Dan Zhao

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Dan Zhao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Zhao has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Catalysis and 14 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dan Zhao's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (15 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (13 papers). Dan Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (15 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (13 papers). Dan Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Australia. Dan Zhao's co-authors include Evgenii V. Kondratenko, Shanlei Han, Guiyuan Jiang, Vita A. Kondratenko, David Linke, Uwe Rodemerck, Jabor Rabeah, Jan‐Dierk Grunwaldt, Dmitry E. Doronkin and Henrik Lund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dan Zhao

42 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

  1. In situ formation of ZnOx species for efficient propane dehydrogenation
    2021 266 citations Dan Zhao, Xinxin Tian et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dan Zhao China 18 807 763 405 151 91 46 1.1k
Shyama Charan Mandal India 17 582 0.7× 244 0.3× 320 0.8× 348 2.3× 106 1.2× 38 923
Paco Laveille Saudi Arabia 14 571 0.7× 450 0.6× 122 0.3× 95 0.6× 122 1.3× 21 693
C.M.P. Marques Brazil 18 777 1.0× 704 0.9× 63 0.2× 105 0.7× 255 2.8× 21 1.0k
Fernando Ramôa Ribeiro Portugal 18 660 0.8× 381 0.5× 404 1.0× 40 0.3× 220 2.4× 31 903
Madelyn R. Ball United States 19 740 0.9× 520 0.7× 146 0.4× 365 2.4× 380 4.2× 34 1.2k
Hannu Karhu Finland 17 578 0.7× 514 0.7× 190 0.5× 77 0.5× 355 3.9× 24 1.0k
Lingkun Meng China 14 447 0.6× 271 0.4× 294 0.7× 318 2.1× 94 1.0× 31 883
Yuxian Gao China 13 1.1k 1.4× 641 0.8× 75 0.2× 366 2.4× 203 2.2× 20 1.3k
Eric J. Doskocil United States 15 406 0.5× 271 0.4× 504 1.2× 77 0.5× 207 2.3× 23 886

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Zhao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Zhao

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

All Works

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Sun, Yuping, et al.. (2025). Photoinduced deposition of cubic Pd on the edge active sites of BiOCl to enhance photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1022. 179865–179865. 3 indexed citations
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Kondratenko, Vita A., Stephan Bartling, Elizaveta A. Fedorova, et al.. (2025). Understanding the reaction-induced restructuring of CoO species in silicalite-1 to control selectivity in non-oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 74. 108–119. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dan, Yueliang Liu, Zhiyuan Ma, et al.. (2025). CO2 adaptive functional materials: Perspectives in geological utilization and sequestration. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 348. 103718–103718.
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Otroshchenko, Tatiana, Dmitry Sharapa, Elizaveta A. Fedorova, Dan Zhao, & Evgenii V. Kondratenko. (2024). Highly Efficient Low‐loaded PdOx/AlSiOx Catalyst for Ethylene Dimerization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(44). e202410646–e202410646. 2 indexed citations
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Rabee, Abdallah I.M., Sebastián Cisneros, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the synergy between gold and sodium on ZrO2 for boosting the reverse water gas shift reaction: In-situ spectroscopic investigations. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 345. 123685–123685. 26 indexed citations
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Otroshchenko, Tatiana, Dmitry Sharapa, Elizaveta A. Fedorova, Dan Zhao, & Evgenii V. Kondratenko. (2024). Hocheffizienter Niedrigbeladener PdOx/AlSiOx‐Katalysator für die Ethylen‐Dimerisierung. Angewandte Chemie. 136(44). 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dan, Vita A. Kondratenko, Dmitry E. Doronkin, et al.. (2023). Effect of supports on the kind of in-situ formed ZnOx species and its consequence for non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation. Catalysis Today. 428. 114444–114444. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dan, Shanlei Han, & Evgenii V. Kondratenko. (2023). CO2 Hydrogenation to CH3OH over Cu‐Based Catalysts: Primary and Side Reactions. ChemCatChem. 15(20). 20 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dan, Bing Xu, & Can Zhu. (2023). Migratory allylic arylation of 1,n-enols enabled by nickel catalysis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3308–3308. 8 indexed citations
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Mo, Pinghui, et al.. (2023). A Heterogeneous Parallel Non-von Neumann Architecture System for Accurate and Efficient Machine Learning Molecular Dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers. 70(6). 2439–2449. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dan, et al.. (2023). Identifying Catalyst Property Descriptors for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol via Big-Data Analysis. ACS Catalysis. 13(16). 10547–10559. 18 indexed citations
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Rabee, Abdallah I.M., Dan Zhao, Sebastián Cisneros, et al.. (2022). Role of interfacial oxygen vacancies in low-loaded Au-based catalysts for the low-temperature reverse water gas shift reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 321. 122083–122083. 65 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dan, Xinxin Tian, Dmitry E. Doronkin, et al.. (2021). In situ formation of ZnOx species for efficient propane dehydrogenation. Nature. 599(7884). 234–238. 266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Han, Shanlei, Tatiana Otroshchenko, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2020). Catalytic non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation over promoted Cr-Zr-Ox: Effect of promoter on propene selectivity and stability. Catalysis Communications. 138. 105956–105956. 19 indexed citations
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Han, Shanlei, Tatiana Otroshchenko, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2019). The effect of ZrO2 crystallinity in CrZrOx/SiO2 on non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation. Applied Catalysis A General. 590. 117350–117350. 29 indexed citations
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Li, Si, et al.. (2018). Relation of heat and mass transfer in wax diffusion in an emulsion of water and waxy crude oil under static condition. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 99. 1–12. 17 indexed citations
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Li, Yansheng, Wenqian Wang, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2014). Water-Soluble Fluorescent CdTe/ZnSe Core/Shell Quantum Dot: Aqueous Phase Synthesis and Cytotoxicity Assays. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 15(6). 4648–4652. 8 indexed citations

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