Ho‐kwang Mao

26.4k citations

294 papers · 21.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 70

Impact in

Geophysics top 0.05%
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- earthquake and tectonic studies
Condensed Matter Physics top 0.2%
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Rare-earth and actinide compounds

Papers in

Geophysics 178
- High-pressure geophysics and materials 178
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis 58
- earthquake and tectonic studies 24
Condensed Matter Physics 67
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics 24
- Rare-earth and actinide compounds 23
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 21

Co-authors: P. M. Bell Jinming Xu Russell J. Hemley J. W. Shaner Daniel Steinberg Wendy L. Mao Jinfu Shu Guoyin Shen
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (36 papers)Matter and Radiation at Extremes (23 papers)Physical Review Letters (17 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (14 papers)Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (11 papers)
Partner nations: United States China United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Ho‐kwang Mao

284 papers receiving 20.3k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Investigations of key issues on the reproducibility of high-T c superconductivity emerging from compressed La3Ni2O7 2025 · 34 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Matter and Radiation at Extremes
2025 National Science Review
2018 Reviews of Modern Physics
2016 Nature
2002 Science
1994 Physical review. B, Condensed matter
1986 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
1978 Journal of Applied Physics

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Co-authors

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1	Synthesis of bulk hexagonal diamond Nature ·Liuxiang Yang, Kah Chun Lau, Zhidan Zeng, Dongzhou Zhang, Hu Tang, Bingmin Yan, Guoliang Niu, Huiyang Gou, Yanping Yang, Wenge Yang, Duan Luo, Ho‐kwang Mao	2025	2
2	Preserving high-pressure solids via freestanding thin-film engineering Nature Communications ·Tao Liang, Zhidan Zeng, Ziyin Yang, Fujun Lan, Hongbo Lou, Chendi Yang, Di Peng, Yuxin Liu, Tao Luo, Zhenfang Xing, Qing Wang, Haibo Ke, Yong Yang, Renchao Che, H. W. Sheng, Ho‐kwang Mao, Qiaoshi Zeng	2025	0
3	Observation of the Josephson effect in superhydrides: DC SQUID based on (La,Ce)H<sub>10+x</sub> with operating temperature of 179 K Dmitrii V. Semenok, I. A. Troyan, Di Zhou, Wuhao Chen, Ho‐kwang Mao, Viktor V. Struzhkin	2025	1
4	Atomistic evidence of nucleation mechanism for the direct graphite-to-diamond transformation Carbon ·Duan Luo, Liuxiang Yang, Hongxian Xie, Srilok Srinivasan, Jinshou Tian, Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Ilke Arslan, Wenge Yang, Ho‐kwang Mao, Jianguo Wen	2024	7
5	Temperature Dependence of H₂O Solubility in Al‐Free Stishovite Geophysical Research Letters ·Narangoo Purevjav, Hongzhan Fei, Takayuki Ishii, Giacomo Criniti, Yanhao Lin, Ho‐kwang Mao, Tomoo Katsura	2024	11
6	Evolution of Superconducting-Transition Temperature with Superfluid Density and Conductivity in Pressurized Cuprate Superconductors Chinese Physics Letters ·Jinyu Zhao, Shu Cai, Yiwen Chen, Genda Gu, Hongtao Yan, Jing Guo, Jinyu Han, Pengyu Wang, Yazhou Zhou, Yanchun Li, Xiaodong Li, Zhi‐An Ren, Qi Wu, Xingjiang Zhou, Yang Ding, Tao Xiang, Ho‐kwang Mao, Liling Sun	2024	2
7	Melting at the base of a terrestrial magma ocean controlled by oxygen fugacity Nature Geoscience ·Yanhao Lin, Takayuki Ishii, W. van Westrenen, Tomoo Katsura, Ho‐kwang Mao	2024	0
8	Unveiling a novel metal-to-metal transition in LuH2: Critically challenging superconductivity claims in lutetium hydrides Matter and Radiation at Extremes ·Dong Wang, Ningning Wang, Caoshun Zhang, Chunsheng Xia, Weicheng Guo, Xia Yin, Kejun Bu, Takeshi Nakagawa, Jianbo Zhang, Federico A. Gorelli, Philip Dalladay‐Simpson, Thomas Meier, Xujie Lü, Liling Sun, Jinguang Cheng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Yang Ding, Ho‐kwang Mao	2024	3
9	Iron silicate perovskite and postperovskite in the deep lower mantle Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ziqiang Yang, Zijun Song, Zhongqing Wu, Ho‐kwang Mao, Li Zhang	2024	2
10	Triggering dynamics of acetylene topochemical polymerization Matter and Radiation at Extremes ·Xingyu Tang, Xiao Dong, Chunfang Zhang, Kuo Li, Haiyan Zheng, Ho‐kwang Mao	2023	12
