Ran Hou

809 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 766 citations indexed

About

Ran Hou is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Hou has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 766 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 1 paper in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ran Hou's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (12 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (12 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (7 papers). Ran Hou is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (12 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (12 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (7 papers). Ran Hou collaborates with scholars based in China. Ran Hou's co-authors include Zhishan Bo, Yahui Liu, Shiyu Feng, Xinjun Xu, Miao Li, Liangliang Wu, Xuebo Chen, Zhe Zhang, Zhe Zhang and Youzhi Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

In The Last Decade

Ran Hou

12 papers receiving 762 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Exploiting Noncovalently Conformational Locking as a Design Strategy for High Performance Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor Used in Polymer Solar Cells

2017 533 citations Yahui Liu, Zhe Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Hou China	8	737	654	54	52	38	12	766
Zhi-Xi Liu China	10	893 1.2×	748 1.1×	46 0.9×	49 0.9×	24 0.6×	12	913
Nailiang Qiu China	9	762 1.0×	673 1.0×	80 1.5×	65 1.3×	33 0.9×	20	794
Masafumi Shimawaki Japan	5	485 0.7×	430 0.7×	47 0.9×	43 0.8×	41 1.1×	6	516
Ruijie Ming China	12	792 1.1×	697 1.1×	77 1.4×	39 0.8×	28 0.7×	16	823
Gi Eun Park South Korea	17	673 0.9×	576 0.9×	71 1.3×	116 2.2×	41 1.1×	33	729
Chao‐Ying Yu Taiwan	7	568 0.8×	508 0.8×	48 0.9×	70 1.3×	35 0.9×	12	612
Hoi‐Ka Wong Singapore	10	455 0.6×	416 0.6×	37 0.7×	81 1.6×	28 0.7×	14	519
Shuo Wan China	10	573 0.8×	490 0.7×	30 0.6×	30 0.6×	22 0.6×	13	598
Tomohiro Fukuhara Japan	6	418 0.6×	369 0.6×	28 0.5×	38 0.7×	26 0.7×	10	447
Joshua Carpenter United States	6	452 0.6×	400 0.6×	58 1.1×	55 1.1×	25 0.7×	9	483

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Hou

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12 of 12 papers shown

Lu, Hao, Shiyu Feng, Ran Hou, et al.. (2021). Effect of polymer molecular weight and processing solvent on the morphology and photovoltaic performance of inverted non-fullerene solar cells. Dyes and Pigments. 194. 109560–109560. 4 indexed citations

Hou, Ran, Miao Li, Hao Huang, et al.. (2020). Noncovalently Fused-Ring Electron Acceptors with C_2v Symmetry for Regulating the Morphology of Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(41). 46220–46230. 55 indexed citations

Hou, Ran, Miao Li, Junkai Wang, et al.. (2019). Nonfullerene acceptors with a novel nonacyclic core for high-performance polymer solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(11). 3335–3341. 6 indexed citations

Hou, Ran, Miao Li, Shiyu Feng, et al.. (2018). Fused pentacyclic electron acceptors with four cis-arranged alkyl side chains for efficient polymer solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(8). 3724–3729. 26 indexed citations

Zhang, Cai’e, Shiyu Feng, Yahui Liu, et al.. (2017). Effect of Non-fullerene Acceptors’ Side Chains on the Morphology and Photovoltaic Performance of Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(39). 33906–33912. 69 indexed citations

Liu, Yahui, Zhe Zhang, Shiyu Feng, et al.. (2017). Exploiting Noncovalently Conformational Locking as a Design Strategy for High Performance Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor Used in Polymer Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(9). 3356–3359. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

Gong, Xue, Guangwu Li, Jianya Chen, et al.. (2017). Insights into the influence of fluorination positions on polymer donor materials on photovoltaic performance. Organic Electronics. 46. 115–120. 3 indexed citations

Gong, Xue, Shiyu Feng, Guangwu Li, et al.. (2017). Finely designed medium-band-gap polymer donor with judiciously selecting chalcogen atom for high efficiency polymer solar cell. Dyes and Pigments. 141. 342–347. 12 indexed citations

Feng, Shiyu, Ran Hou, Yahui Liu, et al.. (2016). Effect of bifurcation point of alkoxy side chains on photovoltaic performance of 5-alkoxy-6-fluorobenzo[ c ][1,2,5]thiadiazole-based conjugated polymers. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 154. 42–48. 6 indexed citations

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Gong, Xue, Guangwu Li, Shiyu Feng, et al.. (2016). Influence of polymer side chains on the photovoltaic performance of non-fullerene organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(4). 937–942. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhe, Zhen Lu, Jicheng Zhang, et al.. (2016). High efficiency polymer solar cells based on alkylthio substituted benzothiadiazole-quaterthiophene alternating conjugated polymers. Organic Electronics. 40. 36–41. 18 indexed citations

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Hou, Ran, Shiyu Feng, Xue Gong, et al.. (2016). Side chain effect of nonfullerene acceptors on the photovoltaic performance of wide band gap polymer solar cells. Synthetic Metals. 220. 578–584. 14 indexed citations

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