Xiaofan Sun

941 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 681 citations indexed

About

Xiaofan Sun is a scholar working on Archeology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofan Sun has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 681 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Archeology, 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Xiaofan Sun's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers), Paleopathology and ancient diseases (3 papers) and Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (3 papers). Xiaofan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers), Paleopathology and ancient diseases (3 papers) and Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (3 papers). Xiaofan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Xiaofan Sun's co-authors include Shuping Han, Zhangbin Yu, Jingai Zhu, Xirong Guo, Chenbo Ji, Qian Wang, Quanchao Zhang, Yi Si, Weiguo Fu and Xiaoli He and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, BMJ Open and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Xiaofan Sun

16 papers receiving 667 citations

Hit Papers

Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Relation to Infant Birth... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 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. Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Relation to Infant Birth Weight and Offspring Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    2013 646 citations Zhangbin Yu, Shuping Han et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

Xiaofan Sun
Sara L. White United Kingdom
Nashita Patel United Kingdom
Patrick Catalano United States
Kathryn V. Dalrymple United Kingdom
S. Deghmoun France
Wanqing Xiao China
Sander Galjaard Netherlands
Saila B. Koivusalo Finland
Sine Knorr Denmark
Suchitra Chandrasekaran United States
Sara L. White United Kingdom
Xiaofan Sun
Citations per year, relative to Xiaofan Sun Xiaofan Sun (= 1×) peers Sara L. White

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaofan Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaofan Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaofan Sun

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Bhat, Shubha, et al.. (2024). Healthcare Access for Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the United States: A Survey by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 31(7). 1819–1832. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaofan, Xingcheng Liu, Yue Li, et al.. (2024). Cxcl10 and Cxcr3 regulate self-renewal and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 15(1). 248–248. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qun, et al.. (2023). The largest headhunting event in prehistoric Asia: evidence of mass decapitation at the 4100-year-old Neolithic Age Honghe site, Heilongjiang, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15(9). 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaofan, et al.. (2023). A shaman’s surgical art? A neurosurgical and osteoarchaeological study of a therapeutic trepanation from the Yanghai cemetery in Turpan Basin, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15(10). 3 indexed citations
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Hou, Liangliang, Yuze Sun, Xiaofan Sun, et al.. (2022). Social hierarchy of the Peng state in the Western Zhou Dynasty: Stable isotope analysis of animals and humans from the Hengshui Cemetery, Shanxi, China. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 44. 103522–103522. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Shiyu, et al.. (2022). Trepanation during the late Neolithic Age from the Mapai cemetery in the Gan‐Qing region, northwestern China—A bioarcheological and experimental study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 33(1). 70–82. 1 indexed citations
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Qin, Wang, Xiaofan Sun, Yi Si, et al.. (2022). Computational study of fenestration and parallel grafts used in TEVAR of aortic arch aneurysms. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. 39(10). e3664–e3664. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Quanchao, Xiaogang Hou, Shiyu Yang, et al.. (2021). Eternal love locked in an embrace and sealed with a ring: A Xianbei couple's joint burial in North Wei era, China (386–534 CE). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31(5). 966–974. 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Qiufen, Zhankui Li, Xiaoli He, et al.. (2021). Causes of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia: a multicenter study of three regions in China. World Journal of Pediatrics. 17(3). 290–297. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaofan, et al.. (2021). Hiding a leaf in the forest: uncovering a 1300-year-old homicide case in a 2000-year-old cemetery. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13(11).
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Sun, Xiaofan, et al.. (2021). Footbinding and non-footbinding Han Chinese females in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912 CE) Xifengbu cemetery: a skeletal and mortuary analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13(1). 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaofan, et al.. (2020). Image-Based Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia Screening after Hospital Discharge. Iranian Journal of Public Health. 1 indexed citations
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Si, Yi, et al.. (2020). [Countermeasures and treatment for aortic acute syndrome with 2019 coronavirus disease].. PubMed. 58(3). 178–182. 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Zhangbin, Shuping Han, Jingai Zhu, et al.. (2013). Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Relation to Infant Birth Weight and Offspring Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61627–e61627. 646 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Xiaofan. (2008). On Reducing the DOP Value of GPS by Use of Pseudolite Technique. Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping.

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