Sai Yao

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sai Yao is a scholar working on Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sai Yao has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Pollution, 15 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sai Yao's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers) and Weed Control and Herbicide Applications (6 papers). Sai Yao is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers) and Weed Control and Herbicide Applications (6 papers). Sai Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Vietnam. Sai Yao's co-authors include Zhen Zhou, Xu Zhang, Letian Chen, Xu Hu, Zhengyu Lu, An Chen, Zihe Zhang, An Chen, Yun Tian and Yibo Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sai Yao

44 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

What is the Real Origin of the Activity of Fe–N–C Electrocatalysts in the O₂ Reduction Reaction? Critical Roles of Coordinating Pyrrolic N and Axially Adsorbing Species

2022 236 citations Xu Hu, Letian Chen et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sai Yao China	22	947	837	632	303	267	49	1.8k
Wenda Chen China	19	568 0.6×	370 0.4×	226 0.4×	703 2.3×	343 1.3×	72	1.5k
Xiaofei Gong China	19	730 0.8×	189 0.2×	715 1.1×	109 0.4×	372 1.4×	45	1.3k
Jingkai Zhao China	22	295 0.3×	487 0.6×	413 0.7×	203 0.7×	224 0.8×	104	1.5k
Jiaqi Gao China	20	662 0.7×	671 0.8×	335 0.5×	69 0.2×	117 0.4×	67	1.4k
Yu Fang China	22	1.3k 1.3×	969 1.2×	394 0.6×	76 0.3×	104 0.4×	49	1.8k
Mengting Li China	20	517 0.5×	454 0.5×	313 0.5×	49 0.2×	101 0.4×	57	1.1k
Aiming Wu China	17	274 0.3×	207 0.2×	512 0.8×	97 0.3×	136 0.5×	32	968
Zhenxing Zeng China	26	1.8k 1.8×	1.6k 1.9×	781 1.2×	67 0.2×	53 0.2×	65	2.4k
Nikdalila Radenahmad Brunei	11	300 0.3×	741 0.9×	406 0.6×	333 1.1×	61 0.2×	26	1.3k
Zhenao Gu China	18	530 0.6×	346 0.4×	218 0.3×	140 0.5×	52 0.2×	35	910

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sai Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sai Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sai Yao 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 Sai Yao. Sai Yao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Cao, Lei, et al.. (2026). DFFormer: UAV Object Detection via Feature Scaling and Interaction. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 64. 1–16.

Wang, Lijing, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Fire-Extinguishing Performance and Synergy Mechanism of HM/DAP Composite Dry Powder. Materials. 18(3). 533–533. 2 indexed citations

Yao, Sai, et al.. (2025). Resistance to ACCase‐inhibiting herbicides conferred by the Ile‐1781‐Val mutation in Leptochloa fusca and visual detection of target mutations by RAA‐CRISPR/Cas12a. Pest Management Science. 81(9). 5581–5588. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Lijing, et al.. (2025). Enhanced fire-extinguishing performance of struvite powder through modulation of its thermal-decomposition characteristics. Fire Safety Journal. 159. 104594–104594.

Li, Li, Sai Yao, Yi Feng, et al.. (2025). Grain boundary-induced stabilization of Bi3+/Bi0 coexistence in β-Bi2O3 for highly efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to formate. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 372. 125302–125302. 4 indexed citations

Li, Wenzao, et al.. (2025). DACG-Net: A Dual-Backbone and Context-Guided Fusion Network for Aerial UAV Detection. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(6). 17109–17123. 2 indexed citations

Yao, Sai, et al.. (2024). Cytochrome P450CYP81A104 in Eleusine indica confers resistance to multiherbicide with different modes of action. Pest Management Science. 80(11). 5791–5798. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Yibo, et al.. (2024). In situ extinguishing mechanism and performance of self-portable microcapsule fire extinguishing agent for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Storage. 93. 112393–112393. 14 indexed citations

Li, Wenzao, et al.. (2024). High-precision and lightweight small-target detection algorithm for low-cost edge intelligence. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 23542–23542. 14 indexed citations

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Yao, Sai, et al.. (2024). Distribution, frequency and molecular basis of penoxsulam, metamifop and florpyrauxifen-benzyl resistance in Echinocloa spp. from rice fields across Jiangsu Province, China. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 207. 106218–106218. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Wei, et al.. (2024). An Asp376Glu substitution and P450s-involved metabolism endow resistance to ALS inhibitors in an Ammannia auriculata Willd. Population. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 201. 105911–105911.

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Yao, Sai, Kuo Zhang, Song Yang, et al.. (2024). A novel coupling process to replace the traditional multi-stage anammox process—sulfur autotrophic denitrification coupled anammox system. Biodegradation. 35(5). 565–582. 3 indexed citations

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Yao, Sai, Tong Zhu, Baorui Liang, et al.. (2023). Performance Evaluation of Modified Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (MABR) Treating High Strength Wastewater. Waste and Biomass Valorization. 14(8). 2557–2568. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qingjun, Tong Zhu, Youzhao Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of recycling hyper-thermal inoculum by repeated batch cultivation into co-composting of sludge and livestock-poultry manure. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B. 58(1). 58–68. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yang, et al.. (2023). Current status of cyhalofop-butyl and metamifop resistance and diversity of the ACCase gene mutations in Chinese sprangletop (Leptochloa chinensis) from China. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 197. 105648–105648. 8 indexed citations

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Ma, Feng, Tong Zhu, Sai Yao, et al.. (2022). Coupling effect of high temperature and thermophilic bacteria indirectly accelerates the humification process of municipal sludge in hyperthermophilic composting. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 166. 469–477. 32 indexed citations

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Liang, Baorui, Feiyu Kang, Sai Yao, et al.. (2021). Exploration and verification of the feasibility of the sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification integrated biomass-based heterotrophic denitrification systems for wastewater treatment: From feasibility to application. Chemosphere. 287(Pt 1). 131998–131998. 45 indexed citations

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Chen, Letian, Xu Zhang, An Chen, et al.. (2021). Targeted design of advanced electrocatalysts by machine learning. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 43(1). 11–32. 93 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kuo, Sai Yao, Baorui Liang, et al.. (2020). A novel coupling process with partial nitritation-anammox and short-cut sulfur autotrophic denitrification in a single reactor for the treatment of high ammonium-containing wastewater. Water Research. 180. 115813–115813. 72 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kuo, Liting Lyu, Sai Yao, et al.. (2019). Effects of vibration on anammox-enriched biofilm in a high-loaded upflow reactor. The Science of The Total Environment. 685. 1284–1293. 10 indexed citations

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