Kecheng Wei

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kecheng Wei is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Kecheng Wei has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 10 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Kecheng Wei's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (8 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (4 papers). Kecheng Wei is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (8 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (4 papers). Kecheng Wei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Kecheng Wei's co-authors include Shouheng Sun, Zhenhui Ma, Zheng Xi, Honghong Lin, Jeotikanta Mohapatra, J. Ping Liu, Moon J. Kim, Qingxiao Wang, Victor Fung and Xiaohu Xia and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kecheng Wei

28 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Magnetic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Anisotropy, and Applications

2021 219 citations Zhenhui Ma, Kecheng Wei et al. profile →
A Heteroleptic Gold Hydride Nanocluster for Efficient and Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ to CO

2022 166 citations Kecheng Wei, Shouheng Sun 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
Kecheng Wei United States	18	838	640	368	235	205	29	1.5k
An Wang China	22	717 0.9×	557 0.9×	333 0.9×	234 1.0×	351 1.7×	68	1.5k
Peng Zhao China	18	705 0.8×	434 0.7×	325 0.9×	189 0.8×	103 0.5×	71	1.3k
Xiaotong Wu China	27	1.3k 1.5×	786 1.2×	935 2.5×	434 1.8×	300 1.5×	68	2.5k
Lai Truong‐Phuoc France	21	745 0.9×	602 0.9×	437 1.2×	291 1.2×	177 0.9×	48	1.4k
Xing Huang China	24	756 0.9×	403 0.6×	639 1.7×	277 1.2×	344 1.7×	65	1.6k
Weibin Li China	21	787 0.9×	336 0.5×	410 1.1×	205 0.9×	151 0.7×	80	1.4k
Danyang Li China	22	939 1.1×	649 1.0×	409 1.1×	339 1.4×	119 0.6×	77	1.8k
Yao Lu China	22	616 0.7×	397 0.6×	630 1.7×	161 0.7×	466 2.3×	57	1.4k
Chunjuan Zhang China	21	928 1.1×	484 0.8×	348 0.9×	165 0.7×	119 0.6×	57	1.5k
Ulrich Gernert Germany	17	586 0.7×	743 1.2×	712 1.9×	217 0.9×	384 1.9×	43	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kecheng Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kecheng Wei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kecheng Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kecheng Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kecheng Wei 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 Kecheng Wei. Kecheng Wei 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

Huang, Chen, et al.. (2025). Accelerometer-derived “weekend warrior” physical activity, genetic susceptibility, and risk of depression and anxiety: The UK Biobank study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 380. 55–62. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Lulu, Chen Huang, Kecheng Wei, et al.. (2025). Association of accelerated phenotypic aging, genetic risk, and lifestyle with progression of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study using multi-state model. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 62–62. 9 indexed citations

Wei, Kecheng, Hanyi Duan, Haobo Sun, et al.. (2025). N-Heterocyclic Carbene Polymer-Stabilized Au Nanowires for Selective and Stable Reduction of CO₂. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(17). 14845–14855. 5 indexed citations

Li, Lin, et al.. (2025). Digital empowerment and the development resilience in rural households: causal inference based on double machine learning. Empirical Economics. 69(3). 1187–1227. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Chen, Priscilla Ming Yi Lee, Ce Wang, et al.. (2024). Sibling Death in Childhood and Early Adulthood and Risk of Early-Onset Cardiovascular Disease. JAMA Network Open. 7(1). e2350814–e2350814. 2 indexed citations

Guan, Huanqin, Ju Ye Kim, Kecheng Wei, et al.. (2024). Nanoparticle-enabled integration of air capture and conversion of CO₂. Nanoscale. 16(39). 18620–18628.

Xu, Wenjie, Hao Huang, Hongwei Shou, et al.. (2024). Spectroscopic visualization of reversible hydrogen spillover between palladium and metal–organic frameworks toward catalytic semihydrogenation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2562–2562. 23 indexed citations

Luo, Qiang, Hanyi Duan, Kecheng Wei, et al.. (2023). Why surface hydrophobicity promotes CO₂ electroreduction: a case study of hydrophobic polymer N-heterocyclic carbenes. Chemical Science. 14(36). 9664–9677. 18 indexed citations

Wei, Zichao, Kecheng Wei, Qiang Luo, et al.. (2022). Polymer N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Ligands for Silver Nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(49). 55227–55237. 22 indexed citations

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Guan, Huanqin, Mengqi Shen, Honghong Lin, et al.. (2022). Cu₂O nanoparticle-catalyzed tandem reactions for the synthesis of robust polybenzoxazole. Nanoscale. 14(16). 6162–6170. 12 indexed citations

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Lin, Honghong, Kecheng Wei, Zhouyang Yin, & Shouheng Sun. (2021). Nanocatalysts in electrosynthesis. iScience. 24(3). 102172–102172. 10 indexed citations

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Muzzio, Michelle, Honghong Lin, Kecheng Wei, et al.. (2020). Efficient Hydrogen Generation from Ammonia Borane and Tandem Hydrogenation or Hydrodehalogenation over AuPd Nanoparticles. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(7). 2814–2821. 57 indexed citations

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Li, Junrui, Shubham Sharma, Kecheng Wei, et al.. (2020). Anisotropic Strain Tuning of L1₀ Ternary Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(45). 19209–19216. 109 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhenhui, Ming Yue, Hu Liu, et al.. (2020). Stabilizing Hard Magnetic SmCo₅ Nanoparticles by N-Doped Graphitic Carbon Layer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(18). 8440–8446. 38 indexed citations

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Yin, Zhouyang, Huan Pang, Xuefeng Guo, et al.. (2020). CuPd Nanoparticles as a Robust Catalyst for Electrochemical Allylic Alkylation. Angewandte Chemie. 132(37). 16067–16070. 3 indexed citations

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Lin, Honghong, Michelle Muzzio, Kecheng Wei, et al.. (2019). PdAu Alloy Nanoparticles for Ethanol Oxidation in Alkaline Conditions: Enhanced Activity and C1 Pathway Selectivity. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(12). 8701–8706. 55 indexed citations

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Cao, Renyu, et al.. (2019). Adapting climate change challenge: A new vulnerability assessment framework from the global perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production. 217. 216–224. 50 indexed citations

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Wei, Kecheng, et al.. (2019). State of charge prediction for UAVs based on support vector machine. The Journal of Engineering. 2019(23). 9133–9136. 16 indexed citations

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Wei, Kecheng, et al.. (2016). A Hybrid Algorithm for the Reliability Evaluation Models of Chemical Systems. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 33(7). 1337–1349. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Hao, Lei Zhang, Ran Long, et al.. (2016). Unraveling Surface Plasmon Decay in Core–Shell Nanostructures toward Broadband Light-Driven Catalytic Organic Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(21). 6822–6828. 151 indexed citations

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