Ping Sheng

51.9k total citations · 22 hit papers
619 papers, 42.5k citations indexed

About

Ping Sheng is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Sheng has authored 619 papers receiving a total of 42.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 204 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 162 papers in Materials Chemistry and 156 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ping Sheng's work include Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (81 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (53 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (50 papers). Ping Sheng is often cited by papers focused on Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (81 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (53 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (50 papers). Ping Sheng collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Ping Sheng's co-authors include C. T. Chan, Zhiyu Yang, Guancong Ma, Weijia Wen, Zhengyou Liu, Min Yang, Xixiang Zhang, B. Abeles, Yuanming Zhu and Yiwei Mao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ping Sheng

591 papers receiving 40.9k citations

Hit Papers

Locally Resonant Sonic Materials 1973 2026 1990 2008 2000 2016 1975 2012 2010 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Locally Resonant Sonic Materials
    2000 4.2k citations Zhiyu Yang, Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  2. Acoustic metamaterials: From local resonances to broad horizons
    2016 1.2k citations Guancong Ma, Ping Sheng profile →
  3. Structural and electrical properties of granular metal films
    1975 1.2k citations Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  4. Dark acoustic metamaterials as super absorbers for low-frequency sound
    2012 946 citations Guancong Ma, Min Yang et al. profile →
  5. Transformation optics and metamaterials
    2010 926 citations Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  6. Membrane-Type Acoustic Metamaterial with Negative Dynamic Mass
    2008 920 citations Zhiyu Yang, Min Yang et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. Acoustic metasurface with hybrid resonances
    2014 884 citations Guancong Ma, Min Yang et al. profile →
  8. Fluctuation-induced tunneling conduction in disordered materials
    1980 838 citations Ping Sheng profile →
  9. Introduction to Liquid Crystals
    1975 789 citations Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  10. Hopping Conductivity in Granular Metals
    1973 780 citations Ping Sheng et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  11. A two-dimensional π–d conjugated coordination polymer with extremely high electrical conductivity and ambipolar transport behaviour
    2015 734 citations Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  12. Superconductivity in 4 Angstrom Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    2001 550 citations Ning Wang, Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  13. Facile Synthesis of Sunlight‐Driven AgCl:Ag Plasmonic Nanophotocatalyst
    2010 540 citations Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  14. Fluctuation-Induced Tunneling Conduction in Carbon-Polyvinylchloride Composites
    1978 527 citations Ping Sheng et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  15. Geometric phase and band inversion in periodic acoustic systems
    2015 518 citations Guancong Ma, Zhiyu Yang et al. profile →
  16. Focusing of Sound in a 3D Phononic Crystal
    2004 516 citations Ping Sheng et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  17. The giant electrorheological effect in suspensions of nanoparticles
    2003 493 citations Weijia Wen, Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  18. Photonic Band Gap from a Stack of Positive and Negative Index Materials
    2003 470 citations Ping Sheng et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  19. Acoustic metamaterial panels for sound attenuation in the 50–1000 Hz regime
    2010 459 citations Zhiyu Yang, Guancong Ma et al. profile →
  20. Organic Thermoelectric Materials and Devices Based on p‐ and n‐Type Poly(metal 1,1,2,2‐ethenetetrathiolate)s
    2012 455 citations Ping Sheng et al. profile →
  21. Sound Absorption Structures: From Porous Media to Acoustic Metamaterials
    2017 453 citations Min Yang, Ping Sheng profile →
  22. Optimal sound-absorbing structures
    2017 447 citations Min Yang, Shuyu Chen et al. Materials Horizons profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ping Sheng Hong Kong 96 22.0k 12.5k 9.9k 8.2k 7.5k 619 42.5k
C. T. Chan Hong Kong 95 16.5k 0.7× 14.2k 1.1× 7.7k 0.8× 20.9k 2.6× 8.3k 1.1× 546 40.3k
Xixiang Zhang Saudi Arabia 73 9.5k 0.4× 9.5k 0.8× 14.5k 1.5× 4.0k 0.5× 8.9k 1.2× 509 29.2k
Martin Wegener Germany 91 18.2k 0.8× 15.2k 1.2× 4.4k 0.4× 13.1k 1.6× 7.2k 1.0× 542 36.8k
Xiang Zhang China 128 38.6k 1.8× 34.9k 2.8× 22.0k 2.2× 28.6k 3.5× 27.5k 3.7× 1.1k 85.7k
Andrea Alù United States 121 23.1k 1.0× 33.6k 2.7× 3.4k 0.3× 26.0k 3.2× 14.8k 2.0× 971 57.9k
