China: Top Cited Paper Award
Top Cited Papers from China are being recognised by an award from IOP Publishing
Congratulations to the 2025 Top Cited Paper Award winners from China. These awards are presented to the top 10 papers in the top one per cent of the most-cited articles in their subject category, recently published in our journals* with corresponding authors based in China.
We congratulate all the authors on this outstanding achievement. You can find the full list of top cited papers for each subject category below.
*We use data from Web of Science to identify the top cited papers during the period of 2022 to 2024.
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Astrophysics and Astronomy
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Four-hundred Very Metal-poor Stars Studied with LAMOST and Subaru. II. Elemental Abundances | Astrophysical Journal | Haining Li, Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno, Qianfan Xing, Takuma Suda, Nozomu Tominaga, Yuqin Chen, Satoshi Honda, Miho N. Ishigaki, Jianrong Shi, Jingkun Zhao, and Gang Zhao |
| Magnetospheric Curvature Radiation by Bunches as Emission Mechanism for Repeating Fast Radio Bursts | Astrophysical Journal | Wei-Yang Wang (王维扬), Yuan-Pei Yang (杨元培), Chen-Hui Niu (牛晨辉), Renxin Xu (徐仁新), and Bing Zhang (张冰) |
| A Lower Bound of Star Formation Activity in Ultra-high-redshift Galaxies Detected with JWST: Implications for Stellar Populations and Radiation Sources | Astrophysical Journal Letters | Kohei Inayoshi, Yuichi Harikane, Akio K. Inoue, Wenxiu Li, and Luis C. Ho |
| A Candidate for the Least-massive Black Hole in the First 1.1 Billion Years of the Universe | Astrophysical Journal Letters | Masafusa Onoue, Kohei Inayoshi, Xuheng Ding, Wenxiu Li, Zhengrong Li, Juan Molina, Akio K. Inoue, Linhua Jiang, and Luis C. Ho |
| The First LHAASO Catalog of Gamma-Ray Sources | Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Zhen Cao et al |
| Probing the equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Lang Liu, Zu-Cheng Chen and Qing-Guo Huang |
| BOSS Correlation Function analysis from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Pierre Zhang, Guido D’Amico, Leonardo Senatore, Cheng Zhao and Yifu Cai |
| Confronting sound speed resonance with pulsar timing arrays | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Jia-Heng Jin, Zu-Cheng Chen, Zhu Yi, Zhi-Qiang You, Lang Liu and You Wu |
| FAST Observations of an Extremely Active Episode of FRB 20201124A: I. Burst Morphology | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | D. J. Zhou, J. L. Han, B. Zhang, K. J. Lee, W. W. Zhu, D. Li, W. C. Jing, W. -Y. Wang, Y. K. Zhang, J. C. Jiang, J. R. Niu, R. Luo et al |
| The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy Onboard the SATech-01 Satellite | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | Z. X. Ling et al |
Biomedical science
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| 3D bioprinting of dECM/Gel/QCS/nHAp hybrid scaffolds laden with mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes to improve angiogenesis and osteogenesis | Biofabrication | Yue Kang, Jie Xu, Ling’ao Meng, Ya Su, Huan Fang, Jiaqi Liu, Yuen Yee Cheng, Daqing Jiang, Yi Nie and Kedong Song |
| Bilayer silk fibroin/sodium alginate scaffold promotes vascularization and advances inflammation stage in full-thickness wound | Biofabrication | Ying Shen, Xinyu Wang, Yiyu Wang, Xiaodong Guo, Keda Yu, Kuo Dong, Yajin Guo, Cuiling Cai and Binbin Li |
| Polydopamine-coated polycaprolactone/carbon nanotube fibrous scaffolds loaded with brain-derived neurotrophic factor for peripheral nerve regeneration | Biofabrication | Wei Pi, Yanling Zhang, Longfei Li, Ci Li, Meng Zhang, Wei Zhang, Qing Cai and Peixun Zhang |
