Wei Chen

24.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
569 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Chen has authored 569 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 262 papers in Materials Chemistry, 244 papers in Molecular Biology and 177 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Chen's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (195 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (141 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (114 papers). Wei Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (195 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (141 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (114 papers). Wei Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Wei Chen's co-authors include Hao‐Hua Deng, Xing‐Hua Xia, Hua‐Ping Peng, Xinhua Lin, Ai‐Lin Liu, Jian Ju, Ruizhong Zhang, Shao‐Bin He, Yuan‐Di Zhao and Wei Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Wei Chen

542 papers receiving 20.7k 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.

  1. Recent advances in electrochemical sensing for hydrogen peroxide: a review
    2011 852 citations Wei Chen, Yuan‐Di Zhao et al. profile →
  2. Nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots: Facile synthesis and application as a “turn-off” fluorescent probe for detection of Hg2+ ions
    2013 797 citations Wei Chen et al. profile →
  3. In Situ Growth of Surfactant-Free Gold Nanoparticles on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots for Electrochemical Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide in Biological Environments
    2014 525 citations Wei Chen et al. profile →
  4. Synthesis of highly fluorescent nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots for sensitive, label-free detection of Fe (III) in aqueous media
    2014 519 citations Wei Chen et al. profile →
  5. Carbon quantum dot-based nanoprobes for metal ion detection
    2016 449 citations Wei Chen et al. profile →
  6. Ultrahigh Stable Methanol Oxidation Enabled by a High Hydroxyl Concentration on Pt Clusters/MXene Interfaces
    2022 289 citations Wei Chen et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Wei Chen 11.5k 8.7k 7.3k 4.5k 2.5k 569 21.0k
Feng Li 7.1k 0.6× 10.2k 1.2× 5.8k 0.8× 5.5k 1.2× 2.1k 0.8× 366 17.4k
Xi Chen 7.6k 0.7× 4.0k 0.5× 6.1k 0.8× 3.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 400 15.8k
Xiurong Yang 9.0k 0.8× 9.0k 1.0× 8.7k 1.2× 5.6k 1.3× 3.2k 1.3× 478 23.9k
Yang Liu 8.5k 0.7× 6.7k 0.8× 8.4k 1.1× 7.0k 1.6× 2.1k 0.8× 608 23.1k
Songqin Liu 7.4k 0.6× 9.2k 1.1× 7.4k 1.0× 5.4k 1.2× 3.2k 1.3× 468 19.7k
Yan Zhang 6.9k 0.6× 6.7k 0.8× 4.5k 0.6× 6.4k 1.4× 1.4k 0.6× 522 16.1k
Yi‐Tao Long 5.3k 0.5× 6.8k 0.8× 5.5k 0.7× 8.9k 2.0× 3.4k 1.4× 455 19.3k
Dianping Tang 9.4k 0.8× 18.5k 2.1× 7.8k 1.1× 12.0k 2.7× 3.2k 1.3× 345 26.0k
Jinghua Yu 5.8k 0.5× 16.3k 1.9× 6.3k 0.9× 11.5k 2.6× 2.5k 1.0× 571 25.2k
Xun Zhang 4.2k 0.4× 8.3k 1.0× 4.1k 0.6× 4.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 827 21.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Chen 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 Wei Chen. Wei Chen 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, Jiaojiao, et al.. (2025). Emerging Strategies in Smart Nano-PROTAC for Stimuli-Responsive Protein Degradation and Precision Cancer Therapy. Nano Biomedicine and Engineering. 17(3). 315–332. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenwen, et al.. (2025). Ionothermal synthesis of zwitterionic 3D-ionic liquid-COF@silica hybrid stationary phase for versatile liquid chromatographic separations. Separation and Purification Technology. 384. 136298–136298.
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Hu, Rong, Wei Chen, Fan Li, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneous Interface Engineering of 2D Black Phosphorus‐Based Materials for Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance. Small. 21(6). e2409735–e2409735. 11 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaotian, Mingzheng Huang, Shuting Yang, et al.. (2024). Spatially Confined Radical Addition Reaction for Electrochemical Synthesis of Carboxylated Graphene and its Applications in Water Desalination and Splitting. Small. 20(38). e2401972–e2401972. 6 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi, Wei Chen, Lu Wang, et al.. (2024). Enhance the Antimycobacterial Activity of Streptomycin with Ebselen as an Antibiotic Adjuvant Through Disrupting Redox Homeostasis. Drug Design Development and Therapy. Volume 18. 3811–3824. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, et al.. (2024). Electrostatic Confinement‐Induced Excited Charge Transfer in Ionic Covalent Organic Framework Promoting CO2 Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(6). e202418422–e202418422. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Qiaoling, S. C. Yu, Yan Hu, et al.. (2024). Ingenious design of novel layered double hydroxide/conjugated microporous polymer modified silica gel for diversified chromatographic applications. Separation and Purification Technology. 359. 130667–130667. 10 indexed citations
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He, Shao‐Bin, Yuan Xu, Feng-Lin Lin, et al.. (2024). Engineering nickel-supported osmium bimetallic nanozymes with specifically improved peroxidase-like activity for immunoassay. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(4). 110096–110096. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Youlu, et al.. (2024). “All in one” lipid-polymer nanodelivery system for gene therapy of ischemic diseases. Biomaterials. 313. 122799–122799. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Huai, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Kai Cheng, et al.. (2024). One-step detection of glutathione based on MnO2 nanosheet and pregnancy test strip. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 410. 135652–135652. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yue‐Fei, et al.. (2023). Chitosan/polyacrylic acid/octadecene double-crosslinked network hydrogel functionalized porous silica microspheres for multimode liquid chromatographic separation. Journal of Chromatography A. 1709. 464390–464390. 13 indexed citations
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Wan, Huaiyu, et al.. (2023). Towards Enhancing Relational Rules for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction. 10082–10097. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, et al.. (2023). General principle and optimization of magneto‐acousto‐electrical tomography based on image distortion evaluation. Medical Physics. 50(5). 3076–3091. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zeyi, Wei Wu, Suhao Chen, et al.. (2023). Directed Dual Charge Pumping Tunes the d‐Orbital Configuration of Pt Cluster Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Kinetic. Small. 20(22). e2307135–e2307135. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, et al.. (2023). Requirements in structure for chiral recognition of chitosan derivatives. Journal of Chromatography A. 1690. 463783–463783. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, Yongheng Zhou, Minglei Cao, et al.. (2023). Achieving high area capacitance of Ti3C2Tx//MnO2 flexible aqueous zinc-ion hybrid microsupercapacitors with wide operating voltage window. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 965. 171488–171488. 9 indexed citations
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Lai, Qingteng, Yanke Zhang, Wei Chen, & Zhengchun Liu. (2023). Target “turn on” electrochemical pseudocapacitive sensor for ultrasensitive detection of microRNA-141. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 381. 133469–133469. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, Denis Klemm, Ravuri S. K. Kishore, et al.. (2023). Screening techniques for monitoring the sub-visible particle formation of free fatty acids in biopharmaceuticals. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. 190. 242–247. 4 indexed citations

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