Jingrun Ran

20.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
75 papers, 19.0k citations indexed

About

Jingrun Ran is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jingrun Ran has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 19.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 57 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jingrun Ran's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (67 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (13 papers). Jingrun Ran is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (67 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (13 papers). Jingrun Ran collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Jingrun Ran's co-authors include Shi‐Zhang Qiao, Jiaguo Yu, Mietek Jaroniec, Tianyi Ma, Jun Zhang, Guoping Gao, Fa‐tang Li, Chunxian Guo, Anthony Vasileff and Baohong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Jingrun Ran

75 papers receiving 18.8k 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.

Earth-abundant cocatalysts for semiconductor-based photocatalytic water splitting

2014 2.3k citations Jingrun Ran, Mietek Jaroniec et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Highly Efficient Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production of CdS-Cluster-Decorated Graphene Nanosheets

2011 2.2k citations Jingrun Ran et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production

2017 1.7k citations Jingrun Ran, Guoping Gao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rational design of electrocatalysts and photo(electro)catalysts for nitrogen reduction to ammonia (NH₃) under ambient conditions

2017 1.3k citations Chunxian Guo, Jingrun Ran et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Cocatalysts in Semiconductor‐based Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities

2018 1.3k citations Jingrun Ran, Mietek Jaroniec et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Porous P-doped graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets for synergistically enhanced visible-light photocatalytic H₂production

2015 1.2k citations Jingrun Ran, Tianyi Ma et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Metal‐Free 2D/2D Phosphorene/g‐C₃N₄ Van der Waals Heterojunction for Highly Enhanced Visible‐Light Photocatalytic H₂ Production

2018 823 citations Jingrun Ran, Hailong Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Phosphorus‐Doped Graphitic Carbon Nitrides Grown In Situ on Carbon‐Fiber Paper: Flexible and Reversible Oxygen Electrodes

2014 760 citations Tianyi Ma, Jingrun Ran et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Facile preparation and enhanced photocatalytic H2-production activity of Cu(OH)2 cluster modified TiO2

2011 555 citations Jingrun Ran et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Atomic‐Level Reactive Sites for Semiconductor‐Based Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction

2020 377 citations Yanzhao Zhang, Bingquan Xia et al. profile →
TiO₂/FePS₃ S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Greatly Raised Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

2022 274 citations Bingquan Xia, Yanzhao Zhang et al. profile →
Boosted Photoreforming of Plastic Waste via Defect-Rich NiPS₃ Nanosheets

2023 157 citations Shuai Zhang, Haobo Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jingrun Ran Australia	44	16.6k	14.0k	6.6k	1.9k	1.3k	75	19.0k
Jiexiang Xia China	80	18.0k 1.1×	14.9k 1.1×	9.8k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	265	21.5k
Junwei Fu China	50	15.2k 0.9×	10.9k 0.8×	7.0k 1.1×	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	136	16.9k
Shuangming Chen China	76	15.8k 1.0×	11.3k 0.8×	11.0k 1.7×	3.0k 1.6×	2.4k 1.8×	223	22.5k
Jinshui Zhang China	55	16.2k 1.0×	16.1k 1.1×	8.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	129	20.3k
Jun Di China	66	13.0k 0.8×	11.2k 0.8×	6.4k 1.0×	848 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	199	15.0k
Zhen‐Feng Huang China	45	11.5k 0.7×	5.5k 0.4×	7.8k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	947 0.7×	91	13.5k
Bicheng Zhu China	75	20.9k 1.3×	18.6k 1.3×	10.4k 1.6×	963 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	154	24.7k
Anthony Vasileff Australia	44	13.6k 0.8×	5.7k 0.4×	8.1k 1.2×	4.4k 2.3×	1.3k 0.9×	54	16.2k
Sibo Wang China	65	14.0k 0.8×	12.6k 0.9×	6.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	238	18.2k
Guigang Zhang China	57	14.5k 0.9×	12.9k 0.9×	6.5k 1.0×	458 0.2×	1.0k 0.8×	122	15.9k

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Hashem, Elhussein M., Amin Talebian‐Kiakalaieh, Meijun Guo, et al.. (2025). In situ characterization revealing the accelerated hot carrier kinetics for high-performance photocatalysis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 515. 163635–163635. 1 indexed citations

