Ji Chen

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Ji Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ji Chen has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Materials Chemistry, 50 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ji Chen's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (25 papers), Graphene research and applications (22 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (21 papers). Ji Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (25 papers), Graphene research and applications (22 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (21 papers). Ji Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Germany. Ji Chen's co-authors include Angelos Michaelides, Xin-Zheng Li, Enge Wang, Ying Jiang, Jing Guo, Chris J. Pickard, Jinbo Peng, Christoph G. Salzmann, Limei Xu and Xiangzhi Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ji Chen

135 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

The effect of hydration number on the interfacial transpo... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. The effect of hydration number on the interfacial transport of sodium ions
    2018 279 citations Duanyun Cao, Jing Guo et al. Nature profile →
  2. The first-principles phase diagram of monolayer nanoconfined water
    2022 180 citations Venkat Kapil, Christoph Schran et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ji Chen China 33 1.5k 1.2k 762 748 359 144 3.8k
Carol J. Hirschmugl United States 35 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 846 1.1× 1.2k 1.6× 167 0.5× 137 4.2k
Jean‐Blaise Brubach France 24 746 0.5× 669 0.6× 397 0.5× 490 0.7× 222 0.6× 91 2.5k
Masaharu Shiratani Japan 40 2.5k 1.6× 1.1k 0.9× 556 0.7× 3.3k 4.4× 418 1.2× 400 6.3k
Limei Xu China 32 2.6k 1.7× 1.6k 1.3× 1.5k 2.0× 357 0.5× 178 0.5× 85 4.4k
Michael Probst Austria 40 1.6k 1.0× 2.8k 2.3× 562 0.7× 658 0.9× 231 0.6× 244 5.8k
Renzhong Tai China 36 1.8k 1.2× 472 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 1.4k 1.9× 390 1.1× 207 4.4k
S. Haq United Kingdom 40 2.0k 1.3× 2.6k 2.1× 1.6k 2.2× 1.2k 1.7× 511 1.4× 98 4.6k
Yong Ma China 32 1.4k 0.9× 1.7k 1.4× 323 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 207 0.6× 143 4.3k
Fernando Bresme United Kingdom 39 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 1.4k 1.8× 384 0.5× 98 0.3× 161 4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ji Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ji Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ji Chen

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Jiaming, Jing Lang, Fujun Xu, et al.. (2025). Unveiling and eliminating the parasitic hole loss in AlGaN-based deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes. Applied Physics Letters. 126(21).
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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2025). Deep Learning Quantum Monte Carlo for Solids. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 15(2). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jianxiao, et al.. (2025). Describing Landau Level Mixing in Fractional Quantum Hall States with Deep Learning. Physical Review Letters. 134(17). 176503–176503. 3 indexed citations
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Lang, Jing, Fujun Xu, Jiaming Wang, et al.. (2025). Improving electrical properties of metal–semiconductor contact on Al-rich n-AlGaN by multi-step annealing. Applied Physics Letters. 127(17).
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Chen, Mengxin, Ji Chen, Ran Wang, et al.. (2024). In Situ Raman Study of Surface Reconstruction of FeOOH/Ni3S2 Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts. Small. 20(23). e2309371–e2309371. 79 indexed citations
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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2024). Oxygen evolution reaction mechanism on platinum dioxide surfaces based on density functional theory calculations. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1244. 115020–115020.
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Sun, Huacong, Jianlin Wang, Lei Liao, et al.. (2024). Unveiling sulfur vacancy pairs as bright and stable color centers in monolayer WS2. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9476–9476. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiaming, Fujun Xu, Lisheng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Significant conductivity enhancement in Al-rich n-AlGaN by modulation doping. Applied Physics Letters. 124(15). 5 indexed citations
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Lang, Jing, Fujun Xu, Jiaming Wang, et al.. (2024). The composited high reflectivity p-type electrodes with patterned ITO for AlGaN-based ultraviolet light emitting diodes. Applied Physics Letters. 125(1). 2 indexed citations
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Shi, Ruochen, Xiaofeng Xu, Bo Han, et al.. (2024). Atomic-scale observation of localized phonons at FeSe/SrTiO3 interface. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3418–3418. 12 indexed citations
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Xu, Fujun, Jing Lang, Jiaming Wang, et al.. (2024). Influence of the barrier layer on the electrical properties of the V/Al-based Ohmic contact on n-type high-Al-fraction AlGaN. Applied Physics Letters. 124(23). 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2024). Electric Polarization from a Many-Body Neural Network Ansatz. Physical Review Letters. 132(17). 176401–176401. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2023). Thermodynamic modeling of the Mg–Nd–Sr ternary system with key experimental investigation. Calphad. 80. 102530–102530. 3 indexed citations
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Zeng, Zezhu, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic insight on water dissociation on pristine low-index TiO2 surfaces from machine learning molecular dynamics simulations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6131–6131. 46 indexed citations
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Pan, Yu, Roger Guzmán, Wanjin Xu, et al.. (2022). Heteroepitaxy of semiconducting 2H-MoTe2 thin films on arbitrary surfaces for large-scale heterogeneous integration. Nature Synthesis. 1(9). 701–708. 35 indexed citations
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Kapil, Venkat, Christoph Schran, Andrea Zen, et al.. (2022). The first-principles phase diagram of monolayer nanoconfined water. Nature. 609(7927). 512–516. 180 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fang, Wei, et al.. (2022). Quantum Tunnelling Driven H2 Formation on Graphene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(14). 3173–3181. 18 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaolong, Yu Pan, Shuai Liu, et al.. (2021). Seeded 2D epitaxy of large-area single-crystal films of the van der Waals semiconductor 2H MoTe 2. Science. 372(6538). 195–200. 216 indexed citations
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Guo, Jing, Duanyun Cao, Ji Chen, et al.. (2020). Probing the intermolecular coupled vibrations in a water cluster with inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 152(23). 234301–234301. 3 indexed citations
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Feng, Yexin, Ji Chen, Wei Fang, et al.. (2017). Hydrogenation Facilitates Proton Transfer through Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Crystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(24). 6009–6014. 60 indexed citations

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