Kai Deng

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
142 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Kai Deng is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Deng has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kai Deng's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (38 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (18 papers). Kai Deng is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (38 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (18 papers). Kai Deng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Kai Deng's co-authors include Linlin Gui, Youqi Tang, Jiawen Ren, Yuan Wang, Hongjing Wang, Ziqiang Wang, You Xu, Hongjie Yu, Liang Wang and Robert F. Siliciano and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kai Deng

134 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Stimulation of HIV-1-Specific Cytolytic T Lymphocytes Facilitates Elimination of Latent Viral Reservoir after Virus Reactivation

2012 555 citations Kai Deng et al. profile →
Preparation of Tractable Platinum, Rhodium, and Ruthenium Nanoclusters with Small Particle Size in Organic Media

2000 512 citations Kai Deng, Linlin Gui et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Deng China	26	958	731	644	642	605	142	3.3k
Min Cui China	41	464 0.5×	325 0.4×	529 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	1.3k 2.1×	193	5.1k
Jing Xue China	23	338 0.4×	175 0.2×	286 0.4×	269 0.4×	519 0.9×	91	1.6k
Jun Fukushima Japan	34	118 0.1×	583 0.8×	324 0.5×	610 1.0×	318 0.5×	159	3.9k
Li Xing China	25	248 0.3×	187 0.3×	269 0.4×	546 0.9×	148 0.2×	118	2.7k
Yuexia Li China	21	173 0.2×	494 0.7×	309 0.5×	281 0.4×	194 0.3×	64	1.5k
Muhammad Yousaf China	32	379 0.4×	106 0.1×	160 0.2×	1.0k 1.6×	2.1k 3.5×	159	4.5k
Ying Xu China	32	1.0k 1.1×	84 0.1×	99 0.2×	493 0.8×	761 1.3×	128	4.1k
Muhammad Suleman Pakistan	25	273 0.3×	66 0.1×	686 1.1×	426 0.7×	181 0.3×	176	2.5k
Sijie Liu China	34	149 0.2×	163 0.2×	178 0.3×	1.1k 1.8×	818 1.4×	138	3.5k
Pavel Ulbrich Czechia	32	210 0.2×	172 0.2×	130 0.2×	1.1k 1.7×	232 0.4×	109	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Deng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Deng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Deng

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, You, Hongjie Yu, Kai Deng, et al.. (2025). Strong p–d Orbital Hybridization in Atomically Ordered Intermetallic Pd₃Bi Metallene Enables Energy-Efficient Simultaneous Electrosynthesis of a Nylon-6 Precursor and Glycolic Acid. ACS Catalysis. 15(8). 6606–6617. 12 indexed citations

Long, Jian, et al.. (2025). MINLP-based integrated modeling and multi-period optimization of mass-energy coupled FCC-steam systems with carbon-cost-oriented economic objective. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 206. 109503–109503.

Yu, Hongjie, Wenke Liu, Shaojian Jiang, et al.. (2025). Synergistic effects of Pd and Cu for production of hydrogen and formate via electrocatalytic formaldehyde oxidation. Chemical Communications. 61(57). 10554–10557.

Ao, Xin, et al.. (2024). Hollow nickel sources for improving nickel utilization in Zebra batteries. Solid State Ionics. 415. 116660–116660. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Ruidong, Hongjie Yu, Kai Deng, et al.. (2024). Energy‐Saving Ambient Electrosynthesis of Nylon‐6 Precursor Coupled with Electrocatalytic Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate. Small. 20(47). e2404477–e2404477. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Qiqi, Mu Xu, Wenxin Wang, et al.. (2023). Atomically dispersed Cu coordinated Rh metallene arrays for simultaneously electrochemical aniline synthesis and biomass upgrading. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5679–5679. 83 indexed citations

Yu, Hongjie, Shaojian Jiang, Wenjie Zhan, et al.. (2023). Formaldehyde oxidation boosts ultra-low cell voltage industrial current density water electrolysis for dual hydrogen production. Chemical Engineering Journal. 475. 146210–146210. 25 indexed citations

Deng, Kai, et al.. (2023). Counting the maximal and perfect matchings in benzenoid chains. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 447. 127922–127922.

Zhang, Haitao, Jinfeng Cai, Chunna Li, et al.. (2023). Wogonin inhibits latent HIV-1 reactivation by downregulating histone crotonylation. Phytomedicine. 116. 154855–154855. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Minchao, Kechun Zhang, Yue Yuan, et al.. (2023). Characteristics of genotype, drug resistance, and molecular transmission network among newly diagnosed HIV‐1 infections in Shenzhen, China. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(7). e28973–e28973. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Hongjing, Yuqin Liang, Songliang Liu, et al.. (2023). Electron Regulation of Heterostructured Pt/Rh Metallene Boosts Ethylene Glycol Electrooxidation and Hydrogen Evolution. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(35). 14477–14483. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziqiang, Yile Wang, Hugang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Au–Rh₂P Mesoporous Nanotubes for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Hydrazine Oxidation Electrooxidation. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6(21). 20183–20189. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziqiang, Peng Wang, Hugang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Energy-efficient hydrogen production coupled with simultaneous electrosynthesis of acetate over a mesoporous OsRh film. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(16). 8922–8928. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hugang, Yile Wang, Xinmiao Li, et al.. (2023). Electrocatalytic upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate plastic to formic acid coupled with energy-saving hydrogen production over hierarchical Pd-doped NiTe nanoarrays. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 340. 123236–123236. 100 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziqiang, Xian Zhang, Wenjing Tian, et al.. (2022). Nitrogen-doped Ru film for energy-saving hydrogen production assisted with hydrazine oxidation. Chemical Communications. 58(74). 10424–10427. 18 indexed citations

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Duan, Zhongyao, Tianlun Ren, Qiqi Mao, et al.. (2022). Metal–organic framework derived Os-doped Ni_xP/N-doped carbon composite nanosheet arrays toward boosting methanol oxidation into value-added chemicals coupled with hydrogen production. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(35). 18126–18131. 16 indexed citations

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Guo, Yating, Jie Li, Md. Sharifull Islam, et al.. (2021). Application of a novel phage vB_SalS-LPSTLL for the biological control of Salmonella in foods. Food Research International. 147. 110492–110492. 76 indexed citations

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Dzakah, Emmanuel Enoch, Farooq Rashid, Ru Xu, et al.. (2021). Chlamydia trachomatis Stimulation Enhances HIV-1 Susceptibility through the Modulation of a Member of the Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 142(5). 1338–1348.e6. 6 indexed citations

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Deng, Kai, et al.. (2014). Survival of Clostridium difficile spores at low temperatures. Food Microbiology. 46. 218–221. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuan, et al.. (1999). Preparation and Characterization of Nanoscopic Organic Semiconductor of Oxovanadium Phthalocyanine. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 213(1). 270–272. 31 indexed citations

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