Talebian‐Kiakalaieh, Amin, et al.. (2025). Recent achievement of hydrogen-bonded organic framework-based single-atom catalysts and covalent organic framework-based dual-atom catalysts in photocatalytic applications. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 165. 100993–100993. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuai, Xintong Gao, Bingquan Xia, et al.. (2025). Artificial Photosynthesis of Glycolaldehyde and Syngas from Plastic Feedstocks via Boron‐Functionalized Nickel Species on CdS. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(48). e202517025–e202517025. 1 indexed citations

Law, Cheryl Suwen, Amin Talebian‐Kiakalaieh, Haobo Li, et al.. (2024). Elucidating Synergies of Single‐Atom Catalysts in a Model Thin Film Photoelectrocatalyst to Maximize Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Science. 11(41). e2407598–e2407598. 2 indexed citations

Hashem, Elhussein M., Amin Talebian‐Kiakalaieh, Meijun Guo, et al.. (2024). Atomic Active Centers Anchored Photocatalysts for CO₂ Reduction to Renewable Ethylene/Ethane. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(4). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuai, Bernt Johannessen, Bingquan Xia, et al.. (2024). Selective Oxidation of Polyesters via PdCu–TiO₂ Photocatalysts in Flow. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(46). 32003–32012. 22 indexed citations

Guo, Meijun, Amin Talebian‐Kiakalaieh, Elhussein M. Hashem, et al.. (2024). Magnetic Mn‐Incorporated Cs₃Cu₂Br₅ Nanocrystals for Spin‐Polarized Enhanced Photocatalytic Biomass Conversion Coupled with H₂O₂ Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 27 indexed citations

Ran, Jingrun, Ling Chen, Deyu Wang, et al.. (2023). Atomic‐Level Regulated 2D ReSe₂: A Universal Platform Boostin Photocatalysis. Advanced Materials. 35(19). e2210164–e2210164. 82 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuai, Bingquan Xia, Yang Qu, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic production of ethylene and propionic acid from plastic waste by titania-supported atomically dispersed Pd species. Science Advances. 9(49). eadk2407–eadk2407. 55 indexed citations

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He, Rongan & Jingrun Ran. (2023). Dilemma faced by photocatalytic overall water splitting. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 157. 107–109. 31 indexed citations

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Ran, Jingrun, Hongping Zhang, Mietek Jaroniec, et al.. (2022). NiPS3 ultrathin nanosheets as versatile platform advancing highly active photocatalytic H2 production. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4600–4600. 155 indexed citations

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Ran, Jingrun, Bingquan Xia, Yanzhao Zhang, & Shi‐Zhang Qiao. (2021). Two-dimensional building blocks for photocatalytic ammonia production. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(35). 18733–18745. 17 indexed citations

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Su, Dawei, Jingrun Ran, Zewen Zhuang, et al.. (2020). Atomically dispersed Ni in cadmium-zinc sulfide quantum dots for high-performance visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production. Science Advances. 6(33). eaaz8447–eaaz8447. 105 indexed citations

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Ran, Jingrun, Hongping Zhang, Jiangtao Qu, et al.. (2020). Atomic-Level Insights into the Edge Active ReS₂ Ultrathin Nanosheets for High-Efficiency Light-to-Hydrogen Conversion. ACS Materials Letters. 2(11). 1484–1494. 76 indexed citations

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Xia, Bingquan, Jingrun Ran, Shuangming Chen, et al.. (2019). A two-dimensional metal–organic framework accelerating visible-light-driven H₂ production. Nanoscale. 11(17). 8304–8309. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liping, Jingrun Ran, Shi‐Zhang Qiao, & Mietek Jaroniec. (2019). Characterization of semiconductor photocatalysts. Chemical Society Reviews. 48(20). 5184–5206. 337 indexed citations

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Ran, Jingrun, Hailong Wang, Huanyu Jin, et al.. (2018). Metallic MoN ultrathin nanosheets boosting high performance photocatalytic H₂production. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(46). 23278–23282. 44 indexed citations

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Guo, Chunxian, Jingrun Ran, Anthony Vasileff, & Shi‐Zhang Qiao. (2017). Rational design of electrocatalysts and photo(electro)catalysts for nitrogen reduction to ammonia (NH₃) under ambient conditions. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(1). 45–56. 1339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ran, Jingrun, Guoping Gao, Fa‐tang Li, et al.. (2017). Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13907–13907. 1747 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Sheng, Jingjing Duan, Jingrun Ran, & Shi‐Zhang Qiao. (2015). Paper‐Based N‐Doped Carbon Films for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Advanced Science. 2(1-2). 1400015–1400015. 72 indexed citations

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