Jiakun Li

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jiakun Li is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiakun Li has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Organic Chemistry, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jiakun Li's work include Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (12 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (9 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (7 papers). Jiakun Li is often cited by papers focused on Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (12 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (9 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (7 papers). Jiakun Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Jiakun Li's co-authors include Biao Yu, Tobias Ritter, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, Junting Chen, Christophe Génicot, Yugen Zhu, Yao Li, Yu Tang and Alexander Schnegg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Jiakun Li

51 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Photoredox catalysis with aryl sulfonium salts enables site-selective late-stage fluorination
    2019 289 citations Jiakun Li, Junting Chen et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jiakun Li China 16 906 234 203 141 121 52 1.4k
Zhiyang Yan China 16 476 0.5× 119 0.5× 120 0.6× 233 1.7× 124 1.0× 43 994
Francesco Foti Italy 17 372 0.4× 214 0.9× 22 0.1× 71 0.5× 62 0.5× 73 1.2k
Hai Dong China 27 1.3k 1.5× 1.0k 4.3× 57 0.3× 33 0.2× 47 0.4× 93 1.8k
Christian Lehmann Germany 22 504 0.6× 249 1.1× 30 0.1× 199 1.4× 148 1.2× 49 1.6k
Takeshi Hashimoto Japan 21 445 0.5× 327 1.4× 34 0.2× 161 1.1× 363 3.0× 145 1.6k
Zhi Fan China 17 253 0.3× 147 0.6× 126 0.6× 19 0.1× 130 1.1× 78 816
Chia‐Wei Hsu Taiwan 20 511 0.6× 172 0.7× 258 1.3× 193 1.4× 389 3.2× 41 1.7k
Masahito Watanabe Japan 21 873 1.0× 251 1.1× 22 0.1× 30 0.2× 137 1.1× 72 1.5k
Neil J. Wells United Kingdom 25 705 0.8× 580 2.5× 155 0.8× 163 1.2× 50 0.4× 48 1.7k
Peng He China 19 696 0.8× 143 0.6× 33 0.2× 21 0.1× 94 0.8× 44 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jiakun Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jiakun Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiakun Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jiakun Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jiakun Li 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 Jiakun Li. Jiakun Li 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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Xia, Zhen, Ting Deng, Chunlan Song, & Jiakun Li. (2025). Decarboxylative sulfation by persulfates. Chemical Science. 16(25). 11568–11573. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Jiakun, et al.. (2025). Micropore-modulated graphitization for the construction of high-capacity hard carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Storage. 114. 115674–115674. 8 indexed citations
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Yu, Qian, et al.. (2024). Silver-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Nitrooxylation of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids. Organic Letters. 26(27). 5856–5861. 3 indexed citations
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Ding, Guoping, et al.. (2024). Dimethyl sulfate and diisopropyl sulfate as practical and versatile O-sulfation reagents. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1861–1861. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Dake, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical Decarboxylative Cross‐Coupling with Nucleophiles. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(50). e202402124–e202402124. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Dan, Juantao Jiang, Jiakun Li, et al.. (2024). Well-Dispersed Bi nanoparticles for promoting the lithium storage performance of Si Anode: Effect of the bridging Bi nanoparticles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 659. 611–620. 9 indexed citations
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Fu, Wenjie, et al.. (2023). Recent Advances in Wayside Railway Wheel Flat Detection Techniques: A Review. Sensors. 23(8). 3916–3916. 7 indexed citations
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Wen, Yuxi, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical ring-opening 1,3-dihydroxylation of arylcyclopropanes with H2O. Green Chemistry. 25(17). 6618–6622. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianhai, Jie Zhong, Xuefei He, et al.. (2022). Novel rare mutation in a conserved site of PTPRB causes human hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Clinical Genetics. 103(1). 79–86. 4 indexed citations
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Feng, Qibo, et al.. (2020). Effect of detector installation error on the measurement accuracy of multi-degree-of-freedom geometric errors of a linear axis. Measurement Science and Technology. 31(9). 94018–94018. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Junting, Jiakun Li, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, & Tobias Ritter. (2019). Regio‐ and Stereoselective Thianthrenation of Olefins To Access Versatile Alkenyl Electrophiles. Angewandte Chemie. 132(14). 5665–5669. 25 indexed citations
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Li, Jiakun, Junting Chen, Ruocheng Sang, et al.. (2019). Photoredox catalysis with aryl sulfonium salts enables site-selective late-stage fluorination. Nature Chemistry. 12(1). 56–62. 289 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Junting, Jiakun Li, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, & Tobias Ritter. (2019). Regio‐ and Stereoselective Thianthrenation of Olefins To Access Versatile Alkenyl Electrophiles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(14). 5616–5620. 119 indexed citations
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He, Qixin, Qibo Feng, & Jiakun Li. (2019). Long-Term Stable Online Acetylene Detection by a CEAS System with Suppression of Cavity Length Drift. Sensors. 19(3). 508–508. 6 indexed citations
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Feng, Qibo, et al.. (2018). Simultaneous Measurement Method and Error Analysis of the Six Degrees-of-Freedom Motion Errors of a Rotary Axis. Applied Sciences. 8(11). 2232–2232. 12 indexed citations
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Price, Neil P. J., Jiakun Li, Kiran Kumar Velpula, et al.. (2017). Modified tunicamycins with reduced eukaryotic toxicity that enhance the antibacterial activity of β-lactams. The Journal of Antibiotics. 70(11). 1070–1077. 23 indexed citations
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Price, Neil P. J., et al.. (2017). Selective catalytic hydrogenation of the N-acyl and uridyl double bonds in the tunicamycin family of protein N-glycosylation inhibitors. The Journal of Antibiotics. 70(12). 1122–1128. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Jiakun, Yuanwei Dai, Wei Li, et al.. (2015). Effective Synthesis of α‐d‐GlcN‐(1→4)‐d‐GlcA/l‐IdoA Glycosidic Linkage under Gold(I) Catalysis. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. 4(8). 756–762. 17 indexed citations

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