Hongjun Fan

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
201 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Hongjun Fan is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongjun Fan has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Organic Chemistry, 85 papers in Materials Chemistry and 59 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hongjun Fan's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (52 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (44 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (27 papers). Hongjun Fan is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (52 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (44 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (27 papers). Hongjun Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Hongjun Fan's co-authors include Maren Pink, Daniel J. Mindiola, Kenneth G. Caulton, John C. Huffman, Xueming Yang, Mu‐Hyun Baik, Zhibo Ma, Zefeng Ren, Zichao Tang and John Tomaszewski and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Hongjun Fan

193 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Direct, Nonoxidative Conversion of Methane to Ethylene, Aromatics, and Hydrogen

2014 1.2k citations Gang Li, Hongjun Fan et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Hongjun Fan	3.3k	2.8k	2.7k	1.7k	1.2k	201	7.2k
Jason B. Love	2.7k 0.8×	4.1k 1.5×	3.1k 1.1×	777 0.5×	644 0.5×	173	7.2k
Karine Philippot	4.4k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	3.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	190	8.2k
David J. Willock	2.5k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	5.2k 1.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 2.3×	183	8.1k
Robert Raja	3.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	5.4k 2.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	189	8.6k
Donald M. Camaioni	1.5k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	135	6.5k
Ana E. Platero‐Prats	2.3k 0.7×	4.6k 1.6×	4.2k 1.6×	932 0.5×	431 0.4×	74	7.7k
Takehiko Sasaki	2.1k 0.6×	891 0.3×	3.3k 1.2×	983 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	188	5.6k
Theodore A. Betley	3.8k 1.1×	3.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	307 0.3×	92	7.3k
Robert Franke	5.3k 1.6×	2.3k 0.8×	940 0.4×	860 0.5×	644 0.5×	163	7.9k
Mats Tilset	4.0k 1.2×	4.7k 1.7×	2.6k 1.0×	911 0.5×	348 0.3×	150	8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Hongjun Fan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongjun Fan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Zhimin, et al.. (2025). A Reactive Explicit Electron Force Field for Hydrocarbons. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(14). 6988–7001.

Fan, Hongjun, et al.. (2025). Meta-fence for Rayleigh wave isolation. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 77. 102350–102350.

Wang, Yahui, et al.. (2024). A comparative theoretical study: Reaction mechanism of Hg0 and H2S/H2Se on α-Fe2O3 (001) surface. Applied Surface Science. 682. 161746–161746. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Zhenzhou, Yi Jin, Jiaying Wang, et al.. (2024). Lipid droplets sequester palmitic acid to disrupt endothelial ciliation and exacerbate atherosclerosis in male mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8273–8273. 11 indexed citations

Tang, Jie, Ruiqi Zhang, Chao Liu, et al.. (2024). Selective Hydrogenation of Alkyne by Atomically Precise Pd₆ Nanocluster Catalysts: Accurate Construction of the Coplanar and Specific Active Sites. ACS Catalysis. 14(4). 2463–2472. 10 indexed citations

Fan, Hongjun, Aiqun Kong, Peng Mao, et al.. (2023). Ethylene glycol diethyl ether accelerated in-situ growth of Pt/Ni(OH)2 nanosheets on Ni foam for efficient alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. Applied Surface Science. 629. 157433–157433. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Xuegang, Zhiling Liu, Gang Li, et al.. (2023). Dinitrogen Activation by Heteronuclear Bimetallic Cluster Anion FeV^– in the Gas Phase. JACS Au. 3(6). 1723–1727. 5 indexed citations

Jiang, Shuai, Chong Wang, Shangdong Li, et al.. (2023). Capturing Hydrogen Radicals by Neutral Metal Hydroxides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(10). 2481–2486. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Chong, Gang Li, Hua Xie, et al.. (2022). Aerosol mass spectrometry of neutral species based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(27). 16484–16492. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jumei, Gang Li, Jianping Guo, et al.. (2022). Spectroscopic Characterization of the Synergistic Mechanism of Ruthenium–Lithium Hydrides for Dinitrogen Cleavage. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(17). 3937–3941. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuegang, Jumei Zhang, Gang Li, et al.. (2022). Spectroscopic Identification of the Dinitrogen Fixation and Activation by Metal Carbide Cluster Anions PtC_n^– (n = 4–6). Inorganic Chemistry. 62(1). 170–177. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jumei, Zhiling Liu, Gang Li, et al.. (2021). CO activation by the heterobinuclear transition metal-iron clusters: A photoelectron spectroscopic and theoretical study. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 63. 344–350. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuegang, Gang Li, Zhiling Liu, et al.. (2021). Isoelectronic IrC₃^–, PtC₃, and AuC₃⁺ Clusters Featuring the Structural and Bonding Resemblance to OC₃. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(1). 12–17. 3 indexed citations

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Jiang, Ling, et al.. (2021). Mechanism of Silver-Catalyzed [2+2] Cycloaddition between Siloxy-Alkynes and Carbonyl Compound: A Silylium Ion Migration Approach. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. 41(11). 4327–4327. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Gang, Chong Wang, Qinming Li, et al.. (2020). Infrared + vacuum ultraviolet two-color ionization spectroscopy of neutral metal complexes based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser. Review of Scientific Instruments. 91(3). 34103–34103. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jumei, Ya Li, Yan Bai, et al.. (2020). CO oxidation on the heterodinuclear tantalum–nickel monoxide carbonyl complex anions. Chinese Chemical Letters. 32(2). 854–860. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jumei, Ya Li, Zhiling Liu, et al.. (2019). Ligand-Mediated Reactivity in CO Oxidation of Niobium–Nickel Monoxide Carbonyl Complexes: The Crucial Roles of the Multiple Adsorption of CO Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(7). 1566–1573. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhongxiang, et al.. (2018). Chiral sensors for determining the absolute configurations of α-amino acid derivatives. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(37). 8311–8317. 17 indexed citations

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Geng, Zhenhua, Ruimin Wang, Xiao Chen, et al.. (2018). Low-Temperature Hydrogen Production via Water Conversion on Pt/TiO2 C. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiling, et al.. (2017). Observation of promoted C–O bond weakening on the heterometallic nickel–silver: Photoelectron velocity-map imaging spectroscopy of AgNi(CO)n−. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 146(24). 244316–244316. 11 indexed citations

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