Standout Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Renewable energy consumption and economic growth: New evidence from Ghana
    2022 189 citations Justice Gyimah, Xilong Yao et al. Energy profile →

Immediate Impact

1 from Science/Nature 54 hit
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Citing Papers

Renewable energy transition and sustainable development: Evidence from China
2025 Hit
Recent progress in underground hydrogen storage
2025 Hit
9 intermediate papers

Works of Xilong Yao being referenced

Renewable energy consumption and economic growth: New evidence from Ghana
2022 Hit
Technology selection for hydrogen production in China by integrating emergy into life cycle sustainability assessment
2021
and 4 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Xilong Yao 995 550 478 225 131 49 1.5k
Cuixia Gao 853 0.9× 464 0.8× 521 1.1× 183 0.8× 156 1.2× 44 1.8k
Xiaowei Ma 1.3k 1.4× 538 1.0× 631 1.3× 198 0.9× 240 1.8× 57 2.4k
Nicolas Schneider 1.2k 1.2× 576 1.0× 451 0.9× 261 1.2× 130 1.0× 53 1.9k
Jinjun Xue 1.3k 1.3× 579 1.1× 918 1.9× 184 0.8× 140 1.1× 56 2.1k
Marco Mele 1.4k 1.4× 657 1.2× 553 1.2× 335 1.5× 157 1.2× 58 2.3k
Jinhua Cheng 1.4k 1.4× 593 1.1× 530 1.1× 221 1.0× 86 0.7× 52 1.9k
Yuru Guan 801 0.8× 336 0.6× 912 1.9× 201 0.9× 144 1.1× 27 1.8k
Lisha Yang 749 0.8× 628 1.1× 442 0.9× 147 0.7× 173 1.3× 28 1.5k
Jianhua Yin 1.1k 1.1× 580 1.1× 646 1.4× 213 0.9× 215 1.6× 30 2.4k
Jianling Jiao 1.2k 1.2× 526 1.0× 440 0.9× 106 0.5× 329 2.5× 54 2.2k

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