Xue-Bing Wu

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Xue-Bing Wu is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xue-Bing Wu has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 36 papers in Instrumentation and 21 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Xue-Bing Wu's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (74 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (59 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (36 papers). Xue-Bing Wu is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (74 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (59 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (36 papers). Xue-Bing Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Xue-Bing Wu's co-authors include Xiaohui Fan, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Linhua Jiang, Ran Wang, Fuyan Bian, Ian D. McGreer, Qian Yang, Weimin Yi and Wenwen Zuo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Xue-Bing Wu

99 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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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. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xue-Bing Wu China 22 1.9k 553 453 58 57 111 2.1k
M. Vaccari Italy 23 1.7k 0.9× 823 1.5× 567 1.3× 73 1.3× 59 1.0× 110 2.1k
Eilat Glikman United States 23 2.0k 1.0× 461 0.8× 557 1.2× 82 1.4× 30 0.5× 52 2.1k
S. Paltani Switzerland 24 1.8k 0.9× 705 1.3× 295 0.7× 75 1.3× 29 0.5× 86 1.8k
F. J. Carrera Spain 31 2.9k 1.5× 1.0k 1.9× 546 1.2× 71 1.2× 60 1.1× 131 3.0k
Yongquan Xue China 27 1.8k 0.9× 590 1.1× 444 1.0× 69 1.2× 35 0.6× 93 1.9k
Fuyan Bian United States 25 2.3k 1.2× 470 0.8× 698 1.5× 75 1.3× 33 0.6× 85 2.4k
Samir Salim United States 21 2.6k 1.4× 369 0.7× 1.0k 2.2× 115 2.0× 113 2.0× 62 2.7k
Bret Lehmer United States 30 3.1k 1.6× 1.0k 1.8× 773 1.7× 88 1.5× 39 0.7× 87 3.1k
Tinggui Wang China 26 2.1k 1.1× 636 1.2× 335 0.7× 36 0.6× 23 0.4× 116 2.1k
P. N. Appleton United States 27 2.4k 1.2× 398 0.7× 621 1.4× 66 1.1× 48 0.8× 109 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xue-Bing Wu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Qian, et al.. (2025). Galaxies Lighting Up: Discovery of Seventy New Turn-on Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 91–91. 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Yang, Haibo Yuan, Xue-Bing Wu, et al.. (2025). Finding Quasars behind the Galactic Plane. III. Spectroscopic Identifications of ∼1300 New Quasars at ∣b∣ ≤ 20° from LAMOST DR10. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 278(1). 6–6. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Xue-Bing, R. J. Bouwens, K. I. Caputi, et al.. (2025). The CatSouth Quasar Candidate Catalog for the Southern Sky and a Unified All-sky Catalog Based on Gaia DR3. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 279(2). 54–54.
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Wu, Xue-Bing, et al.. (2024). H α reverberation mapping from broad-band photometry of dwarf type 1 Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(4). 3578–3588. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Xue-Bing, Ravi Joshi, Shuo Zhang, et al.. (2024). CatNorth: An Improved Gaia DR3 Quasar Candidate Catalog with Pan-STARRS1 and CatWISE. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 271(2). 54–54. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiaolong, Su Yao, Luigi Gallo, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the Small-scale Jets in the Rapidly Growing Supermassive Black Hole IZw1. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 151–151. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Feige, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2024). A Spatially Resolved [C ii] Survey of 31 z ∼ 7 Massive Galaxies Hosting Luminous Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 968(1). 9–9. 10 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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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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Jiang, Linhua, Yuanhang Ning, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2022). Definitive upper bound on the negligible contribution of quasars to cosmic reionization. Nature Astronomy. 6(7). 850–856. 34 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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Yang, Jinyi, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2019). Filling in the Quasar Redshift Gap at z ∼ 5.5. II. A Complete Survey of Luminous Quasars in the Post-reionization Universe. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(2). 199–199. 20 indexed citations
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Fan, Xiaohui, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, et al.. (2019). The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 870(2). L11–L11. 46 indexed citations
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Yang, Jinyi, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2019). Exploring Reionization-era Quasars. IV. Discovery of Six New z ≳ 6.5 Quasars with DES, VHS, and unWISE Photometry. The Astronomical Journal. 157(6). 236–236. 64 indexed citations
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Shen, Yue, Jin Wu, Linhua Jiang, et al.. (2019). Gemini GNIRS Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 50 Quasars at z ≳ 5.7. The Astrophysical Journal. 873(1). 35–35. 94 indexed citations
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Yang, Jinyi, Xue-Bing Wu, Dezi Liu, et al.. (2018). Deep CFHT Y-band Imaging of VVDS-F22 Field. II. Quasar Selection and Quasar Luminosity Function. The Astronomical Journal. 155(3). 110–110. 3 indexed citations
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Jiang, Linhua, Yue Shen, Fuyan Bian, et al.. (2017). A Magellan M2FS Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxies at 5.5 < z < 6.8: Program Overview and a Sample of the Brightest Lyα Emitters. The Astrophysical Journal. 846(2). 134–134. 16 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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Wu, Xue-Bing, et al.. (2002). Supermassive black hole masses of AGNs with elliptical hosts. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 33 indexed citations
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Liu, F. K. & Xue-Bing Wu. (2002). Black hole mass and binary model for BL Lac object OJ 287. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 38 indexed citations

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