Wei Lu

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Lu is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Lu has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Organic Chemistry, 66 papers in Materials Chemistry and 60 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Lu's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (49 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (45 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (20 papers). Wei Lu is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (49 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (45 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (20 papers). Wei Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Japan. Wei Lu's co-authors include Chi‐Ming Che, Nianyong Zhu, Michael C. W. Chan, Yong Chen, Takaki Kanbara, Junpei Kuwabara, Stephen Sin‐Yin Chui, Hui Zheng, Vellaisamy A. L. Roy and Kai Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wei Lu

144 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

Light-Emitting Tridentate Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Com... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Light-Emitting Tridentate Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes Containing σ-Alkynyl Auxiliaries:  Tuning of Photo- and Electrophosphorescence
    2004 571 citations Wei Lu, Chi‐Ming Che et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Lu China 55 3.7k 3.7k 3.3k 1.1k 891 150 8.0k
D. Venkataraman United States 41 2.9k 0.8× 3.3k 0.9× 2.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 115 7.7k
Xiaoming He China 44 3.0k 0.8× 2.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.5× 507 0.5× 555 0.6× 196 6.4k
Cheuk‐Lam Ho Hong Kong 51 6.2k 1.7× 2.4k 0.7× 7.3k 2.2× 2.9k 2.6× 974 1.1× 158 10.5k
Fabrice Odobel France 60 7.2k 2.0× 1.5k 0.4× 2.7k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 984 1.1× 234 11.3k
Pingwu Du China 71 9.1k 2.5× 2.6k 0.7× 6.0k 1.8× 400 0.4× 917 1.0× 206 16.0k
K. R. Justin Thomas India 53 4.6k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 3.7k 1.1× 2.0k 1.8× 711 0.8× 217 8.8k
Seung Uk Son South Korea 54 4.8k 1.3× 3.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.6× 662 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 238 9.2k
Liang Zhao China 47 1.8k 0.5× 4.0k 1.1× 2.3k 0.7× 218 0.2× 2.1k 2.3× 161 8.2k
Jian Xu China 43 3.5k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.3× 862 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 138 7.0k
Kimihisa Yamamoto Japan 47 4.5k 1.2× 2.2k 0.6× 3.0k 0.9× 3.3k 2.9× 1.0k 1.2× 336 8.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Lu 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 Lu. Wei Lu 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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Zhang, Yangbo, et al.. (2025). Effective Near-Infrared Triplet Emitter Based on Hetero-Metal–Metal Interaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(23). 19949–19958. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Mengyue, Wai‐Pong To, Glenna So Ming Tong, et al.. (2024). Dinuclear Cyclometalated Pincer Nickel(II) Complexes with Metal‐Metal‐to‐Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States and Near‐Infrared Emission. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202414411–e202414411. 8 indexed citations
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Jiang, He, Xiu‐Fang Song, Xiaoyong Chang, et al.. (2024). Tetradentate carbene–anilido boron complexes: highly fluorescent dyes with larger Stokes shifts than BODIPY analogues. Chemical Communications. 60(81). 11524–11527. 3 indexed citations
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Dong, Min, Rui Tang, Jiajia Zhao, et al.. (2023). Mitochondria-targeted Janus mesoporous nanoplatform for tumor photodynamic therapy. Chinese Chemical Letters. 35(2). 108539–108539. 3 indexed citations
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Shi, Ming‐Lin, et al.. (2023). Circularly polarized chemiluminescence from planar chiral bis(adamantylidene-1,2-dioxetane)s. Chemical Communications. 59(78). 11652–11655. 1 indexed citations
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Jiang, He, Xiaoyong Chang, Chao Zou, et al.. (2023). Tunable Yellow to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Boron-Amino-Chelating Complexes with Stokes Shifts >100 nm. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 88(20). 14836–14841. 4 indexed citations
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Zou, Chao, et al.. (2023). Aggregation of phosphorescent Pd(ii) and Pt(ii) complexes with lipophilic counter-anions in non-polar solvents. Dalton Transactions. 52(17). 5503–5513. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Sihan, et al.. (2023). Programmable photochemical deoxygenation for 2.5D grayscale printing. Chemical Communications. 60(5). 546–549. 1 indexed citations
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Wan, Shigang, et al.. (2022). Photochemically deoxygenating gels for triplet–triplet annihilation photon-upconversion performed under air. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(47). 29151–29158. 14 indexed citations
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Chang, Xiaoyong, et al.. (2022). The energy gap law for NIR-phosphorescent Cr(iii) complexes. Dalton Transactions. 52(9). 2561–2565. 26 indexed citations
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Wan, Shigang, et al.. (2020). A Prototype of a Volumetric Three‐Dimensional Display Based on Programmable Photo‐Activated Phosphorescence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(22). 8416–8420. 30 indexed citations
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Wan, Qingyun, et al.. (2019). Kinetically Controlled Self-Assembly of Phosphorescent AuIII Aggregates and Ligand-to-Metal–Metal Charge Transfer Excited State: A Combined Spectroscopic and DFT/TDDFT Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(29). 11572–11582. 56 indexed citations
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Wan, Qingyun, Wai‐Pong To, Wei Lu, et al.. (2018). Counteranion‐ and Solvent‐Mediated Chirality Transfer in the Supramolecular Polymerization of Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(52). 17189–17193. 63 indexed citations
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Zou, Chao, et al.. (2018). Palladium(ii) N-heterocyclic allenylidene complexes with extended intercationic Pd⋯Pd interactions and MMLCT phosphorescence. Chemical Communications. 54(42). 5319–5322. 54 indexed citations
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Xie, Mo & Wei Lu. (2018). Theoretical insights into intermolecular interactions during d8 organometallic self-aggregation. Dalton Transactions. 48(4). 1275–1283. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Qi, Mo Xie, Xiaoyong Chang, et al.. (2018). Correlating thermochromic and mechanochromic phosphorescence with polymorphs of a complex gold(i) double salt with infinite aurophilicity. Chemical Communications. 54(91). 12844–12847. 43 indexed citations
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Gao, Qin, Chao Zou, & Wei Lu. (2018). Lyotropic Chromonic Mesophases Derived from Metal–Organic Complexes. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 13(21). 3092–3105. 5 indexed citations

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