Zihan Xie

742 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 568 citations indexed

About

Zihan Xie is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Zihan Xie has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 568 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Environmental Engineering, 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 4 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Zihan Xie's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (7 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (4 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (3 papers). Zihan Xie is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (7 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (4 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (3 papers). Zihan Xie collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Zihan Xie's co-authors include Rong Wu, Shaojian Wang, Rongbin Zhang, Xuewen Wang, Dongxue Wang, Changyu Shen, Zhaokun Wang, Xianglong Zeng, Zhixiong Wang and Jun Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Energy and Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.

In The Last Decade

Zihan Xie

18 papers receiving 557 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.

  1. How technological progress affects the carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from national panel quantile regression
    2021 272 citations Zihan Xie, Rong Wu et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zihan Xie China 9 385 197 173 77 55 21 568
Yefei Sun China 9 337 0.9× 204 1.0× 155 0.9× 72 0.9× 57 1.0× 16 552
Xiumei Sun China 12 398 1.0× 203 1.0× 134 0.8× 77 1.0× 39 0.7× 19 524
Xianling Long China 6 449 1.2× 179 0.9× 240 1.4× 142 1.8× 43 0.8× 11 663
Yongpei Wang China 13 282 0.7× 162 0.8× 79 0.5× 61 0.8× 43 0.8× 29 449
Hongyan Lei China 6 498 1.3× 255 1.3× 216 1.2× 51 0.7× 44 0.8× 8 575
Minglong Zhang China 8 408 1.1× 134 0.7× 147 0.8× 45 0.6× 39 0.7× 17 578
Weixian Wei China 15 678 1.8× 210 1.1× 325 1.9× 70 0.9× 53 1.0× 28 780
Jiaojiao Sun China 9 420 1.1× 188 1.0× 160 0.9× 45 0.6× 49 0.9× 10 560
Hanmin Dong China 13 433 1.1× 162 0.8× 149 0.9× 90 1.2× 72 1.3× 21 734
Botang Han China 12 427 1.1× 196 1.0× 195 1.1× 45 0.6× 61 1.1× 23 549

Countries citing papers authored by Zihan Xie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zihan Xie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zihan Xie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zihan Xie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zihan Xie 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 Zihan Xie. Zihan Xie 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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Zmeureanu, Radu, et al.. (2025). Thermal time constant estimation of unoccupied school buildings from field measurements over summer. Journal of Building Engineering. 104. 112311–112311. 1 indexed citations
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Shi, Yufei, Zihan Xie, Jun Wu, et al.. (2024). Polyacrylamide/2-Thiophenecarboxaldehyde Hydrogel Functionalized Fiber Optic Mercury Ion Trace Detection. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(22). 36806–36814. 3 indexed citations
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Shi, Yufei, Jun Zhou, Zihan Xie, et al.. (2024). GO/MoS2@PVA composite membrane-based optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer for humidity sensing and its non-contact sensing application. Optics Letters. 49(15). 4258–4258. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zaiyun, et al.. (2024). Blow-Up of Solutions for the Fourth-Order Schrödinger Equation with Combined Power-Type Nonlinearities. Journal of Geometric Analysis. 34(10). 1 indexed citations
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Shen, Changyu, Zihan Xie, Jun Zhou, et al.. (2023). Review of the Status and Prospects of Fiber Optic Hydrogen Sensing Technology. Chemosensors. 11(9). 473–473. 18 indexed citations
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Hou, Danlin, et al.. (2022). Development of a Bayesian inference model for assessing ventilation condition based on CO2 meters in primary schools. Building Simulation. 16(1). 133–149. 10 indexed citations
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Xie, Zihan. (2022). Comparative Analysis between Chinese and Western Picture Books for Children in Safety Education. Open Journal of Social Sciences. 10(12). 328–343. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaojian, et al.. (2022). How does urbanization affect the carbon intensity of human well-being? A global assessment. Applied Energy. 312. 118798–118798. 84 indexed citations
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Hao, Yue, Qingsheng Niu, Yanping Chen, et al.. (2022). Division of Labor among Worker Bees Is Associated with the Lipidomic Plasticity in Their Brains. Agriculture. 12(7). 952–952. 1 indexed citations
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Xie, Zihan, Chang Shu, Lin Wang, et al.. (2021). A field study on summertime overheating of six schools in Montreal Canada. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2069(1). 12168–12168. 2 indexed citations
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Xie, Zihan, Rong Wu, & Shaojian Wang. (2021). How technological progress affects the carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from national panel quantile regression. Journal of Cleaner Production. 307. 127133–127133. 272 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Rong & Zihan Xie. (2020). Identifying the impacts of income inequality on CO2 emissions: Empirical evidences from OECD countries and non-OECD countries. Journal of Cleaner Production. 277. 123858–123858. 61 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaojian, Zihan Xie, & Rong Wu. (2020). Examining the effects of education level inequality on energy consumption: Evidence from Guangdong Province. Journal of Environmental Management. 269. 110761–110761. 47 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuhui & Zihan Xie. (2020). Research on the Application of Blockchain Technology in Logistics Industry. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuewen, et al.. (2015). ZnS–CdS/Graphene oxide heterostructures prepared by a light irradiation-assisted method for effective photocatalytic hydrogen generation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 446. 150–154. 33 indexed citations

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