Xiaohui Fan

87.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
345 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Xiaohui Fan is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaohui Fan has authored 345 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 249 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 81 papers in Instrumentation and 67 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaohui Fan's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (225 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (107 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (85 papers). Xiaohui Fan is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (225 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (107 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (85 papers). Xiaohui Fan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Xiaohui Fan's co-authors include Michael A. Strauss, Gordon T. Richards, Linhua Jiang, C. L. Carilli, Donald P. Schneider, Neta A. Bahcall, Fabian Walter, R. H. Becker, R. L. White and James E. Gunn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Xiaohui Fan

321 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Constraining the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and the Epoch of Reionization withz ~ 6 Quasars. II. A Sample of 19 Quasars

2006 869 citations Xiaohui Fan et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
Spectral Energy Distributions and Multiwavelength Selection of Type 1 Quasars

2006 717 citations Xiaohui Fan, M. Vestergaard et al. profile →
An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5

2017 665 citations Eduardo Bañados, Bram Venemans et al. profile →
Observational Constraints on Cosmic Reionization

2006 488 citations Xiaohui Fan et al. profile →
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. profile →
Quasars and the Intergalactic Medium at Cosmic Dawn

2023 138 citations Xiaohui Fan, Eduardo Bañados et al. profile →
JWST CEERS and JADES Active Galaxies at z = 4–7 Violate the Local M _•–M _⋆ Relation at >3σ: Implications for Low-mass Black Holes and Seeding Models

2023 114 citations Xiaohui Fan et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaohui Fan United States	64	13.6k	4.2k	3.1k	1.1k	698	345	15.3k
H. J. Mo China	65	14.8k 1.1×	8.0k 1.9×	2.6k 0.8×	161 0.1×	283 0.4×	311	18.4k
Christian Wolf United Kingdom	38	5.3k 0.4×	3.0k 0.7×	556 0.2×	42 0.0×	25 0.0×	191	5.8k
J. H. Black United States	41	6.8k 0.5×	230 0.1×	654 0.2×	226 0.2×	54 0.1×	240	8.9k
Oliver Hahn Germany	37	3.3k 0.2×	1.3k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	20 0.0×	97 0.1×	110	4.6k
Hiroshi Murakami Japan	33	1.4k 0.1×	165 0.0×	527 0.2×	257 0.2×	219 0.3×	351	4.7k
R. Rosner United States	40	6.2k 0.5×	336 0.1×	839 0.3×	43 0.0×	123 0.2×	188	6.7k
C. Dominik Netherlands	47	6.7k 0.5×	252 0.1×	86 0.0×	48 0.0×	104 0.1×	193	7.5k
A. Skumanich United States	35	3.8k 0.3×	395 0.1×	52 0.0×	34 0.0×	208 0.3×	174	5.0k
D. R. Anderson United Kingdom	36	2.9k 0.2×	1.2k 0.3×	55 0.0×	68 0.1×	61 0.1×	136	4.1k
M. Carlsson Norway	49	7.6k 0.6×	216 0.1×	200 0.1×	16 0.0×	46 0.1×	183	8.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaohui Fan

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

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Gan, Min, Xiaohui Fan, Xingwei Li, et al.. (2025). New technology for preparing high sphericity iron powder by hydrogen reduction method. Powder Technology. 457. 120859–120859. 2 indexed citations

Fan, Xiaohui, et al.. (2024). A novel and clean utilization of flue gas desulfurization ash coupled with converter sludge to produce calcium ferrate. Chemical Engineering Journal. 498. 154919–154919. 5 indexed citations

Gan, Min, Zengqing Sun, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2024). An innovative process for two-step leaching calcium from steel slag and capturing CO2 to synthesize spindle-shaped CaCO3. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 194. 1024–1037. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Zengqing, et al.. (2024). Efficient and eco-friendly treatment of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash and municipal sludge for alkali activated material. Cleaner Engineering and Technology. 24. 100867–100867. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Yufeng, et al.. (2024). New approach to improve heat energy utilization efficiency in iron ore sintering: Exploration of surface fuel addition. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 190. 125–137. 8 indexed citations

Dou, Liming, Xinwen Shu, Subo Dong, et al.. (2024). Recurring tidal disruption events a decade apart in IRAS F01004-2237. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A262–A262. 8 indexed citations

Fan, Xiaohui, Min Gan, Zengqing Sun, et al.. (2024). Resource utilization of semi-dry flue gas desulfurization ash by thermal treatment on sintering machine. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(2). 112356–112356. 6 indexed citations

Lai, Samuel, Christopher A. Onken, Christian Wolf, Fuyan Bian, & Xiaohui Fan. (2023). XQz5: a new ultraluminous z ∼ 5 quasar legacy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3912–3931. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Huanqing, Anna–Christina Eilers, Sarah E. I. Bosman, et al.. (2022). Measuring the Density Fields around Bright Quasars at z ∼ 6 with XQR-30 Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(1). 29–29. 17 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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Yue, Minghao, Xiaohui Fan, Jinyi Yang, & Feige Wang. (2022). A Mock Catalog of Gravitationally-lensed Quasars for the LSST Survey. The Astronomical Journal. 163(3). 139–139. 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Shu, Linhua Jiang, Yue Shen, et al.. (2022). Metallicity in Quasar Broad-line Regions at Redshift ∼ 6. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(2). 121–121. 30 indexed citations

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Zou, Siwei, Linhua Jiang, Yue Shen, et al.. (2021). Strong Mg ii and Fe ii Absorbers at 2.2 < z < 6.0. The Astrophysical Journal. 906(1). 32–32. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Jiangtao, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, et al.. (2021). A Chandra survey of z ≥ 4.5 quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(2). 2767–2782. 7 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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Connor, Thomas, Eduardo Bañados, Chiara Mazzucchelli, et al.. (2020). X-Ray Observations of a [C II]-bright, z = 6.59 Quasar/Companion System. Florence Research (University of Florence). 13 indexed citations

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Eilers, Anna–Christina, Joseph F. Hennawi, Roberto Decarli, et al.. (2020). Detecting and Characterizing Young Quasars. I. Systemic Redshifts and Proximity Zone Measurements. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations

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Schindler, Jan–Torge, Xiaohui Fan, Mladen Novak, et al.. (2020). A Closer Look at Two of the Most Luminous Quasars in the Universe. The Astrophysical Journal. 906(1). 12–12. 5 indexed citations

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Davies, Frederick B., Joseph F. Hennawi, Eduardo Bañados, et al.. (2018). Predicting Quasar Continua near Lyα with Principal Component Analysis. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 45 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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