Hari Bala

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Hari Bala is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hari Bala has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 58 papers in Materials Chemistry and 33 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hari Bala's work include Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (47 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (29 papers) and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (28 papers). Hari Bala is often cited by papers focused on Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (47 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (29 papers) and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (28 papers). Hari Bala collaborates with scholars based in China, Poland and United States. Hari Bala's co-authors include Jianliang Cao, Guang Sun, Zhanying Zhang, Zhanying Zhang, Peng Wang, Yan Wang, Dong Shi, Qingjiang Yu, Guangliang Zhang and Xueju Lv and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Langmuir and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hari Bala

109 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

High efficiency and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with an organic chromophore featuring a binary π-conjugated spacer

2009 545 citations Guangliang Zhang, Hari Bala et al. Chemical Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hari Bala China	31	1.9k	1.9k	1.2k	1.0k	836	112	3.6k
Xinxin Xing China	38	1.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	95	4.7k
Zhidong Lin China	33	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	873 0.8×	630 0.8×	104	3.1k
Massimiliano D’Arienzo Italy	31	1.9k 1.0×	957 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	455 0.4×	238 0.3×	91	3.4k
Shouwei Zhang China	44	3.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.2×	3.7k 3.0×	812 0.8×	527 0.6×	80	5.4k
J. Archana India	35	2.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	600 0.6×	239 0.3×	213	4.1k
Zhenping Zhu China	38	2.7k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.8×	613 0.6×	337 0.4×	100	4.2k
Anjali A. Athawale India	30	1.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	357 0.3×	758 0.7×	581 0.7×	99	2.8k
Ying Chu China	35	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	697 0.6×	832 0.8×	189 0.2×	108	3.9k
P.L. Antonucci Italy	34	2.2k 1.1×	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	783 0.8×	166 0.2×	106	4.3k
Mingsong Wang China	26	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	542 0.4×	576 0.6×	386 0.5×	52	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hari Bala

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Hari Bala's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Hari Bala with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Hari Bala more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Hari Bala

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hari Bala

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Fei, Kun Xing, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2025). Improving room-temperature ammonia sensing properties of CH3NH3PbI3-based gas sensors via coordination interaction using monoethanolamine ligand. Microchemical Journal. 213. 113649–113649.

Xu, Xingtang, Guang Sun, Xueling Wang, et al.. (2025). Co-Sensitization of ZnCo₂O₄ Hierarchical Microspheres with MoO₃ and Ag Nanoparticles for Chemiresistive Detection of Acetone. Langmuir. 41(13). 8965–8974. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Bowen, Chongyang Wang, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2025). Enhanced NO2 sensing performance of hierarchical nanosheets-assembled SnO2/SnS2 hollow microsphere at low temperature. Applied Surface Science. 705. 163531–163531. 2 indexed citations

Qin, Cong, et al.. (2024). Iso-elemental SnO/SnO2 heterojunction composites for enhanced formaldehyde gas sensing. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 330. 130167–130167. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Run, Hari Bala, & Yan Wang. (2024). Acetone sensing performance of ZnFe2O4/ZnO/g-C3N4 composites: morphology, structure and charge transfer. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 35(5). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Chongyang, Bo Zhang, Zhenyang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Pt-modified nanosheet-assembled SnS2 hollow microspheres for low temperature NO2 sensors. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 417. 136118–136118. 17 indexed citations

Chang, Yukai, Xin Liu, Binbin Dong, et al.. (2024). Etching-time-regulated strategy toward delaminated Mo ₂CT _x MXene for tailoring electromagnetic wave absorption. Journal of Advanced Ceramics. 13(11). 1795–1806. 20 indexed citations

Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2024). Lanthanum doped SnO/SnO2 rod-like structure sensors with high sensitivity and selectivity toward HCHO detection. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1010. 177829–177829. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Chongyang, et al.. (2023). Pt-modified TiO2 nanorod array films on FTO with enhanced CO sensitivity: A combined experimental and first-principle study. Applied Surface Science. 636. 157819–157819. 14 indexed citations

10.

Bala, Hari, Can Chen, Bowen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Perovskite solar cells using NaF additive with enhanced stability under air environment. Electrochimica Acta. 456. 142409–142409. 3 indexed citations

11.

Zhang, Bowen, et al.. (2023). Core-shell TiO2/ZnO nanorod array films on FTO: Two-step synthesis and improved ethanol sensing performance. Journal of Materiomics. 9(4). 725–734. 14 indexed citations

12.

Zhang, Run, Cong Qin, Hari Bala, Yan Wang, & Jianliang Cao. (2023). Recent Progress in Spinel Ferrite (MFe2O4) Chemiresistive Based Gas Sensors. Nanomaterials. 13(15). 2188–2188. 26 indexed citations

13.

Chen, Can, Hari Bala, Shujuan Yao, et al.. (2022). Enhanced efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells based on carbon-counter-electrode via anti-solvent treatment. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 920. 165874–165874. 14 indexed citations

14.

Zhang, Saisai, et al.. (2021). Constructing porous ZnO/SnO2 nanocomposites for the detection of methane at low operating temperature. Journal of Porous Materials. 29(1). 269–278. 11 indexed citations

15.

Zhang, Saisai, Bowen Zhang, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2021). Structural evolution of NiO from porous nanorods to coral-like nanochains with enhanced methane sensing performance. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 334. 129645–129645. 27 indexed citations

16.

Zhang, Bowen, Shaowei Wang, Shujuan Yao, et al.. (2020). Applying neoteric MgTiO3-coated TiO2 nanoparticulate films as scaffold layers in perovskite solar cells based on carbon counter electrode for retarding charge recombination. Electrochimica Acta. 338. 135884–135884. 11 indexed citations

17.

Wei, Ying, Guiyun Yi, Lixing Zhou, et al.. (2017). Synthesis, characterization, and gas-sensing properties of Ag/SnO2/rGO composite by a hydrothermal method. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 28(22). 17049–17057. 20 indexed citations

18.

Huang, Liwen, Wuyou Fu, Beibei Zong, et al.. (2017). Facile and large-scale preparation of N doped TiO2 photocatalyst with high visible light photocatalytic activity. Materials Letters. 209. 585–588. 24 indexed citations

19.

Bala, Hari, et al.. (2011). Preparation of lamina-shape TiO2 nanoarray electrode and its electron transport in dye-sensitized solar cells. Acta Physica Sinica. 60(8). 88101–88101. 2 indexed citations

20.

Zhang, Guangliang, Hari Bala, Yueming Cheng, et al.. (2009). High efficiency and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with an organic chromophore featuring a binary π-conjugated spacer. Chemical Communications. 2198–2198. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact