Jian Chen

18.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
321 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Jian Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Chen has authored 321 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 142 papers in Materials Chemistry and 90 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Jian Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (73 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (51 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (41 papers). Jian Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (73 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (51 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (41 papers). Jian Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Jian Chen's co-authors include Fangyan Xie, Li Gong, Jun Zhou, Longyan Yuan, Zhong Lin Wang, Yexiang Tong, Hui Meng, Xu Xiao, Teng Zhai and Bin Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Jian Chen

310 papers receiving 15.7k 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.

Water-evaporation-induced electricity with nanostructured carbon materials

2017 1.0k citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
Flexible Solid-State Supercapacitors Based on Carbon Nanoparticles/MnO₂ Nanorods Hybrid Structure

2011 935 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
WO_3–x@Au@MnO₂ Core–Shell Nanowires on Carbon Fabric for High‐Performance Flexible Supercapacitors

2012 640 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
Organic D‐A‐π‐A Solar Cell Sensitizers with Improved Stability and Spectral Response

2010 620 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
Fiber-Based All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors for Self-Powered Systems

2012 590 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
The Role of Chlorine in the Formation Process of “CH₃NH₃PbI_3‐xCl_x” Perovskite

2014 533 citations Fangyan Xie, Jian Chen et al. profile →
Recent progress in the design fabrication of metal-organic frameworks-based nanozymes and their applications to sensing and cancer therapy

2019 334 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
Research on Geographical Environment Unit Division Based on the Method of Natural Breaks (Jenks)

2013 333 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →
A strongly coupled Ru–CrOx cluster–cluster heterostructure for efficient alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis

2024 244 citations Jian Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jian Chen China	60	8.4k	6.4k	5.0k	4.0k	3.2k	321	15.9k
Tao Chen China	69	11.2k 1.3×	6.8k 1.1×	3.2k 0.6×	4.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	367	17.8k
Nicola Pinna Germany	72	10.6k 1.3×	11.2k 1.7×	4.4k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	308	19.3k
Panpan Zhang China	70	7.3k 0.9×	6.6k 1.0×	4.9k 1.0×	4.2k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	341	17.2k
Yan Jiang China	65	12.1k 1.4×	8.7k 1.4×	4.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	485	18.8k
Sang Kyu Kwak South Korea	64	10.4k 1.2×	6.9k 1.1×	2.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	370	17.0k
Yun Liu China	63	8.9k 1.1×	11.9k 1.9×	6.0k 1.2×	4.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.5×	515	19.6k
Yong Lei China	78	14.2k 1.7×	9.3k 1.4×	6.1k 1.2×	8.1k 2.0×	2.2k 0.7×	414	22.9k
Xiaoyu Zhang China	71	12.1k 1.4×	13.5k 2.1×	3.8k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	571	21.6k
Gang Xu China	65	7.1k 0.8×	8.8k 1.4×	2.4k 0.5×	3.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	397	17.3k
Zhihong Liu China	74	14.4k 1.7×	7.6k 1.2×	2.3k 0.5×	4.2k 1.0×	2.1k 0.6×	336	20.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Jian, et al.. (2025). The Causal Relationship Between Circulating Metabolites and the Risk of Atopic Dermatitis: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study. Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology. Volume 18. 567–577.

Xu, Xu, Jian Chen, Zhiming Zhou, et al.. (2025). Eutectic Electrolytes for High‐Performance Lithium/Sodium Metal Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(40).

Xü, Dong, Long Chen, Yuxin Zhang, et al.. (2025). MnO₂ Microspheres as Self-Degraded Templates to Fabricate Hollow Urchin-Like Polyaniline Microspheres for Electrochemical Energy Storage. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 7(6). 3544–3554. 2 indexed citations

Zhan, Yunfeng, Hongbin Zeng, Zehong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Densely accessible single atom Fe sites dispersed on porous carbon as highly stable and active ORR catalyst for PEMFC. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 56. 1049–1056. 30 indexed citations

Zhu, Lijie, Fangyan Xie, Jian Chen, et al.. (2024). Two-dimensional flake Co/Co2N0.67 modified by molybdenum oxides achieves enhancement of bifunctional hydrogen electrocatalysis. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 68. 331–337. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Boping, et al.. (2024). Nanocrystals as performance-boosting materials for solar cells. Nanoscale Advances. 6(5). 1331–1360. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Hongzhan, Xueqi Chen, Lijie Zhu, et al.. (2024). Molybdenum-doping to enhance the deprotonation ability of nickel-based hydroxide electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 680(Pt A). 441–452. 2 indexed citations

Xü, Dong, Long Chen, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2024). MnO₂ Nanosheets on TiO₂ Tetragonal Prism Nanoarrays as Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(19). 22997–23007. 3 indexed citations

Liang, Wanli, Xiulan Li, Lijie Zhu, et al.. (2023). Oxygen-vacancy-rich MoO2 supported nickel as electrocatalysts to promote alkaline hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions. Chemical Engineering Journal. 464. 142671–142671. 37 indexed citations

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Zhu, Lijie, Zhixin Li, Muzi Yang, et al.. (2023). An Effective Approach to Enhance Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction by Ni Doping to MoO₃. Small. 19(49). e2303481–e2303481. 16 indexed citations

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Ye, Yanting, Zhiyi Chen, Zewei Chen, et al.. (2023). Enhanced ethanol oxidation reaction of CoSeO₃ by Ni-doping for water electrolysis and an innovative zinc–ethanol–air battery. Chemical Communications. 59(54). 8392–8395. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Shaoyun, Long Chen, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Silver nanosheets self-assembled on polystyrene microspheres to form “hot spots” with different nanogap distances for high sensitive SERS detection. Talanta. 268(Pt 1). 125370–125370. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Qiguan, et al.. (2022). Oxygen Vacancies Boosted by Laser Irradiation Enable NiCo Layered Double Hydroxide with a High Oxygen Reduction/Evolution Catalytic Activity in Zn–Air Batteries and Water Splitting. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(10). 12427–12436. 28 indexed citations

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Xu, Dong, Shaoyun Chen, Feng You, et al.. (2022). In Situ Growth of MnO₂ Nanosheets on a Graphite Flake as an Effective Binder-Free Electrode for High-Performance Supercapacitors. ACS Omega. 7(51). 48320–48331. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Shaoyun, Huan Cheng, Tian Du, et al.. (2021). Controllable Synthesis, Core-Shell Nanostructures, and Supercapacitor Performance of Highly Uniform Polypyrrole/Polyaniline Nanospheres. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 4(4). 3701–3711. 36 indexed citations

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Yang, Hao, et al.. (2020). An In situ Raman study of intermediate adsorption engineering by high-index facet control during the hydrogen evolution reaction. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 7(9). 1892–1899. 67 indexed citations

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Quan, Quan, Tianyu Zhang, Chaojun Lei, et al.. (2019). Confined carburization-engineered synthesis of ultrathin nickel oxide/nickel heterostructured nanosheets for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. Nanoscale. 11(46). 22261–22269. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xingying, Ben Liu, Chenglong Hu, et al.. (2018). Fabrication of Scale-like Silver-Nanosheets-Grafted Carbon-Fenced Conductive Silver Nanowires as Effective 3D SERS Substrates. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 1(9). 4771–4780. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian. (2011). Study on Removal of Ammonium-Nitrogen in Groundwater by Natural Zeolites. Anhui nongye kexue. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian. (2003). Preparation and UV Shielding of Homogeneous Dispersion Nanometer TiO_2. Cailiao baohu. 1 indexed citations

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