Kuo-Yang Chiang

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 806 citations indexed

About

Kuo-Yang Chiang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuo-Yang Chiang has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 806 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 8 papers in Spectroscopy and 7 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kuo-Yang Chiang's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (6 papers) and Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions (6 papers). Kuo-Yang Chiang is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (6 papers) and Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions (6 papers). Kuo-Yang Chiang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and China. Kuo-Yang Chiang's co-authors include Mischa Bonn, Yuki Nagata, Takakazu Seki, Chun‐Chieh Yu, Xiaoqing Yu, Johannes Hunger, Masanari Okuno, Yu‐Chieh Wen, Laetitia Dalstein and Yair Litman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kuo-Yang Chiang

23 papers receiving 794 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.

The Bending Mode of Water: A Powerful Probe for Hydrogen Bond Structure of Aqueous Systems

2020 310 citations Takakazu Seki, Kuo-Yang Chiang et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
Surface stratification determines the interfacial water structure of simple electrolyte solutions

2024 77 citations Yair Litman, Kuo-Yang Chiang et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuo-Yang Chiang Germany	13	408	175	154	114	103	23	806
Takakazu Seki Germany	16	449 1.1×	235 1.3×	167 1.1×	149 1.3×	111 1.1×	29	960
Ranran Feng China	19	592 1.5×	171 1.0×	298 1.9×	81 0.7×	133 1.3×	44	1.2k
Arindam Bankura India	11	379 0.9×	134 0.8×	139 0.9×	63 0.6×	107 1.0×	13	637
Ali Eftekhari-Bafrooei United States	10	427 1.0×	106 0.6×	150 1.0×	106 0.9×	151 1.5×	10	789
Champika Weeraman Canada	10	631 1.5×	145 0.8×	234 1.5×	122 1.1×	151 1.5×	13	878
Conrad T. Wolke United States	13	513 1.3×	129 0.7×	319 2.1×	134 1.2×	111 1.1×	17	878
Viwat Vchirawongkwin Thailand	17	466 1.1×	313 1.8×	235 1.5×	89 0.8×	113 1.1×	48	1.0k
Shavkat Mamatkulov Uzbekistan	13	532 1.3×	224 1.3×	78 0.5×	129 1.1×	228 2.2×	31	1.0k
Craig P. Schwartz United States	16	337 0.8×	214 1.2×	112 0.7×	163 1.4×	75 0.7×	28	705
Szabolcs Bálint Hungary	12	407 1.0×	231 1.3×	140 0.9×	70 0.6×	138 1.3×	26	811

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kuo-Yang Chiang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Yongkang, Fujie Tang, Xiaoqing Yu, et al.. (2025). Interfaces govern the structure of angstrom-scale confined water solutions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7288–7288. 3 indexed citations

Chiang, Kuo-Yang, et al.. (2025). Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air–Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(50). 46163–46173. 1 indexed citations

Chiang, Kuo-Yang, Johannes Hunger, Mischa Bonn, & Yuki Nagata. (2025). Experimental quantification of nuclear quantum effects on the hydrogen bond of liquid water. Science Advances. 11(14). eadv7218–eadv7218. 5 indexed citations

Yu, Chun‐Chieh, et al.. (2025). Anomalous hydration of glycolipid ohmline revealed by surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 702(Pt 2). 138927–138927. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Chun‐Chieh, Takakazu Seki, Kuo-Yang Chiang, et al.. (2024). Depth-profiling alkyl chain order in unsaturated lipid monolayers on water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(11). 9 indexed citations

Yu, Chun‐Chieh, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Ali Dhinojwala, et al.. (2024). Flipping Water Orientation at the Surface of Water-in-Salt and Salt-in-Water Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(40). 10265–10271. 5 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Takakazu Seki, Yuki Nagata, & Mischa Bonn. (2024). Surface stratification determines the interfacial water structure of simple electrolyte solutions. Nature Chemistry. 16(4). 644–650. 77 indexed citations breakdown →

Seki, Takakazu, Chun‐Chieh Yu, Kuo-Yang Chiang, et al.. (2024). Spontaneous Appearance of Triiodide Covering the Topmost Layer of the Iodide Solution Interface Without Photo-Oxidation. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(8). 3830–3837. 8 indexed citations

Chiang, Kuo-Yang, Xiaoqing Yu, Chun‐Chieh Yu, et al.. (2023). Bulklike Vibrational Coupling of Surface Water Revealed by Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters. 131(25). 256202–256202. 6 indexed citations

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Yu, Chun‐Chieh, Xiaoqing Yu, Kuo-Yang Chiang, et al.. (2023). Does the Sum-Frequency Generation Signal of Aromatic C–H Vibrations Reflect Molecular Orientation?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(23). 5288–5294. 15 indexed citations

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Seki, Takakazu, Chun‐Chieh Yu, Kuo-Yang Chiang, et al.. (2023). Ions Speciation at the Water–Air Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(19). 10622–10630. 28 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaoqing, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Chun‐Chieh Yu, Mischa Bonn, & Yuki Nagata. (2023). On the Fresnel factor correction of sum-frequency generation spectra of interfacial water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(4). 44701–44701. 19 indexed citations

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Dalstein, Laetitia, Kuo-Yang Chiang, & Yu‐Chieh Wen. (2023). Surface Potential at Electrolyte/Air Interfaces: A Quantitative Analysis via Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(21). 4915–4921. 9 indexed citations

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Chiang, Kuo-Yang, Takakazu Seki, Chun‐Chieh Yu, et al.. (2022). The dielectric function profile across the water interface through surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy and simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(36). e2204156119–e2204156119. 38 indexed citations

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Yu, Chun‐Chieh, Takakazu Seki, Kuo-Yang Chiang, et al.. (2022). Polarization-Dependent Heterodyne-Detected Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy as a Tool to Explore Surface Molecular Orientation and Ångström-Scale Depth Profiling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 126(33). 6113–6124. 22 indexed citations

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Seki, Takakazu, Chun‐Chieh Yu, Kuo-Yang Chiang, et al.. (2021). Disentangling Sum-Frequency Generation Spectra of the Water Bending Mode at Charged Aqueous Interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(25). 7060–7067. 29 indexed citations

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Yu, Chun‐Chieh, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Masanari Okuno, et al.. (2020). Vibrational couplings and energy transfer pathways of water’s bending mode. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5977–5977. 107 indexed citations

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Seki, Takakazu, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Chun‐Chieh Yu, et al.. (2020). The Bending Mode of Water: A Powerful Probe for Hydrogen Bond Structure of Aqueous Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(19). 8459–8469. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dalstein, Laetitia, Kuo-Yang Chiang, & Yu‐Chieh Wen. (2019). Direct Quantification of Water Surface Charge by Phase-Sensitive Second Harmonic Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(17). 5200–5205. 38 indexed citations

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Chiang, Kuo-Yang & E. L. Knuth. (1970). Interactions of Hyperthermal Gas Particles with Contaminated Surfaces. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 53(6). 2133–2142. 3 indexed citations

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