations

Wu, Yunjing, Zheng Cai, Jianan Li, et al.. (2023). Searching for C ii Emission from the First Sample of z ∼ 6 O i Absorption-associated Galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 16–16. 2 indexed citations

Molina, Juan, J. Shangguan, Ran Wang, et al.. (2023). Lack of Correlations between Cold Molecular Gas and AGN Properties in Type 1 AGNs at z ≲ 0.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1). 60–60. 4 indexed citations

Li, Qiong, Ran Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2023). SCUBA-2 High Redshift Bright Quasar Survey. II. The Environment of z ∼ 6 Quasars at Submillimeter Band. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 174–174. 3 indexed citations

Decarli, Roberto, Antonio Pensabene, T. Díaz-Santos, et al.. (2023). A comprehensive view of the interstellar medium in a quasar host galaxy at z ≈ 6.4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 673. A157–A157. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, J. Irwin, Q. Daniel Wang, et al.. (2022). H i Vertical Structure of Nearby Edge-on Galaxies from CHANG-ES. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 22(8). 85004–85004. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Jinyi, Xiaohui Fan, Feige Wang, et al.. (2022). Deep XMM-Newton Observations of an X-ray Weak Broad Absorption Line Quasar at z = 6.5. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 924(2). L25–L25. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Qiong, Ran Wang, H. Dannerbauer, et al.. (2021). Discovery of a Protocluster Core Associated with an Enormous Lya Nebula at z = 2.3. The Astrophysical Journal. 922(2). 236–236. 8 indexed citations

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Michiyama, Tomonari, Toshiki Saito, Ken-ichi Tadaki, et al.. (2021). An ACA Survey of [C i] ³ P ₁−³ P ₀, CO J = 4 − 3, and Dust Continuum in Nearby U/LIRGs. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 257(2). 28–28. 10 indexed citations

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Novak, Mladen, Bram Venemans, Fabian Walter, et al.. (2020). No Evidence for [C ii] Halos or High-velocity Outflows in z ≳ 6 Quasar Host Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 904(2). 131–131. 46 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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Shao, Yali, Ran Wang, C. L. Carilli, et al.. (2019). Star Formation and ISM Properties in the Host Galaxies of Three Far-infrared Luminous Quasars at z ∼ 6. The Astrophysical Journal. 876(2). 99–99. 30 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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Decarli, Roberto, Fabian Walter, Bram Venemans, et al.. (2017). Rapidly star-forming galaxies adjacent to quasars at redshifts exceeding 6. Nature. 545(7655). 457–461. 102 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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Yang, Jinyi, Feige Wang, Xue-Bing Wu, et al.. (2016). A SURVEY OF LUMINOUS HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASARS WITH SDSS AND WISE. II. THE BRIGHT END OF THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION AT z ∼ 5. The Astrophysical Journal. 829(1). 33–33. 51 indexed citations

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Jiang, Linhua, Ian D. McGreer, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2016). THE FINAL SDSS HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASAR SAMPLE OF 52 QUASARS AT z > 5.7. The Astrophysical Journal. 833(2). 222–222. 186 indexed citations

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