Cheng Hou

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Cheng Hou is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Hou has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 22 papers in Organic Chemistry and 22 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Cheng Hou's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (20 papers), Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (18 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers). Cheng Hou is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (20 papers), Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (18 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers). Cheng Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, France and Hong Kong. Cheng Hou's co-authors include Zhuofeng Ke, Cunyuan Zhao, Tong‐Bu Lu, Ming‐Tian Zhang, Mei Zhang, Zilong Wang, Shihe Yang, Chaolun Liang, Xihong Lu and Yexiang Tong and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Hou

67 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nitrogen‐Doped Co₃O₄ Mesoporous Nanowire Arrays as an Additive‐Free Air‐Cathode for Flexible Solid‐State Zinc–Air Batteries

2017 455 citations Cheng Hou, Cunyuan Zhao et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cheng Hou China	25	1.0k	811	604	513	467	74	2.3k
Jeremy A. Bau Saudi Arabia	15	740 0.7×	459 0.6×	305 0.5×	1.1k 2.1×	1.0k 2.2×	22	2.0k
María Gómez-Mingot France	23	788 0.8×	601 0.7×	162 0.3×	629 1.2×	911 2.0×	46	1.8k
Ally Aukauloo France	35	1.8k 1.8×	933 1.2×	641 1.1×	955 1.9×	1.3k 2.9×	124	3.6k
Huayi Fang China	25	537 0.5×	738 0.9×	625 1.0×	521 1.0×	484 1.0×	61	1.9k
Jian‐Hua Zhang China	29	811 0.8×	624 0.8×	400 0.7×	747 1.5×	1.2k 2.7×	56	2.7k
Brian J. J. Timmer Sweden	18	741 0.7×	360 0.4×	596 1.0×	242 0.5×	256 0.5×	37	1.4k
Biswajit Mondal India	26	1.9k 1.9×	1.1k 1.3×	162 0.3×	434 0.8×	864 1.9×	53	2.4k
Jieun Jung Japan	24	843 0.8×	250 0.3×	401 0.7×	454 0.9×	866 1.9×	52	1.8k
Seung Jun Hwang South Korea	23	1.0k 1.0×	793 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	237 0.5×	463 1.0×	43	2.4k
Rile Ge China	28	871 0.9×	494 0.6×	258 0.4×	1.1k 2.2×	1.6k 3.4×	53	2.6k

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Hou, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic and machine learning insights into borrowing hydrogen reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes with N-heterocyclic ligands. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(24). 6902–6914.

Hou, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Advances in the Efficient Removal of the Key Radioactive Nuclide ⁹⁰Sr Using Crystalline Ion‐Exchange Materials: A Review. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 20(7). e202401320–e202401320. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Zilu, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Effect Promotes Visible‐Light–Driven CO ₂ ‐To‐CO Conversion by Macrocyclic Dinuclear Mixed‐Valence Co (II)/Co (III) Complexes. Applied Organometallic Chemistry. 39(2). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yue, Chaoxin Yang, Linhong Zuo, et al.. (2025). Stereoselective Nickel-Catalyzed Iterative 1,2-Reduction of Trisubstituted Enones to Cycloalkanols Bearing Two Contiguous Stereocenters. Organic Letters. 27(16). 4183–4189. 1 indexed citations

Hou, Cheng, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic understanding of the acceptorless dehydrogenation reaction catalyzed by low valent Co(I) complex. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 165. 112571–112571.

Liu, Emily, Cheng Hou, Jian-Qiang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Directly imaging the in-situ chemical transformation of nickel cubane nanoclusters for promoting electrocatalytic urea-oxidation-reaction. Nano Research. 18(2). 94907152–94907152.

Hou, Cheng, Shanshan Lao, Jiayi Li, et al.. (2024). Weight-Inherited Distillation for Task-Agnostic BERT Compression. 13–28. 1 indexed citations

Xiong, Kun, Xiaochao Jin, Pan Li, et al.. (2024). Comparative study of temperature-dependent oxidation and interdiffusion behavior on NiCoCrAlYHf-coated nickel-based single-crystal superalloys. Journal of Materials Science. 59(42). 19977–19995. 1 indexed citations

Hou, Cheng, et al.. (2024). Exploring mechanistic preferences and influencing factors in acceptorless dehydrogenation reactions catalyzed by an Ir(iii)-dipyridylamine complex: A DFT study. Molecular Catalysis. 569. 114644–114644.

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Zhang, Guixin, Yuan Zhang, Qianyu Li, et al.. (2023). The catalytic role of surface Co(PO3)2 on CoP for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 468. 143202–143202. 5 indexed citations

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Lu, A., Zhuoyan Li, Ying Wang, et al.. (2023). High-efficiency and selective removal of Hg(Ⅱ) and Pb(Ⅱ) ions from aquatic system by 1T/2H mixed-phase MoSe2 nanoflowers: Performance and mechanism. Separation and Purification Technology. 318. 123982–123982. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, et al.. (2023). Indolization of N-Aryl Tertiary Amines with Diazoacetates by a Single Organophotocatalyst. Organic Letters. 25(20). 3778–3783. 8 indexed citations

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Huang, Ke-Bin, et al.. (2020). New copper complexes inducing bimodal death through apoptosis and autophagy in A549 cancer cells. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 213. 111260–111260. 51 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiahua, et al.. (2020). Study on C H amination reactions catalyzed by iron porphyrin nitrene complexs with different nitrogen sources. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 114. 107787–107787. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Rongjun, et al.. (2019). A near infrared dye-coated silver nanoparticle/carbon dot nanocomposite for targeted tumor imaging and enhanced photodynamic therapy. Nanoscale Advances. 2(1). 489–494. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Rongjun, Liangliang Zhang, Jingjin Zhao, et al.. (2019). A Distinctive Spinach‐Based Carbon Nanomaterial with Chlorophyll‐Rich and Near‐Infrared Emission for Simultaneous In Vivo Biothiol Imaging and Dual‐Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy of Tumor. Advanced Therapeutics. 2(7). 14 indexed citations

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Li, Wenxiu, Hua Chen, Jun Li, et al.. (2019). Inhibitor structure-guided design and synthesis of near-infrared fluorescent probes for monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and its application in living cells and in vivo. Chemical Communications. 55(17). 2477–2480. 41 indexed citations

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Zhou, Li, et al.. (2019). The origin of different driving forces between O–H/N–H functional groups in metal ligand cooperation: mechanistic insight into Mn(i) catalysed transfer hydrogenation. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(1). 169–179. 6 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Ting, Cheng Hou, Jia‐Wei Wang, et al.. (2017). A Highly Selective and Robust Co(II)-Based Homogeneous Catalyst for Reduction of CO₂ to CO in CH₃CN/H₂O Solution Driven by Visible Light. Inorganic Chemistry. 56(13). 7307–7311. 55 indexed citations

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Zhang, Mei, Ming‐Tian Zhang, Cheng Hou, Zhuofeng Ke, & Tong‐Bu Lu. (2014). Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation at Neutral pH by a Robust Macrocyclic Nickel(II) Complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(48). 13042–13048. 264 indexed citations

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