Nian Ran

674 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 486 citations indexed

About

Nian Ran is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nian Ran has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 486 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 3 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nian Ran's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (5 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (4 papers). Nian Ran is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (5 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (4 papers). Nian Ran collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Nian Ran's co-authors include Jianjun Liu, Erhong Song, Youwei Wang, Wujie Qiu, Hua‐Jie Niu, Wei Zhou, Yao Zhou, Ting-Wei Chen, Bo Sun and Zheng Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Nian Ran

11 papers receiving 478 citations

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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.

Synergistic Atomic Environment Optimization of Nickel–Iron Dual Sites by Co Doping and Cr Vacancy for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution

2025 80 citations Hua‐Jie Niu, Nian Ran 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
Nian Ran China	10	414	252	208	64	40	13	486
Hanzhi Yu China	9	430 1.0×	287 1.1×	192 0.9×	62 1.0×	53 1.3×	11	521
Jiadong Jiang China	8	335 0.8×	292 1.2×	183 0.9×	65 1.0×	53 1.3×	13	453
Zehao Zang China	11	410 1.0×	288 1.1×	168 0.8×	89 1.4×	46 1.1×	24	489
Liangshuang Fei China	9	366 0.9×	243 1.0×	133 0.6×	50 0.8×	64 1.6×	14	414
Minkyung Kim South Korea	6	463 1.1×	377 1.5×	136 0.7×	53 0.8×	38 0.9×	9	535
Cai‐Ying Tian China	4	450 1.1×	346 1.4×	139 0.7×	76 1.2×	65 1.6×	5	504
Wenying Fu China	7	277 0.7×	223 0.9×	113 0.5×	56 0.9×	43 1.1×	9	348
Jordy J. J. Eggebeen Netherlands	6	376 0.9×	274 1.1×	147 0.7×	114 1.8×	54 1.4×	7	482
Noho Lee South Korea	7	329 0.8×	253 1.0×	127 0.6×	48 0.8×	31 0.8×	9	395
Ashish Gaur South Korea	13	286 0.7×	203 0.8×	125 0.6×	53 0.8×	30 0.8×	40	363

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Li, Kai, Junnan Song, Xunlu Wang, et al.. (2025). Reconstructing Interfacial H‐Bond Networks via Surface Lewis‐Base Silicate Species for Durable Seawater Oxidation. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(22).

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Niu, Hua‐Jie, Nian Ran, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Atomic Environment Optimization of Nickel–Iron Dual Sites by Co Doping and Cr Vacancy for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(3). 2607–2615. 80 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ran, Nian, et al.. (2025). Automated flow pattern classification in multiphase systems using artificial intelligence and capacitance sensing techniques. Digital Chemical Engineering. 17. 100274–100274.

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Wang, Zhenyu, Rujia Liu, Tong Sun, et al.. (2024). Revealing Hydrogen Spillover on 1T/2H MoS₂ Heterostructures for an Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 96(19). 7618–7625. 14 indexed citations

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Niu, Hua‐Jie, Tong Sun, Zhen Fang, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Ni/Co Activity by Neighboring Pt Atoms in NiCoP/MXene Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(20). e202401819–e202401819. 66 indexed citations

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Hu, Huashuai, Xunlu Wang, Nian Ran, et al.. (2024). Vertical Cross‐Alignments of 2D Semiconductors with Steered Internal Electric Field for Urea Electrooxidation via Balancing Intermediates Adsorption. Small. 20(34). e2401053–e2401053. 17 indexed citations

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Niu, Hua‐Jie, Tong Sun, Zhen Fang, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Ni/Co Activity by Neighboring Pt Atoms in NiCoP/MXene Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 136(20). 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Xunlu, Junnan Song, Nian Ran, et al.. (2024). Key Strategies for Continuous Seawater Splitting for Hydrogen Production: From Principles and Catalyst Materials to Electrolyzer Engineering. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 20 indexed citations

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Ran, Nian, Erhong Song, Youwei Wang, Yao Zhou, & Jianjun Liu. (2022). Dynamic coordination transformation of active sites in single-atom MoS₂ catalysts for boosted oxygen evolution catalysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(5). 2071–2083. 69 indexed citations

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Ping, Xinyu, Yongduo Liu, Siguo Chen, et al.. (2022). Tailoring B-site of lead-ruthenate pyrochlore for boosting acidic water oxidation activity and stability. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 318. 121884–121884. 16 indexed citations

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Ran, Nian, Bo Sun, Wujie Qiu, et al.. (2021). Identifying Metallic Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides for Hydrogen Evolution through Multilevel High-Throughput Calculations and Machine Learning. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(8). 2102–2111. 63 indexed citations

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Ran, Nian, Wujie Qiu, Erhong Song, et al.. (2020). Bond Electronegativity as Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalyst Descriptor for Transition Metal (TM = Mo, W) Dichalcogenides. Chemistry of Materials. 32(3). 1224–1234. 68 indexed citations

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Ran, Nian, Gang Wan, Wanpeng Zhao, et al.. (2019). Engineering Active Fe Sites on Nickel–Iron Layered Double Hydroxide through Component Segregation for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ChemSusChem. 13(4). 811–818. 67 indexed citations

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