Baowen Zhou

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Baowen Zhou is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Baowen Zhou has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 40 papers in Materials Chemistry and 18 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Baowen Zhou's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (31 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (22 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers). Baowen Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (31 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (22 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers). Baowen Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Baowen Zhou's co-authors include Zetian Mi, Buxing Han, Jinliang Song, Yixin Xiao, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid, Ping Wang, Zhengwei Ye, Peng Zhou, Yongjin Ma and Kai Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Baowen Zhou

78 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit 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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting

2023 920 citations Ping Wang, Baowen Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Baowen Zhou China	30	2.1k	1.7k	787	592	466	85	3.6k
Jun Hu China	30	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	399 0.5×	675 1.1×	503 1.1×	110	3.1k
Jinglin Xie China	28	1.5k 0.7×	3.2k 1.8×	581 0.7×	734 1.2×	1.7k 3.6×	40	4.2k
Guozhu Chen China	37	1.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.7×	522 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	1.2k 2.6×	145	4.4k
Xiaohui Sun China	22	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	230 0.3×	574 1.0×	876 1.9×	45	2.7k
Jun Ma China	36	3.5k 1.7×	2.4k 1.4×	378 0.5×	1.4k 2.4×	927 2.0×	112	4.6k
Hui Wan China	35	722 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	407 0.5×	679 1.1×	1.4k 2.9×	143	3.1k
Junkai He United States	30	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	303 0.4×	1.3k 2.1×	472 1.0×	63	3.2k
Libor Čapek Czechia	35	1.3k 0.6×	2.7k 1.6×	587 0.7×	334 0.6×	1.3k 2.7×	95	3.5k
Pengfei Tian China	31	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.4×	435 0.6×	397 0.7×	1.5k 3.3×	64	3.3k
Shuxian Wei China	32	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	203 0.3×	882 1.5×	466 1.0×	141	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Baowen Zhou

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Wang, Zhouzhou, Yixin Li, Bowen Sheng, et al.. (2025). Surface-hydrogenated CrMnOx coupled with GaN nanowires for light-driven bioethanol dehydration to ethylene. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1002–1002. 3 indexed citations

Qiu, Liang, et al.. (2025). Solar-driven biorefinery: Enabling sustainable biomass valorization. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 113. 402–407.

Zhai, Jianxin, Ruoya Wang, Xiao Chen, et al.. (2025). Light-based catalyst-free conversion of CH4 and CO2. Nature Photonics. 20(1). 63–70.

Yang, Xue, Xuan Wang, Yingyan Zhao, et al.. (2025). Roadmap Toward the Production, Storage, Transportation, and Applications of Green Hydrogen. 27(3). 241–267.

Gao, Yu, Baowen Zhou, Bin Zhao, et al.. (2025). Lateral Responses of Coastal Intertidal Meta-Ecosystems to Sea-Level Rise: Lessons from the Yangtze Estuary. Remote Sensing. 17(17). 3109–3109.

Chen, Xi, Baowen Zhou, & Ning Yan. (2024). Platinum-cobalt synergy redefines electrocatalytic lignin upgrading. Science Bulletin. 69(19). 2961–2963. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jinglin, Bowen Sheng, Yiqing Chen, et al.. (2024). An Active and Robust Catalytic Architecture of NiCo/GaN Nanowires for Light‐Driven Hydrogen Production from Methanol. Small. 20(25). e2309906–e2309906. 11 indexed citations

Yu, Tianqi, Jinglin Li, Yixin Li, et al.. (2024). Green Syngas Production from Natural Lignin, Sunlight, and Water over Pt‐Decorated InGaN Nanowires. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(39). e202405904–e202405904. 9 indexed citations

Li, Ying, Liang Qiu, Rui Tian, et al.. (2024). Chirality Engineering of Nanostructured Copper Oxide for Enhancing Oxygen Evolution from Water Electrolysis. Small. 20(52). e2408248–e2408248. 6 indexed citations

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Dong, Chiheng, et al.. (2024). Effects of 1:5H-type Cu-rich phase around grain boundary on cell boundary phase and squareness of the demagnetization curve in sintered Sm2Co17-type magnets. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 599. 172117–172117. 1 indexed citations

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Nasir, Muhammad Salman, Pan Hu, & Baowen Zhou. (2024). Economically attractive production of commercial-grade gasoline from waste plastics. Frontiers in Energy. 18(5). 712–715. 1 indexed citations

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Ni, Na, Baowen Zhou, Chongqing Yang, et al.. (2024). Toward High CO Selectivity and Oxidation Resistance Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell with High-Entropy Alloy. ACS Catalysis. 14(5). 2897–2907. 21 indexed citations

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Li, Jinglin, Bowen Sheng, Yiqing Chen, et al.. (2024). Utilizing full-spectrum sunlight for ammonia decomposition to hydrogen over GaN nanowires-supported Ru nanoparticles on silicon. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7393–7393. 32 indexed citations

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Zhai, Jianxin, Z. Cedric Xia, Baowen Zhou, et al.. (2024). Photo-thermal coupling to enhance CO2 hydrogenation toward CH4 over Ru/MnO/Mn3O4. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1109–1109. 67 indexed citations

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Li, Ang, Chao Ma, Zhan Gao, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen-doped carbon confined Cu-Ag bimetals for efficient electroreduction of CO2 to high-order products. Chemical Engineering Journal. 468. 143606–143606. 30 indexed citations

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Zhou, Baowen, et al.. (2023). Near-Earth object 2022 EB5: From atmospheric entry to physical properties and orbit. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A27–A27. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Jinglin, Bowen Sheng, Yiqing Chen, et al.. (2022). Oxynitride-surface engineering of rhodium-decorated gallium nitride for efficient thermocatalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. Communications Chemistry. 5(1). 17 indexed citations

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Zhai, Jianxin, Baowen Zhou, Haihong Wu, et al.. (2022). Photocatalytic Cleavage of C(sp³)−N Bond in Trialkylamines to Dialkylamines and Olefins. ChemSusChem. 15(18). e202201119–e202201119. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Baowen, Jinliang Song, Chao Xie, et al.. (2018). Mo–Bi–Cd Ternary Metal Chalcogenides: Highly Efficient Photocatalyst for CO₂ Reduction to Formic Acid Under Visible Light. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(5). 5754–5759. 58 indexed citations

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Zhou, Baowen, Jinliang Song, Zhanrong Zhang, et al.. (2016). Highly selective photocatalytic oxidation of biomass-derived chemicals to carboxyl compounds over Au/TiO₂. Green Chemistry. 19(4). 1075–1081. 113 indexed citations

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