Cong Xu

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Cong Xu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Cong Xu has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Cong Xu's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (9 papers). Cong Xu is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (9 papers). Cong Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Cong Xu's co-authors include Ming Han, Jing Yan, Erik Luijten, Steve Granick, Jie Zhang, Jianhua Qin, Lanqun Mao, Ping Yu, Lei Jiang and Fei Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Cong Xu

70 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Reconfiguring active particles by electrostatic imbalance 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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. Reconfiguring active particles by electrostatic imbalance
    2016 437 citations Jing Yan, Ming Han et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cong Xu China 23 902 437 418 382 379 72 2.2k
Limei Liu China 28 923 1.0× 543 1.2× 213 0.5× 504 1.3× 465 1.2× 86 2.2k
Stephan Gekle Germany 31 997 1.1× 574 1.3× 233 0.6× 175 0.5× 336 0.9× 86 2.8k
Kai Kristiansen United States 20 629 0.7× 840 1.9× 342 0.8× 70 0.2× 441 1.2× 43 2.8k
F. Mercier France 34 530 0.6× 939 2.1× 808 1.9× 193 0.5× 677 1.8× 159 4.3k
Zhidong Li China 21 588 0.7× 769 1.8× 287 0.7× 175 0.5× 229 0.6× 82 2.3k
Ali Abou‐Hassan France 32 1.9k 2.2× 786 1.8× 406 1.0× 120 0.3× 438 1.2× 87 2.9k
M. Cynthia Goh Canada 32 873 1.0× 739 1.7× 394 0.9× 83 0.2× 645 1.7× 85 3.3k
Xiaolei Liu China 23 961 1.1× 1.5k 3.4× 342 0.8× 101 0.3× 913 2.4× 68 3.0k
R. Wrzalik Poland 27 721 0.8× 1.3k 3.0× 349 0.8× 57 0.1× 363 1.0× 138 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Cong Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cong Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cong Xu. 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 Cong Xu. The network helps show where Cong Xu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cong Xu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fan, Wenxuan, Yuan Kong, Cong Xu, et al.. (2025). Anti‐Perovskite Type Ni 3 InC 0.5 Anchored on Defective Nano Diamond‐Graphene for Highly Efficient Acetylene Semi‐Hydrogenation. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(46).
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He, Siyu, Yuefei Zhu, Daniel Naveed Tavakol, et al.. (2025). Squidiff: predicting cellular development and responses to perturbations using a diffusion model. Nature Methods. 23(1). 65–77. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Ang, Lele Zhang, Junjie Li, et al.. (2024). Air oxidation of carbon supports boosts the low-humidity fuel cell performance. Chemical Communications. 60(31). 4226–4229. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Hye Sung, Yang Xiao, Xuejing Chen, et al.. (2024). Chronic Opioid Treatment Arrests Neurodevelopment and Alters Synaptic Activity in Human Midbrain Organoids. Advanced Science. 11(21). e2400847–e2400847. 9 indexed citations
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Xu, Cong, Gorazd Rosoklija, Andrew J. Dwork, et al.. (2024). Low-cost and scalable projected light-sheet microscopy for the high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue and living samples. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 8(9). 1109–1123. 8 indexed citations
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Mubashar, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Carbon-negative and high-rate nutrient recovery from municipal wastewater using mixotrophic Scenedesmus acuminatus. Journal of Environmental Management. 354. 120360–120360. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanzhi, Yihao Yao, Cong Xu, et al.. (2024). A Universal Solid‐Phase Synthetic Strategy for Ultrafine Intermetallic Libraries Confined in Ordered Mesoporous Carbon. Advanced Materials. 37(6). e2416111–e2416111. 12 indexed citations
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Xu, Cong, et al.. (2024). Advancements and trends in cooperative economy research — A Knowledge Map analysis based on CiteSpace and Bibliometrix. Heliyon. 11(1). e41095–e41095. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Le, Cong Xu, Tian‐Wei Song, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of small-sized intermetallic PtCo fuel cell catalysts by promoting inner surface utilization of carbon supports. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(16). 3390–3397. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Hui, Cong Xu, Mingqian Tan, & Wentao Su. (2023). Advanced gut-on-chips for assessing carotenoid absorption, metabolism, and transport. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 65(7). 1344–1362. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Cong, Huaying Hao, Yang Wang, et al.. (2023). Vessel segmentation of OCTA images based on latent vector alignment and swin Transformer. Journal of Image and Graphics. 28(9). 2927–2939.
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Xu, Cong, Yuan Zeng, Zhaoju Zheng, et al.. (2022). Assessing the Impact of Soil on Species Diversity Estimation Based on UAV Imaging Spectroscopy in a Natural Alpine Steppe. Remote Sensing. 14(3). 671–671. 15 indexed citations
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Song, Tian‐Wei, Cong Xu, Lei Tong, et al.. (2022). Small molecule-assisted synthesis of carbon supported platinum intermetallic fuel cell catalysts. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6521–6521. 129 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haiyang, Muhammad Mubashar, Cong Xu, et al.. (2021). Study on the cell-collector-bubble interfacial interactions during microalgae harvesting using foam flotation. The Science of The Total Environment. 806(Pt 4). 150901–150901. 13 indexed citations
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Yao, Lehan, Zihao Ou, Binbin Luo, Cong Xu, & Qian Chen. (2020). Machine Learning to Reveal Nanoparticle Dynamics from Liquid-Phase TEM Videos. ACS Central Science. 6(8). 1421–1430. 147 indexed citations
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Ding, Zhanyu, Cong Xu, Indrajit Sahu, et al.. (2019). Structural Snapshots of 26S Proteasome Reveal Tetraubiquitin-Induced Conformations. Molecular Cell. 73(6). 1150–1161.e6. 40 indexed citations
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Perepelov, Andrei V., et al.. (2019). Structure elucidation and gene cluster characterization of the O-antigen of Vibrio cholerae O14. Carbohydrate Research. 474. 67–71. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Jing, Ming Han, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2016). Reconfiguring active particles by electrostatic imbalance. Nature Materials. 15(10). 1095–1099. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

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