| Journal (number of papers from Lan Research group) | Impact Factor* |
| Nature Materials (1) | 47.6 |
| Advanced Materials (4) | 32.0 |
| Advances in Optics and Photonics (1) | 24.7 |
| ACS Nano (1) | 18.0 |
| Nature Communications (5) | 17.6 |
| Nano Letters (4) | 12.2 |
| Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials (1) | 11.8 |
| Laser & Photonics Reviews (2) | 10.9 |
| Desalination (1) | 10.2 |
| Advanced Optical Materials (1) | 10.0 |
| Nanophotonics (1) | 7.9 |
| ACS Photonics (2) | 7.0 |
| Journal of Biomedical Optics (1) | 3.7 |
| Optics Letters (1) | 3.5 |
| IEEE Photonics Journal (1) | 2.2 |
* The 2021 impact factors are from Clarivate.