11	No evidence of superconductivity in a compressed sample prepared from lutetium foil and H2/N2 gas mixture Matter and Radiation at Extremes ·Shu Cai, Jing Guo, Haiyun Shu, Liuxiang Yang, Pengyu Wang, Yazhou Zhou, Jinyu Zhao, Jinyu Han, Qi Wu, Wenge Yang, Tao Xiang, Ho‐kwang Mao, Liling Sun	2023	34
12	Piezochromic luminescence of dicoronylene: Key for revealing hidden Raman modes at high pressure Carbon ·Takeshi Nakagawa, Philip Dalladay‐Simpson, Kejun Bu, Songhao Guo, Martina Vrankić, Dong Wang, Raimundas Sereika, Jianbo Zhang, Caoshun Zhang, Qingyang Hu, Xujie Lü, Yang Ding, Ho‐kwang Mao	2022	5
13	Superionic iron alloys and their seismic velocities in Earth’s inner core Nature ·Yu He, Shichuan Sun, Duck Young Kim, Bo Gyu Jang, Heping Li, Ho‐kwang Mao	2022	68
14	Topological Ordering of Memory Glass on Extended Length Scales Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Shengcai Zhu, Gu-Wen Chen, Dongzhou Zhang, Liang Xu, Zhi‐Pan Liu, Ho‐kwang Mao, Qingyang Hu	2022	12
15	Pressure tuning of the charge density wave and superconductivity in 2H−TaS2 Physical review. B. ·Xiaomiao Zhao, Kai Zhang, Zi-Yu Cao, Zhiwei Zhao, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Alexander F. Goncharov, Hai-Kuo Wang, Alexander Gavriliuk, Ho‐kwang Mao, Xiao‐Jia Chen	2020	29
16	Nitrogen in black phosphorus structure Science Advances ·Cheng Ji, Adebayo A. Adeleke, Liuxiang Yang, B. Y. Wan, Huiyang Gou, Yansun Yao, Bing Li, Yue Meng, Jesse S. Smith, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Wenjun Liu, Guoyin Shen, Wendy L. Mao, Ho‐kwang Mao	2020	125
17	Pressure-stabilized divalent ozonide CaO3 and its impact on Earth’s oxygen cycles Nature Communications ·Yanchao Wang, Meiling Xu, Liuxiang Yang, Bingmin Yan, Qin Qin, Xuecheng Shao, Yunwei Zhang, Dajian Huang, Xiaohuan Lin, Jian Lv, Dongzhou Zhang, Huiyang Gou, Ho‐kwang Mao, Changfeng Chen, Yanming Ma	2020	26
18	Probing Cerium 4f States across the Volume Collapse Transition by X-ray Raman Scattering The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Bijuan Chen, Ekaterina M. Pärschke, Wei-Chih Chen, Brandon Scoggins, Bing Li, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Steve M. Heald, Jianbo Zhang, Hongshan Deng, Raimundas Sereika, Sorb Yesudhas, Xia Yin, Yan Bi, Ke Jin, Qiang Wu, Cheng-Chien Chen, Yang Ding, Ho‐kwang Mao	2019	5
19	Pressure‐Induced Polymerization of Acetylene: Structure‐Directed Stereoselectivity and a Possible Route to Graphane Angewandte Chemie ·Jiangman Sun, Xiao Dong, Yajie Wang, Kuo Li, Haiyan Zheng, Lijuan Wang, George D. Cody, C. A. Tulk, Jamie J. Molaison, Xiaohuan Lin, Yufei Meng, Changqing Jin, Ho‐kwang Mao	2017	9
20	Pressure‐Induced Polymerization of Acetylene: Structure‐Directed Stereoselectivity and a Possible Route to Graphane Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Jiangman Sun, Xiao Dong, Yajie Wang, Kuo Li, Haiyan Zheng, Lijuan Wang, George D. Cody, C. A. Tulk, Jamie J. Molaison, Xiaohuan Lin, Yufei Meng, Changqing Jin, Ho‐kwang Mao	2017	37

About Ho‐kwang Mao

Ho‐kwang Mao is a scholar working on Geophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Ceramics and Composites, having authored 294 papers that have together received 21.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include High-pressure geophysics and materials (178 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (58 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (45 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (24 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (24 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (23 papers), Crystal Structures and Properties (22 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Geophysics (10.9k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (4.0k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (5.0k citations), Materials Chemistry (10.4k citations) and Ceramics and Composites (914 citations). Ho‐kwang Mao has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include P. M. Bell, Jinming Xu, Russell J. Hemley, J. W. Shaner, Daniel Steinberg, Wendy L. Mao, Jinfu Shu, Guoyin Shen, Viktor V. Struzhkin and William A. Bassett. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Physics Condensed Matter.

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