Yunxiang Yan

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Yunxiang Yan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunxiang Yan has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 10 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Yunxiang Yan's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (16 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (10 papers). Yunxiang Yan is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (16 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (10 papers). Yunxiang Yan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Yunxiang Yan's co-authors include Hill Gates, Sing Lee, Jun Jing, Arthur Kleinman, T. Katsouleas, C. Joshi, John M. Dawson, J. Slater, Wei Wei and J. M. Dawson and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, British Journal of Sociology and IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

In The Last Decade

Yunxiang Yan

42 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

The Chinese path to individualization

2010 328 citations Yunxiang Yan British Journal of Sociology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yunxiang Yan United States	22	1.4k	710	393	290	203	43	2.2k
K. Mannheim Germany	30	1.8k 1.3×	557 0.8×	219 0.6×	191 0.7×	279 1.4×	127	4.8k
Jacqueline Scott United Kingdom	27	1.6k 1.1×	397 0.6×	708 1.8×	485 1.7×	491 2.4×	65	2.7k
Susan Gál United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	565 0.8×	612 1.6×	155 0.5×	88 0.4×	56	3.4k
Robert M. Hayden United States	21	1.3k 0.9×	924 1.3×	274 0.7×	102 0.4×	110 0.5×	83	2.6k
Eyal Ben‐Ari Israel	23	1.0k 0.7×	349 0.5×	366 0.9×	114 0.4×	203 1.0×	119	1.8k
Jonathan Rosa United States	17	1.2k 0.9×	257 0.4×	235 0.6×	108 0.4×	77 0.4×	24	4.3k
Sally Haslanger United States	24	1.5k 1.0×	776 1.1×	288 0.7×	20 0.1×	228 1.1×	59	3.1k
John Street United Kingdom	21	833 0.6×	520 0.7×	533 1.4×	47 0.2×	77 0.4×	108	2.4k
Don Handelman Israel	20	773 0.6×	153 0.2×	98 0.2×	106 0.4×	207 1.0×	70	1.5k
Dimitris Papadopoulos United Kingdom	15	677 0.5×	165 0.2×	60 0.2×	88 0.3×	65 0.3×	41	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yunxiang Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yunxiang Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunxiang Yan

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

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2023). Familial affections vis-à-vis filial piety: the ethical challenges facing eldercare under neo-familism in contemporary China. The Journal of Chinese Sociology. 10(1). 13 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2020). The Individualization of Chinese Society. 144 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2020). The Politics of Moral Crisis in Contemporary China. The China Journal. 85. 96–120. 26 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2020). Gifts. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Sing, et al.. (2019). Deep China. 32 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2018). Neo-familism and the State in contemporary China. Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development. 47(3). 181–224. 36 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2017). The ethics and politics of patient‐physician mistrust in contemporary China. Developing World Bioethics. 18(1). 7–15. 20 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2017). Doing Personhood in Chinese Culture. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 35(2). 1–17. 31 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2016). Intergenerational Intimacy and Descending Familism in Rural North China. American Anthropologist. 118(2). 244–257. 134 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2015). Moral Hierarchy and Social Egoism in a Networked Society. Korean Journal of Sociology. 49(3). 39–39. 4 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2014). The Moral Implications of Immorality. Journal of Religious Ethics. 42(3). 460–493. 14 indexed citations

12.

Yan, Yunxiang. (2013). Parent‐driven divorce and individualisation among urban Chinese youth. International Social Science Journal. 64(213-214). 317–330. 29 indexed citations

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Kleinman, Arthur, et al.. (2011). Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person. 123 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2010). The Chinese path to individualization. British Journal of Sociology. 61(3). 489–512. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2009). The Good Samaritan's new trouble: A study of the changing moral landscape in contemporary China1. Social Anthropology. 17(1). 9–24. 80 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2006). Little Emperors or Frail Pragmatists? China's '80ers Generation. Current History. 105(692). 255–262. 28 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2006). Girl Power: Young Women and the Waning of Patriarchy in Rural North China. Ethnology. 45(2). 105–105. 34 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (2003). Private Life under Socialism. Stanford University Press eBooks. 38 indexed citations

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Yan, Yunxiang. (1999). Rural Youth and Youth Culture in North China. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 23(1). 75–97. 12 indexed citations

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Joshi, C., T. Katsouleas, John M. Dawson, Yunxiang Yan, & J. Slater. (1987). Plasma wave wigglers for free-electron lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 23(9). 1571–1577. 78 indexed citations

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