Weimin Yi

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 801 citations indexed

About

Weimin Yi is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Weimin Yi has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 801 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Weimin Yi's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (15 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers). Weimin Yi is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (15 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers). Weimin Yi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Weimin Yi's co-authors include Xue-Bing Wu, Qian Yang, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, Wenwen Zuo, Jinyi Yang, Linhua Jiang, Fuyan Bian, Ran Wang and Ian D. McGreer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Weimin Yi

22 papers receiving 737 citations

Hit Papers

An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Weimin Yi China 10 714 210 146 55 48 27 801
Christopher W. Morgan United States 16 574 0.8× 105 0.5× 103 0.7× 32 0.6× 10 0.2× 26 628
Charles Shapiro United States 11 278 0.4× 91 0.4× 56 0.4× 40 0.7× 17 0.4× 27 389
Qirong Yuan China 12 300 0.4× 65 0.3× 89 0.6× 3 0.1× 54 1.1× 49 400
Jingjing Shi China 11 244 0.3× 31 0.1× 125 0.9× 11 0.2× 17 0.4× 20 283
S. Castro United States 13 678 0.9× 113 0.5× 181 1.2× 5 0.1× 50 1.0× 22 739
T. C. Seetharamu United States 9 434 0.6× 149 0.7× 77 0.5× 5 0.1× 27 0.6× 17 493
D. Horner United States 12 518 0.7× 134 0.6× 139 1.0× 17 0.4× 18 583
Bojan Nikolic United Kingdom 10 354 0.5× 65 0.3× 132 0.9× 14 0.3× 30 409
Abhishek Prakash United States 6 533 0.7× 453 2.2× 86 0.6× 9 0.2× 13 628
Stephen Appleby South Korea 15 1.0k 1.4× 758 3.6× 48 0.3× 10 0.2× 35 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Weimin Yi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weimin Yi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weimin Yi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weimin Yi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weimin Yi 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 Weimin Yi. Weimin Yi 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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He, Zhicheng, et al.. (2025). Tracking Outflow Using Line Locking (TOLL). II. Large Line-locking Web Identified in Quasar J151352+085555. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 28–28. 1 indexed citations
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Yi, Weimin, et al.. (2024). Tracking Outflow Using Line Locking (TOLL). I. The Case Study of Quasar J221531-174408. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(2). 233–233. 1 indexed citations
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Yi, Weimin, Patrick B. Hall, W. N. Brandt, et al.. (2024). Quasar Winds Caught on Acceleration and Deceleration. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 271(2). 61–61. 4 indexed citations
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Luo, Bin, W. N. Brandt, Pu Du, et al.. (2023). XMM-Newton Observations of Two Archival X-Ray Weak Type 1 Quasars: Obscuration Induced X-Ray Weakness and Variability. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 159–159. 5 indexed citations
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He, Zhicheng, Guilin Liu, Tinggui Wang, et al.. (2022). Evidence for quasar fast outflows being accelerated at the scale of tens of parsecs. Science Advances. 8(6). eabk3291–eabk3291. 27 indexed citations
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Luo, Bin, et al.. (2022). A Rapid and Large-amplitude X-Ray Dimming Event in a z ≈ 2.6 Radio-quiet Quasar. The Astrophysical Journal. 930(1). 53–53. 9 indexed citations
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Plotkin, Richard M., Ohad Shemmer, Scott F. Anderson, et al.. (2022). Connecting Low- and High-redshift Weak Emission-line Quasars via Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of Lyα Emission. The Astrophysical Journal. 929(1). 78–78. 7 indexed citations
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Yi, Weimin, Wenwen Zuo, Jinyi Yang, et al.. (2020). Spectroscopy of Broad Absorption Line Quasars at 3 ≲ Z ≲ 5. I. Evidence for Quasar Winds Shaping Broad/Narrow Emission Line Regions. The Astrophysical Journal. 893(2). 95–95. 4 indexed citations
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Timlin, John, W. N. Brandt, Qingling Ni, et al.. (2019). The correlations between optical/UV broad lines and X-ray emission for a large sample of quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(1). 719–741. 33 indexed citations
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Xiong, Dingrong, et al.. (2017). Optical multi-color monitoring of OJ 287 from 2006 to 2012. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 17(8). 82–82. 3 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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Yi, Weimin, Jujia Zhang, Xue-Bing Wu, et al.. (2016). Tentative Spectroscopic Classification of Bright PSN in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A). ATel. 8655. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Xue-Bing, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2015). An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30. Nature. 518(7540). 512–515. 445 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Xue-Bing, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2015). Discovery of a 12 billion solar mass black hole at redshift 6.3 and its challenge to the black hole/galaxy coevolution at cosmic dawn. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 11(S319). 80–83.
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Yi, Weimin, Xue-Bing Wu, Feige Wang, et al.. (2015). Discovery of two broad absorption line quasars at redshift about 4.75 using the Lijiang 2.4 m telescope. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 58(9). 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Li, Jun-Cheng Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, et al.. (2013). Supernova 2012ii = Psn J07165548+5145476. 3369. 1.
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Noguchi, T., et al.. (2011). Supernova 2011iv in NGC 1404 = PSN J03385135-3535320.. 2940. 1.
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Yi, Weimin, et al.. (1994). Litter mass and its nitrogen dynamics of Cryptocarya concinna community in the Dinghushan biosphere reserve. 18(3). 228–235. 2 indexed citations

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