Q. An

26.4k citations

694 papers · 18.3k · 4 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 1%
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Neutrino Physics Research
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 5%

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 678
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 648
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 582
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 465
- Neutrino Physics Research 74
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena 70
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 34
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics 31
- Particle Detector Development and Performance 31
Astronomy and Astrophysics 19

Co-authors: Hiroyuki Sakamoto (1 shared paper)Marcelo Nakao (1 shared paper)Yoshihide Sakai (1 shared paper)Yutaka USHIRODA (1 shared paper)Abinash Biswaranjan Mohapatra (1 shared paper)Frederick H. deB. Harris (1 shared paper)M. Rosen (1 shared paper)Kejun Zhu (1 shared paper)
Journals: Physical review. D (275 papers)Physical Review Letters (125 papers)Physics Letters B (108 papers)Chinese Physics C (23 papers)Journal of High Energy Physics (21 papers)
Partner nations: China Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Q. An

662 papers receiving 17.4k citations

Q. An's Hit Papers

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STCF conceptual design report (Volume 1): Physics & detector 2023 · 113 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2023 Frontiers of Physics
2013 Physical Review Letters
2010 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
2002 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

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1	The Belle detector Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Alexander Abashian, K. Gotow, N. Morgan, Leo Piilonen, S. Schrenk, K. Abe, Ichiro Adachi, Kanae Aoki Hit paper breakdown →	2002	1050
2	Design and construction of the BESIII detector Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Z. H. An, J. Z. Bai, Jianming Bian, X. Z. Cai, Guofu Cao, X. X. Cao, J. F. Chang, C. Chen Hit paper breakdown →	2010	858
3	Observation of a Charged Charmoniumlike Structure in e+e−→π+π−J/ψ at s=4.26 GeV Physical Review Letters ·Mikhail Achasov, Xiaocong Ai, O. Albayrak, D. Ambrose, F. F. An, Q. An, J. Z. Bai, Rinaldo Baldini Ferroli Hit paper breakdown →	2013	644
4	Observation of a Charged Charmoniumlike Structure Zc(4020) and Search for the Zc(3900) in e+e−→π+π−hc Physical Review Letters ·Mikhail Achasov, O. Albayrak, D. Ambrose, F. F. An, Q. An, J. Z. Bai, Rinaldo Baldini Ferroli, Yong Ban	2013	317
5	The Physics of the B Factories The European Physical Journal C ·Adrian John Bevan, B. Golob, Th. Mannel, Soeren Prell, Bruce Yabsley, Hiroaki Aihara, Fabio Anulli, Nicolas Arnaud	2014	281
6	The DArk Matter Particle Explorer mission Astroparticle Physics ·Jin Chang, Giovanni Ambrosi, Q. An, R. Asfandiyarov, Philipp Azzarello, Paolo Bernardini, Bruna Bertucci, Mingsheng Cai	2017	233
7	Improved measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay Chinese Physics C ·Fengpeng An, Q. An, J. Z. Bai, Akif Balantekin, H. R. Band, W. Beriguete, Mary Bishai, S. Blyth	2013	222
8	Observation of a Charged ( D D ¯ * ) ± Mass Peak in e + e − → π D D ¯ * at s = 4.26 GeV Physical Review Letters ·M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak, D. Ambrose, F. F. An, Q. An, J.Z. Bai, Rinaldo Baldini Ferroli, Yong Ban	2014	217
9	Observation of a Charged Charmoniumlike Structure in e + e − → ( D * D ¯ * ) ± π ∓ at s = 4.26 GeV Physical Review Letters ·Mikhail Achasov, O. Albayrak, D. Ambrose, F. F. An, Q. An, J. Z. Bai, Rinaldo Baldini Ferroli, Yong Ban	2014	210
10	Measurement of the cosmic ray proton spectrum from 40 GeV to 100 TeV with the DAMPE satellite Science Advances ·Q. An, R. Asfandiyarov, Philipp Azzarello, Paolo Bernardini, Mingsheng Cai, Jin Chang, D. Y. Chen, H. F. Chen	2019	192
11	Measurement of the e+e−→π+π− cross section between 600 and 900 MeV using initial state radiation Physics Letters B ·Mikhail Achasov, Xiaocong Ai, O. Albayrak, M. Albrecht, D. Ambrose, Antonio Amoroso, F. F. An, Q. An	2015	187
12	A determination of the properties of the neutral intermediate vector boson Z0 Physics Letters B ·Bernardo Adeva, Oscar Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benı́tez, H. Akbari, Juan Alcaraz Maestre, Alberto Aloisio, Mariagrazia Alviggi, Q. An	1989	184
13	Precise Measurement of the e+e−→π+π−J/ψ Cross Section at Center-of-Mass Energies from 3.77 to 4.60 GeV Physical Review Letters ·Mikhail Achasov, Shaikh Ahmed, Xiaocong Ai, O. Albayrak, M. Albrecht, D. J. Ambrose, Antonio Amoroso, F. F. An	2017	178
14	Search for hadronic transition χcJ→ηcπ+π− and observation of χcJ→KK¯πππ Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, D. J. Ambrose, F. F. An, Q. An, Zhenghua An, J. Z. Bai, Y. Ban	2013	150
15	Measurement of event-plane correlations in sNN=2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector Physical Review C ·Georges Aad, Braden Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins	2014	143
16	Precision measurement of the integrated luminosity of the data taken by BESIII at center-of-mass energies between 3.810 GeV and 4.600 GeV Chinese Physics C ·Mikhail Achasov, Xiaocong Ai, O. Albayrak, M. Albrecht, D. Ambrose, Antonio Amoroso, F. F. An, Q. An	2015	138
17	Observation of a Near-Threshold Structure in the K+ Recoil-Mass Spectra in e+e−→K+(Ds−D0+Ds−D0) Physical Review Letters ·Mikhail Achasov, Patrik Adlarson, Shaikh Ahmed, M. Albrecht, Riccardo Aliberti, Antonio Amoroso, Q. An, Anita	2021	138
18	Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to WW* with the ATLAS detector Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Georges Aad, Braden Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins	2015	132
19	Evidence of Two Resonant Structures in e+e−→π+π−hc Physical Review Letters ·Mikhail Achasov, Shaikh Ahmed, Xiaocong Ai, O. Albayrak, M. Albrecht, D. Ambrose, Antonio Amoroso, F. F. An	2017	130
20	Branching fraction measurements of χc0 and χc2 to π0π0 and ηη Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Mikhail Achasov, L. An, Q. An, Zhenghua An, J. Z. Bai, Yong Ban, Nicolas Berger, Jianming Bian	2010	127

About Q. An

Q. An is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Radiation, having authored 694 papers that have together received 18.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (648 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (582 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (465 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (74 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (70 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (34 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (31 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (17.5k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.0k citations), Radiation (416 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (963 citations) and Condensed Matter Physics (214 citations). Q. An has collaborated with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Marcelo Nakao, Yoshihide Sakai, Yutaka USHIRODA, Abinash Biswaranjan Mohapatra, Frederick H. deB. Harris, M. Rosen, Kejun Zhu, John W. Kennedy and Felix Aharonian. Their work appears in journals such as Physical review. D, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B, Chinese Physics C and Journal of High Energy Physics.

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