Cheng‐Wei Qiu Singapore 118 17.7k 0.8× 26.7k 2.1× 5.6k 0.6× 19.0k 2.3× 11.0k 1.5× 712 46.9k
E. N. Economou Greece 63 7.1k 0.3× 6.0k 0.5× 2.2k 0.2× 8.7k 1.1× 4.1k 0.5× 357 18.5k
Zhiyu Yang China 46 9.6k 0.4× 3.5k 0.3× 1.5k 0.2× 1.5k 0.2× 2.7k 0.4× 231 14.5k
John D. Joannopoulos United States 120 18.4k 0.8× 13.9k 1.1× 10.3k 1.0× 50.1k 6.1× 42.0k 5.6× 576 75.6k
Xiaobo Yin United States 62 8.1k 0.4× 6.2k 0.5× 5.0k 0.5× 7.8k 1.0× 6.6k 0.9× 161 22.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ping Sheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ping Sheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ping Sheng 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 Ping Sheng. Ping Sheng 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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Sheng, Ping, et al.. (2025). Transforming Room Acoustics with Causality‐Driven Dual‐Function Passive Metamaterials. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(11). 4 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, Ming Li, Ping Sheng, et al.. (2024). Impacts of food additives on gut microbiota and host health. Food Research International. 196. 114998–114998. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Haiou, Yinuo Wang, Shizhuo Wang, et al.. (2024). Density and viscosity of deep eutectic solvents at different temperatures and compositions: Measurement and prediction model. Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering. 19(3). 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yinglu, Chang Liu, Liping Liu, et al.. (2022). Association of Elevated Thyroid Stimulating Hormone with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Mortality in Elderly Community-Dwelling Chinese. Clinical Interventions in Aging. Volume 17. 1139–1150. 2 indexed citations
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Sheng, Ping, et al.. (2022). Slow-Sound-Based Delay-Line Acoustic Metamaterial. Physical Review Applied. 17(4). 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoping, et al.. (2021). Correlation in thermal fluctuations induced by phase-locked hydrodynamic modes. Physical review. E. 103(5). 53106–53106.
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Qu, Sichao, et al.. (2021). Conceptual-based design of an ultrabroadband microwave metamaterial absorber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 95 indexed citations
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Sheng, Ping, Li Xu, Guangyao Zhao, Yan Han, & Yuting Wu. (2021). Preparation and thermophysical properties of novel mixed nitrate molten salts. Energy Storage Science and Technology. 10(1). 170. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Min, Shuyu Chen, Caixing Fu, & Ping Sheng. (2017). Optimal sound-absorbing structures. Materials Horizons. 4(4). 673–680. 447 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lü, Jing, Lei Liang, Oleksandr Zheliuk, et al.. (2017). Inducing and Manipulating Heteroelectronic States in a Single MoS2 Thin Flake. Physical Review Letters. 119(14). 147002–147002. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Min, Guancong Ma, Zhiyu Yang, & Ping Sheng. (2013). Coupled Membranes with Doubly Negative Mass Density and Bulk Modulus. Physical Review Letters. 110(13). 134301–134301. 289 indexed citations
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Ma, Guancong, et al.. (2012). Low-Frequency Total Absorption with Membrane-Type Acoustic Metamaterial. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Shi, Wu, Zhe Wang, Qiucen Zhang, et al.. (2012). Superconductivity in Bundles of Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 625–625. 31 indexed citations
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Sheng, Ping. (2010). Visual object tracking based on foreground segmentation and adaptive feature space selection. Kongzhi yu juece. 1 indexed citations
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Chu, C. W., F. Chen, Jason Shulman, et al.. (2005). A negative dielectric constant in nano-particle materials under an electric field at very low frequencies. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5932. 59320X–59320X. 31 indexed citations
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Kwok, Hoi Sing, et al.. (1997). Optical Properties of Bistable Twisted Nematic LCD and its Switching Mechanisms. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 396(2). 89–112322. 2 indexed citations
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Sheng, Ping. (1991). Consistent modeling of the electrical and elastic properties of sedimentary rocks. Geophysics. 56(8). 1236–1243. 55 indexed citations
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Sheng, Ping, et al.. (1990). Localization and backscattering spectrum of seismic waves in stratified lithology. Geophysics. 55(9). 1158–1165. 45 indexed citations
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Sheng, Ping, et al.. (1987). Bayesian deconvolution of gamma-ray logs. Geophysics. 52(11). 1535–1546. 6 indexed citations

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