Hua Chen

11.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
137 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Hua Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Chen has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Materials Chemistry, 54 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 30 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Hua Chen's work include Graphene research and applications (25 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (20 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (17 papers). Hua Chen is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (25 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (20 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (17 papers). Hua Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Hua Chen's co-authors include A. H. MacDonald, Qian Niu, Zhenyu Zhang, B. Andrei Bernevig, Ali Yazdani, Ilya Drozdov, Jian Li, Sangjun Jeon, Stevan Nadj-Perge and Jungpil Seo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hua Chen

129 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor

2014 1.4k citations Hua Chen, A. H. MacDonald et al. Science profile →
A Heterostructure Coupling of Exfoliated Ni–Fe Hydroxide Nanosheet and Defective Graphene as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

2017 957 citations Hua Chen et al. profile →
The Role of Surface Oxygen in the Growth of Large Single-Crystal Graphene on Copper

2013 952 citations Hua Chen et al. Science profile →
Electron-pinned defect-dipoles for high-performance colossal permittivity materials

2013 941 citations Wanbiao Hu, Yun Liu et al. profile →
Anomalous Hall Effect Arising from Noncollinear Antiferromagnetism

2014 616 citations Hua Chen, Qian Niu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Magnetic and magnetic inverse spin Hall effects in a non-collinear antiferromagnet

2019 320 citations Hua Chen, A. H. MacDonald et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hua Chen China	37	5.4k	4.1k	2.8k	2.1k	1.8k	137	9.5k
Zhenyu Zhang China	58	7.6k 1.4×	3.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	309	11.4k
Koji Kimoto Japan	42	4.3k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	3.0k 1.7×	267	9.2k
Tadaaki Nagao Japan	58	4.5k 0.8×	4.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	283	11.0k
Xin-Gao Gong China	50	6.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.4×	3.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	184	8.7k
Philip Hofmann Denmark	58	7.2k 1.3×	6.7k 1.6×	2.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	276	11.1k
Gian‐Marco Rignanese Belgium	50	8.2k 1.5×	2.5k 0.6×	4.3k 1.6×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	168	11.3k
Oleg V. Yazyev Switzerland	49	13.0k 2.4×	5.9k 1.4×	5.0k 1.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	169	15.3k
Ji Feng China	46	8.1k 1.5×	2.4k 0.6×	4.2k 1.5×	910 0.4×	2.1k 1.2×	153	10.4k
А. И. Колесников United States	42	4.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	345	7.9k
Shu‐Shen Li China	48	7.1k 1.3×	3.5k 0.9×	4.2k 1.5×	873 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	264	10.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hua Chen

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

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Wu, Feng, Jin Zhang, Jinwu Wang, et al.. (2025). Near-infrared organic nanoparticles (6BQ NPs) enhance the random flaps survival by modulating the HSP90/HIF-1α axis through mild photothermal therapy. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 23(1). 503–503.

Tang, Chunguang, et al.. (2024). Effective catalysts for typical liquid organic hydrogen carrier N-Ethylcarbazole. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 98. 1492–1509. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Meiling, et al.. (2024). Superhydrophobic anticorrosion coating with active protection effect: Graphene oxide-loaded inorganic/organic corrosion inhibitor for magnesium alloys. Surface and Coatings Technology. 480. 130586–130586. 22 indexed citations

Feng, Yejun, et al.. (2024). Quantum interference in superposed lattices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(7). e2315787121–e2315787121.

Ackerman, John, Yanglin Zhu, Zhiqiang Mao, et al.. (2024). Tunneling current-controlled spin states in few-layer van der Waals magnets. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3630–3630. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Xiuli, Huimin Guo, Hua Chen, et al.. (2023). Intrinsic ferromagnetic half-metal: Non-equivalent alloying compounds CrMnI6 monolayer. Applied Surface Science. 623. 157084–157084. 11 indexed citations

Deng, Leibo, Hao Li, Yongsheng Du, et al.. (2023). P2O5/ZrO2/TiO2 codoped transparent cordierite glass ceramics: Stability, crystallization and light transmittance. Optical Materials. 138. 113661–113661. 5 indexed citations

Tahir, M. & Hua Chen. (2023). Transport of Spin Magnetic Multipole Moments Carried by Bloch Quasiparticles. Physical Review Letters. 131(10). 106701–106701. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Hua, et al.. (2023). Modulation of Steady-State Heat Transport in a Dissipative Multi-Mode Qubit-Photon System. Chinese Physics Letters. 40(5). 50501–50501. 5 indexed citations

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Xie, Jingjing, et al.. (2023). First-principles prediction of room-temperature half-metallicity in strain- and carrier-tunable monolayer Mn2Sn2Te6. Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. 150. 115704–115704. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Hua, et al.. (2023). Computational Discovery of High-Temperature Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Monolayer H–MnN₂. ACS Omega. 9(1). 1389–1397. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Kan, Hao Deng, Hua Chen, et al.. (2020). Realization of the kagome spin ice state in a frustrated intermetallic compound. Science. 367(6483). 1218–1223. 57 indexed citations

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Tahir, M., et al.. (2020). Emergent flat band lattices in spatially periodic magnetic fields. Physical review. B.. 102(3). 3 indexed citations

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Xiao, Cong, Hua Chen, Yang Gao, et al.. (2020). Linear magnetoresistance induced by intra-scattering semiclassics of Bloch electrons. Physical review. B.. 101(20). 23 indexed citations

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Dong, Wen, David Cortie, Teng Lü, et al.. (2019). Collective nonlinear electric polarization via defect-driven local symmetry breaking. Materials Horizons. 6(8). 1717–1725. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Li, M. Tahir, Hua Chen, & Justin B. Sambur. (2019). Probing Charge Carrier Transport and Recombination Pathways in Monolayer MoS₂/WS₂ Heterojunction Photoelectrodes. Nano Letters. 19(12). 9084–9094. 38 indexed citations

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Chen, Hua, et al.. (2019). SQUID Array With Optimal Compensating Configuration for Magnetocardiography Measurement in Different Environments. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 29(6). 1–7. 20 indexed citations

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Lei, Chao, Hua Chen, & A. H. MacDonald. (2018). Ultrathin Films of Superconducting Metals as a Platform for Topological Superconductivity. Physical Review Letters. 121(22). 227701–227701. 20 indexed citations

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Chi, Bo, et al.. (2006). Controlled growth of zinc nanowires. Materials Letters. 61(1). 144–147. 36 indexed citations

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Chen, Hua, et al.. (2006). Determination of Some Heavy-metal-ions using a Sulfur Ion Modified BZ Oscillating System. Chinese Chemical Letters. 17(9). 1221–1224. 3 indexed citations

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