So Young Lee

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

So Young Lee is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, So Young Lee has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 66 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in So Young Lee's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (85 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (60 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (41 papers). So Young Lee is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (85 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (60 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (41 papers). So Young Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Canada. So Young Lee's co-authors include Young Moo Lee, Michael D. Guiver, Dong Won Shin, Nanwen Li, Chi Hoon Park, Chenyi Wang, Hyoung‐Juhn Kim, Sung Jong Yoo, Na Rae Kang and Jong Hyun Jang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

So Young Lee

154 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.

High-performance anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers with a current density of 7.68 A cm⁻² and a durability of 1000 hours

2021 317 citations Sae Yane Paek, Ju Yeon Lee et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
So Young Lee South Korea	37	3.9k	1.9k	1.7k	862	486	163	5.2k
Yining Zhang China	36	3.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	305 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	394 0.8×	180	5.4k
Sarah E. Baker United States	38	1.3k 0.3×	1.7k 0.9×	851 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	196 0.4×	85	4.1k
Dong‐Wan Kim South Korea	49	5.7k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	774 0.5×	2.8k 3.3×	514 1.1×	293	8.1k
Hanwen Liu China	43	3.3k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	494 0.3×	1.9k 2.2×	201 0.4×	135	6.1k
Jia Zhang China	41	2.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	910 0.5×	2.6k 3.0×	317 0.7×	206	5.5k
Hongliang Jiang China	49	5.3k 1.4×	6.5k 3.4×	735 0.4×	2.6k 3.0×	296 0.6×	137	9.4k
Wensheng Yang China	43	3.9k 1.0×	935 0.5×	922 0.5×	2.3k 2.7×	963 2.0×	141	6.4k
Shiyu Lu China	31	2.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	653 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	260 0.5×	113	3.8k
Xiaopeng Li China	52	5.3k 1.4×	6.2k 3.3×	700 0.4×	3.1k 3.6×	182 0.4×	154	9.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of So Young Lee

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lee, So Young, Jiangbo Yu, Jieun Kim, et al.. (2025). Co-adsorption of methylene blue/Pb(II) from aqueous solutions using sulfonated mesoporous diatomite. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 71. 107334–107334. 2 indexed citations

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Kwon, Jung Yeon, So Young Lee, Kyong Yeun Jung, et al.. (2025). Higher Urine Specific Gravity Associated with Higher Fasting Blood Glucose Levels and Insulin Resistance: A 10-year Korean Cohort Study. Endocrinology research and practice.. 29(2). 94–100.

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Lim, Katie Heeyum, Ji Hyun Kim, Hyoung‐Juhn Kim, et al.. (2025). Transfer-enhanced cathode with noncorrosive inorganic-based composite additive for durable proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources. 644. 237063–237063.

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Lee, Ju Yeon, Youn-Suk Choi, Katie Heeyum Lim, et al.. (2024). Optimized structure of asymmetric polybenzimidazole membranes to improve anion exchange membrane water electrolysis performance. Materials Today Energy. 48. 101755–101755. 5 indexed citations

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Yoo, Sung Jong, Jin Young Kim, Hyun S. Park, et al.. (2024). A Review of Strategies to Improve the Stability of Carbon-supported PtNi Octahedral for Cathode Electrocatalysts in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells. Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology. 15(1). 96–110. 2 indexed citations

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Seong, Jong Geun, Son‐Jong Hwang, Yongha Park, et al.. (2024). Self-assembled network polymer electrolyte membranes for application in fuel cells at 250 °C. Nature Energy. 9(7). 849–861. 38 indexed citations

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Yoo, Sung Jong, Jin Young Kim, Sung Ki Cho, et al.. (2024). Impact of fuel starvation–induced anode carbon corrosion in proton exchange membrane fuel cells on the structure of the membrane electrode assembly and exhaust gas emissions: A quantitative case study. Journal of Power Sources. 615. 235032–235032. 8 indexed citations

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Paek, Sae Yane, Ook Choi, Youngkwang Kim, et al.. (2022). Nafion Composite Membranes Impregnated with Polydopamine and Poly(Sulfonated Dopamine) for High-Performance Proton Exchange Membranes. ACS Omega. 7(15). 12956–12970. 29 indexed citations

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Lee, Kwan‐Soo, et al.. (2022). Computer-aided tuning of silica/poly(dimethylsiloxane) composites for 3D printing process: A computational and experimental study. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 285. 126172–126172. 2 indexed citations

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Kim, Ho Young, Seok Jun Kim, Seungjoo Choi, et al.. (2021). Boosting antioxidation efficiency of nonstoichiometric CeOx nanoparticles via surface passivation toward robust polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 432. 134419–134419. 23 indexed citations

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Yoon, Ki Ro, Youngjoon Lim, Taehyun Kwon, et al.. (2021). Single‐Step Fabrication of Polymeric Composite Membrane via Centrifugal Colloidal Casting for Fuel Cell Applications. Small Methods. 5(8). e2100285–e2100285. 9 indexed citations

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Paek, Sae Yane, Abu Zafar Al Munsur, Ook Choi, et al.. (2021). Polyamide-coated Nafion composite membranes with reduced hydrogen crossover produced via interfacial polymerization. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 47(2). 1202–1216. 24 indexed citations

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Munsur, Abu Zafar Al, Youngkwang Kim, Oh Joong Kwon, et al.. (2021). Nafion-Based Proton-Exchange Membranes Built on Cross-Linked Semi-Interpenetrating Polymer Networks between Poly(acrylic acid) and Poly(vinyl alcohol). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(24). 28188–28200. 73 indexed citations

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Su, Jessica K., So Young Lee, Benjamin R. Elling, & Yan Xia. (2020). Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of 1,1-Disubstituted 1-Methylcyclopropenes. Macromolecules. 53(14). 5833–5838. 13 indexed citations

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Park, Hyunjin, Xiaomeng Chu, Sun Pyo Kim, et al.. (2020). Effect of N-cyclic cationic groups in poly(phenylene oxide)-based catalyst ionomer membranes for anion exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Membrane Science. 608. 118183–118183. 33 indexed citations

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Chung, Min Wook, Youngseung Na, Hyung Chul Ham, et al.. (2018). Enhanced CO2 reduction activity of polyethylene glycol-modified Au nanoparticles prepared via liquid medium sputtering. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 237. 673–680. 37 indexed citations

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Kim, Nam Hoon, Wooseup Hwang, Kangkyun Baek, et al.. (2018). Smart SERS Hot Spots: Single Molecules Can Be Positioned in a Plasmonic Nanojunction Using Host–Guest Chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(13). 4705–4711. 120 indexed citations

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Lim, Ahyoun, Min Kyung Cho, So Young Lee, et al.. (2017). A review of industrially developed components and operation conditions for anion exchange membrane water electrolysis. Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology. 8(4). 265–273. 5 indexed citations

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Cho, Min Kyung, Ahyoun Lim, So Young Lee, et al.. (2017). A Review on Membranes and Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis Single Cells. Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology. 8(3). 183–196. 59 indexed citations

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Cho, Min Kyung, Ahyoun Lim, So Young Lee, et al.. (2017). A Review on Membranes and Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis Single Cells. Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology. 8(3). 183–196. 11 indexed citations

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