Xiaocang Xu

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaocang Xu is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaocang Xu has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in General Health Professions, 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 11 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Xiaocang Xu's work include Global Health Care Issues (17 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (11 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (9 papers). Xiaocang Xu is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (17 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (11 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (9 papers). Xiaocang Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and France. Xiaocang Xu's co-authors include Haoran Yang, Linhong Chen, Xiuquan Huang, Xin Gao, Chang Li, Qingqing Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, Lu Zhang, Lu Zhang and Jun Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Xiaocang Xu

37 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Effects of Water Pollution on Human Health and Disease He... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 200 400 600
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. Effects of Water Pollution on Human Health and Disease Heterogeneity: A Review
    2022 622 citations Haoran Yang, Xiaocang Xu et al. profile →

Peers

Xiaocang Xu
Yuan Zhao China
Gabriel Guliš Denmark
Rosemary Green United Kingdom
Hongbin Li China
Abid Hussain Canada
Daniel Meyer South Africa
Mashura Shammi Bangladesh
Priti Parikh United Kingdom
Miaomiao Liu China
Yujie Wang China
Yuan Zhao China
Xiaocang Xu
Citations per year, relative to Xiaocang Xu Xiaocang Xu (= 1×) peers Yuan Zhao

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaocang Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaocang Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaocang Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaocang Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaocang Xu 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 Xiaocang Xu. Xiaocang Xu 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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Xu, Xiaocang, et al.. (2025). Does Air Pollution Aggravate Health Problems in Low-Income Countries? Verification from Countries Along the Belt and Road. Sustainability. 17(5). 1796–1796. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Linhong, Lingyu Zhang, & Xiaocang Xu. (2024). Health behavior and medical insurance under the healthy China strategy: a moral hazard perspective. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1315153–1315153. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Zeyang & Xiaocang Xu. (2024). Can Access to Financial Markets Be an Important Option for Rural Families to Break the Return to Poverty Due to Illness in China?. Agriculture. 14(2). 165–165. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang, et al.. (2024). How Does Temperature Change Affect Residents’ Health? A Multidimensional Health Perspective. Weather Climate and Society. 16(4). 723–738.
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Chen, Linhong & Xiaocang Xu. (2023). Poverty Reduction Effects of Medical Insurance on Middle-Aged and Elderly Families under the Goal of Common Prosperity in China. Healthcare. 11(4). 477–477. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang, Qingqing Wang, & Chang Li. (2022). The Impact of Dependency Burden on Urban Household Health Expenditure and Its Regional Heterogeneity in China: Based on Quantile Regression Method. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 876088–876088. 29 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang, Haoran Yang, & Chang Li. (2022). Theoretical Model and Actual Characteristics of Air Pollution Affecting Health Cost: A Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(6). 3532–3532. 87 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang & Haoran Yang. (2022). Does Elderly Chronic Disease Hinder the Sustainability of Borderline Poor Families’ Wellbeing: An Investigation From Catastrophic Health Expenditure in China. International Journal of Public Health. 67. 1605030–1605030. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang, Hongmei Yang, & Haoran Yang. (2021). The threshold effect of agricultural energy consumption on agricultural carbon emissions: a comparison between relative poverty regions and other regions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(39). 55592–55602. 19 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lu & Xiaocang Xu. (2021). Difference in carbon footprint between single- and double-cropping rice production in China, 2003–2016. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(21). 27308–27317. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Linhong & Xiaocang Xu. (2020). <p>Effect Evaluation of the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) System on the Health Care of the Elderly: A Review</p>. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Volume 13. 863–875. 54 indexed citations
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Chen, Linhong, Xiaolu Zhang, & Xiaocang Xu. (2020). <p>Health Insurance and Long-Term Care Services for the Disabled Elderly in China: Based on CHARLS Data</p>. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. Volume 13. 155–162. 55 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang, et al.. (2020). The effect of trade openness on the relationship between agricultural technology inputs and carbon emissions: evidence from a panel threshold model. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(8). 9991–10004. 27 indexed citations
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Chen, Linhong, Lu Zhang, & Xiaocang Xu. (2020). Review of evolution of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in different countries: influence and challenge. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 1057–1057. 47 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang, Lu Zhang, Linhong Chen, & Cheng‐Jie Liu. (2020). The Role of Soil N2O Emissions in Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity: An Empirical Study from China around 2006 when Agricultural Tax Was Abolished. Agriculture. 10(5). 150–150. 47 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang & Linhong Chen. (2019). Influencing factors of disability among the elderly in China, 2003–2016: application of Bayesian quantile regression. Journal of Medical Economics. 22(6). 605–611. 22 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocang & Linhong Chen. (2019). Projection of Long-Term Care Costs in China, 2020–2050: Based on the Bayesian Quantile Regression Method. Sustainability. 11(13). 3530–3530. 67 indexed citations

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