Shanjun Mao

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
105 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Shanjun Mao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shanjun Mao has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Materials Chemistry, 41 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 32 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shanjun Mao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (33 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (29 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (27 papers). Shanjun Mao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (33 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (29 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (27 papers). Shanjun Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, Russia and Portugal. Shanjun Mao's co-authors include Yong Wang, Zhongzhe Wei, Jing Wang, Haoran Li, Yiqing Chen, Haiyan Jin, Yuzhuo Chen, Yueling Cao, Mingming Li and Yutong Gong and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Shanjun Mao

97 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Highly uniform Ru nanoparticles over N-doped carbon: pH and temperature-universal hydrogen release from water reduction

2018 455 citations Shanjun Mao, Haoran Li et al. profile →
Metal/Porous Carbon Composites for Heterogeneous Catalysis: Old Catalysts with Improved Performance Promoted by N-Doping

2017 434 citations Shanjun Mao, Yong Wang et al. profile →
Tailoring a local acid-like microenvironment for efficient neutral hydrogen evolution

2023 162 citations Xiaozhong Zheng, Xiaoyun Shi et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shanjun Mao China	38	2.8k	2.2k	1.7k	1.5k	951	105	5.2k
Zhongzhe Wei China	37	4.1k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	2.8k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	966 1.0×	71	6.1k
Chao Yu China	38	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	765 0.5×	546 0.6×	114	4.7k
Wengang Liu China	19	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	957 0.6×	555 0.6×	55	3.7k
Paul N. Duchesne Canada	34	4.6k 1.7×	3.9k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	552 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	55	6.6k
Aijuan Han China	33	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.4×	553 0.4×	465 0.5×	60	4.8k
Zechao Zhuang China	52	5.3k 1.9×	3.9k 1.8×	3.9k 2.3×	597 0.4×	1.6k 1.7×	154	8.6k
Qingquan Kong China	48	3.9k 1.4×	2.2k 1.0×	2.5k 1.5×	683 0.4×	2.9k 3.0×	177	6.9k
Molly Meng‐Jung Li Hong Kong	31	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	953 0.6×	415 0.3×	1.4k 1.5×	78	4.1k
Xiaobo Zheng China	36	3.5k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	3.7k 2.2×	399 0.3×	795 0.8×	91	6.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Zhengyang, et al.. (2026). From molecular hydrogen to reactive hydrogen: activation pathways and species variation in thermal catalytic heterogeneous hydrogenation. Chemical Society Reviews. 55(5). 2831–2875.

Li, Ben, Jiadong Chen, Lihua Wang, et al.. (2025). High‐Performance Bi‐Based Catalysts for CO₂ Reduction: In Situ Formation of Bi/Bi₂O₂CO₃ and Enhanced Formate Production. Advanced Science. 12(10). e2415616–e2415616. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Wencong, Bing Lü, Shipan Liang, et al.. (2025). Noble Metal‐Free Low‐Temperature Aromatization of Polyethylene Waste for High‐Quality Fuel Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(39). e202506815–e202506815.

Mao, Shanjun, et al.. (2025). ConvMamba: Combining Mamba with CNN for hyperspectral image classification. Neurocomputing. 652. 131016–131016.

Tan, Mingwu, Jichao Shi, Lili Zhang, et al.. (2025). Accelerating Oxygen Evolution Activity via Premagnetization-Induced Active Sites in Ferromagnetic Nickel–Iron Hydroxide Catalysts. JACS Au. 5(6). 2500–2512. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Shanjun, et al.. (2025). Efficient Upcycling of Polyolefin Waste to Light Aromatics via Coupling C─C Scission and Carbonylation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(22). e202424334–e202424334. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaoqing, Cong Du, Hao Wang, et al.. (2024). Bimetallic Ni and Pt single atoms anchored on nitrogen–phosphorus doped porous carbon fibers to achieve significant electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Separation and Purification Technology. 349. 127909–127909. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaoqing, Cong Du, Tuo Li, et al.. (2024). Efficient photocatalytic degradation with a lattice-matched α-Bi2O3/Co3O4 Z-scheme heterojunction: An integrated experimental and DFT study. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 65. 105829–105829. 11 indexed citations

Mao, Shanjun, Qian Luo, Honghui Ning, et al.. (2024). Mediating trade-off between activity and selectivity in alkynes semi-hydrogenation via a hydrophilic polar layer. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1228–1228. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Mei, et al.. (2024). The Crack Diffusion Model: An Innovative Diffusion-Based Method for Pavement Crack Detection. Remote Sensing. 16(6). 986–986. 18 indexed citations

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Mao, Shanjun, et al.. (2024). Refinement of selective hydrogenation catalysts guided by the concept of ‘group recognition’. Fundamental Research. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Hao, et al.. (2024). Personalized machine learning models of terminal olefin hydroformylation for regioselectivity prediction. Chem Catalysis. 4(9). 101079–101079. 3 indexed citations

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Mao, Shanjun, et al.. (2024). STW-MD: a novel spatio-temporal weighting and multi-step decision tree method for considering spatial heterogeneity in brain gene expression data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(2). 1 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xiaozhong, Xiaoyun Shi, Honghui Ning, et al.. (2023). Tailoring a local acid-like microenvironment for efficient neutral hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4209–4209. 162 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Yuzhuo, Hao Wang, Yi Ni, et al.. (2023). Fine-structure sensitive deep learning framework for predicting catalytic properties with high precision. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 50. 284–296. 3 indexed citations

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Shi, Xiaoyun, Xiaozhong Zheng, Hao Wang, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical Crystalline/Amorphous Heterostructure MoNi/NiMoO_x for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution with Industry‐Level Activity and Stability. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(41). 67 indexed citations

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Li, Mei, et al.. (2023). A Point Cloud Segmentation Method for Dim and Cluttered Underground Tunnel Scenes Based on the Segment Anything Model. Remote Sensing. 16(1). 97–97. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liwei, Shanjun Mao, Yali Liu, et al.. (2023). Tandem catalytic efficient olefin epoxidation with integrated production of nicotinamide derivatives. Chem Catalysis. 3(8). 100691–100691. 8 indexed citations

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Ning, Honghui, Yuzhuo Chen, Zhenzhen Wang, et al.. (2021). Selective upgrading of biomass-derived benzylic ketones by (formic acid)–Pd/HPC–NH2 system with high efficiency under ambient conditions. Chem. 7(11). 3069–3084. 36 indexed citations

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Bao, Xiaobing, Yutong Gong, Yuzhuo Chen, et al.. (2019). Carbon vacancy defect-activated Pt cluster for hydrogen generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(25). 15364–15370. 76 indexed citations

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