Yan Xu

623 papers and 17.9k indexed citations
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Yan Xu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Xu has authored 623 papers receiving a total of 17.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 320 papers in Molecular Biology, 250 papers in Food Science and 131 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Yan Xu’s work include Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (220 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (152 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (128 papers). Yan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (220 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (152 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (128 papers). Yan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Yan Xu's co-authors include Wenlai Fan, Shuang Chen, Yao Nie, Hai Du, Qun Wu, Xiao‐Wei Yu, Qun Wu, Yang Zhu, Guangyuan Jin and Rong Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Xu

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

Yan Xu

603 papers receiving 17.1k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Xu

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This map shows the geographic impact of Yan Xu's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yan Xu with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yan Xu more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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