Guo‐Quan Sun

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Guo‐Quan Sun is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Guo‐Quan Sun has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Organic Chemistry, 9 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology and 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Guo‐Quan Sun's work include Radical Photochemical Reactions (9 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (9 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (9 papers). Guo‐Quan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Radical Photochemical Reactions (9 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (9 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (9 papers). Guo‐Quan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Guo‐Quan Sun's co-authors include Li‐Li Liao, Da‐Gang Yu, Jian‐Heng Ye, Guangmei Cao, Qiang Fu, Chuan‐Kun Ran, Wei Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Yong‐Yuan Gui and Li Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Guo‐Quan Sun

25 papers receiving 1.6k 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. Electrochemical reactor dictates site selectivity in N-heteroarene carboxylations
    2023 222 citations Guo‐Quan Sun, Peng Yu et al. Nature profile →
  2. Direct radical functionalization of native sugars
    2024 75 citations Yi Jiang, Yi Wei 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
Guo‐Quan Sun China 14 1.1k 807 735 278 178 27 1.6k
Tao Ju China 15 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 809 1.1× 497 1.8× 132 0.7× 20 1.9k
Chuan‐Kun Ran China 18 739 0.7× 706 0.9× 566 0.8× 308 1.1× 154 0.9× 27 1.2k
Ke‐Jin Jiao China 12 1.3k 1.2× 126 0.2× 327 0.4× 174 0.6× 76 0.4× 13 1.5k
Ming‐Chen Fu China 19 1.5k 1.5× 211 0.3× 138 0.2× 414 1.5× 37 0.2× 35 1.8k
Waldemar Schilling Germany 14 846 0.8× 199 0.2× 299 0.4× 185 0.7× 29 0.2× 14 1.1k
Katrin M. Dyballa Germany 17 1.4k 1.3× 120 0.1× 130 0.2× 214 0.8× 58 0.3× 23 1.6k
Lionel Joucla France 16 1.1k 1.0× 209 0.3× 115 0.2× 233 0.8× 48 0.3× 24 1.3k
Xinxin Qi China 27 2.0k 1.9× 407 0.5× 57 0.1× 431 1.6× 49 0.3× 82 2.2k
Yichang Liu China 18 1.6k 1.5× 52 0.1× 301 0.4× 205 0.7× 62 0.3× 25 1.9k
Siba P. Midya India 19 1.0k 1.0× 337 0.4× 105 0.1× 921 3.3× 33 0.2× 30 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Guo‐Quan Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guo‐Quan Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guo‐Quan Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guo‐Quan Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guo‐Quan Sun 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 Guo‐Quan Sun. Guo‐Quan Sun 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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Tian, Jing, Guo‐Quan Sun, Xiao Wang, et al.. (2025). Decoding the beef cattle genome through whole-genome sequencing reveals the genetic basis of carcass and meat quality traits. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 33815–33815.
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Jiang, Yuan‐Xu, Dongli Yu, Guo‐Quan Sun, et al.. (2025). Photocatalytic Sequential Dimerization and Skeletal Rearrangement of Quinolines: Facile Synthesis of Indole–Methylquinoline Hybrids. ACS Catalysis. 15(10). 7792–7799. 3 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yi, Yi Wei, Qianyi Zhou, et al.. (2024). Direct radical functionalization of native sugars. Nature. 631(8020). 319–327. 75 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jiang, Yuan‐Xu, Li‐Li Liao, Tianyu Gao, et al.. (2024). Visible-light-driven synthesis of N-heteroaromatic carboxylic acids by thiolate-catalysed carboxylation of C(sp²)–H bonds using CO2. Nature Synthesis. 3(3). 394–405. 38 indexed citations
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Cong, Fei, et al.. (2024). A Bimolecular Homolytic Substitution-Enabled Platform for Multicomponent Cross-Coupling of Unactivated Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(15). 10274–10280. 48 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wei, Li‐Li Liao, Li Li, et al.. (2023). Electroreductive Dicarboxylation of Unactivated Skipped Dienes with CO2. Angewandte Chemie. 135(23).
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Sun, Guo‐Quan, Peng Yu, Wen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical reactor dictates site selectivity in N-heteroarene carboxylations. Nature. 615(7950). 67–72. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fang, Li, Shan Ye, Guo‐Quan Sun, et al.. (2023). Husband-wife Relationship, Neonatal Health, Breast Milk Volume and Postpartum Depression: A Prospective Cohort Study. Psychology Health & Medicine. 28(9). 2462–2473. 3 indexed citations
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Liao, Li‐Li, Guo‐Quan Sun, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Electrochemical Ring-Opening Dicarboxylation of Strained Carbon–Carbon Single Bonds with CO2: Facile Synthesis of Diacids and Derivatization into Polyesters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(5). 2062–2068. 125 indexed citations
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Sun, Guo‐Quan, Wei Zhang, Li‐Li Liao, et al.. (2021). Nickel-catalyzed electrochemical carboxylation of unactivated aryl and alkyl halides with CO2. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7086–7086. 128 indexed citations
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Liao, Li‐Li, Guangmei Cao, Yuan‐Xu Jiang, et al.. (2021). α-Amino Acids and Peptides as Bifunctional Reagents: Carbocarboxylation of Activated Alkenes via Recycling CO2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(7). 2812–2821. 134 indexed citations
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Ju, Tao, Yuqin Zhou, Qiang Fu, et al.. (2021). Dicarboxylation of alkenes, allenes and (hetero)arenes with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis. Nature Catalysis. 4(4). 304–311. 187 indexed citations
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Yan, Si‐Shun, Qiang Fu, Li‐Li Liao, et al.. (2018). Transition metal-catalyzed carboxylation of unsaturated substrates with CO2. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 374. 439–463. 202 indexed citations
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Liao, Li‐Li, Guangmei Cao, Jian‐Heng Ye, et al.. (2018). Visible-Light-Driven External-Reductant-Free Cross-Electrophile Couplings of Tetraalkyl Ammonium Salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(50). 17338–17342. 174 indexed citations
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Mai, Guoqin, Ruiquan Ge, Guo‐Quan Sun, Meng Qing, & Fengfeng Zhou. (2016). A Comprehensive Curation Shows the Dynamic Evolutionary Patterns of Prokaryotic CRISPRs. BioMed Research International. 2016. 1–7. 4 indexed citations
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Luo, Youxi, et al.. (2015). Constraint Programming Based Biomarker Optimization. BioMed Research International. 2015. 1–5. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Guo‐Quan, et al.. (2008). Neural networks for nonlinear modeling of microwave Schottky diodes. 558–561. 2 indexed citations

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