Jun Cai

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Jun Cai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Cai has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 14 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Jun Cai's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (10 papers). Jun Cai is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (10 papers). Jun Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Jun Cai's co-authors include Shanshan Dang, Peng Gao, Shenggang Li, Yuhan Sun, Hui Wang, Ziyu Liu, Xianni Bu, Wei Wei, Chengguang Yang and Zhi Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jun Cai

53 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Direct conversion of CO2 into liquid fuels with high selectivity over a bifunctional catalyst

2017 911 citations Peng Gao, Shenggang Li et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Multi-site electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution in neutral media by destabilization of water molecules

2018 622 citations Cao‐Thang Dinh, Ankit Jain et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jun Cai China	20	1.8k	1.6k	1.5k	646	598	62	3.3k
Zhen‐Hong He China	30	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	958 0.6×	543 0.8×	640 1.1×	151	2.9k
Jonathan Albo Spain	39	1.4k 0.8×	3.1k 1.9×	2.5k 1.7×	979 1.5×	748 1.3×	68	5.0k
Jingdong Lin China	37	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	892 1.4×	106 0.2×	99	3.3k
Yuan Liu China	38	3.3k 1.8×	919 0.6×	3.0k 2.0×	285 0.4×	522 0.9×	151	4.4k
Francisco J. Pérez‐Alonso Spain	33	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 2.4×	205 0.3×	49	3.9k
Baoning Zong China	36	2.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	501 0.8×	352 0.6×	128	4.1k
M. Ali Haider India	30	1.4k 0.8×	576 0.4×	736 0.5×	477 0.7×	178 0.3×	119	2.8k
Hilal Kıvrak Türkiye	28	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	320 0.2×	1.5k 2.2×	353 0.6×	168	2.8k
Zhigang Wang China	42	2.6k 1.5×	687 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	709 1.1×	176 0.3×	102	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Jun Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jun Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun Cai

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

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Wang, Yinhe, Yu Zhang, Rui Huang, et al.. (2025). Magnetically tunable selectivity in methane oxidation enabled by Fe-embedded liquid metal catalysts. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(12). 1779–1786.

Yang, Xiao, Wenzhe Niu, Kai Sun, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Water Dissociation Boosting Sodium Borohydride Hydrolysis on Ru‐Modified CoMoB Catalyst. ChemCatChem. 17(15). 1 indexed citations

Han, Yong, et al.. (2025). Extending ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to plasma studies: A custom-built plasma source apparatus. Review of Scientific Instruments. 96(6).

Cai, Jun, Xinyi Zhang, Lu Wang, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Surface Restructuring Driven Formation of a Highly Polarized CO Species on a Defected Copper Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 42482–42490.

Li, Yanhui, Chao Xue, Ying Zhang, et al.. (2025). Progress in Research on the Mechanism of GABA in Improving Sleep. Foods. 14(22). 3856–3856.

Huang, Junjie, et al.. (2025). Solvent-free thermal polymerization of cardanol and urushiol and its application in raw lacquer sap. Industrial Crops and Products. 235. 121673–121673.

Cai, Jun, Jian Liu, Zhaoxi Chen, et al.. (2024). Two-dimensional crystalline platinum oxide. Nature Materials. 23(12). 1654–1663. 11 indexed citations

Liang, Qian, Yingtang Zhou, Jun Cai, et al.. (2024). Concerted Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer by Mo⁵⁺/Mo⁶⁺ Reversible Transformation for CO₂ Photoreduction with Nearly 100% CH₄ Selectivity. ACS Catalysis. 14(22). 17191–17200. 19 indexed citations

Jiang, Lei, et al.. (2024). Water-mediated reduction of carbon dioxide. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(10). 102246–102246. 2 indexed citations

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Wei, Xiangru, Grayson Johnson, Yifan Ye, et al.. (2023). Surfactants Used in Colloidal Synthesis Modulate Ni Nanoparticle Surface Evolution for Selective CO₂ Hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(26). 14298–14306. 25 indexed citations

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Ding, Jie, Fuhua Li, Jincheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Circumventing CO₂ Reduction Scaling Relations Over the Heteronuclear Diatomic Catalytic Pair. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(21). 11829–11836. 75 indexed citations

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Yang, Jianhong, et al.. (2022). Visible Light Driven Degradation of Tetracycline Hydrochloride in the Presence of Ruthenium Photosensitizer. Environmental Engineering Science. 40(1). 29–37. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Jianhong, et al.. (2021). Preparation of 6-carboxyl chitin and its effects on cell proliferation in vitro. Carbohydrate Polymers. 257. 117638–117638. 5 indexed citations

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Dang, Shanshan, Bin Qin, Yong Yang, et al.. (2020). Rationally designed indium oxide catalysts for CO ₂ hydrogenation to methanol with high activity and selectivity. Science Advances. 6(25). eaaz2060–eaaz2060. 315 indexed citations

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Cai, Jun, Yong Han, Shuyue Chen, et al.. (2019). CO₂ Activation on Ni(111) and Ni(100) Surfaces in the Presence of H₂O: An Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(19). 12176–12182. 48 indexed citations

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Liu, Qiang, Yong Han, Jun Cai, et al.. (2018). CO2 Activation on Cobalt Surface in the Presence of H2O: An Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study. Catalysis Letters. 148(6). 1686–1691. 25 indexed citations

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Dinh, Cao‐Thang, Ankit Jain, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer, et al.. (2018). Multi-site electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution in neutral media by destabilization of water molecules. Nature Energy. 4(2). 107–114. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Peng, Shenggang Li, Xianni Bu, et al.. (2017). Direct conversion of CO2 into liquid fuels with high selectivity over a bifunctional catalyst. Nature Chemistry. 9(10). 1019–1024. 911 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Jun & Yandong Wang. (2011). Effect of Ending Surface on Energy and Young's Modulus of an Armchair Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 11(12). 10986–10989. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Jianhong, Jun Cai, Ying Hu, Dinglong Li, & Yumin Du. (2011). Preparation, characterization and antimicrobial activity of 6-amino-6-deoxychitosan. Carbohydrate Polymers. 87(1). 202–209. 32 indexed citations

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