Pingyun Chen

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Pingyun Chen is a scholar working on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electrochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Pingyun Chen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Electrochemistry. Recurrent topics in Pingyun Chen's work include Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (22 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (10 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (10 papers). Pingyun Chen is often cited by papers focused on Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (22 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (10 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (10 papers). Pingyun Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Australia. Pingyun Chen's co-authors include Thomas J. Meyer, Rich Duesing, Laura A. Worl, Leopoldo Della Ciana, Richard A. Palmer, Earl Danielson, Jon R. Schoonover, Wayne E. Jones, Darla K. Graff and W. Douglas Bates and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Pingyun Chen

31 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Medium Effects on Charge Transfer in Metal Complexes 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
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. Medium Effects on Charge Transfer in Metal Complexes
    1998 539 citations Pingyun Chen, Thomas J. Meyer Chemical Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pingyun Chen United States 24 1.1k 779 651 557 514 31 2.2k
Marı́a Teresa Indelli Italy 32 2.0k 1.9× 742 1.0× 939 1.4× 843 1.5× 790 1.5× 72 3.2k
Philippe P. Lainé France 29 1.2k 1.1× 424 0.5× 492 0.8× 576 1.0× 535 1.0× 56 2.2k
Laura A. Worl United States 17 700 0.7× 339 0.4× 508 0.8× 336 0.6× 411 0.8× 38 1.4k
Angela Rosa Italy 26 1.5k 1.4× 791 1.0× 205 0.3× 562 1.0× 418 0.8× 48 2.5k
M. Keith DeArmond United States 26 859 0.8× 333 0.4× 746 1.1× 519 0.9× 497 1.0× 68 1.7k
Giampaolo Ricciardi Italy 33 2.1k 2.0× 665 0.9× 182 0.3× 550 1.0× 504 1.0× 97 3.0k
Robert A. Binstead United States 29 1.2k 1.2× 272 0.3× 471 0.7× 481 0.9× 794 1.5× 49 2.9k
Julien Guthmuller Poland 28 775 0.7× 512 0.7× 267 0.4× 360 0.6× 297 0.6× 70 2.0k
S.I. Gorelsky Canada 8 593 0.6× 225 0.3× 497 0.8× 549 1.0× 271 0.5× 12 1.5k
Thomas R. Boussie United States 13 662 0.6× 349 0.4× 323 0.5× 932 1.7× 233 0.5× 16 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pingyun Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pingyun Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pingyun Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pingyun Chen 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 Pingyun Chen. Pingyun Chen 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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Liu, Changwei, Pingyun Chen, & Kewen Li. (2014). A 500 W low-temperature thermoelectric generator: Design and experimental study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 39(28). 15497–15505. 74 indexed citations
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Omberg, Kristin M., Gregory D. Smith, Pingyun Chen, et al.. (1999). Excited-State Electronic Structure in Polypyridyl Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry. 38(5). 951–956. 40 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun, et al.. (1999). Excited State Competition in fac-[ReI(dppz)(CO)3(py-PTZ)]+. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 103(27). 5227–5231. 31 indexed citations
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Slate, Cheryl A., Durwin R. Striplin, John A. Moss, et al.. (1998). Photochemical Energy Transduction in Helical Proline Arrays. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120(19). 4885–4886. 73 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun & Thomas J. Meyer. (1998). Medium Effects on Charge Transfer in Metal Complexes. Chemical Reviews. 98(4). 1439–1478. 539 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Pingyun, Richard A. Palmer, & Thomas J. Meyer. (1998). Electronic Structure in Pyridinium-Based Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited States by Step-Scan FTIR Time-Resolved Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 102(18). 3042–3047. 26 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun & Richard A. Palmer. (1997). Ten-Nanosecond Step-Scan FT-IR Absorption Difference Time-Resolved Spectroscopy: Applications to Excited States of Transition Metal Complexes. Applied Spectroscopy. 51(4). 580–583. 28 indexed citations
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Schoonover, Jon R., Geoffrey F. Strouse, R. Brian Dyer, et al.. (1996). Application of Time-Resolved, Step-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to Excited-State Electronic Structure in Polypyridyl Complexes of Rhenium(I). Inorganic Chemistry. 35(2). 273–274. 75 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun & Richard A. Holroyd. (1996). Effect of Pressure on the e- + Pyrimidine ⇌ Pyrimidine- Equilibrium in Nonpolar Solvents. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 100(11). 4491–4495. 19 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun & Thomas J. Meyer. (1996). Electron Transfer in Frozen Media. Inorganic Chemistry. 35(19). 5520–5524. 77 indexed citations
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Pfennig, Brian W., Pingyun Chen, & Thomas J. Meyer. (1996). Photophysics and Photochemistry of Chromophore−Quencher Assemblies on Glass and Powdered Silica. Inorganic Chemistry. 35(10). 2898–2901. 29 indexed citations
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Jones, Wayne E., Carlo Alberto Bignozzi, Pingyun Chen, & Thomas J. Meyer. (1993). Photochemical electron transfer in chromophore-quencher complexes of ruthenium(II) based on tris(1-pyrazolyl)methane. Inorganic Chemistry. 32(7). 1167–1178. 31 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun, Sandra L. Mecklenburg, Rich Duesing, & Thomas J. Meyer. (1993). Ionic strength effects on electron transfer in the inverted region. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 97(26). 6811–6815. 17 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun, et al.. (1989). Effects of conformational change in the acceptor on intramolecular electron transfer. Inorganic Chemistry. 28(12). 2271–2280. 81 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun, Rich Duesing, Gilles Tapolsky, & Thomas J. Meyer. (1989). Intramolecular electron transfer in the inverted region. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 111(21). 8305–8306. 57 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun, Earl Danielson, & Thomas J. Meyer. (1988). Role of free energy change on medium effects in intramolecular electron transfer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 92(13). 3708–3711. 55 indexed citations
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Chen, Pingyun, et al.. (1987). Intramolecular electron transfer in the reductive chromophore-quencher complex [(bpy)Re(CO)3(py-PTZ)]+. Inorganic Chemistry. 26(7). 1116–1126. 91 indexed citations
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Westmoreland, T. David, Kirk S. Schanze, Earl Danielson, et al.. (1985). Directed charge transfer. Reductive quenching in a chromophore-quencher complex. Inorganic Chemistry. 24(17). 2596–2597. 28 indexed citations

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