Victor Fung

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Victor Fung is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Fung has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Catalysis and 24 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Victor Fung's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (40 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (31 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers). Victor Fung is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (40 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (31 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers). Victor Fung collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Victor Fung's co-authors include De‐en Jiang, Guoxiang Hu, Zili Wu, Bobby G. Sumpter, Jianping Xie, Franklin Tao, Qiaofeng Yao, Panchapakesan Ganesh, June Eisenman and Dirk Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Victor Fung

95 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Cloning of a T Cell Growth Factor that Interacts with the β Chain of the Interleukin-2 Receptor

1994 1.2k citations Victor Fung et al. profile →
Benchmarking graph neural networks for materials chemistry

2021 207 citations Victor Fung, Jiaxin Zhang et al. npj Computational Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victor Fung United States	42	4.0k	1.4k	1.4k	1.0k	774	101	6.4k
Zhonghao Li China	51	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	259 0.2×	569 0.7×	252	8.2k
Jun Zhang China	46	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	448 0.3×	1.4k 1.4×	286 0.4×	283	7.4k
Maochang Liu China	52	5.4k 1.3×	5.8k 4.3×	482 0.4×	902 0.9×	699 0.9×	256	9.2k
Lanying Li China	37	2.8k 0.7×	700 0.5×	447 0.3×	154 0.1×	555 0.7×	153	5.3k
Xiaoqian Wang China	39	4.7k 1.2×	6.5k 4.8×	1.9k 1.4×	438 0.4×	610 0.8×	178	10.8k
Xiaofeng Feng China	30	2.2k 0.6×	2.9k 2.1×	2.3k 1.7×	231 0.2×	263 0.3×	82	7.1k
Toshiki Kijima Japan	39	2.7k 0.7×	710 0.5×	657 0.5×	78 0.1×	543 0.7×	265	5.2k
Ting He China	33	2.8k 0.7×	668 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	138 0.1×	219 0.3×	106	5.1k
Sheng Ye China	40	2.9k 0.7×	3.0k 2.2×	246 0.2×	181 0.2×	348 0.4×	229	7.4k
Yuejin Li China	40	2.4k 0.6×	398 0.3×	1.7k 1.3×	209 0.2×	97 0.1×	190	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Victor Fung

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Fields of papers citing papers by Victor Fung

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Fung

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All Works

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Al‐Fahdi, Mohammed, et al.. (2025). A Comprehensive Assessment and Benchmark Study of Large Atomistic Foundation Models for Phonons. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Moon, Jisue, Yuanyuan Li, Yongqiang Cheng, et al.. (2025). Structure–Activity Relationships for Ethanol Dehydrogenation to Acetaldehyde by Silica-Supported Zinc Oxide Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 15(20). 17225–17240.

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Feng, Rui, et al.. (2024). Derivative-based pre-training of graph neural networks for materials property predictions. Digital Discovery. 3(3). 586–593. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenying, Dong Chen, Victor Fung, et al.. (2024). Gapped and Rotated Grain Boundary Revealed in Ultra‐Small Au Nanoparticles for Enhancing Electrochemical CO ₂ Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3).

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Yu, Xinbin, Jisue Moon, Yongqiang Cheng, et al.. (2023). In Situ Neutron Scattering Study of the Structure Dynamics of the Ru/Ca₂N:e^– Catalyst in Ammonia Synthesis. Chemistry of Materials. 35(6). 2456–2462. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Sikai, Victor Fung, Max J. Hülsey, et al.. (2023). H2-reduced phosphomolybdate promotes room-temperature aerobic oxidation of methane to methanol. Nature Catalysis. 6(10). 895–905. 66 indexed citations

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Polo‐Garzon, Felipe, Victor Fung, Junyan Zhang, et al.. (2022). CH₄ Activation over Perovskite Catalysts: True Density and Reactivity of Active Sites. ACS Catalysis. 12(19). 11845–11853. 11 indexed citations

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Bueno, Sandra L. A., Alberto Leonardi, Kaustav Chatterjee, et al.. (2022). Quinary, Senary, and Septenary High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts from Core@Shell Nanoparticles and the Significance of Intraparticle Heterogeneity. ACS Nano. 16(11). 18873–18885. 75 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xiao, Bar Mosevitzky Lis, Stephen C. Purdy, et al.. (2022). CO₂-Assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over VO_x/In₂O₃ Catalysts: Interplay between Redox Property and Acid–Base Interactions. ACS Catalysis. 12(18). 11239–11252. 40 indexed citations

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Fung, Victor, et al.. (2021). Benchmarking graph neural networks for materials chemistry. npj Computational Materials. 7(1). 207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jiang, Xiao, Lohit Sharma, Victor Fung, et al.. (2021). Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propylene with Soft Oxidants via Heterogeneous Catalysis. ACS Catalysis. 11(4). 2182–2234. 163 indexed citations

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Luo, Si, Meijun Li, Victor Fung, et al.. (2021). New Insights into the Bulk and Surface Defect Structures of Ceria Nanocrystals from Neutron Scattering Study. Chemistry of Materials. 33(11). 3959–3970. 32 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuanyu, Rui You, Zeyue Wei, et al.. (2020). Radical Chemistry and Reaction Mechanisms of Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation over Hexagonal Boron Nitride Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 132(21). 8119–8123. 13 indexed citations

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Wu, Peiwen, Shuai Tan, Jisue Moon, et al.. (2020). Harnessing strong metal–support interactions via a reverse route. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3042–3042. 141 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuanyu, Rui You, Zeyue Wei, et al.. (2020). Radical Chemistry and Reaction Mechanisms of Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation over Hexagonal Boron Nitride Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(21). 8042–8046. 110 indexed citations

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Kammert, James D., Jisue Moon, Yongqiang Cheng, et al.. (2020). Nature of Reactive Hydrogen for Ammonia Synthesis over a Ru/C12A7 Electride Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(16). 7655–7667. 82 indexed citations

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Polo‐Garzon, Felipe, Victor Fung, Luan Nguyen, et al.. (2019). Elucidation of the Reaction Mechanism for High-Temperature Water Gas Shift over an Industrial-Type Copper–Chromium–Iron Oxide Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(19). 7990–7999. 73 indexed citations

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Chen, Tiankai, Victor Fung, Qiaofeng Yao, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of Water-Soluble [Au₂₅(SR)₁₈]⁻ Using a Stoichiometric Amount of NaBH₄. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(36). 11370–11377. 102 indexed citations

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Yao, Qiaofeng, Feng Yan, Victor Fung, et al.. (2017). Precise control of alloying sites of bimetallic nanoclusters via surface motif exchange reaction. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1555–1555. 134 indexed citations

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Yao, Qiaofeng, Xun Yuan, Victor Fung, et al.. (2017). Understanding seed-mediated growth of gold nanoclusters at molecular level. Nature Communications. 8(1). 927–927. 263 indexed citations

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