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☞ Publications (as of 2025/01): a total of 200+ peer-reviewed papers in major journals, with a total of 30,000+ citations and an H-index of 75+  (SAO/NASA ADS).

Selected Papers

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2024, ApJ, 968, 120
Constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant Using DESI emission-line galaxies

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2022, Nature Astronomy, 6, 850
Definitive upper bound on the negligible contribution of quasars to cosmic reionization

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2021, Nature Astronomy, 5, 262
A Possible Bright Ultraviolet Flash from a Galaxy at Redshift ≈ 11

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2018, Nature Astronomy, 2, 962
A giant protocluster of galaxies at redshift 5.70

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2016, ApJ, 833, 222
The final SDSS high-redshift quasar sample of 52 quasars at z>5.7

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2014, ApJS, 213, 12
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 imaging data: depth-optimized co-adds over 300 deg^2 in five filters

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2013, ApJ, 772, 99
Physical properties of spectroscopically-confirmed galaxies at z≥6. I. basic characteristics of the rest-frame UV continuum and Lyα emission

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2010, Nature, 464, 380
Dust-free quasars in the early universe

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 305
A survey of z~6 quasars in the SDSS deep stripe. II. discovery of six quasars at z_AB>21

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 1057
A survey of z~6 quasars in the SDSS deep stripe. I. a flux-limited sample at z_AB<21

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2007, AJ, 134, 1150
Gemini near-infrared spectroscopy of luminous z~6 quasars: chemical abundances, black holes masses, and Mg II absorptions

■ L. Jiang, et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 2127
Probing the evolution of infrared properties of z ~ 6 quasars: Spitzer observations

Recent (2025-2027) papers led by our group members (as of 2025/7):

■ Z. Zhang, L. Jiang, W. Liu, et al. 2025, ApJ, submitted (arXiv:2506.04350), JWST Insights into Narrow-line Little Red Dots

■ Y. Liu, S. Mascia, L. Pentericci, et al. 2025, AA, submitted, A Lyman continuum analysis for ~100 galaxies at z∼3 in the Abell 2744 cluster Field

■ W. Liu, L. Jiang 2025, ApJ, submitted, A high rate of foreground contaminants toward high-redshift galaxies resolved by JWST

■ D. Jiang, L. Jiang, S. Sun, et al. 2025, Nature Astronomy, accepted, Ruling out AGNs as the dominant source of cosmic reionization with JWST

■ J. Chen, L. Jiang, S. Sun, et al. 2025, ApJ, 988, 204, Estimating bolometric luminosities of Type 1 quasars with self-organizing maps

■ S. Fu, F. Sun, L. Jiang, et al. 2025, ApJ, 987, 186, Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields (MAGNIF): Spectroscopic Census of Hα Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation at z∼4.5 and 6.3

■ Z. Pan, L. Jiang, W. Guo, et al. 2025, ApJ, 987, 48, Iron-corrected single-epoch black hole masses of DESI quasars at low redshift

■ Z. Zhang, L. Jiang, W. Liu, L. C. Ho 2025, ApJ, 985, 119, Analysis of multi-epoch JWST images of ~ 300 little red dots: tentative detection of variability in a minority of sources

■ Z. Zhang, B. Luo, L. Jiang, et al. 2025, ApJ, 983, 36, On the extremely X-ray variable active galactic nucleus in XMM-LSS field

■ K. Chen, S. Zhu, L. Jiang, Z. Zheng 2025, RAA, 25, 025015, Detection of emission line galaxies in the slitless spectra of HST and CSST

■ L. Jiang, S. Fu, F. Wang, et al. 2025, ApJ, 980, 93, Constraints on the variation of the fine-structure constant at 3