Cheng’an Zhong

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Cheng’an Zhong is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng’an Zhong has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 1 paper in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Cheng’an Zhong's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (6 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (6 papers). Cheng’an Zhong is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (6 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (6 papers). Cheng’an Zhong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Cheng’an Zhong's co-authors include Changzheng Wu, Nan Zhang, Tianpei Zhou, Yi Xie, Wangsheng Chu, Wensheng Yan, Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen, Mengxing Zhang and Lidong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science and Matter.

In The Last Decade

Cheng’an Zhong

8 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

3D Nitrogen‐Anion‐Decorat... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2019 200 400 600
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.

  1. 3D Nitrogen‐Anion‐Decorated Nickel Sulfides for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting
    2017 611 citations Pengzuo Chen, Tianpei Zhou et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. High-purity pyrrole-type FeN4 sites as a superior oxygen reduction electrocatalyst
    2019 429 citations Nan Zhang, Tianpei Zhou et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cheng’an Zhong China 7 1.6k 1.4k 396 205 180 8 1.7k
Niankun Guo China 20 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 525 1.3× 253 1.2× 213 1.2× 37 1.7k
Zongping Shao Australia 9 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 484 1.2× 266 1.3× 157 0.9× 11 1.7k
Weimo Li China 21 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 408 1.0× 213 1.0× 179 1.0× 34 1.6k
Sixuan She China 17 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 596 1.5× 202 1.0× 160 0.9× 30 1.8k
Zizai Ma China 22 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 593 1.5× 269 1.3× 253 1.4× 58 1.6k
Shipeng Gong China 13 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 380 1.0× 209 1.0× 204 1.1× 14 1.5k
Jinqi Wu China 15 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 558 1.4× 354 1.7× 173 1.0× 25 2.0k
Peifang Guo China 13 1.1k 0.7× 981 0.7× 381 1.0× 148 0.7× 160 0.9× 20 1.4k
Thomas Merzdorf Germany 11 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 512 1.3× 340 1.7× 188 1.0× 21 1.8k
Sampath Prabhakaran South Korea 28 2.0k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 546 1.4× 301 1.5× 227 1.3× 53 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Cheng’an Zhong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cheng’an Zhong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cheng’an Zhong. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cheng’an Zhong. The network helps show where Cheng’an Zhong may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng’an Zhong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng’an Zhong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng’an Zhong 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 Cheng’an Zhong. Cheng’an Zhong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Zhong, Cheng’an, Tianpei Zhou, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Central electron-enriched NO-FeN<sub>4</sub> sites as superior acidic oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. JUSTC. 53(3). 304–304. 2 indexed citations
2.
Zhang, Nan, Tianpei Zhou, Jiankai Ge, et al.. (2020). High-Density Planar-like Fe2N6 Structure Catalyzes Efficient Oxygen Reduction. Matter. 3(2). 509–521. 252 indexed citations
3.
Zhou, Tianpei, Huan Shan, Hao Yu, et al.. (2020). Nanopore Confinement of Electrocatalysts Optimizing Triple Transport for an Ultrahigh‐Power‐Density Zinc–Air Fuel Cell with Robust Stability. Advanced Materials. 32(47). e2003251–e2003251. 139 indexed citations
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Yuan, Ruilin, Wentuan Bi, Tianpei Zhou, et al.. (2019). Two-Dimensional Hierarchical Fe–N–C Electrocatalyst for Zn-Air Batteries with Ultrahigh Specific Capacity. ACS Materials Letters. 2(1). 35–41. 45 indexed citations
5.
Zhang, Nan, Tianpei Zhou, Minglong Chen, et al.. (2019). High-purity pyrrole-type FeN4 sites as a superior oxygen reduction electrocatalyst. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(1). 111–118. 429 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Tianpei, Nan Zhang, Cheng’an Zhong, et al.. (2019). Ultrathin Cobalt Oxide Layers as Electrocatalysts for High‐Performance Flexible Zn–Air Batteries. Advanced Materials. 31(15). e1807468–e1807468. 253 indexed citations
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Yang, Bo, Wentuan Bi, Cheng’an Zhong, et al.. (2018). Moisture-triggered actuator and detector with high-performance: interface engineering of graphene oxide/ethyl cellulose. Science China Materials. 61(10). 1291–1296. 15 indexed citations
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Chen, Pengzuo, Tianpei Zhou, Mengxing Zhang, et al.. (2017). 3D Nitrogen‐Anion‐Decorated Nickel Sulfides for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting. Advanced Materials. 29(30). 611 indexed citations breakdown →

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