Heng Sun

58 total papers · 2.1k total citations
38 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Heng Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Heng Sun has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 19 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Heng Sun's work include Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (19 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (19 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (13 papers). Heng Sun is often cited by papers focused on Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (19 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (19 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (13 papers). Heng Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Hong Kong. Heng Sun's co-authors include Kaiwen Sun, Xiaojing Hao, Jialiang Huang, Chang Yan, Martin A. Green, Fangyang Liu, Yuanfang Zhang, Aobo Pu, John A. Stride and Nicholas J. Ekins‐Daukes and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Chemistry of Materials and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Heng Sun

36 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells wit... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with over 10% power conversion efficiency enabled by heterojunction heat treatment
    2018 723 citations Chang Yan, Jialiang Huang et al. Nature Energy profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Heng Sun 1.6k 1.4k 225 85 84 38 1.7k
Rokas Kondrotas 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 199 0.9× 17 0.2× 38 0.5× 55 2.1k
J. Keane 2.1k 1.3× 1.9k 1.4× 371 1.6× 17 0.2× 32 0.4× 49 2.2k
Dongchan Shin 903 0.6× 625 0.5× 493 2.2× 181 2.1× 108 1.3× 50 1.6k
Yulu Li 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 241 1.1× 26 0.3× 180 2.1× 53 1.8k
Shan Huang 1.2k 0.8× 816 0.6× 231 1.0× 37 0.4× 72 0.9× 45 1.9k
Ruiqiang Guo 894 0.6× 942 0.7× 111 0.5× 15 0.2× 55 0.7× 50 1.6k
Tihomir Iakimov 770 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 263 1.2× 64 0.8× 39 0.5× 49 1.4k
Mingrui He 2.0k 1.3× 1.8k 1.3× 293 1.3× 20 0.2× 152 1.8× 55 2.2k
Ziyang Wei 1.1k 0.7× 422 0.3× 49 0.2× 49 0.6× 52 0.6× 27 1.5k
Siby Thomas 708 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 48 0.2× 26 0.3× 68 0.8× 44 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Heng Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heng Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heng Sun

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

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