Tong Zhao

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Tong Zhao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tong Zhao has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Materials Chemistry, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Tong Zhao's work include Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (5 papers), Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (5 papers) and Construction Project Management and Performance (4 papers). Tong Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (5 papers), Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (5 papers) and Construction Project Management and Performance (4 papers). Tong Zhao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Tong Zhao's co-authors include R. Ramesh, V. Nagarajan, Chung‐Li Tseng, J. Melngailis, Le Chen, Orlando Auciello, A. Roytburd, Andrei Stanishevsky, K. Urban and Rainer Waser and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tong Zhao

24 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dynamics of ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric thin films

2002 481 citations V. Nagarajan, A. Roytburd et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tong Zhao United States	12	888	474	427	280	140	31	1.3k
Adam Bennett United Kingdom	14	391 0.4×	172 0.4×	291 0.7×	208 0.7×	156 1.1×	37	971
Andreas Kern Germany	19	214 0.2×	520 1.1×	598 1.4×	326 1.2×	109 0.8×	82	1.3k
Pu Gong China	13	578 0.7×	99 0.2×	157 0.4×	508 1.8×	144 1.0×	40	1.1k
Junjie Kang China	24	524 0.6×	308 0.6×	263 0.6×	443 1.6×	9 0.1×	83	1.7k
Linfeng Chen China	23	1.5k 1.7×	337 0.7×	214 0.5×	1.1k 3.8×	13 0.1×	112	2.4k
Muhammad Amin Saudi Arabia	20	146 0.2×	840 1.8×	680 1.6×	462 1.6×	22 0.2×	75	1.5k
Stephan Fahr Germany	21	276 0.3×	140 0.3×	367 0.9×	690 2.5×	149 1.1×	49	1.2k
Joon‐Seok Kim United States	22	2.4k 2.7×	193 0.4×	634 1.5×	1.2k 4.4×	30 0.2×	84	3.2k
Xiaolian Liu China	19	227 0.3×	82 0.2×	117 0.3×	402 1.4×	19 0.1×	67	902

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tong Zhao

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ren, Zhiyu, Tong Zhao, Wen‐Cheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Plasmonic metamaterials with closed cells for infrared/visible compatible stealth. Chemical Engineering Journal. 523. 168812–168812.

Cui, Yaoping, Xiangzheng Deng, Chaosheng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Refined big data on carbon sequestration for urban trees: 3D information and spatial carbon stock. Sustainable Cities and Society. 134. 106901–106901.

Wang, Tao, et al.. (2025). Failure behavior and crack evolution mechanism of coal-rock with hole under asymmetric load-creep condition. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources. 11(1).

Wang, Yanan, et al.. (2025). Ecological drought sensitivity assessment of winter wheat in the Huang-Huai-Hai plain, China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197(3). 279–279.

Zhao, Tong, Laurent Busé, David Cohen‐Steiner, et al.. (2023). Variational Shape Reconstruction via Quadric Error Metrics. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–10. 7 indexed citations

Zhao, Tong, et al.. (2023). Sharp feature consolidation from raw 3D point clouds via displacement learning. Computer Aided Geometric Design. 103. 102204–102204. 8 indexed citations

Cheng, Zhongzhou, Tong Zhao, & Haibo Zeng. (2021). 2D Material‐Based Photodetectors for Infrared Imaging. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 2100051–2100051. 88 indexed citations

Wu, Zhaoyuan, Ming Zhou, Gengyin Li, et al.. (2020). Interaction between balancing market design and market behaviour of wind power producers in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 132. 110060–110060. 25 indexed citations

Shen, Meikun, et al.. (2019). Light-Driven, Facet-Selective Transformation of Cuprous Oxide Microcrystals to Hollow Copper Nanoshells. Chemistry of Materials. 31(19). 8000–8011. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tong, et al.. (2013). CDR.1246 Avoiding the Pitfalls in Implementing the Measured Mile Method.

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Forrester, M. G., Joachim Ahner, D. Bolten, et al.. (2009). Charge-based scanning probe readback of nanometer-scale ferroelectric domain patterns at megahertz rates. Nanotechnology. 20(22). 225501–225501. 16 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tong & Chung C. Fu. (2006). Infrastructure Development and Expansion under Uncertainty: A Risk-Preference-Based Lattice Approach. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 132(6). 620–625. 10 indexed citations

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Jia, Chun‐Lin, V. Nagarajan, Jiaqing He, et al.. (2006). Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films. Nature Materials. 6(1). 64–69. 334 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tong, et al.. (2006). Flexible facility interior layout: a real options approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 58(6). 729–739. 10 indexed citations

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Dougherty, Daniel B., et al.. (2005). Spiral Evolution in a Confined Geometry. Physical Review Letters. 95(22). 225505–225505. 9 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tong, et al.. (2004). Highway Development Decision-Making under Uncertainty: A Real Options Approach. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 10(1). 23–32. 103 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tong & Chung‐Li Tseng. (2003). Valuing Flexibility in Infrastructure Expansion. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 9(3). 89–97. 92 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tong, et al.. (2003). A note on activity floats in activity-on-arrow networks. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 54(12). 1296–1299. 3 indexed citations

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Korolev, Konstantin A., J. R. Knab, J. Černe, et al.. (2003). Direct measurements of optical phonons in SrTiO3 nanosystems. Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. 19(1-2). 236–239. 2 indexed citations

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Nagarajan, V., A. Roytburd, Andrei Stanishevsky, et al.. (2002). Dynamics of ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric thin films. Nature Materials. 2(1). 43–47. 481 indexed citations breakdown →

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