Soo Young Park

27.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
373 papers, 23.6k citations indexed

About

Soo Young Park is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Soo Young Park has authored 373 papers receiving a total of 23.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Materials Chemistry, 180 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 89 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Soo Young Park's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (135 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (97 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (76 papers). Soo Young Park is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (135 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (97 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (76 papers). Soo Young Park collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Spain and United States. Soo Young Park's co-authors include Byeong‐Kwan An, Johannes Gierschner, Ji Eon Kwon, Youngmin You, Soon‐Ki Kwon, Seong‐Jun Yoon, Jangwon Seo, Sang-Don Jung, Jong Won Chung and Sanghyuk Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Soo Young Park

367 papers receiving 23.4k citations

Hit Papers

Enhanced Emission and Its... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2011 2010 2011 2008 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Enhanced Emission and Its Switching in Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles
    2002 1.8k citations Byeong‐Kwan An, Soo Young Park et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Advanced Organic Optoelectronic Materials: Harnessing Excited‐State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) Process
    2011 1.1k citations Ji Eon Kwon, Soo Young Park Advanced Materials profile →
  3. Multistimuli Two-Color Luminescence Switching via Different Slip-Stacking of Highly Fluorescent Molecular Sheets
    2010 885 citations Johannes Gierschner, Soo Young Park et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. π-Conjugated Cyanostilbene Derivatives: A Unique Self-Assembly Motif for Molecular Nanostructures with Enhanced Emission and Transport
    2011 679 citations Byeong‐Kwan An, Johannes Gierschner et al. profile →
  5. Phosphorescent iridium(iii) complexes: toward high phosphorescence quantum efficiency through ligand control
    2008 616 citations Soo Young Park et al. profile →
  6. A White-Light-Emitting Molecule: Frustrated Energy Transfer between Constituent Emitting Centers
    2009 569 citations Sanghyuk Park, Ji Eon Kwon et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Strongly Fluorescent Organogel System Comprising Fibrillar Self-Assembly of a Trifluoromethyl-Based Cyanostilbene Derivative
    2004 559 citations Byeong‐Kwan An, Soo Young Park et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. Luminescent distyrylbenzenes: tailoring molecular structure and crystalline morphology
    2013 397 citations Johannes Gierschner, Soo Young Park profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Soo Young Park South Korea 78 16.5k 9.5k 6.2k 4.5k 3.2k 373 23.6k
Luisa De Cola Germany 76 13.2k 0.8× 7.0k 0.7× 6.5k 1.0× 2.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 413 22.2k
Shu Seki Japan 77 16.6k 1.0× 8.0k 0.8× 7.6k 1.2× 1.7k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 597 25.7k
Kirk S. Schanze United States 78 12.0k 0.7× 8.5k 0.9× 5.1k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 429 20.8k
Qian Peng China 85 19.2k 1.2× 14.2k 1.5× 4.7k 0.8× 6.3k 1.4× 2.0k 0.6× 350 25.1k
Uwe H. F. Bunz Germany 81 12.7k 0.8× 7.9k 0.8× 11.6k 1.9× 3.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 539 26.3k
Ian D. Williams Hong Kong 84 19.2k 1.2× 6.5k 0.7× 11.3k 1.8× 6.4k 1.4× 1.6k 0.5× 553 32.0k
Tomás Torres⊗ Spain 92 26.5k 1.6× 8.0k 0.8× 8.3k 1.3× 1.4k 0.3× 3.6k 1.1× 671 32.7k
Hongbing Fu China 67 11.0k 0.7× 9.2k 1.0× 2.3k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 394 16.4k
Chunhui Huang China 73 13.0k 0.8× 8.5k 0.9× 3.2k 0.5× 3.4k 0.8× 663 0.2× 326 19.0k
Shigehiro Yamaguchi Japan 81 12.1k 0.7× 6.0k 0.6× 12.9k 2.1× 2.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 354 21.1k

