Ben Xu

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
139 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Ben Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Xu has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Materials Chemistry, 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 27 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Ben Xu's work include Fusion materials and technologies (29 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (19 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (15 papers). Ben Xu is often cited by papers focused on Fusion materials and technologies (29 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (19 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (15 papers). Ben Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Ben Xu's co-authors include Yuanhua Lin, Yang Shen, Ce‐Wen Nan, Liangliang Li, Ting Liu, Bingqing Xu, Xue Zhang, Xin Huang, Jing Ma and Qinghua Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ben Xu

135 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Synergistic Coupling between Li_6.75La₃Zr_1.75Ta_0.25O₁₂ and Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Induces High Ionic Conductivity, Mechanical Strength, and Thermal Stability of Solid Composite Electrolytes

2017 876 citations Yuanhua Lin, Ben Xu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Giant Energy Density and Improved Discharge Efficiency of Solution‐Processed Polymer Nanocomposites for Dielectric Energy Storage

2016 546 citations Yang Shen, Ben Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Xu China	28	2.5k	1.9k	1.0k	806	642	139	4.2k
Bo Liu China	38	1.9k 0.7×	3.0k 1.5×	678 0.7×	882 1.1×	712 1.1×	136	4.8k
Lianmeng Zhang China	31	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	352 0.4×	551 0.7×	599 0.9×	234	4.2k
Yang Wu China	40	2.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	730 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	752 1.2×	111	5.9k
Bernard A. Boukamp Netherlands	38	2.9k 1.2×	3.7k 1.9×	515 0.5×	1.5k 1.8×	980 1.5×	88	6.0k
Ping Zhang China	31	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	343 0.3×	656 0.8×	327 0.5×	132	3.3k
Hang Li China	36	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	320 0.3×	652 0.8×	526 0.8×	246	4.2k
Jonathan A. Malen United States	33	3.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	307 0.4×	202 0.3×	102	4.8k
Zengsheng Ma China	36	1.2k 0.5×	2.4k 1.2×	269 0.3×	766 1.0×	908 1.4×	166	3.9k
Cory D. Cress United States	29	2.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	606 0.6×	829 1.0×	362 0.6×	125	3.6k
Hans Kungl Germany	38	3.1k 1.2×	2.9k 1.5×	1.5k 1.5×	1.8k 2.2×	643 1.0×	188	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Xu. Ben Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Ben, et al.. (2025). Underwater acoustic target detection with imbalanced dataset based on deep Q-network with dual termination criterion. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 160. 111661–111661.

Zhang, Jiayi, et al.. (2025). ROMA: Rotary and Movable Antenna. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(7). 2154–2158. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhilong, Jiayi Zhang, Ben Xu, et al.. (2025). GCN-Based Low-Complexity Downlink Beamforming for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Partially Coherent Joint Transmission. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(12). 10440–10455. 1 indexed citations

Fu, Baoqin, Yandong Sun, Wanrun Jiang, et al.. (2024). Determining the thermal conductivity and phonon behavior of SiC materials with quantum accuracy via deep learning interatomic potential model. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 591. 154897–154897. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Mao‐Hua, Hao‐Cheng Thong, Bo Jiang, et al.. (2024). Field‐Induced Polarization Rotation in Order–Disorder (K,Na)NbO₃‐Based Ferroelectrics. Advanced Materials. 37(6). e2413587–e2413587. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Yandong, Jinyu Zhang, Tian‐Ran Wei, et al.. (2024). Van der Waals semiconductor InSe plastifies by martensitic transformation. Science Advances. 10(42). eado9593–eado9593. 9 indexed citations

Xu, Ben, et al.. (2024). Deep Unfolding Beamforming and Power Control Designs for Multi-Port Matching Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(2). 1401–1414. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Weidong, et al.. (2023). A field-function methodology predicting the service lifetime of photovoltaic modules. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 192. 114266–114266. 3 indexed citations

Dong, Jinfeng, Yilin Jiang, Yandong Sun, et al.. (2023). Discordant Distortion in Cubic GeMnTe₂ and High Thermoelectric Properties of GeMnTe₂-x%SbTe. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(3). 1988–1996. 41 indexed citations

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Wang, Yaojin, et al.. (2022). Photo-electro-striction in halide perovskite semiconductors. Applied Physics Letters. 121(4). 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Ben, et al.. (2022). Multi-dimensional characteristic construction methods of computational materials under big data environment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 183–194.

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Guo, Mengfan, Changqing Guo, Jian Han, et al.. (2021). Toroidal polar topology in strained ferroelectric polymer. Science. 371(6533). 1050–1056. 116 indexed citations

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Pan, Hao, Nan Feng, Xing Xu, et al.. (2021). Enhanced electric resistivity and dielectric energy storage by vacancy defect complex. Energy storage materials. 42. 836–844. 47 indexed citations

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Li, Changjiao, Hua Hao, Ben Xu, et al.. (2020). A progressive learning method for predicting the band gap of ABO₃ perovskites using an instrumental variable. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(9). 3127–3136. 39 indexed citations

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Xu, Ben, Jia Chen, Ke Bi, et al.. (2020). Ensemble-machine-learning-based correlation analysis of internal and band characteristics of thermoelectric materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(37). 13079–13089. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Yandong, et al.. (2020). Molecular dynamics simulations of the effect of dislocations on the thermal conductivity of iron. Journal of Applied Physics. 127(4). 13 indexed citations

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Wu, Hao, Qiulin Li, Ben Xu, et al.. (2020). Improvement in irradiation resistance of FeCu alloy by pre‐deformation through introduction of dense point defect sinks. Rare Metals. 40(4). 885–896. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yinan, et al.. (2019). Atomistic simulations of carbon effect on kink-pair energetics of bcc iron screw dislocations. Journal of Materials Science. 54(15). 10728–10736. 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Yandong, Yanguang Zhou, Jian Han, et al.. (2019). Strong phonon localization in PbTe with dislocations and large deviation to Matthiessen’s rule. npj Computational Materials. 5(1). 34 indexed citations

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Ma, Ji, Jing Wang, Hua Zhou, et al.. (2019). Self-assembly growth of a multiferroic topological nanoisland array. Nanoscale. 11(43). 20514–20521. 15 indexed citations

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