| Polyvinyl alcohol/polyacrylamide double-network hydrogel-based semi-dry electrodes for robust electroencephalography recording at hairy scalp for noninvasive brain-computer interfaces | Journal of Neural Engineering | Guangli Li, Ying Liu, Yuwei Chen, Mingzhe Li, Jian Song, Kanghua Li, Youmei Zhang, Le Hu, Xiaoman Qi, Xuan Wan, Jun Liu, Quanguo He and Haihan Zhou |
| Deep learning for fast super-resolution ultrasound microvessel imaging | Physics in Medicine and Biology | Shunyao Luan, Xiangyang Yu, Shuang Lei, Chi Ma, Xiao Wang, Xudong Xue, Yi Ding, Teng Ma and Benpeng Zhu |
| Deep learning for improving the spatial resolution of magnetic particle imaging | Physics in Medicine and Biology | Yaxin Shang, Jie Liu, Liwen Zhang, Xiangjun Wu, Peng Zhang, Lin Yin, Hui Hui and Jie Tian |
| Deep learning for fast denoising filtering in ultrasound localization microscopy | Physics in Medicine and Biology | Xiangyang Yu, Shunyao Luan, Shuang Lei, Jing Huang, Zeqing Liu, Xudong Xue, Teng Ma, Yi Ding and Benpeng Zhu |
Environmental Science and Sustainability
| Article Title | Journal | Author list |
| A striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries | Environmental Research Letters | Cuihong Chen, Ruochong Xu, Dan Tong, Xinying Qin, Jing Cheng, Jun Liu, Bo Zheng, Liu Yan and Qiang Zhang |
Materials Science
Mathematical and Computational Science
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Restricted phase space thermodynamics for AdS black holes via holography | Classical and Quantum Gravity | Zeyuan Gao and Liu Zhao |
| Inverse problems for generalized quasi-variational inequalities with application to elliptic mixed boundary value systems | Inverse Problems | Jinxia Cen, Akhtar A Khan, Dumitru Motreanu and Shengda Zeng |
| Genuine multipartite entanglement measure | Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical | Yu Guo, Yanping Jia, Xinping Li and Lizhong Huang |
| Coherence-resonance chimeras in coupled HR neurons with alpha-stable Levy noise | Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment | Zhanqing Wang, Yongge Li, Yong Xu, Tomasz Kapitaniak and Jürgen Kurths |
| Solvability and pullback attractor for a class of differential hemivariational inequalities with its applications | Nonlinearity | Xiuwen Li, Zhenhai Liu and Nikolaos S Papageorgiou |
Physics
Reviews
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Zernike polynomials and their applications | Journal of Optics | Kuo Niu and Chao Tian |
| A review of Ga2O3 deep-ultraviolet metal-semiconductor Schottky photodiodes | Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics | Zeng Liu and Weihua Tang |
| Deep potentials for materials science | Materials Futures | Tongqi Wen, Linfeng Zhang, Han Wang, Weinan E and David J Srolovitz |
| Interface and surface engineering of black phosphorus: a review for optoelectronic and photonic applications | Materials Futures | Haoran Mu, Wenzhi Yu, Jian Yuan, Shenghuang Lin and Guangyu Zhang |
| Advantages and challenges of self-assembled monolayer as a hole-selective contact for perovskite solar cells | Materials Futures | Songran Wang, Huanxin Guo and Yongzhen Wu |
| A review on deep learning in planetary gearbox health state recognition: methods, applications, and dataset publication | Measurement Science and Technology | Dongdong Liu, Lingli Cui and Weidong Cheng |
| Gas sensing devices based on two-dimensional materials: a review | Nanotechnology | Boran Wang, Yi Gu, Lin Chen, Li Ji, Hao Zhu and Qingqing Sun |
| An updated review of the new hadron states | Reports on Progress in Physics | Hua-Xing Chen, Wei Chen, Xiang Liu, Yan-Rui Liu and Shi-Lin Zhu |
| Topological phononic metamaterials | Reports on Progress in Physics | Weiwei Zhu, Weiyin Deng, Yang Liu, Jiuyang Lu, Hai-Xiao Wang, Zhi-Kang Lin, Xueqin Huang, Jian-Hua Jiang and Zhengyou Liu |
| Type Ia Supernova Explosions in Binary Systems: A Review | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | Zheng-Wei Liu, Friedrich K. Röpke and Zhanwen Han |
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