Shengli Chen

18.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
258 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Shengli Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shengli Chen has authored 258 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 156 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 66 papers in Electrochemistry. Recurrent topics in Shengli Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (147 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (84 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (82 papers). Shengli Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (147 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (84 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (82 papers). Shengli Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Shengli Chen's co-authors include Wei Luo, Peng Li, Gongzhen Cheng, Yuwen Liu, Wang Wang, Fulin Yang, Anthony Kucernak, Yongting Chen, Yana Men and Shiming Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Shengli Chen

251 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Climbing the Apex of the ORR Volcano Plot via Binuclear Site Construction: Electronic and Geometric Engineering

2019 554 citations Shengli Chen et al. profile →
CoP‐Doped MOF‐Based Electrocatalyst for pH‐Universal Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

2019 544 citations Peng Li, Gongzhen Cheng et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Hydrogen bond network connectivity in the electric double layer dominates the kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis on Pt

2022 525 citations Peng Li, Yaling Jiang et al. profile →
Tailoring the Electronic Structure of Co₂P by N Doping for Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at All pH Values

2019 410 citations Yana Men, Peng Li et al. profile →
Revealing the role of double-layer microenvironments in pH-dependent oxygen reduction activity over metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts

2023 148 citations Peng Li, Yuzhou Jiao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Kinetic cation effect in alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis and double layer proton transfer

2025 31 citations Peng Li, Yaling Jiang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Fukushima Contaminated Water Risk Factor: Global Implications

2025 16 citations Shengli Chen, Wu Yang et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shengli Chen China	71	11.8k	10.7k	4.7k	2.8k	1.5k	258	16.1k
Xien Liu China	59	10.4k 0.9×	10.3k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	2.0k 1.3×	196	14.9k
Chao Wei China	43	8.1k 0.7×	7.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	86	11.2k
Piotr Zelenay United States	59	18.3k 1.6×	17.6k 1.6×	5.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	2.3k 1.5×	196	22.1k
Alexey Serov United States	63	9.7k 0.8×	9.7k 0.9×	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	225	12.7k
Alexis Grimaud France	50	11.4k 1.0×	14.7k 1.4×	5.8k 1.2×	2.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	119	19.2k
David P. Wilkinson Canada	62	11.6k 1.0×	14.9k 1.4×	5.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	2.2k 1.5×	255	19.1k
Panagiotis Tsiakaras Greece	72	10.2k 0.9×	9.7k 0.9×	7.5k 1.6×	1.9k 0.7×	2.4k 1.6×	318	16.6k
Cheng Wang China	56	7.1k 0.6×	7.1k 0.7×	4.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	1.7k 1.1×	380	13.0k
Samira Siahrostami Canada	52	15.4k 1.3×	9.7k 0.9×	6.9k 1.5×	2.5k 0.9×	954 0.6×	119	18.5k
Zidong Wei China	73	18.3k 1.6×	17.2k 1.6×	6.9k 1.5×	2.3k 0.8×	3.1k 2.0×	422	23.9k

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Yang, Daixiong, et al.. (2025). Efficient degradation of Congo Red by CuO-In2O3 p-n type heterojunctions photocatalyst enriched with oxygen vacancies. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 174. 114010–114010. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Yizhe, Zeyu Jin, Jialin Sun, et al.. (2025). Precise Pt-skin manipulation of strain and ligand effects for oxygen reduction. eScience. 5(5). 100396–100396. 5 indexed citations

Hu, Jinlian, et al.. (2025). Revealing the dependence of oxygen reduction mechanism and activity on the D-band center difference of Fe-M bimetallic sites. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 384. 126191–126191.

Liu, Yi, Shengli Chen, Wu Yang, et al.. (2025). Rebuttal to Correspondence on “Fukushima Contaminated Water Risk Factor: Global Implications”. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(46). 25116–25118.

Chen, Yizhe, Yuzhou Jiao, Jialin Sun, et al.. (2025). Manipulating Oxygen Reduction Mechanisms of Platinum with Nonmetallic Phosphorus and Metallic Copper Synergistic Alloying. Small. 21(18). e2500795–e2500795.

Li, Peng, Yaling Jiang, Yana Men, Yuzhou Jiao, & Shengli Chen. (2025). Kinetic cation effect in alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis and double layer proton transfer. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1844–1844. 31 indexed citations breakdown →

Yan, Gaojie, Mengke Li, Haifeng Ji, et al.. (2024). A novel phenolic pyrylium-based porous organic polymer promotes solar-driven photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Fuel. 378. 132960–132960. 3 indexed citations

Li, Zhuo & Shengli Chen. (2024). Applicability of a proper orthogonal decomposition-based online power-distribution reconstruction code to detector reduction. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 206. 110645–110645. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Ziyi, Xiaoyan Sun, Jian Zhou, et al.. (2023). Constructing electron-regulating structure to stabilize ruthenium sites for efficient acidic water oxidation. Materials Today Energy. 33. 101264–101264. 9 indexed citations

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Tang, Meihua, Qiang Shan, Yuwen Liu, & Shengli Chen. (2023). Pt loading-dependent transport kinetics and effectiveness of Pt in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources. 567. 232966–232966. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Peng, Yuzhou Jiao, Yaner Ruan, et al.. (2023). Revealing the role of double-layer microenvironments in pH-dependent oxygen reduction activity over metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6936–6936. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Men, Yana, Youcheng Hu, Lei Li, et al.. (2023). Understanding Alkaline Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction on PdNiRuIrRh High‐Entropy‐Alloy by Machine Learning Potential. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(27). e202217976–e202217976. 101 indexed citations

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Wang, Wang, Zixu Wang, Youcheng Hu, Yucheng Liu, & Shengli Chen. (2022). A potential-driven switch of activity promotion mode for the oxygen evolution reaction at Co3O4/NiOxHy interface. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 438–444. 147 indexed citations

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Tang, Meihua, Shiming Zhang, & Shengli Chen. (2022). Pt utilization in proton exchange membrane fuel cells: structure impacting factors and mechanistic insights. Chemical Society Reviews. 51(4). 1529–1546. 180 indexed citations

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Chen, Junxiang, Jin Luo, Joey Chung‐Yen Jung, et al.. (2022). Metal-free carbon semi-tubes for oxygen reduction electrocatalysis. Cell Reports Physical Science. 4(1). 101204–101204. 25 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiaxi, Longhai Zhang, Chengzhi Zhong, et al.. (2022). OH spectator at IrMo intermetallic narrowing activity gap between alkaline and acidic hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5497–5497. 133 indexed citations

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Xie, Huixian, Peng Li, Biao Li, et al.. (2022). Ion‐Migration Mechanism: An Overall Understanding of Anionic Redox Activity in Metal Oxide Cathodes of Li/Na‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials. 34(47). e2206039–e2206039. 122 indexed citations

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Luo, Jin, et al.. (2021). In-Situ Formed Micropores as Footholds Enabling Well-Dispersed High-Density Fe-N_x Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(45). 24988–24995. 5 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tonghui, Youcheng Hu, Mingxing Gong, et al.. (2020). Electronic structure and oxophilicity optimization of mono-layer Pt for efficient electrocatalysis. Nano Energy. 74. 104877–104877. 51 indexed citations

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Chen, Shengli. (2013). The Number of Chinese Loanwords in Oxford English Dictionary. 1 indexed citations

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