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All Works

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Yang, Jin‐Kyoung, et al.. (2022). Highly photostable fluorescent probes for multi-color and super-resolution imaging of cell organelles. Dyes and Pigments. 204. 110427–110427. 11 indexed citations
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Park, Jun‐Mo, Dong Won Kim, Ji Eon Kwon, et al.. (2017). A stereoregular β-dicyanodistyrylbenzene (β-DCS)-based conjugated polymer for high-performance organic solar cells with small energy loss and high quantum efficiency. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(32). 16681–16688. 23 indexed citations
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Cho, Illhun, Sang Kyu Park, Boseok Kang, et al.. (2016). Design, Synthesis, and Versatile Processing of Indolo[3,2‐b]indole‐Based π‐Conjugated Molecules for High‐Performance Organic Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(17). 2966–2973. 56 indexed citations
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Kim, Jin Hong, Sang Kyu Park, Sang Kyu Park, et al.. (2016). Self‐Assembled Organic Single Crystalline Nanosheet for Solution Processed High‐Performance n‐Channel Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Materials. 28(28). 6011–6015. 37 indexed citations
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Park, Sang Kyu, Sang Kyu Park, Illhun Cho, et al.. (2015). Stimuli‐Responsive Reversible Fluorescence Switching in a Crystalline Donor–Acceptor Mixture Film: Mixed Stack Charge‐Transfer Emission versus Segregated Stack Monomer Emission. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(1). 203–207. 162 indexed citations
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Kwon, Oh Kyu, Mohammad Afsar Uddin, Jung‐Hwa Park, et al.. (2015). A High Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cell with Optimized Crystalline Organizations. Advanced Materials. 28(5). 910–916. 182 indexed citations
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Kwon, Oh Kyu, et al.. (2015). An All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cell with High Efficiency Nonfullerene Acceptor. Advanced Materials. 27(11). 1951–1956. 187 indexed citations
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Kim, Jin‐Yong, Sehoon Kim, Soo Young Park, & Taiha Joo. (2015). Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Dynamics of Oxadiazole‐based Dyes#. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. 36(3). 855–861. 3 indexed citations
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Kim, Jong H., Byeong‐Kwan An, Seong‐Jun Yoon, et al.. (2014). Emission: Highly Fluorescent and Color‐Tunable Exciplex Emission from Poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) Film Containing Nanostructured Supramolecular Acceptors (Adv. Funct. Mater. 19/2014). Advanced Functional Materials. 24(19). 2745–2745. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Jong H., Byeong‐Kwan An, Seong‐Jun Yoon, et al.. (2014). Highly Fluorescent and Color‐Tunable Exciplex Emission from Poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) Film Containing Nanostructured Supramolecular Acceptors. Advanced Functional Materials. 24(19). 2746–2753. 34 indexed citations
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Park, Sanghyuk, Sanghyuk Park, Ji Eon Kwon, Soo Young Park, & Soo Young Park. (2012). Strategic emission color tuning of highly fluorescent imidazole-based excited-state intramolecular proton transfer molecules. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(25). 8878–8878. 108 indexed citations
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Cho, Illhun, et al.. (2011). Highly efficient and stable deep-blue emitting anthracene-derived molecular glass for versatile types of non-doped OLED applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 22(1). 123–129. 151 indexed citations
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Park, Sanghyuk, Ji Eon Kwon, Se Hun Kim, et al.. (2009). A White-Light-Emitting Molecule: Frustrated Energy Transfer between Constituent Emitting Centers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(39). 14043–14049. 569 indexed citations breakdown →
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Park, Sanghyuk, et al.. (2008). Tetraphenylimidazole‐Based Excited‐State Intramolecular Proton‐Transfer Molecules for Highly Efficient Blue Electroluminescence. Advanced Functional Materials. 18(5). 726–731. 103 indexed citations
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Nayak, Manoj K., et al.. (2007). Colorimetric and highly selective “turn-on” fluorescent anion chemosensors with excited state proton transfer. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 191(2-3). 228–232. 8 indexed citations
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Lee, So Young, et al.. (2005). Development of Media as function of inhibition to algae growing up. Journal of Wetlands Research. 7(3). 49–55.
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Park, Soo Young, et al.. (2005). Diversity of root-associated Paenibacillus spp. in winter crops from the southern part of Korea. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 15(6). 1286–1298. 19 indexed citations
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Park, Seung Koo, Seung Koo Park, Soo Young Park, Soo Young Park, & Chul Joo Lee. (2000). Direct polymerization of aromatic diacid dimethyl esters with aromatic diamines II. Control of copolyimide chemical structure. Polymer. 41(2). 433–440. 6 indexed citations
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Park, Sung Jin, et al.. (1999). Structural changes and their effect on mechanical properties of silk fibroin/chitosan blends. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 74(11). 2571–2575. 97 indexed citations

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