Publications

As of October 2025,

Number of papers: 157 (10 first-author; 5 second/third-author)

Total citations: 9949 (300 for first-author papers; 214 for second/third-author papers)

H-index: 52

The full list of publication can be found at this link.

First-author papers

10. Ji, Zhiyuan, Alberts, S., Zhu, Y., et al., The Importance of Dust Distribution in Ionizing-photon Escape: NIRCam and MIRI Imaging of a Lyman Continuum-emitting Galaxy at z ~ 3.8, 2025, ApJL, 988, 69 [link]

9. Ji, Zhiyuan, Williams, C. C., Rieke, G. H., et al., Extended hot dust emission around the earliest massive quiescent galaxy, 2024, Nature submitted [link]

8. Ji, Zhiyuan and Giavalisco, M., Reconstructing the Assembly of Massive Galaxies. III: Quiescent Galaxies Loose Angular Momentum as They Evolve in a Mass-dependent Fashion, 2024, ApJ submitted [link]

7. Ji, Zhiyuan, Williams, C. C., Suess, K. A., et al., JADES: Rest-frame UV-to-NIR Size Evolution of Massive Quiescent Galaxies from Redshift z=5 to z=0.5, 2024, ApJ submitted [link]

6. Ji, Zhiyuan, Williams, C. C., Tacchella, S., et al., JADES + JEMS: A Detailed Look at the Buildup of Central Stellar Cores and Suppression of Star Formation in Galaxies at Redshifts 3 < z < 4.5, 2024, ApJ, 974, 1, 135 [link]

5. Ji, Zhiyuan and Giavalisco, M., Reconstructing the Assembly of Massive Galaxies. II. Galaxies Develop Massive and Dense Stellar Cores as They Evolve and Head toward Quiescence at Cosmic Noon, 2023, ApJ, 943, 54 [link]

4. Ji, Zhiyuan and Giavalisco, M., Reconstructing the Assembly of Massive Galaxies. I: The Importance of the Progenitor Effect in the Observed Properties of Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2, 2022, ApJ, 935, 120 [link]

3. Ji, Zhiyuan, Giavalisco, M., Kirkpatrick, A., et al., AGN Selection Methods Have Profound Impacts on the Distributions of Host Galaxy Properties, 2022, ApJ, 925, 74 [link]

2. Ji, Zhiyuan, Giavalisco, M., Vanzella, et al., HST Imaging of the Ionizing Radiation from a Star-forming Galaxy at z = 3.794, 2020,  ApJ, 888, 109 [link]

1. Ji, Zhiyuan, Giavalisco, M., Williams, C. C., Faber, S. M., et al., Evidence of Environmental Quenching at Redshift z ~ 2, 2018, ApJ, 862, 135 [link]

Second/third-author papers

5. Zhu, Y., Rieke, M. J., Ji, Zhiyuan, et al., Systematic Search for Galaxies with Extended Emission Lines and Potential Outflows in JADES Medium-band Images, 2025, ApJ, 986, 162 [link]

4. Sun, Y., Ji, Zhiyuan, et al., Extreme Neutral Outflow in a non-AGN Quiescent Galaxy at z~ 1.3, 2025, ApJ submitted [link]

3. Woodrum, C.,  Rieke, M. J.,  Ji, Zhiyuan, et al., Using JADES NIRCam photometry to investigate the dependence of stellar mass inferences on the IMF in the early universe, 2024, PNAS, 121, 42 [link

2. Williams, C. C., Alberts, S., Ji, Zhiyuan, et al., The Galaxies Missed by Hubble and ALMA: The Contribution of Extremely Red Galaxies to the Cosmic Census at 3 < z < 8, 2024, ApJ, 968, 34 [link]

1. Cutler, S. E., Giavalisco, M.,  Ji, Zhiyuan, et al., The Differential Assembly History of the Centers and Outskirts of Main-sequence Galaxies at z ~ 2.3, 2023, ApJ, 945, 97 [link]