1. The bolometric quasar luminosity function at z = 0-7 Shen, Xuejian; Hopkins, Philip F.; Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André; Alexander, D. M. et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 495, Issue 3, pp.3252-32752020
2. Dissipative dark matter on FIRE - I. Structural and kinematic properties of dwarf galaxies Shen, Xuejian; Hopkins, Philip F.; Necib, Lina; Jiang, Fangzhou et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 506, Issue 3, pp.4421-44452021
3. Dissipative Dark Matter on FIRE - II. Observational signatures and constraints from local dwarf galaxies Shen, Xuejian; Hopkins, Philip F.; Necib, Lina; Jiang, Fangzhou et al. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 966, Issue 1, id.131, 24 pp.2024
4. SMBH seeds from dissipative dark matter Xiao, Huangyu; Shen, Xuejian; Hopkins, Philip F.; Zurek, Kathryn M. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2021, Issue 07, id.039, 43 pp.2021
5. High-redshift JWST predictions from IllustrisTNG: dust modelling and galaxy luminosity functions Vogelsberger, Mark; Nelson, Dylan; Pillepich, Annalisa; Shen, Xuejian et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 492, Issue 4, p.5167-52012020
6. High-redshift JWST predictions from IllustrisTNG: II. Galaxy line and continuum spectral indices and dust attenuation curves Shen, Xuejian; Vogelsberger, Mark; Nelson, Dylan; Pillepich, Annalisa et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 495, Issue 4, pp.4747-47682020
7. High-redshift predictions from IllustrisTNG - III. Infrared luminosity functions, obscured star formation, and dust temperature of high-redshift galaxies Shen, Xuejian; Vogelsberger, Mark; Nelson, Dylan; Tacchella, Sandro et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 510, Issue 4, pp.5560-55782022
8. X-ray morphology of cluster-mass haloes in self-interacting dark matter Shen, Xuejian; Brinckmann, Thejs; Rapetti, David; Vogelsberger, Mark et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 516, Issue 1, pp.1302-13192022
9. Disruption of Dark Matter Minihaloes in the Milky Way environment: Implications for Axion Miniclusters and Early Matter Domination Shen, Xuejian; Xiao, Huangyu; Hopkins, Philip F.; Zurek, Kathryn M. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 962, Issue 1, id.9, 25 pp.2024
10. THESAN-HR: Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization in warm dark matter, fuzzy dark matter and interacting dark matter Shen, Xuejian; Borrow, Josh; Vogelsberger, Mark; Garaldi, Enrico et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 527, Issue 2, pp.2835-28572024
11. The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z>9 Shen, Xuejian; Vogelsberger, Mark; Boylan-Kolchin, Michael; Tacchella, Sandro; Kannan, Rahul Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 525, Issue 3, pp.3254-32612023
12. The THESAN project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization Shen, Xuejian; Vogelsberger, Mark; Borrow, Josh; Hu, Yongao et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 534, Issue 2, pp.1433-14582024
13. Early galaxies and early dark energy: a unified solution to the hubble tension and puzzles of massive bright galaxies revealed by JWST Shen, Xuejian; Vogelsberger, Mark; Boylan-Kolchin, Michael; Tacchella, Sandro; Naidu, Rohan P. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 533, Issue 4, pp.3923-39362024
14. The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star-formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies Shen, Xuejian; Kannan, Rahul; Puchwein, Ewald; Smith, Aaron et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 545, Issue 4, 22 pp.2026
15. The Cosmic Rush Hour: Rapid Formation of Bright, Massive, Disky, Star-Forming Galaxies as Signatures of Early-Universe Physics Shen, Xuejian; Zier, Oliver; Vogelsberger, Mark; Boylan-Kolchin, Michael et al. eprint arxiv:2509.194272025
16. The Lumina Project: The Demographics of Active Galactic Nuclei from Quasars to Little Red Dots at z>3 Shen, Xuejian; Zier, Oliver; Smith, Aaron; Rongrong, Liu et al. eprint arXiv:2605.241122026