Xiaoting Sun

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Xiaoting Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoting Sun has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 15 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Xiaoting Sun's work include Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (10 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Xiaoting Sun is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (10 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Xiaoting Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and United States. Xiaoting Sun's co-authors include Huazhe Yang, Zhang‐Run Xu, Qi Li, Zhensheng Lin, Mingyue Sun, Shuyu Guo, Ziyuan Wang, Yihai Cao, Yunlong Yang and Kayoko Hosaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoting Sun

108 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Brown-fat-mediated tumour suppression by cold-altered global metabolism

2022 148 citations Takahiro Seki, Yunlong Yang et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoting Sun China	33	1.1k	865	530	521	435	112	3.5k
Liqun Yang China	30	1.4k 1.3×	633 0.7×	597 1.1×	582 1.1×	738 1.7×	151	4.1k
Li Cui China	36	1.5k 1.4×	498 0.6×	644 1.2×	409 0.8×	354 0.8×	176	4.3k
Jinghua Ren China	42	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	573 1.1×	648 1.2×	636 1.5×	140	4.8k
Xin Hou China	35	1.4k 1.3×	760 0.9×	677 1.3×	476 0.9×	214 0.5×	195	4.4k
Yi Jin China	35	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	552 1.0×	410 0.8×	254 0.6×	151	4.4k
Wei Zhong China	43	1.4k 1.4×	695 0.8×	358 0.7×	523 1.0×	363 0.8×	180	5.6k
Yuxin Wang China	27	1.1k 1.1×	521 0.6×	331 0.6×	276 0.5×	339 0.8×	167	2.4k
Jing Ruan China	29	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	513 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	290 0.7×	96	3.6k
Lü Chen China	38	1.8k 1.7×	685 0.8×	445 0.8×	207 0.4×	645 1.5×	148	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoting Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoting Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoting Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Xiaoting, et al.. (2025). Impact of urban green space morphology and vegetation composition on seasonal land surface temperature: a case study of Beijing's urban core. Urban Climate. 60. 102367–102367. 5 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaoting, Lanfang Wang, Tingting Liang, et al.. (2025). Enhanced nitrate-to-ammonia electroreduction on manganese-doped ceria with oxygen vacancies. Chemical Engineering Journal. 512. 162323–162323. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Qianwen, Tingting Liang, Xiaoting Sun, et al.. (2025). Accelerating Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia via Metal–Support Interactions in Ni-WS₂ Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(31). 27708–27719. 5 indexed citations

He, Limei, Xiaoting Sun, Yanni Tan, et al.. (2025). Flight capacity and wingbeat frequency of Mythimna loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Environmental Entomology. 55(1).

Wang, Lanfang, Qianwen Yang, Jianlei Shen, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Role of Topological Surface States in Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(47).

Liao, Xuelong, Youzeng Li, Wei Wang, et al.. (2024). Suppressing Zn pulverization with three-dimensional inert-cation diversion dam for long-life Zn metal batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(8). e2317796121–e2317796121. 32 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaoting, Youzeng Li, Shan Chen, et al.. (2024). Precursor‐Mediated Direct Growth of Defect‐Rich Hierarchical Nanocarbons for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(23). 3113–3121. 1 indexed citations

Li, Hao, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Differences in Tree Species Classification between Typical Forest Regions in Northern and Southern China. Forests. 15(6). 929–929. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaoting, Fang Wang, Tingting Liang, et al.. (2024). Engineering Nickel Dopants in Atomically Thin Molybdenum Disulfide for Highly Efficient Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(49). 28 indexed citations

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Yan, Zhi, et al.. (2024). Regioselective cation exchange reaction for photoelectrochemical water splitting. Rare Metals. 43(7). 3400–3407. 6 indexed citations

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Yan, Zhi, et al.. (2024). Boosting Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis via NO_x Reduction over Sulfur‐Doped Copper Oxide Nanoneedle Arrays. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(30). 26 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu, Ying Su, Rui Zhang, et al.. (2024). MA01.11 Unveiling Gene Expression and Immune Contexture in Stage II/III NSCLC Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab and Chemotherapy. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 19(10). S55–S56.

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Sun, Xiaoting, Wenhai Sui, Zepeng Mu, et al.. (2023). Mirabegron displays anticancer effects by globally browning adipose tissues. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7610–7610. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Peng, Xiaoting Sun, Xueying Liu, et al.. (2022). Identification of Candidate Genes for Lint Percentage and Fiber Quality Through QTL Mapping and Transcriptome Analysis in an Allotetraploid Interspecific Cotton CSSLs Population. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 882051–882051. 12 indexed citations

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Xie, Sisi, Ying Ye, Xiaoting Sun, et al.. (2022). Dietary ketone body–escalated histone acetylation in megakaryocytes alleviates chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Science Translational Medicine. 14(673). eabn9061–eabn9061. 9 indexed citations

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Seki, Takahiro, Yunlong Yang, Xiaoting Sun, et al.. (2022). Brown-fat-mediated tumour suppression by cold-altered global metabolism. Nature. 608(7922). 421–428. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ye, Ying, Sisi Xie, Yintao Li, et al.. (2021). Megakaryocytes Mediate Hyperglycemia-Induced Tumor Metastasis. Cancer Research. 81(21). 5506–5522. 22 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaoting, Xingkang He, Yin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Inflammatory cell-derived CXCL3 promotes pancreatic cancer metastasis through a novel myofibroblast-hijacked cancer escape mechanism. Gut. 71(1). 129–147. 147 indexed citations

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Yang, Jie, Bo Wang, Aaron M. Gusdon, et al.. (2019). The prognostic impact of lymph node metastasis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and distant organ metastasis. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis. 36(5). 457–466. 23 indexed citations

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Yang, Jie, Yuan Zhang, Xiaoting Sun, et al.. (2018). The prognostic value of multiorgan metastases in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and its variants: a SEER-based study. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 144(9). 1835–1842. 38 indexed citations

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