Meikun Xia

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Meikun Xia is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Meikun Xia has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Meikun Xia's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (6 papers). Meikun Xia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (6 papers). Meikun Xia collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Meikun Xia's co-authors include Lu Wang, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Paul N. Duchesne, Chenxi Qian, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Mireille Ghoussoub, Christos T. Maravelias, Kefeng Huang, Hong Wang and Dvira Segal and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Meikun Xia

21 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Greening Ammonia toward the Solar Ammonia Refinery 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 250 500 750
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.

  1. Greening Ammonia toward the Solar Ammonia Refinery
    2018 795 citations Lu Wang, Meikun Xia et al. Joule profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Meikun Xia Canada 18 2.3k 1.9k 1.2k 410 245 21 3.1k
Claudio Ampelli Italy 31 2.7k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 1.6k 1.3× 630 1.5× 262 1.1× 85 3.4k
Jiankang Zhao China 25 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 978 0.8× 578 1.4× 105 0.4× 59 2.5k
Tongwei Wu China 26 2.8k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 2.0k 1.6× 570 1.4× 479 2.0× 57 3.5k
Bari Wulan China 23 3.3k 1.4× 2.2k 1.2× 2.0k 1.6× 739 1.8× 481 2.0× 40 4.1k
Chalachew Mebrahtu Germany 22 1.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 1.8k 1.5× 429 1.0× 221 0.9× 50 2.6k
Xianbiao Fu China 25 2.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 2.0k 1.6× 869 2.1× 559 2.3× 48 3.7k
Lixiang Zhong China 26 2.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.4k 3.3× 192 0.8× 68 3.8k
Vasileios Kyriakou Greece 22 1.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 448 1.1× 329 1.3× 50 2.5k
Hengjie Liu China 34 3.6k 1.6× 2.0k 1.1× 1.8k 1.4× 1.7k 4.1× 243 1.0× 90 4.7k
Aoni Xu China 26 2.8k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 2.6k 2.1× 632 1.5× 809 3.3× 62 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Meikun Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meikun Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meikun Xia

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhao, Li, Chengliang Mao, Qijun Pei, et al.. (2022). Engineered disorder in CO2 photocatalysis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7205–7205. 113 indexed citations
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Xia, Meikun, Chengliang Mao, Athanasios A. Tountas, et al.. (2021). Solar Urea: Towards a Sustainable Fertilizer Industry. Angewandte Chemie. 134(1). 22 indexed citations
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Xia, Meikun, Chengliang Mao, Athanasios A. Tountas, et al.. (2021). Solar Urea: Towards a Sustainable Fertilizer Industry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(1). e202110158–e202110158. 93 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Nhat Truong, Meikun Xia, Paul N. Duchesne, et al.. (2021). Enhanced CO2 Photocatalysis by Indium Oxide Hydroxide Supported on TiN@TiO2 Nanotubes. Nano Letters. 21(3). 1311–1319. 49 indexed citations
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Qian, Chenxi, Yongming Sun, Hye Ryoung Lee, et al.. (2020). Electrolyte-Phobic Surface for the Next-Generation Nanostructured Battery Electrodes. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7455–7462. 33 indexed citations
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Xu, Yangfan, Paul N. Duchesne, Lu Wang, et al.. (2020). High-performance light-driven heterogeneous CO2 catalysis with near-unity selectivity on metal phosphides. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5149–5149. 134 indexed citations
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Yan, Tingjiang, Na Li, Linlin Wang, et al.. (2020). Bismuth atom tailoring of indium oxide surface frustrated Lewis pairs boosts heterogeneous CO2 photocatalytic hydrogenation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6095–6095. 245 indexed citations
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Guo, Jiuli, Paul N. Duchesne, Lu Wang, et al.. (2020). High-Performance, Scalable, and Low-Cost Copper Hydroxyapatite for Photothermal CO2 Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 10(22). 13668–13681. 76 indexed citations
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Ghoussoub, Mireille, Paul N. Duchesne, Meikun Xia, et al.. (2020). Kinetics and Mechanism of Turanite Reduction by Hydrogen. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(33). 18356–18365. 3 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Nhat Truong, Tingjiang Yan, Lu Wang, et al.. (2020). Plasmonic Titanium Nitride Facilitates Indium Oxide CO2 Photocatalysis. Small. 16(49). e2005754–e2005754. 50 indexed citations
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Dong, Yuchan, Paul N. Duchesne, Abhinav Mohan, et al.. (2020). Shining light on CO2: from materials discovery to photocatalyst, photoreactor and process engineering. Chemical Society Reviews. 49(16). 5648–5663. 123 indexed citations
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Li, Young Feng, et al.. (2020). Anchoring BaII to Pd/HyWO3−x Nanowires Promotes a Photocatalytic Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(54). 12355–12358. 2 indexed citations
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Mao, Chengliang, Jiaxian Wang, Yunjie Zou, et al.. (2020). Hydrogen Spillover to Oxygen Vacancy of TiO2–xHy/Fe: Breaking the Scaling Relationship of Ammonia Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(41). 17403–17412. 154 indexed citations
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Ghoussoub, Mireille, Meikun Xia, Paul N. Duchesne, Dvira Segal, & Geoffrey A. Ozin. (2019). Principles of photothermal gas-phase heterogeneous CO2 catalysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(4). 1122–1142. 433 indexed citations
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Wan, Lili, Qixing Zhou, Xin Wang, et al.. (2019). Cu2O nanocubes with mixed oxidation-state facets for (photo)catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide. Nature Catalysis. 2(10). 889–898. 307 indexed citations
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Li, Young Feng, Paul N. Duchesne, Feysal M. Ali, et al.. (2019). Cu Atoms on Nanowire Pd/HyWO3–x Bronzes Enhance the Solar Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(38). 14991–14996. 61 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, Meikun Xia, Hong Wang, et al.. (2018). Greening Ammonia toward the Solar Ammonia Refinery. Joule. 2(6). 1055–1074. 795 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Lu, Mireille Ghoussoub, Hong Wang, et al.. (2018). Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide with High Selectivity to Methanol at Atmospheric Pressure. Joule. 2(7). 1369–1381. 190 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, Mireille Ghoussoub, Hong Wang, et al.. (2018). Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide with High Selectivity to Methanol at Atmospheric Pressure. Joule. 2(7). 1382–1382. 9 indexed citations
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Qian, Chenxi, Wei Sun, Chenyue Qiu, et al.. (2018). Catalytic CO2 reduction by palladium-decorated silicon–hydride nanosheets. Nature Catalysis. 2(1). 46–54. 140 indexed citations

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