Qing‐Fu Sun

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Qing‐Fu Sun is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Qing‐Fu Sun has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Organic Chemistry, 76 papers in Materials Chemistry and 39 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Qing‐Fu Sun's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (77 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (37 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (34 papers). Qing‐Fu Sun is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (77 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (37 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (34 papers). Qing‐Fu Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Qing‐Fu Sun's co-authors include Li‐Peng Zhou, Li‐Xuan Cai, Sota Sato, Makoto Fujita, Xiaozhen Li, Shao‐Jun Hu, Chong‐Bin Tian, Dan‐Ni Yan, Xiaoqing Guo and Shao‐Chuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Qing‐Fu Sun

115 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Self-Assembled M ₂₄ L ₄₈ Polyhedra and Their Sharp Structural Switch upon Subtle Ligand Variation

2010 748 citations Qing‐Fu Sun et al. profile →
Coordination-Directed Self-Assembly of Functional Polynuclear Lanthanide Supramolecular Architectures

2022 244 citations Xiaozhen Li, Chong‐Bin Tian et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qing‐Fu Sun China	39	3.4k	2.8k	2.1k	1.4k	1.3k	120	5.4k
Ying‐Feng Han China	47	4.7k 1.4×	2.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	857 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	177	6.6k
Tanya K. Ronson United Kingdom	56	6.5k 1.9×	3.7k 1.3×	3.2k 1.5×	2.6k 1.9×	1.8k 1.3×	163	9.0k
Kosuke Suzuki Japan	40	2.5k 0.7×	3.6k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	406 0.3×	950 0.7×	150	5.2k
Shih‐Sheng Sun Taiwan	44	2.1k 0.6×	3.1k 1.1×	921 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	763 0.6×	134	5.9k
Young Jin Jeon South Korea	11	1.5k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	3.4k 1.6×	868 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	29	5.0k
Michael Mastalerz Germany	47	5.9k 1.7×	5.1k 1.8×	3.4k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	366 0.3×	163	8.4k
Kecheng Jie China	42	3.5k 1.0×	3.9k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	254 0.2×	87	6.8k
Ognjen Š. Miljanić United States	35	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	888 0.7×	362 0.3×	96	4.0k
Kelong Zhu China	29	2.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	935 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	299 0.2×	75	3.5k
Huacheng Zhang China	34	2.9k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	837 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	330 0.2×	109	5.5k

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Jin, Qiong‐Hua, Dan‐Ni Yan, Chenchen Li, et al.. (2025). A stimuli-responsive dimeric capsule built from an acridine-based metallacycle for ratiometric fluorescence sensing of TNP. Dalton Transactions. 54(12). 4998–5005.

Hu, Yuhang, Fan Yin, Li‐Peng Zhou, et al.. (2025). Coordination-assembly of a redox-active Pd₆L₃ cage for aerobic C(sp³)–H bond photooxidation of aromatic cyclic ethers. Chemical Communications. 61(43). 7819–7822.

Cai, Li‐Xuan, Yuhang Hu, Li‐Peng Zhou, et al.. (2025). Polyoxometalate condensation and transformation mediated by adaptive coordination-assembled molecular flasks. Chemical Science. 16(18). 7956–7962. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Xiaoqing, Pengwei Yu, Li‐Peng Zhou, et al.. (2025). Low-symmetry coordination cages enable recognition specificity and selective enrichment of higher fullerene isomers. Nature Synthesis. 4(3). 359–369. 13 indexed citations

Zhu, Zheng‐Zhong, et al.. (2024). A cationic radical lanthanide organic tetrahedron with remarkable coordination enhanced radical stability. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(2). 109641–109641. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Han, Fan Yin, Jing Su, et al.. (2024). Modulating the isomerization of bpp-modified azoheteroarene by transition metal ions coordination. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 168. 112986–112986. 2 indexed citations

Li, Xiaozhen & Qing‐Fu Sun. (2024). Research Progress of Rare Earth-Based Circularly Polarized Luminescent Materials. Acta Chimica Sinica. 82(6). 707–707. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Enbo, Xiang Zhang, Lei Zhu, et al.. (2024). Ultrathin covalent organic framework nanosheets for enhanced photocatalytic water oxidation. Science Advances. 10(3). eadk8564–eadk8564. 55 indexed citations

Cheng, Xiuyan, Shuqiang Peng, Lixin Wu, & Qing‐Fu Sun. (2023). 3D-printed stretchable sensor based on double network PHI/PEDOT:PSS hydrogel annealed with cosolvent of H2O and DMSO. Chemical Engineering Journal. 470. 144058–144058. 18 indexed citations

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Lin, Xiaoshan, et al.. (2023). Embedding Lanthanide Organic Polyhedra into Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 18(6). e202201249–e202201249. 4 indexed citations

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Tian, Chong‐Bin & Qing‐Fu Sun. (2023). Combinatorial Coordination Self‐Assembly for Organopalladium Cages with Fine‐Tuned Structure and Function. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(28). e202300195–e202300195. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yanfang, Dan‐Ni Yan, Shao‐Jun Hu, et al.. (2023). A Pd₄L₂ cage containing Brønsted-base active sites for the one-pot photooxidation/Knoevenagel condensation reaction. Dalton Transactions. 52(23). 8135–8141. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Li‐Peng, Haoran Li, Shao‐Jun Hu, et al.. (2023). Excited-Multimer Mediated Supramolecular Upconversion on Multicomponent Lanthanide-Organic Assemblies. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(42). 23121–23130. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Shaochuan, Caiping Liu, Qihui Chen, et al.. (2022). Adaptive coordination assemblies based on a flexible tetraazacyclododecane ligand for promoting carbon dioxide fixation. Chemical Science. 13(31). 9016–9022. 6 indexed citations

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Zhou, Li‐Peng, et al.. (2020). Chiral auxiliary and induced chiroptical sensing with 5d/4f lanthanide–organic macrocycles. Chemical Communications. 56(19). 2861–2864. 29 indexed citations

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Tian, Jia‐Yue, Luyao Liu, Kang Zhou, et al.. (2020). Metal–organic tube or layered assembly: reversible sheet-to-tube transformation and adaptive recognition. Chemical Science. 11(36). 9818–9826. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaozhen, Li‐Peng Zhou, Shao‐Jun Hu, et al.. (2020). Metal ion adaptive self-assembly of photoactive lanthanide-based supramolecular hosts. Chemical Communications. 56(32). 4416–4419. 24 indexed citations

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Yan, Qianqian, Li‐Peng Zhou, Haiyue Zhou, et al.. (2019). Metallopolymers cross-linked with self-assembled Ln₄L₄cages. Dalton Transactions. 48(21). 7080–7084. 16 indexed citations

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Cai, Li‐Xuan, Liang‐Liang Yan, Shao‐Chuan Li, Li‐Peng Zhou, & Qing‐Fu Sun. (2018). Stereocontrolled self-assembly and photochromic transformation of lanthanide supramolecular helicates. Dalton Transactions. 47(40). 14204–14210. 28 indexed citations

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Fu, Lei, Shangda Li, Zhihua Cai, et al.. (2018). Ligand-enabled site-selectivity in a versatile rhodium(ii)-catalysed aryl C–H carboxylation with CO2. Nature Catalysis. 1(6). 469–478. 114 indexed citations

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