Xu Kong

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
135 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Xu Kong is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Kong has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 67 papers in Instrumentation and 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xu Kong's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (92 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (67 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (56 papers). Xu Kong is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (92 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (67 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (56 papers). Xu Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Xu Kong's co-authors include Yang Chen, A. Bressan, L. Girardi, Paola Marigo, A. F. Lanza, M. Barbieri, S. Charlot, F. Z. Cheng, S. Michael Fall and J. Brinchmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

In The Last Decade

Xu Kong

112 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

parsec evolutionary tracks of massive stars up to 350 M_⊙at metallicities 0.0001 ≤Z≤ 0.04

2015 405 citations Yang Chen, Xu Kong et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Improving PARSEC models for very low mass stars

2014 388 citations Yang Chen, Xu Kong et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xu Kong China	21	2.3k	1.1k	173	110	82	135	2.6k
Nicholas P. Ross United States	37	3.8k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	940 5.4×	130 1.2×	116 1.4×	66	4.0k
Jun Ma China	22	1.5k 0.7×	566 0.5×	260 1.5×	33 0.3×	103 1.3×	169	1.8k
R. Claudi Italy	19	2.1k 0.9×	987 0.9×	207 1.2×	34 0.3×	132 1.6×	92	2.2k
Anil C. Seth United States	39	3.8k 1.7×	1.8k 1.6×	249 1.4×	55 0.5×	182 2.2×	142	4.2k
B. McLean United States	18	1.3k 0.6×	470 0.4×	274 1.6×	43 0.4×	66 0.8×	82	1.5k
L. Silva Italy	30	4.3k 1.9×	2.1k 1.8×	482 2.8×	117 1.1×	104 1.3×	77	4.6k
Jinyi Yang United States	24	2.5k 1.1×	710 0.6×	618 3.6×	25 0.2×	86 1.0×	98	2.8k
Seán Moran United States	24	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	180 1.0×	72 0.7×	159 1.9×	52	2.2k
C. Jordi Spain	31	3.4k 1.5×	1.9k 1.7×	98 0.6×	31 0.3×	80 1.0×	112	3.6k
H. Lin United States	25	1.9k 0.8×	996 0.9×	274 1.6×	181 1.6×	110 1.3×	56	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Xu Kong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Kong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Kong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xu Kong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xu Kong 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 Xu Kong. Xu Kong 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

Pan, Lei, et al.. (2025). Endothelial LRRC8A delays vascular ageing in natural and accelerated ageing mouse models. Cardiovascular Research. 121(16). 2549–2564.

Lyu, Wanlin, et al.. (2025). Dependence of Metal Enrichment of Nuclear Star Clusters on Galaxy Stellar Mass. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(1). 85–85.

Zhang, Shiliang, Guanwen Fang, Jie Song, et al.. (2024). Preparation for CSST: Star-galaxy Classification using a Rotationally Invariant Supervised Machine Learning Method. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 24(9). 95012–95012. 2 indexed citations

Kong, Xu, et al.. (2024). Construction of Z-scheme heterojunction interfacial charge transfer pathways in ZnIn₂S₄@NENU-5 for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Nanoscale. 16(37). 17505–17518. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Enci, Ming Zhu, Yingjie Peng, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Origin of Cold Gas and Star Formation in a Rare Population of Strongly Bulge-dominated Early-type Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 238–238. 2 indexed citations

Song, Jie, Guanwen Fang, Zesen Lin, et al.. (2024). USmorph: An Updated Framework of Automatic Classification of Galaxy Morphologies and Its Application to Galaxies in the COSMOS Field. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 272(2). 42–42. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, et al.. (2024). The Lyα Nondetection by JWST NIRSpec of a Strong Lyα Emitter at z = 5.66 Confirmed by MUSE. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 121–121. 2 indexed citations

Song, Jie, et al.. (2023). Evolution of Nonparametric Morphology of Galaxies in the JWST CEERS Field at z ≃ 0.8–3.0. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 113–113. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, et al.. (2023). The Interstellar Medium Scaling Relations Using Inner H i and an Application of Estimating Dust Mass. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 84–84. 1 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xianzhong, et al.. (2023). Local Star-forming Galaxies Build Up Central Mass Concentration Most Actively near M _∗ = 10¹⁰ M _⊙. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 42–42. 1 indexed citations

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Bendo, G. J., et al.. (2023). Star formation in the centre of NGC 1808 as observed by ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(3). 3645–3661. 1 indexed citations

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Kong, Xu, et al.. (2022). Subgalactic Scaling Relations with T _e-based Metallicities of Low-metallicity Regions in Galaxies: Metal-poor Gas Inflow May Have Important Effects?. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(1). 57–57. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Jing, et al.. (2019). The growth of bulges and discs in relatively H i-rich galaxies: indication from H i scaling relations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(2). 2393–2404. 5 indexed citations

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Zou, Hu, et al.. (2018). A Photometric Redshift Catalog Based on SCUSS, SDSS, and WISE Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 862(1). 12–12. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Qing, Enci Wang, Zesen Lin, et al.. (2018). Elevation or Suppression? The Resolved Star Formation Main Sequence of Galaxies with Two Different Assembly Modes. The Astrophysical Journal. 857(1). 17–17. 13 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zhen-Ya, Junxian Wang, James E. Rhoads, et al.. (2017). First Results from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) Survey: Cosmological Reionization at z ∼ 7. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 842(2). L22–L22. 96 indexed citations

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Lian, Jianhui, Qingfeng Zhu, Xu Kong, & Jinhua He. (2014). Characterizing AGB stars in Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) bands. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations

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Shi, Fei, Yuyan Liu, Xu Kong, & Yang Chen. (2014). Artificial neural network to search for metal-poor galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Peng, Qian, et al.. (2009). Study on antibacterial activity of saponins from Gleditsia sinensis and camellia.. Linchan huaxue yu gongye. 29. 203–206. 1 indexed citations

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Kong, Xu. (2004). Spectroscopic study of blue compact galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 14 indexed citations

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