Wei Ren

13.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
388 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Wei Ren is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Ren has authored 388 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 269 papers in Materials Chemistry, 159 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 105 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Ren's work include Multiferroics and related materials (97 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (72 papers) and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (66 papers). Wei Ren is often cited by papers focused on Multiferroics and related materials (97 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (72 papers) and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (66 papers). Wei Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Wei Ren's co-authors include L. Bellaïche, Shixun Cao, Xinchen Wang, Jincang Zhang, Tao Hu, Alessandro Stroppa, Baojuan Kang, Guodong Zhao, Fanhao Jia and Heng Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wei Ren

371 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Hopping transport through defect-induced localized states in molybdenum disulphide

2013 995 citations Wei Ren et al. profile →
Intrinsic and anisotropic Rashba spin splitting in Janus transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers

2018 322 citations Tao Hu, Fanhao Jia et al. Physical review. B. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Ren China	53	7.7k	4.1k	3.1k	1.9k	1.6k	388	10.9k
Jing Tao United States	44	6.3k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	142	10.8k
João P. Araújo Portugal	47	5.5k 0.7×	4.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	421	9.0k
Richard G. Hennig United States	59	10.3k 1.3×	1.8k 0.4×	4.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	847 0.5×	196	13.0k
Yu Xie China	45	9.6k 1.2×	2.1k 0.5×	5.1k 1.7×	797 0.4×	954 0.6×	122	12.1k
Biswarup Satpati India	50	6.7k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	4.8k 1.6×	1.7k 0.9×	757 0.5×	392	11.2k
Shuai Dong China	52	6.3k 0.8×	5.5k 1.3×	2.8k 0.9×	846 0.4×	3.0k 1.9×	381	10.8k
Shiming Zhou China	49	3.3k 0.4×	3.0k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	346	8.7k
Wei Ji China	56	11.7k 1.5×	3.1k 0.7×	7.0k 2.3×	3.5k 1.8×	736 0.5×	302	16.6k
Tadaaki Nagao Japan	58	4.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 0.9×	4.4k 2.3×	1.2k 0.8×	283	11.0k
Xin-Gao Gong China	50	6.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	3.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	184	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Ren

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Ren, Wei, Yan Xiong, Lei Yang, et al.. (2025). Sulfur modulated oxygen-rich porous carbon exhibiting high-capacity as cathode for sodium ion hybrid capacitors. Carbon. 238. 120245–120245. 7 indexed citations

Peng, Yanhua, Yaxin Cheng, Jueli Shi, et al.. (2025). Bimetallic Phase Transition Induced Asymmetric Spin‐State Modulation for Controllable Radical‐Nonradical Pathways. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(25).

Jia, Fanhao, Shaowen Xu, Shunbo Hu, et al.. (2025). Understanding the intrinsic piezoelectric anisotropy of tetragonal ABO3 perovskites through a high-throughput study. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 4 indexed citations

Yang, Lei, Wei Ren, Xinyu Wang, et al.. (2025). Joule Heating Driven Graphitization Regulation and Ni Single‐Atom Modification in Hard Carbon for Low‐Voltage and High‐Rate Potassium‐Ion Storage. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(6). 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Jinyan, Yuebing Li, Zhe Wang, et al.. (2024). Simultaneous giant strain and electrostrictive coefficient in lead-free BNT-ST-BT ergodic relaxor thin films on Pt/TiO2/SiO2/Si substrates. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1008. 176514–176514. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Chao, Wei Ren, & Silvia Picozzi. (2024). Spin-Chirality-Driven Multiferroicity in van der Waals Monolayers. Physical Review Letters. 132(8). 86802–86802. 15 indexed citations

Su, Haijun, Yinuo Guo, Xinyu Yang, et al.. (2024). Insight into TaSi₂ Nanostructures with Different Morphologies and Their Field Emission Properties. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 2 indexed citations

Liu, Chaofei, Pedro Portugal, Yi Gao, et al.. (2024). Dynamical Coulomb blockade as a signature of the sign-reversing Cooper pairing potential. Physical review. B.. 110(1).

Li, Yongle, et al.. (2023). Molecular dynamics simulation of the transformation of Fe-Co alloy by machine learning force field based on atomic cluster expansion. Chemical Physics Letters. 826. 140646–140646. 4 indexed citations

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Gao, Heng, et al.. (2023). Spin–orbit coupling enhanced electron–phonon superconductivity in infinite-layer BaBiO2. AIP Advances. 13(12). 1 indexed citations

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Guo, Wuqian, Haojie Xu, Yu Ma, et al.. (2023). Electrically Switchable Persistent Spin Texture in a Two‐Dimensional Hybrid Perovskite Ferroelectric. Angewandte Chemie. 135(17). 3 indexed citations

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Zong, Junyu, Qinghao Meng, Wang Chen, et al.. (2022). Observation of multiple charge density wave phases in epitaxial monolayer 1T-VSe ₂ film. Chinese Physics B. 31(10). 107301–107301. 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Yabei, Zhao Tang, Ya Yang, et al.. (2022). Exploiting the stereoelectronic effects for selective tuning of band edge states of α-SnO: GW quasiparticle calculations. Physical review. B.. 106(8). 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Chao, Yangyang Chen, Bin Zhou, et al.. (2022). Strain-induced ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity in centrosymmetric binary oxides. Physical review. B.. 106(6). 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Can, Huaiqiang Wang, Wang Chen, et al.. (2021). Direct Observation of Global Elastic Intervalley Scattering Induced by Impurities on Graphene. Nano Letters. 21(19). 8258–8265. 9 indexed citations

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Xie, Yao, et al.. (2021). Nd3+-sensitized upconversion nanoparticle coated with antimony shell for bioimaging and photothermal therapy in vitro using single laser irradiation. Journal of Rare Earths. 40(6). 862–869. 26 indexed citations

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Chen, Yangyang, et al.. (2021). Volume-matched ferroelectric and piezoelectric ZnO/MgO superlattice. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 876. 160167–160167. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Chang, et al.. (2021). Tunable vertical ferroelectricity and domain walls by interlayer sliding in β-ZrI2. npj Computational Materials. 7(1). 25 indexed citations

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Lu, Jian, et al.. (2019). THz-frequency magnon-phonon-polaritons in the collective strong-coupling regime. Journal of Applied Physics. 125(21). 44 indexed citations

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Wu, Yabei, Weiyi Xia, Weiwei Gao, et al.. (2018). Quasiparticle electronic structure of honeycomb C ₃ N: from monolayer to bulk. 2D Materials. 6(1). 15018–15018. 21 indexed citations

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