Ran He

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
132 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Ran He is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran He has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Materials Chemistry, 64 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ran He's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (66 papers), Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties (35 papers) and Crystal Structures and Properties (24 papers). Ran He is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (66 papers), Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties (35 papers) and Crystal Structures and Properties (24 papers). Ran He collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Ran He's co-authors include Zhifeng Ren, Kornelius Nielsch, Zheshuai Lin, Shuo Chen, Jun Mao, Gabi Schierning, Haiqing Zhou, Yu Fang, Jingying Sun and Jiyong Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ran He

124 papers receiving 8.2k citations

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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.

Thermoelectric Devices: A Review of Devices, Architectures, and Contact Optimization

2017 399 citations Ran He, Gabi Schierning et al. profile →
RMT: Retentive Networks Meet Vision Transformers

2024 78 citations Ran He et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran He China	51	5.6k	3.6k	2.9k	1.6k	749	132	8.3k
Jin‐Cheng Zheng China	49	5.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	3.3k 1.2×	620 0.4×	448 0.6×	215	8.1k
Xiaoguang Li China	48	4.7k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	303 0.2×	331 0.4×	314	7.8k
Christopher Wolverton United States	44	6.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	5.6k 1.9×	445 0.3×	355 0.5×	137	10.5k
Abhishek K. Singh India	55	8.4k 1.5×	1.3k 0.4×	4.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	129 0.2×	237	10.5k
Jian Zhou China	57	10.2k 1.8×	1.7k 0.5×	5.2k 1.8×	2.8k 1.7×	170 0.2×	375	13.2k
Changhyun Ko United States	34	5.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	4.1k 1.4×	456 0.3×	320 0.4×	78	7.6k
Erjun Liang China	41	3.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	404 0.2×	128 0.2×	292	6.1k
Shuai Dong China	52	6.3k 1.1×	5.5k 1.6×	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	99 0.1×	381	10.8k
Liang Shen China	64	5.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	9.8k 3.4×	582 0.4×	81 0.1×	265	12.3k
Vladan Stevanović United States	45	6.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	4.3k 1.5×	672 0.4×	78 0.1×	108	7.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran He

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Wu, Yu, Lars Giebeler, Wenhua Xue, et al.. (2025). High-performance ZrNiSn-based half-Heusler thermoelectrics with hierarchical architectures enabled by reactive sintering. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6497–6497. 4 indexed citations

He, Ran, et al.. (2025). Synthesis and Characterization of Thiazole Derivatives as Cholinesterase Inhibitors. ChemistrySelect. 10(11). 1 indexed citations

Villoro, Ruben Bueno, Pingjun Ying, Shaowei Song, et al.. (2024). Performance advancements in P-type TaFeSb-based thermoelectric materials through composition and composite optimizations. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(2). 738–749. 9 indexed citations

He, Jingliang, Rui Li, Bo Ding, et al.. (2024). Design, synthesis and anticancer evaluation of imamine-1,3,5-triazine derivatives. New Journal of Chemistry. 48(27). 12188–12198. 5 indexed citations

Shen, Xingchen, Chun‐Chuen Yang, Muhammad Faizan, et al.. (2024). Amorphous‐Like Ultralow Thermal Transport in Crystalline Argyrodite Cu₇PS₆. Advanced Science. 11(22). e2400258–e2400258. 22 indexed citations

Lin, Nan, Shuai Han, Tanmoy Ghosh, et al.. (2024). Metavalent Bonding in Cubic SnSe Alloys Improves Thermoelectric Properties over a Broad Temperature Range. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(30). 24 indexed citations

Nielsch, Kornelius & Ran He. (2024). Cooler breakthrough using the Thomson effect. Nature Materials. 24(1). 8–9. 2 indexed citations

Villoro, Ruben Bueno, Duncan Zavanelli, Chanwon Jung, et al.. (2023). Grain Boundary Phases in NbFeSb Half‐Heusler Alloys: A New Avenue to Tune Transport Properties of Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(13). 64 indexed citations

He, Ran, Dan Wang, Nannan Luo, et al.. (2023). Nonrelativistic Spin-Momentum Coupling in Antiferromagnetic Twisted Bilayers. Physical Review Letters. 130(4). 46401–46401. 88 indexed citations

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Rahman, Jamil Ur, Woo Hyun Nam, Jong Ho Won, et al.. (2023). Realizing High Thermoelectric Performance in n‐Type Se‐Free Bi₂Te₃ Materials by Spontaneous Incorporation of FeTe₂ Nanoinclusions. Energy & environment materials. 7(4). 10 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, Bing‐Hua Lei, Magdalena Ola Cichocka, et al.. (2023). Enhancing the Thermoelectric Properties via Modulation of Defects in P‐Type MNiSn‐Based (M = Hf, Zr, Ti) Half‐Heusler Materials. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(48). 22 indexed citations

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Ying, Pingjun, Heiko Reith, Xiaochen Hong, et al.. (2022). A robust thermoelectric module based on MgAgSb/Mg₃(Sb,Bi)₂with a conversion efficiency of 8.5% and a maximum cooling of 72 K. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(6). 2557–2566. 109 indexed citations

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He, Shiyang, Amin Bahrami, Pingjun Ying, et al.. (2022). Improving the thermoelectric performance of ZrNi(In,Sb)-based double half-Heusler compounds. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(25). 13476–13483. 30 indexed citations

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Ying, Pingjun, Ran He, Jun Mao, et al.. (2021). Towards tellurium-free thermoelectric modules for power generation from low-grade heat. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1121–1121. 173 indexed citations

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He, Ran, Nicolás Pérez, Christine Damm, et al.. (2018). Thermoelectric properties of silicon and recycled silicon sawing waste. Journal of Materiomics. 5(1). 15–33. 27 indexed citations

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He, Ran, et al.. (2018). Eu 3+ -functionalized metal-organic framework composite as ratiometric fluorescent sensor for highly selective detecting urinary 1-hydroxypyrene. Dyes and Pigments. 151. 342–347. 52 indexed citations

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Kempf, Nicholas, C. Karthik, Brian J. Jaques, et al.. (2018). Proton irradiation effect on thermoelectric properties of nanostructured n-type half-Heusler Hf0.25Zr0.75NiSn0.99Sb0.01. Applied Physics Letters. 112(24). 9 indexed citations

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Mishra, Ishwar Kumar, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, et al.. (2018). Highly efficient hydrogen evolution by self-standing nickel phosphide-based hybrid nanosheet arrays electrocatalyst. Materials Today Physics. 4. 1–6. 85 indexed citations

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Zeier, Wolfgang G., Shashwat Anand, Lihong Huang, et al.. (2017). Using the 18-Electron Rule To Understand the Nominal 19-Electron Half-Heusler NbCoSb with Nb Vacancies. Chemistry of Materials. 29(3). 1210–1217. 106 indexed citations

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He, Ran, Chuan Fei Guo, Shuo Chen, et al.. (2015). Studies on mechanical properties of thermoelectric materials by nanoindentation. physica status solidi (a). 212(10). 2191–2195. 81 indexed citations

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