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Materials Science

D-Index
82
Citations
21042
World Ranking
2501
National Ranking
783

Chemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
20883
World Ranking
3300
National Ranking
601

Fan Xia publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fan Xia sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 294 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Fan Xia D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fan Xia sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Fan Xia is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China. Their research output spans multiple fields including Engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Materials Science, with publication counts of 457, 318, and 296 respectively.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of subfields such as Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomaterials. These subfields demonstrate a focus on interdisciplinary approaches bridging biology, materials, and engineering.

Key research topics addressed by Fan Xia include:

  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis

Fan Xia frequently publishes in several academic venues, with the highest number of publications in Analytical Chemistry (51), followed by SSRN Electronic Journal (20), ACS Nano (19), Angewandte Chemie (18), and Angewandte Chemie International Edition (17).

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors including Xiaoding Lou (124 joint publications), Jun Dai (56), Jingjing Hu (51), Xiaojin Zhang (50), and Yu Dai (42), indicating ongoing collaborative research activity.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Fan Xia are:

  • Catalytic activity tunable ceria nanoparticles prevent chemotherapy-induced acute kidney injury without interference with chemotherapeutics, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Role of a high calcium ion content in extending the properties of alginate dual-crosslinked hydrogels, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Triboelectric Nanogenerator-Based Sensor Systems for Chemical or Biological Detection, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Aggregation-Induced Emission Photosensitizers: From Molecular Design to Photodynamic Therapy, 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Electrochemical Biosensors for Whole Blood Analysis: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Future Perspectives, 2023, Chemical Reviews

Best Publications

  • Bio-Inspired, Smart, Multiscale Interfacial Materials

    Fan Xia;Lei Jiang

  • Colorimetric detection of DNA, small molecules, proteins, and ions using unmodified gold nanoparticles and conjugated polyelectrolytes

    Fan Xia;Xiaolei Zuo;Renqiang Yang;Yi Xiao

  • Sensitive and Selective Amplified Fluorescence DNA Detection Based on Exonuclease III-Aided Target Recycling

    Xiaolei Zuo;Fan Xia;Yi Xiao;Kevin W Plaxco

  • Dual‐Responsive Surfaces That Switch between Superhydrophilicity and Superhydrophobicity

    Fan Xia;Lin Feng;Lin Feng;Shutao Wang;Taolei Sun

  • Earth abundant materials beyond transition metal dichalcogenides: A focus on electrocatalyzing hydrogen evolution reaction

    Peng Yu;Peng Yu;Fengmei Wang;Tofik Ahmed Shifa;Xueying Zhan

  • A Biomimetic Potassium Responsive Nanochannel: G-Quadruplex DNA Conformational Switching in a Synthetic Nanopore

    Xu Hou;Wei Guo;Fan Xia;Fu-Qiang Nie

  • Lab in a Tube: Ultrasensitive Detection of MicroRNAs at the Single-Cell Level and in Breast Cancer Patients Using Quadratic Isothermal Amplification

    Ruixue Duan;Xiaolei Zuo;Shutao Wang;Xiyun Quan

  • New Frontiers on van der Waals Layered Metal Phosphorous Trichalcogenides

    Fengmei Wang;Tofik A. Shifa;Tofik A. Shifa;Peng Yu;Peng He;Peng He

  • Gating of Single Synthetic Nanopores by Proton-Driven DNA Molecular Motors

    Fan Xia;Wei Guo;Youdong Mao;Xu Hou

  • Recent Development of Sandwich Assay Based on the Nanobiotechnologies for Proteins, Nucleic Acids, Small Molecules, and Ions

    Juwen Shen;Yuebin Li;Yuebin Li;Haoshuang Gu;Fan Xia

  • Electrochemical Biosensors for Whole Blood Analysis: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Future Perspectives.

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  • An Electrochemical Supersandwich Assay for Sensitive and Selective DNA Detection in Complex Matrices

    Fan Xia;Ryan J. White;Xiaolei Zuo;Adriana Patterson

  • Antiplatelet and thermally responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) surface with nanoscale topography.

    Li Chen;Mingjie Liu;Hao Bai;Peipei Chen

  • Multiresponsive surfaces change between superhydrophilicity and superhydrophobicity

    Fan Xia;Hui Ge;Yi Hou;Taolei Sun

  • An Intracellular H2 O2 -Responsive AIEgen for the Peroxidase-Mediated Selective Imaging and Inhibition of Inflammatory Cells.

    Yong Cheng;Yong Cheng;Jun Dai;Chunli Sun;Rui Liu

  • Role of a high calcium ion content in extending the properties of alginate dual-crosslinked hydrogels

    Xiaojin Zhang;Kang Wang;Jiayuan Hu;Yuchen Zhang

  • Highly-Efficient Gating of Solid-State Nanochannels by DNA Supersandwich Structure Containing ATP Aptamers: A Nanofluidic IMPLICATION Logic Device

    Yanan Jiang;Nannan Liu;Wei Guo;Fan Xia

  • Triboelectric Nanogenerator-Based Sensor Systems for Chemical or Biological Detection

    Qitao Zhou;Jing Pan;Shujun Deng;Fan Xia

  • Towards understanding the nanofluidic reverse electrodialysis system: well matched charge selectivity and ionic composition

    Liuxuan Cao;Wei Guo;Wen Ma;Lin Wang

  • Construction of an autonomously concatenated hybridization chain reaction for signal amplification and intracellular imaging

    Jie Wei;Xue Gong;Qing Wang;Min Pan

  • Aggregation-Induced Emission Photosensitizers: From Molecular Design to Photodynamic Therapy.

    Jun Dai;Xia Wu;Siyang Ding;Xiaoding Lou

  • Comparing the properties of electrochemical-based DNA sensors employing different redox tags.

    Di Kang;Xiaolei Zuo;Renqiang Yang;Fan Xia

  • Current Rectification in Temperature-Responsive Single Nanopores

    Wei Guo;Wei Guo;Hongwei Xia;Fan Xia;Xu Hou

  • Efficient Near-Infrared Photosensitizer with Aggregation-Induced Emission for Imaging-Guided Photodynamic Therapy in Multiple Xenograft Tumor Models.

    Jun Dai;Yinghao Li;Zi Long;Ruming Jiang

  • Smart responsive surfaces switching reversibly between super-hydrophobicity and super-hydrophilicity

    Fan Xia;Ying Zhu;Lin Feng;Lei Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoding Lou
Xiaoding Lou China University of Geosciences
Lei Jiang
Lei Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zujin Zhao
Zujin Zhao South China University of Technology
Ben Zhong Tang
Ben Zhong Tang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Yu Huang
Yu Huang University of California, Los Angeles
Nannan Liu
Nannan Liu Auburn University
Xiaolei Zuo
Xiaolei Zuo Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Kevin W. Plaxco
Kevin W. Plaxco University of California, Santa Barbara
Shutao Wang
Shutao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tianyou Zhai
Tianyou Zhai Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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