Tao Xu

610 total papers · 17.9k total citations
370 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Tao Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tao Xu has authored 370 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Materials Chemistry, 139 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 63 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tao Xu's work include Graphene research and applications (35 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (32 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (24 papers). Tao Xu is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (35 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (32 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (24 papers). Tao Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Tao Xu's co-authors include Litao Sun, Luping Yu, Luyao Lu, Robert M. Metzger, Wei Chen, Xinran Wang, Lan‐Sun Zheng, Zhaoxiong Xie, Jinlan Wang and Qin Kuang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Tao Xu

344 papers receiving 13.1k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Hopping transport through defect-induced localized states in molybdenum disulphide
    2013 984 citations Hao Qiu, Tao Xu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline graphene quantum dots with superior optical properties
    2014 839 citations Liang Wang, Yanli Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. Towards intrinsic charge transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide by defect and interface engineering
    2014 604 citations Zhihao Yu, Yiming Pan et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Synthesis of Fluorinated Polythienothiophene-co-benzodithiophenes and Effect of Fluorination on the Photovoltaic Properties
    2011 538 citations Hae Jung Son, Wei Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Effects of Additives on the Morphology of Solution Phase Aggregates Formed by Active Layer Components of High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells
    2011 483 citations Sylvia J. Lou, Jodi M. Szarko et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. High-performance ternary blend polymer solar cells involving both energy transfer and hole relay processes
    2015 424 citations Luyao Lu, Wei Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Van der Waals epitaxial growth and optoelectronics of large-scale WSe2/SnS2 vertical bilayer p–n junctions
    2017 409 citations Tiefeng Yang, Biyuan Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tao Xu 7.6k 7.1k 2.9k 2.1k 1.3k 370 13.3k
Xianjie Liu 7.0k 0.9× 8.4k 1.2× 4.5k 1.6× 2.4k 1.1× 1.8k 1.4× 377 14.5k
Xiaosheng Tang 8.3k 1.1× 9.0k 1.3× 1.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 1.8k 1.3× 301 13.0k
Jeffrey L. Blackburn 7.4k 1.0× 5.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.6× 2.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 193 10.7k
Di Zhang 5.9k 0.8× 7.1k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 2.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.7× 282 12.2k
I. Gentle 4.1k 0.5× 7.4k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 2.9k 2.2× 386 12.4k
Kai Wang 7.3k 1.0× 9.0k 1.3× 1.7k 0.6× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 492 12.5k
Joseph G. Shapter 6.6k 0.9× 6.1k 0.9× 2.1k 0.7× 4.0k 1.9× 1.4k 1.1× 333 13.5k
Vellaisamy A. L. Roy 6.4k 0.8× 7.9k 1.1× 3.4k 1.2× 3.5k 1.6× 2.0k 1.5× 320 14.3k
Yafei Zhang 7.9k 1.0× 6.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 3.3k 1.6× 2.5k 1.9× 415 13.4k
M. Khalid Hossain 6.1k 0.8× 7.2k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 321 10.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tao Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tao Xu

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

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