Ruancun Li

639 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 241 citations indexed

About

Ruancun Li is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruancun Li has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 241 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Ruancun Li's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (6 papers). Ruancun Li is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (6 papers). Ruancun Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Chile. Ruancun Li's co-authors include Luis C. Ho, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Cláudio Ricci, J. Shangguan, Zhe Wan, Kohei Inayoshi, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Wei Liu, Chen Cao and Jianjun Qiao and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Ruancun Li

17 papers receiving 186 citations

Hit Papers

The Host Galaxy (If Any) of the Little Red Dots 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15 20
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. The Host Galaxy (If Any) of the Little Red Dots
    2025 21 citations Luis C. Ho, Ruancun Li et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruancun Li China 10 161 46 43 39 36 18 241
Shu-Jin Hou China 10 177 1.1× 39 0.8× 5 0.1× 61 1.6× 43 1.2× 20 252
Jan Grothe Germany 4 198 1.2× 15 0.3× 69 1.6× 6 0.2× 12 0.3× 12 242
M. Pantaleoni González Spain 10 223 1.4× 15 0.3× 119 2.8× 7 0.2× 11 0.3× 18 262
L. Richter South Africa 7 95 0.6× 9 0.2× 10 0.2× 73 1.9× 97 2.7× 12 216
G. Granata Italy 10 37 0.2× 10 0.2× 23 0.5× 4 0.1× 60 1.7× 39 280
J. Melbourne United States 9 207 1.3× 27 0.6× 114 2.7× 11 0.3× 9 0.3× 10 251
Angela Chen China 5 49 0.3× 10 0.2× 10 0.2× 23 0.6× 39 1.1× 7 116
Donald C. Warren Japan 11 220 1.4× 6 0.1× 12 0.3× 167 4.3× 11 0.3× 16 255
Joshua A. Carter United States 6 179 1.1× 17 0.4× 55 1.3× 8 0.2× 2 0.1× 6 294
Morgan Deal France 12 361 2.2× 2 0.0× 133 3.1× 28 0.7× 27 0.8× 31 409

Countries citing papers authored by Ruancun Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruancun Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ruancun Li. 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 Ruancun Li. The network helps show where Ruancun Li may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruancun Li

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ho, Luis C., et al.. (2025). The Physical Nature of the Off-center Extended Emission Associated with the Little Red Dots. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 989(1). L12–L12. 8 indexed citations
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Büchner, Johannes, Teng Liu, K. Nandra, et al.. (2025). The average soft X-ray spectra of eROSITA active galactic nuclei. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A144–A144.
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Ho, Luis C., et al.. (2025). The Host Galaxy (If Any) of the Little Red Dots. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 60–60. 21 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Li, Ruancun, Cláudio Ricci, Luis C. Ho, et al.. (2024). The Interplay between the Disk and Corona of the Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES 1927+654. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 140–140. 5 indexed citations
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Ho, Luis C., et al.. (2024). The Structure and Morphology of Galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization Revealed by JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 960(2). 104–104. 17 indexed citations
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Li, Ruancun, Luis C. Ho, Cláudio Ricci, & Benny Trakhtenbrot. (2024). A Two-zone Accretion Disk in the Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES 1927+654: Physical Implications for Tidal Disruption Events and Super-Eddington Accretion. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 50–50. 8 indexed citations
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Kawamuro, T., Cláudio Ricci, Satoshi Yamada, et al.. (2023). Coevolution and Nuclear Structure in the Dwarf Galaxy POX 52 Studied by Multiwavelength Data from Radio to X-Ray. The Astrophysical Journal. 960(1). 15–15. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Xin, et al.. (2023). NOEMA Detection of Circumnuclear Molecular Gas in X-Ray Weak Dual Active Galactic Nuclei: No Evidence for Heavy Obscuration. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(1). 50–50. 6 indexed citations
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Ho, Luis C., et al.. (2023). Panchromatic Photometry of Low-redshift, Massive Galaxies Selected from SDSS Stripe 82. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 267(1). 17–17. 8 indexed citations
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Tortosa, A., Cláudio Ricci, Francesco Tombesi, et al.. (2022). The extreme properties of the nearby hyper-Eddington accreting active galactic nucleus in IRAS 04416+1215. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 23 indexed citations
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Li, Ruancun, Luis C. Ho, Cláudio Ricci, et al.. (2022). The Host Galaxy and Rapidly Evolving Broad-line Region in the Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES 1927+654. The Astrophysical Journal. 933(1). 70–70. 26 indexed citations
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Tortosa, A., Cláudio Ricci, Luis C. Ho, et al.. (2022). Systematic broad-band X-ray study of super-Eddington accretion on to supermassive black holes – I. X-ray continuum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(4). 6267–6283. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Ruancun, et al.. (2022). Accretion Disk Outflow during the X-Ray Flare of the Super-Eddington Active Nucleus of I Zwicky 1. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(2). 77–77. 12 indexed citations
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Ricci, Cláudio, Michael Loewenstein, Erin Kara, et al.. (2021). The 450 Day X-Ray Monitoring of the Changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Shangguan, J., et al.. (2019). Interstellar Medium and Star Formation of Starburst Galaxies on the Merger Sequence. The Astrophysical Journal. 870(2). 104–104. 31 indexed citations
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Deng, Shuwen, et al.. (2011). A Random Comparative Study of Terbinafine Versus Griseofulvin in Patients with Tinea Capitis in Western China. Mycopathologia. 172(5). 365–372. 19 indexed citations
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Cao, Chen, Wei Liu, Ruancun Li, Zhe Wan, & Jianjun Qiao. (2008). In vitro interactions of micafungin with amphotericin B, itraconazole or fluconazole against the pathogenic phase of Penicillium marneffei. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 63(2). 340–342. 25 indexed citations
18.
Yang, Rong, et al.. (2003). Disseminated trichosporonosis in China. Mycoses. 46(11-12). 519–523. 19 indexed citations

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