Yifan Wang

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Yifan Wang is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Wang has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Oceanography and 5 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Yifan Wang's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (21 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (13 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers). Yifan Wang is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (21 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (13 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers). Yifan Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Germany. Yifan Wang's co-authors include A. Nitz, Sai Wang, C. D. Capano, Shilpa Kastha, Tjonnie G. F. Li, Qing-Guo Huang, S. Kumar, Rahul Dhurkunde, Marlin B. Schäfer and M. Cabero and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Wang

41 papers receiving 991 citations

Hit Papers

3-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact-binary... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2023 40 80 120
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. 3-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact-binary Mergers
    2021 136 citations A. Nitz, C. D. Capano et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  2. 4-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Mergers
    2023 131 citations A. Nitz, S. Kumar et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yifan Wang China 17 823 289 98 91 41 49 1.0k
J. P. Yuan China 18 719 0.9× 195 0.7× 241 2.5× 176 1.9× 53 1.3× 103 1.1k
R. K. Schaefer United States 16 1.0k 1.2× 986 3.4× 38 0.4× 86 0.9× 53 1.3× 46 1.3k
C. Monstein Switzerland 16 874 1.1× 97 0.3× 107 1.1× 29 0.3× 100 2.4× 110 1.0k
Hideyuki Tagoshi Japan 21 1.4k 1.7× 610 2.1× 157 1.6× 123 1.4× 8 0.2× 55 1.5k
A. C. Birch United States 24 1.7k 2.1× 33 0.1× 80 0.8× 392 4.3× 513 12.5× 107 1.9k
M. Cabero United States 11 752 0.9× 203 0.7× 158 1.6× 81 0.9× 3 0.1× 14 824
Takashi J. Moriya Japan 26 2.2k 2.7× 529 1.8× 43 0.4× 11 0.1× 67 1.6× 131 2.4k
J. P. Norris United States 21 1.8k 2.2× 501 1.7× 116 1.2× 8 0.1× 17 0.4× 81 1.9k
Ingmar Sandberg Greece 19 828 1.0× 142 0.5× 161 1.6× 14 0.2× 78 1.9× 60 958
Jason H. Steffen United States 21 1.3k 1.5× 252 0.9× 44 0.4× 9 0.1× 12 0.3× 59 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yifan Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifan Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Wang

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Yifan, C. D. Capano, Jahed Abedi, et al.. (2025). Gating-and-inpainting perspective on GW150914 ringdown overtone: Understanding the data analysis systematics. Physical review. D. 112(8).
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Wang, Enci, et al.. (2025). Potential-driven Metal Cycling: JADES Census of Gas-phase Metallicity for Galaxies at 1 < z < 7. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 986(2). L24–L24.
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Wang, Enci, Junxian Wang, Jie Song, et al.. (2025). Central Concentration and Escape of Ionizing Photons in Galaxies at the Epoch of Reionization. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 988(2). L72–L72.
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Li, Kai, Fei Liu, QING-ZENG YAN, et al.. (2025). Photometric and Spectroscopic Investigations of Three Large Amplitude Contact Binaries. The Astronomical Journal. 169(2). 85–85.
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Wang, Enci, Qinghua Tan, Timothy A. Davis, et al.. (2025). The First Exploration of the Correlations Between WISE 12 μm and CO Emission in Early-type Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 105–105. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan & A. Nitz. (2025). Search for Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes with an Effective-one-body Template. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 215–215. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Zijing, Li Jia Chen, Dingguo Huang, et al.. (2024). Preoperative Intravitreal Conbercept Injection Reduced Both Angiogenic and Inflammatory Cytokines in Patients With Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2024(1). 2550367–2550367. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Low evidence for ringdown overtone in GW150914 when marginalizing over time and sky location uncertainty. Physical review. D. 110(4). 16 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan & A. Nitz. (2024). Targeted search for gravitational waves from highly spinning light compact binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 3891–3896. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhigang, et al.. (2024). Enhancement of Shock Wave From Underwater Electrical Wire-Array Explosion at a Fixed Energy by Changing Wire Connection. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 52(9). 4626–4629. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hui, et al.. (2024). Multi-Instrument Observations of the Ionospheric Response Caused by the 8 April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Remote Sensing. 16(13). 2451–2451. 2 indexed citations
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Abedi, Jahed, C. D. Capano, Shilpa Kastha, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopy for asymmetric binary black hole mergers. Physical review. D. 108(10). 11 indexed citations
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Capano, C. D., M. Cabero, J. Westerweck, et al.. (2023). Multimode Quasinormal Spectrum from a Perturbed Black Hole. Physical Review Letters. 131(22). 221402–221402. 49 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, et al.. (2022). Tests of gravitational-wave birefringence with the open gravitational-wave catalog. Physical review. D. 106(8). 40 indexed citations
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Nitz, A., C. D. Capano, S. Kumar, et al.. (2021). 3-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact-binary Mergers. The Astrophysical Journal. 922(1). 76–76. 136 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Sai, et al.. (2016). Impacts of dark energy on weighing neutrinos: Mass hierarchies considered. Physical review. D. 94(8). 44 indexed citations
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Wang, Sai, Yifan Wang, Qing-Guo Huang, & Tjonnie G. F. Li. (2016). Stochastic gravitational-wave background from primordial black hole scenario after GW150914 and GW151226. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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