Tian‐Ran Wei

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Tian‐Ran Wei is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tian‐Ran Wei has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Materials Chemistry, 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 13 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tian‐Ran Wei's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (83 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (50 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (24 papers). Tian‐Ran Wei is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (83 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (50 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (24 papers). Tian‐Ran Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Tian‐Ran Wei's co-authors include Xun Shi, Jing‐Feng Li, Pengfei Qiu, Lidong Chen, Kunpeng Zhao, Chaofeng Wu, Yu Pan, Shiqi Yang, Fu Li and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Tian‐Ran Wei

99 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Flexible thermoelectrics based on ductile semiconductors 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 100 200 300
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.

  1. Flexible thermoelectrics based on ductile semiconductors
    2022 356 citations Qingyu Yang, Shiqi Yang et al. Science profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tian‐Ran Wei China 41 5.0k 2.8k 985 625 375 104 5.3k
Guoqiang Liu China 39 3.9k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 874 0.9× 682 1.1× 231 0.6× 181 4.4k
Fu Li China 32 4.5k 0.9× 2.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 804 1.3× 308 0.8× 127 4.9k
Yonggao Yan China 35 5.1k 1.0× 2.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.4× 666 1.1× 237 0.6× 101 5.3k
Kunpeng Zhao China 35 3.8k 0.8× 2.4k 0.8× 696 0.7× 420 0.7× 180 0.5× 89 4.1k
Riley Hanus United States 28 3.7k 0.7× 1.8k 0.6× 808 0.8× 523 0.8× 125 0.3× 42 4.0k
Ruiheng Liu China 30 3.3k 0.7× 1.8k 0.6× 644 0.7× 570 0.9× 214 0.6× 96 3.7k
Mona Zebarjadi United States 29 4.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 1.2k 1.2× 663 1.1× 257 0.7× 87 4.5k
Zhensong Ren United States 21 4.4k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 1.2× 824 1.3× 410 1.1× 42 5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Tian‐Ran Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tian‐Ran Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tian‐Ran Wei

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Yi, Junyu Ge, In Cheol Seo, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Tuning of Single-Photon Emission in Monolayer WSe2 via Localized Strain Engineering. Nano Letters. 25(9). 3438–3444. 4 indexed citations
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Gao, Zhiqiang, Shiqi Yang, Tian‐Ran Wei, et al.. (2025). Warm metalworking for plastic manufacturing in brittle semiconductors. Nature Materials. 24(10). 1538–1544. 9 indexed citations
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Xu, Qi, Kunpeng Zhao, Haoran Huang, et al.. (2024). Enhancing thermoelectric performance of AB2Sb2-type Zintl phase through band shaping and lattice distortion. Acta Materialia. 274. 120040–120040. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Yifei, Kunpeng Zhao, Jie Xiao, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal strain analysis and thermal transport modulation in plastically deformed InSe van der Waals crystals. Materials Today Energy. 43. 101598–101598. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Pu, Congcong Dang, Aidang Shan, et al.. (2024). High Performance Self‐Powered and Vis–Infrared Broadband Photodetectors Based on MoTe2/InSe Van der Waals Heterostructure. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(11). 30 indexed citations
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Lei, Jingdan, Kunpeng Zhao, Shiqi Yang, et al.. (2024). Approaching crystal’s limit of thermoelectrics by nano-sintering-aid at grain boundaries. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6588–6588. 35 indexed citations
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Sun, Yandong, Jinyu Zhang, Tian‐Ran Wei, et al.. (2024). Van der Waals semiconductor InSe plastifies by martensitic transformation. Science Advances. 10(42). eado9593–eado9593. 9 indexed citations
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Huang, Yuxin, Aidang Shan, Tian‐Ran Wei, et al.. (2024). Self‐Powered and Vis‐Infrared Broadband Gr/InSe/MoTe2 Heterostructure Photodetectors with Ultra‐Fast Response and Low Dark Current. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(4). 16 indexed citations
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Wan, Shun, et al.. (2023). Impact of Various Dopants on Thermoelectric Transport Properties of Polycrystalline GeSb2Te4. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Heyang, et al.. (2023). Dynamical approach to the atomic and electronic structures of the ductile semiconductor Ag2S. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(24). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yifei, Tian‐Ran Wei, Jiangtao Wu, et al.. (2023). Non-layered InSe nanocrystalline bulk materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity. Journal of Materiomics. 10(2). 448–455. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Haoran, Yifei Liu, Heyang Chen, et al.. (2023). Remarkable plasticity and softness of polymorphic InSe van der Waals crystals. Journal of Materiomics. 9(4). 709–716. 20 indexed citations
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Wei, Tian‐Ran & Xun Shi. (2023). Plastically Deformable Inorganic Semiconductors. 2.
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Wang, Siyu, Tong Xing, Ping Hu, et al.. (2022). Optimized carrier concentration and enhanced thermoelectric properties in GeSb4-xBixTe7 materials. Applied Physics Letters. 121(21). 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Qingyu, Shiqi Yang, Pengfei Qiu, et al.. (2022). Flexible thermoelectrics based on ductile semiconductors. Science. 377(6608). 854–858. 356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wei, Tian‐Ran, Pengfei Qiu, Kunpeng Zhao, Xun Shi, & Lidong Chen. (2022). Ag2Q‐Based (Q = S, Se, Te) Silver Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Materials. 35(1). e2110236–e2110236. 121 indexed citations
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Gao, Zhiqiang, Tian‐Ran Wei, Tingting Deng, et al.. (2022). High-throughput screening of 2D van der Waals crystals with plastic deformability. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7491–7491. 66 indexed citations
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Gao, Zhiqiang, Qingyu Yang, Pengfei Qiu, et al.. (2021). p‐Type Plastic Inorganic Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(23). 76 indexed citations
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Xu, Qing, Sanyin Qu, Ming Chen, et al.. (2020). Conformal organic–inorganic semiconductor composites for flexible thermoelectrics. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(2). 511–518. 94 indexed citations
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Wei, Tian‐Ran, Min Jin, Yuecun Wang, et al.. (2020). Exceptional plasticity in the bulk single-crystalline van der Waals semiconductor InSe. Science. 369(6503). 542–545. 242 indexed citations

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