Qitong Li

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Qitong Li is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Qitong Li has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 13 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Qitong Li's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (11 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers). Qitong Li is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (11 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers). Qitong Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Qitong Li's co-authors include Mark L. Brongersma, Jorik van de Groep, Yan Li, Qihuang Gong, Pieter G. Kik, Bo Wang, Weiguo Chu, Fengliang Dong, Yun‐Feng Xiao and Zhiwei Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Qitong Li

32 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Visible-Frequency Dielectric Metasurfaces for Multiwavele... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Visible-Frequency Dielectric Metasurfaces for Multiwavelength Achromatic and Highly Dispersive Holograms
    2016 492 citations Qitong Li et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qitong Li United States 15 793 436 420 382 360 36 1.3k
Kuang-Yu Yang Taiwan 10 1.0k 1.3× 603 1.4× 482 1.1× 258 0.7× 416 1.2× 17 1.3k
Zhiwei Song China 17 1.0k 1.3× 464 1.1× 737 1.8× 510 1.3× 379 1.1× 54 1.5k
Jasper J. Cadusch Australia 16 450 0.6× 389 0.9× 131 0.3× 265 0.7× 262 0.7× 38 770
Maowen Song China 15 1.1k 1.3× 590 1.4× 484 1.2× 249 0.7× 646 1.8× 25 1.4k
Jianfei Zhu China 18 1.2k 1.6× 647 1.5× 819 1.9× 579 1.5× 167 0.5× 28 1.8k
Shuai Wan China 22 604 0.8× 188 0.4× 362 0.9× 655 1.7× 749 2.1× 85 1.4k
Xiaoqiang Su China 17 1.1k 1.3× 442 1.0× 671 1.6× 363 1.0× 406 1.1× 42 1.4k
Muhammad Afnan Ansari Pakistan 16 1.1k 1.4× 403 0.9× 634 1.5× 289 0.8× 477 1.3× 38 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Qitong Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qitong Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qitong Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qitong Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qitong Li 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 Qitong Li. Qitong Li 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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Bauer, Thomas, Qitong Li, Jung‐Hwan Song, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Excitonic Beam Switching with Atomically‐Thin Binary Blazed Gratings. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(15). 1 indexed citations
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Ha, Son Tung, Qitong Li, Joel K. W. Yang, et al.. (2024). Optoelectronic metadevices. Science. 386(6725). eadm7442–eadm7442. 35 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong, Thomas Bauer, Jung‐Hwan Song, et al.. (2024). Temperature-Dependent Excitonic Light Manipulation with Atomically Thin Optical Elements. Nano Letters. 24(21). 6240–6246. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Victoria, Qitong Li, M. Tuan Trinh, et al.. (2024). Direct Exfoliation of Nanoribbons from Bulk van der Waals Crystals. Small. 20(47). e2403504–e2403504. 4 indexed citations
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Taghinejad, Mohammad, Chenyi Xia, Martin Hrtoň, et al.. (2024). Terahertz radiation of plasmonic hot carriers. 8. 4–4. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Yinghui, Xin Liu, Minghao Sun, et al.. (2023). Glucose-responsive enzymatic biomimetic nanodots for H2O2 self-supplied catalytic photothermal/chemodynamic anticancer therapy. Acta Biomaterialia. 172. 441–453. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong, Jung‐Hwan Song, Jorik van de Groep, et al.. (2023). A Purcell-enabled monolayer semiconductor free-space optical modulator. Nature Photonics. 17(10). 897–903. 16 indexed citations
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Song, Jung‐Hwan, Qitong Li, Ching‐Ting Tsai, et al.. (2022). Quantitative phase contrast imaging with a nonlocal angle-selective metasurface. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7848–7848. 56 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong, Jorik van de Groep, Adam K. White, et al.. (2022). Metasurface optofluidics for dynamic control of light fields. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(10). 1097–1103. 68 indexed citations
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Groep, Jorik van de, Jung-Hwan Song, Qitong Li, et al.. (2021). Exciton Resonance Tuning in Atomically-Thin Optical Elements. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTh2K.6–FTh2K.6.
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Li, Qitong, Tong Wu, Jorik van de Groep, Philippe Lalanne, & Mark L. Brongersma. (2021). Structural color from a coupled nanowire pair beyond the bonding and antibonding model. Optica. 8(4). 464–464. 12 indexed citations
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Song, Jung‐Hwan, Søren Raza, Jorik van de Groep, et al.. (2021). Nanoelectromechanical modulation of a strongly-coupled plasmonic dimer. Nature Communications. 12(1). 48–48. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong, et al.. (2019). Transparent multispectral photodetectors mimicking the human visual system. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4982–4982. 69 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong & Loc H. Nguyen. (2019). Recovering the initial condition of parabolic equations from lateral Cauchy data via the quasi-reversibility method. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering. 28(4). 580–598. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinsong, Ankun Yang, Xi Wu, et al.. (2018). Reversible and selective ion intercalation through the top surface of few-layer MoS2. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5289–5289. 145 indexed citations
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Wang, Xi, Yang Deng, Qitong Li, et al.. (2016). Excitation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on a non-structured surface with a permittivity gradient. Light Science & Applications. 5(12). e16179–e16179. 30 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong. (2010). The Construction of VOR in China from the Perspective of the Idea of Restorative Justice. Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Qitong. (1986). SEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SITING IN CHINA. Journal of Physics of the Earth. 34(Supplement). S279–S291. 2 indexed citations

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