Zhi‐zhong Xing

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
199 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Zhi‐zhong Xing is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhi‐zhong Xing has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 197 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Zhi‐zhong Xing's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (192 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (158 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (92 papers). Zhi‐zhong Xing is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (192 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (158 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (92 papers). Zhi‐zhong Xing collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Japan. Zhi‐zhong Xing's co-authors include Shun Zhou, Harald Fritzsch, He Zhang, Shu Luo, Wanlei Guo, Dongsheng Du, Jianwei Mei, Ye-Ling Zhou, He Zhang and Yufeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Reports, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Zhi‐zhong Xing

195 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Flavor structures of charged fermions and massive neutrinos 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150
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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. Flavor structures of charged fermions and massive neutrinos
    2020 179 citations Zhi‐zhong Xing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhi‐zhong Xing China 36 4.8k 354 70 65 50 199 4.8k
Morimitsu Tanimoto Japan 38 4.7k 1.0× 416 1.2× 66 0.9× 68 1.0× 88 1.8× 182 4.8k
A. Yu. Smirnov Italy 35 4.3k 0.9× 512 1.4× 125 1.8× 81 1.2× 30 0.6× 93 4.3k
Thomas Schwetz Germany 41 6.2k 1.3× 811 2.3× 75 1.1× 105 1.6× 31 0.6× 103 6.3k
Stefan Antusch Switzerland 34 3.3k 0.7× 758 2.1× 53 0.8× 72 1.1× 34 0.7× 114 3.5k
Werner Rodejohann Germany 44 5.4k 1.1× 530 1.5× 107 1.5× 55 0.8× 53 1.1× 158 5.4k
E. A. Paschos Germany 29 3.3k 0.7× 401 1.1× 137 2.0× 63 1.0× 12 0.2× 123 3.4k
Walter Grimus Austria 39 4.0k 0.8× 334 0.9× 197 2.8× 77 1.2× 65 1.3× 124 4.2k
Ferruccio Feruglio Italy 37 5.8k 1.2× 773 2.2× 132 1.9× 159 2.4× 98 2.0× 104 5.8k
Gui-Jun Ding China 33 2.8k 0.6× 143 0.4× 91 1.3× 49 0.8× 111 2.2× 103 2.9k
Johan Bijnens Sweden 41 5.9k 1.3× 388 1.1× 148 2.1× 68 1.0× 31 0.6× 159 6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhi‐zhong Xing

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2025). Emergent large flavor mixing from canonical and inverse seesaws?. Nuclear Physics B. 1013. 116853–116853.
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2024). A new Wolfenstein-like expansion of lepton flavor mixing towards understanding its fine structure. Physics Letters B. 853. 138681–138681. 1 indexed citations
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Cheng, Haiyang, X. R. Lyu, & Zhi‐zhong Xing. (2024). Charm Physics at the Super τ-Charm Factory. Chinese Physics Letters. 42(1). 10201–10201. 1 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald, Zhi‐zhong Xing, & Di Zhang. (2017). The breaking of flavor democracy in the quark sector. Chinese Physics C. 41(9). 93104–93104. 9 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald, Zhi‐zhong Xing, & Shun Zhou. (2016). Two-zero Textures of the Majorana Neutrino Mass Matrix and Current Experimental Tests. 45 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong & Shun Zhou. (2008). Cosmic Neutrino Flavor Democracy and Unitarity Violation at Neutrino Telescopes. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2007). Neutrino Mixing: from the Broken µ-τ Symmetry to the Broken Friedberg-Lee Symmetry 1. 5 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong, et al.. (2006). Constraints on the Tritium Beta Decay and the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the Minimal Seesaw Model. 30(8). 2 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong & Shun Zhou. (2006). Determination of the initial flavor composition of ultrahigh-energy neutrino fluxes with neutrino telescopes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 74(1). 42 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong & Shun Zhou. (2005). Why is the 3 x 3 neutrino mixing matrix almost unitary in realistic seesaw models. 30(9). 828–832. 5 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2005). Nontrivial correlation between the CKM and MNS matrices. Physics Letters B. 618(1-4). 141–149. 56 indexed citations
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Guo, Wanlei & Zhi‐zhong Xing. (2003). Implications of the KamLAND measurement on the lepton flavor mixing matrix and the neutrino mass matrix. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 67(5). 67 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2003). Vanishing effective mass of neutrinoless double beta decay?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(5). 34 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2003). DirectCPviolation and isospin triangles ofB→ππdecays. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(7). 1 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2001). Noncommutativity of Lepton Mass Matrices: Flavor Mixing and CP Violation. CERN Bulletin. 1 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (2001). Commutators of lepton mass matrices,CPviolation, and matter effects in medium-baseline neutrino experiments. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 63(7). 16 indexed citations
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Xing, Zhi‐zhong. (1999). The Bi-maximal Neutrino Mixing Pattern Revisited. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Lipkin, Harry J. & Zhi‐zhong Xing. (1999). Flavor symmetry, K0– mixing and new physics effects on CP violation in D± and D±s decays. Physics Letters B. 450(4). 405–411. 16 indexed citations
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Du, Dongsheng & Zhi‐zhong Xing. (1993). Effect of the hairpin diagram on two-body nonleptonic B decays and CP violation. Physics Letters B. 312(1-2). 199–204. 18 indexed citations
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Du, Dongsheng & Zhi‐zhong Xing. (1993). Quark mass matrices with full first-order perturbation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 48(5). 2349–2352. 59 indexed citations

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