Kun Qi

5.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
82 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Kun Qi is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Qi has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 32 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kun Qi's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (22 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (17 papers) and Geological formations and processes (15 papers). Kun Qi is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (22 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (17 papers) and Geological formations and processes (15 papers). Kun Qi collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Kun Qi's co-authors include Xiaoqiang Cui, Weitao Zheng, Damien Voiry, Shansheng Yu, Manish Chhowalla, Tianyu Xue, Jinchang Fan, Qiaoliang Bao, Yupeng Zhang and Shuting Wei 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

Kun Qi

80 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Ultrasensitive detection of miRNA with an antimonene-based surface plasmon resonance sensor

2018 629 citations Tianyu Xue, Weiyuan Liang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Single-atom cobalt array bound to distorted 1T MoS2 with ensemble effect for hydrogen evolution catalysis

2019 482 citations Kun Qi, Xiaoqiang Cui et al. Nature Communications profile →
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction using La-Ni bimetallic sites within a covalent organic framework

2023 171 citations Min Zhou, Aohan Mei et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kun Qi China	30	2.5k	2.1k	1.5k	624	610	82	4.4k
Ming Zhao China	37	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	326 0.5×	568 0.9×	142	4.8k
Lei Li China	42	1.9k 0.7×	4.4k 2.1×	1.7k 1.1×	828 1.3×	623 1.0×	221	6.7k
Xiaolu Wang China	27	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	353 0.6×	347 0.6×	105	3.7k
Hao Yin China	36	3.4k 1.3×	3.5k 1.7×	1.6k 1.1×	139 0.2×	726 1.2×	129	5.7k
Ying Qin China	36	744 0.3×	3.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	340 0.5×	1.5k 2.4×	103	5.5k
Yuan Ping United States	43	3.3k 1.3×	3.9k 1.9×	2.7k 1.8×	1.4k 2.2×	441 0.7×	136	6.8k
Zejun Li China	25	931 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	449 0.7×	197 0.3×	65	3.0k
Xiaoping Gao China	43	2.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	2.5k 1.6×	590 0.9×	911 1.5×	173	5.9k
Horacio R. Corti Argentina	33	860 0.3×	924 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	214 0.3×	693 1.1×	140	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kun Qi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun Qi

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

Li, Qinglin, Chunmei Jia, Xiangyang Guo, et al.. (2025). Rational Design of Conductive MOF-Based Diatomic Electrocatalysts for Selective Ammonia Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(43). 39430–39439. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Bing, Kun Qi, Tristan Petit, et al.. (2025). Modulation of Interfacial Water at Gas–Liquid–Solid Interface for Water Electrolysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(44). e202507327–e202507327. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Lei, Rong Wang, Jiangnan Li, et al.. (2025). Coverage-Dependent Selective Conversion of Methane into Value-Added Ethane over Noble-Metal-Free Ni₁-CeO₂ Photocatalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(21). 17566–17573. 7 indexed citations

Bai, Rui, Yunfeng Deng, Wen Zhao, et al.. (2025). Dual Spatial and Electronic Regulation in van der Waals Cu ₃ Se ₂ Nanosheets for Electrocatalytic Acetylene Semi‐Hydrogenation. Angewandte Chemie. 137(47).

Wang, Wensen, Youguo Yan, Rong Sun, et al.. (2024). 2D Vermiculite Nanolaminated Membranes for Efficient Organic Solvent Nanofiltration. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(16). 5 indexed citations

Li, Zhipeng, Xuezhi Ma, Fengxia Wei, et al.. (2023). As‐Grown Miniaturized True Zero‐Order Waveplates Based on Low‐Dimensional Ferrocene Crystals. Advanced Materials. 35(32). e2302468–e2302468. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Min, Aohan Mei, Zifan Yang, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic CO2 reduction using La-Ni bimetallic sites within a covalent organic framework. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2473–2473. 171 indexed citations breakdown →

Qi, Kun, Chenglin Gong, Jinyu Zhang, Katrine Juul Andresen, & Zhenkui Jin. (2022). Relative sea‐level control on the building of two distinct shelf‐margin clinothems on the late‐Quaternary Pearl River margin: Insights from numerical stratigraphic forward modelling. Basin Research. 35(2). 842–864. 3 indexed citations

Qi, Kun, Yaoyao Xu, Lele Chen, et al.. (2022). Influence of magnetic field on the seismometer in vibration correction for atom gravimeters. Review of Scientific Instruments. 93(4). 44503–44503. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Yaoyao, Kun Qi, Lele Chen, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the transportable atom gravimeter HUST-QG. Metrologia. 59(5). 55001–55001. 18 indexed citations

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Xu, Yaoyao, et al.. (2021). Measuring the effective height for atom gravimeters by applying a frequency jump to Raman lasers. Review of Scientific Instruments. 92(6). 63202–63202. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, Feng Wang, Kun Qi, et al.. (2019). Bi-metal–organic frameworks type II heterostructures for enhanced photocatalytic styrene oxidation. Nanoscale. 11(16). 7554–7559. 38 indexed citations

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Li, Xinzhe, Yiyun Fang, Jun Wang, et al.. (2019). High‐Yield Electrochemical Production of Large‐Sized and Thinly Layered NiPS₃ Flakes for Overall Water Splitting. Small. 15(30). e1902427–e1902427. 86 indexed citations

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Fan, Jinchang, Xiaoqiang Cui, Shansheng Yu, et al.. (2019). Interstitial Hydrogen Atom Modulation to Boost Hydrogen Evolution in Pd-Based Alloy Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 13(11). 12987–12995. 91 indexed citations

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Liu, Lulu, Yuanhui Sun, Xiaoqiang Cui, et al.. (2019). Bottom-up growth of homogeneous Moiré superlattices in bismuth oxychloride spiral nanosheets. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4472–4472. 85 indexed citations

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Shabbir, Babar, Rizwan Ur Rehman Sagar, Nasir Mahmood, et al.. (2019). Superior Magnetoresistance Performance of Hybrid Graphene Foam/Metal Sulfide Nanocrystal Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(21). 19397–19403. 27 indexed citations

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Shang, Bo, Xiaoqiang Cui, Jiao Lin, et al.. (2019). Lattice -Mismatch-Induced Ultrastable 1T-Phase MoS₂–Pd/Au for Plasmon-Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution. Nano Letters. 19(5). 2758–2764. 107 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanchao, Xiaoqiang Cui, Kun Qi, et al.. (2018). Interface engineered surface morphology evolution of Au@Pd core–shell nanorods. Nanoscale. 10(45). 21161–21167. 9 indexed citations

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Fan, Jinchang, Shansheng Yu, Kun Qi, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of ultrathin wrinkle-free PdCu alloy nanosheets for modulating d-band electrons for efficient methanol oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(18). 8531–8536. 82 indexed citations

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Xue, Tianyu, Weiyuan Liang, Yawen Li, et al.. (2018). Ultrasensitive detection of miRNA with an antimonene-based surface plasmon resonance sensor. Nature Communications. 10(1). 28–28. 629 indexed citations breakdown →

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