Wei Fan

13.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
198 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Wei Fan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Fan has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Materials Chemistry, 80 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 64 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Fan's work include Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (69 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (67 papers) and Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (48 papers). Wei Fan is often cited by papers focused on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (69 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (67 papers) and Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (48 papers). Wei Fan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Wei Fan's co-authors include Chun‐Chih Chang, Paul J. Dauenhauer, Hong Je Cho, Michael Tsapatsis, Zhuopeng Wang, Paul Dornath, George W. Huber, Tatsuya Okubo, Yu‐Ting Cheng and Gang Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Wei Fan

192 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar

2014 604 citations Wei Fan et al. profile →
Hierarchical nanofabrication of microporous crystals with ordered mesoporosity

2008 533 citations Wei Fan, Won Cheol Yoo et al. profile →
Direct Aqueous-Phase Synthesis of Sub-10 nm “Luminous Pearls” with Enhanced in Vivo Renewable Near-Infrared Persistent Luminescence

2015 398 citations Wei Fan et al. profile →
Cycloaddition of Biomass-Derived Furans for Catalytic Production of Renewable p-Xylene

2012 397 citations Dionisios G. Vlachos, Wei Fan et al. profile →
Dye-Sensitized Core/Active Shell Upconversion Nanoparticles for Optogenetics and Bioimaging Applications

2016 390 citations Wei Fan et al. ACS Nano profile →
Progress in advanced MOF-derived materials for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants

2025 23 citations Wei Fan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Fan United States	60	4.9k	4.5k	3.7k	2.2k	1.2k	198	10.7k
Ying Zhang China	56	4.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	416	10.9k
Cara M. Doherty Australia	55	5.3k 1.1×	2.2k 0.5×	4.1k 1.1×	3.8k 1.8×	2.7k 2.3×	162	10.7k
Jingwei Hou Australia	64	4.3k 0.9×	3.7k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.5×	2.7k 2.3×	199	11.4k
Yue Wang China	50	3.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	348	8.5k
Yuxiang Wang China	53	5.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.3×	4.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	202	8.8k
Hong‐Ping Lin Taiwan	46	5.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	674 0.3×	1.0k 0.9×	255	8.2k
Tao Wang China	56	5.4k 1.1×	2.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	3.6k 3.1×	451	12.2k
Haiying Wang China	58	3.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	3.5k 3.0×	385	11.9k
Haiyan Zhao China	37	3.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	880 0.2×	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	203	6.5k
Xiaoyu Yang China	47	5.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.3×	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	2.7k 2.3×	295	10.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Fan

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Wang, Rong, Mengjun Chen, Wei Fan, et al.. (2025). Jarosite residues recycling by slurry electrolysis: Iron recovery and detoxification in one step. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 195. 106757–106757. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Zhu, et al.. (2025). Rapid Crystallization of Zeolites with Controllable Defects: Disentangling Fluoride Concentration and pH Using NH₄F. Crystal Growth & Design. 25(6). 1821–1832. 2 indexed citations

Jian, Zhou, Yangdong Wang, Wenhua Fu, et al.. (2025). Nanozeolite-Driven Gear-Catalysis Enabling Sequential Methanol-to-Aromatics Conversion. ACS Nano. 19(19). 18322–18331. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Zhaoxing, et al.. (2024). Cycloaddition–dehydration continuous flow chemistry for renewable para-xylene production from 2,5-dimethylfuran and ethylene over phosphorous-decorated zeolite beta. Green Chemistry. 26(15). 8831–8839. 1 indexed citations

Okoroanyanwu, Uzodinma, et al.. (2024). Large‐Area Fabrication of Porous Graphene Networks on Carbon Fabric via Millisecond Photothermal Processing of Polyaniline for Supercapacitors. Small. 20(33). e2402049–e2402049. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Tongkun, Long Qi, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, et al.. (2024). Removing Fluoride from Double Four-Membered Rings Yielding Defect-Free Zeolites under Mild Conditions Using Ozone. Chemistry of Materials. 36(2). 870–880. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Yinjie, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning-Assisted High-Throughput Screening of Metal–Organic Frameworks for CO₂ Separation from CO₂-Rich Natural Gas. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 63(38). 16497–16508. 5 indexed citations

Li, Jian, Zihao Gao, Qingfang Lin, et al.. (2023). A 3D extra-large-pore zeolite enabled by 1D-to-3D topotactic condensation of a chain silicate. Science. 379(6629). 283–287. 101 indexed citations

Maag, Alex R., Edward B. Ledford, John R. Coleman, et al.. (2022). Improving Yields and Catalyst Reuse for Palmitic Acid Aromatization in the Presence of Pressurized Water. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(17). 5659–5673. 4 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiaxin, Stephen S. Nonnenmann, Guan Sheng, et al.. (2021). Exfoliation of surfactant swollen layered MWW zeolites into two-dimensional zeolite nanosheets using telechelic liquid polybutadiene. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 315. 110883–110883. 11 indexed citations

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Ren, Limin, Vivek Vattipalli, Huiyong Chen, et al.. (2020). Role of Silica Support in Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Production of p-Xylene from 2,5-Dimethylfuran and Ethylene. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 59(51). 22049–22056. 15 indexed citations

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Cho, Hong Je, Nicholas S. Gould, Vivek Vattipalli, et al.. (2019). Fabrication of hierarchical Lewis acid Sn-BEA with tunable hydrophobicity for cellulosic sugar isomerization. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 278. 387–396. 34 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peixin, Jun Wang, Wei Fan, et al.. (2019). Ultramicroporous carbons with extremely narrow pore size distribution via in-situ ionic activation for efficient gas-mixture separation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 375. 121931–121931. 75 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingjing, Lin Tang, P. Somasundaran, et al.. (2017). Highly effective antibacterial activity by the synergistic effect of three dimensional ordered mesoporous carbon-lysozyme composite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 503. 131–141. 18 indexed citations

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Fan, Wei. (2013). Outcomes of in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer in men with latent syphilis. Shandong yiyao. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Wei. (2011). Optimization and study on a high-performance ASE fiber source. Journal of Optoelectronics·laser. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yu‐Ting, Jungho Jae, Jian Shi, Wei Fan, & George W. Huber. (2011). Production of Renewable Aromatic Compounds by Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass with Bifunctional Ga/ZSM‐5 Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(6). 1387–1390. 382 indexed citations

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Fan, Wei, Damien D. Brewer, Manickam Adhimoolam Arunagirinathan, et al.. (2011). Silica‐Nanoparticle Coatings by Adsorption from Lysine–Silica‐Nanoparticle Sols on Inorganic and Biological Surfaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(7). 1617–1621. 25 indexed citations

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Fan, Wei, Yulan Liu, Zhifeng Wu, et al.. (2010). Effects of rosiglitazone, an agonist of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ, on intestinal damage induced by Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide in weaned pigs. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 71(11). 1331–1338. 4 indexed citations

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Yoo, Won Cheol, Sandeep Kumar, Zhiyong Wang, et al.. (2008). Nanoscale Reactor Engineering: Hydrothermal Synthesis of Uniform Zeolite Particles in Massively Parallel Reaction Chambers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(47). 9096–9099. 33 indexed citations

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