Wei Shao

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Shao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Shao has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 26 papers in Materials Chemistry and 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Shao's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Wei Shao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Wei Shao collaborates with scholars based in China, Malaysia and United States. Wei Shao's co-authors include Xiaodong Zhang, Yi Xie, Shichuan Chen, Xianshun Sun, Junfeng Xie, Hui Wang, Qun Zhang, Shenlong Jiang, Hui Wang and Bicai Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Wei Shao

55 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Ultrathin Black Phosphorus Nanosheets for Efficient Singlet Oxygen Generation

2015 934 citations Hui Wang, Wei Shao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Oxygen-Vacancy-Mediated Exciton Dissociation in BiOBr for Boosting Charge-Carrier-Involved Molecular Oxygen Activation

2018 767 citations Hui Wang, Dingyu Yong et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Generation in Oxidized Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Organic Synthesis

2016 497 citations Hui Wang, Shenlong Jiang et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Shao China	26	3.2k	3.0k	1.7k	776	350	58	4.8k
Baiqi Wang China	27	3.9k 1.2×	3.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	553 0.7×	249 0.7×	81	5.6k
Meng Sun China	40	2.9k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	311 0.4×	225 0.6×	101	4.4k
Huiqin Wang China	45	3.7k 1.2×	3.7k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	359 0.5×	502 1.4×	124	5.2k
Xiaojuan Bai China	34	4.2k 1.3×	4.8k 1.6×	2.5k 1.5×	392 0.5×	300 0.9×	82	6.1k
Fang Jiang China	43	3.2k 1.0×	3.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	589 0.8×	305 0.9×	122	5.7k
Zhurui Shen China	43	4.2k 1.3×	4.5k 1.5×	2.3k 1.3×	677 0.9×	411 1.2×	119	6.3k
Lin Chen China	45	3.0k 0.9×	4.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.3×	691 0.9×	453 1.3×	202	6.6k
Jenny Schneider Germany	22	5.4k 1.7×	6.7k 2.3×	1.6k 1.0×	480 0.6×	378 1.1×	47	8.1k
Tsutomu Hirakawa Japan	24	2.8k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	953 0.6×	371 0.5×	150 0.4×	36	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Shao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Shao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Shao 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 Shao. Wei Shao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Sheng, Guan, Shengyu Hu, Soorathep Kheawhom, et al.. (2025). Rational design of transition metal-based heterostructure electrocatalysts for high-performance oxygen evolution reaction. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 127. 717–736. 6 indexed citations

Shang, Shu, Lei Li, Hui Wang, et al.. (2024). Single-atom-mediated electron islands boost photocatalytic CO2 chemical fixation. Science China Chemistry. 67(7). 2292–2299. 5 indexed citations

Feng, Jinhua, Wei Shao, Zhen Chen, et al.. (2024). In-situ interfacial synthesis of metal-organic framework/polyamide thin-film nanocomposite membranes with elevated nanofiltration performances. Journal of Membrane Science. 694. 122418–122418. 39 indexed citations

Li, Lei, Panzhe Qiao, Wenxiu Liu, et al.. (2024). Symmetry-Broken Steered Delocalization State in a Single-Atom Photocatalyst. Nano Letters. 24(45). 14412–14419. 9 indexed citations

Shao, Wei, Xin Zhang, Zhenghao Li, Juan Xu, & Guo‐Ping Sheng. (2023). Electrochemical surface plasmon resonance approach to probe redox interactions between microbial extracellular polymeric substances and p-nitrophenol. Journal of Environmental Management. 349. 119409–119409. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yan, Wenxiu Liu, Wei Shao, et al.. (2023). Elemental doping inhibits surface-state-mediated charge carrier trapping for promoting photocatalytic selective oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(7). 3594–3598. 10 indexed citations

Jin, Sen, Wei Shao, Xiao Luo, et al.. (2022). Spatial Band Separation in a Surface Doped Heterolayered Structure for Realizing Efficient Singlet Oxygen Generation. Advanced Materials. 34(47). e2206516–e2206516. 45 indexed citations

Liu, Wenxiu, Lei Li, Wei Shao, et al.. (2022). Vacancy-cluster-mediated surface activation for boosting CO₂ chemical fixation. Chemical Science. 14(6). 1397–1402. 17 indexed citations

Shao, Wei & Xiaodong Zhang. (2021). Atomic-level engineering of two-dimensional electrocatalysts for CO₂reduction. Nanoscale. 13(15). 7081–7095. 29 indexed citations

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Jin, Sen, Wei Shao, Shichuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Ultrathin In‐Plane Heterostructures for Efficient CO₂ Chemical Fixation. Angewandte Chemie. 134(3). 2 indexed citations

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Jin, Sen, Wei Shao, Shichuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Ultrathin In‐Plane Heterostructures for Efficient CO₂ Chemical Fixation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(3). e202113411–e202113411. 30 indexed citations

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Shao, Wei, Li Wang, Hui Wang, et al.. (2019). Efficient Exciton Dissociation in Heterojunction Interfaces Realizing Enhanced Photoresponsive Performance. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(11). 2904–2910. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2019). Antibiotic resistance and microbiota in the gut of Chinese four major freshwater carp from retail markets. Environmental Pollution. 255(Pt 2). 113327–113327. 45 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Shenlong Jiang, Wei Shao, et al.. (2018). Optically Switchable Photocatalysis in Ultrathin Black Phosphorus Nanosheets. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(9). 3474–3480. 245 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2018). Mercury/silver resistance genes and their association with antibiotic resistance genes and microbial community in a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The Science of The Total Environment. 657. 1014–1022. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Dingyu Yong, Shichuan Chen, et al.. (2018). Oxygen-Vacancy-Mediated Exciton Dissociation in BiOBr for Boosting Charge-Carrier-Involved Molecular Oxygen Activation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(5). 1760–1766. 767 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shao, Wei, Hui Wang, & Xiaodong Zhang. (2018). Elemental doping for optimizing photocatalysis in semiconductors. Dalton Transactions. 47(36). 12642–12646. 67 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Xianshun Sun, Dandan Li, et al.. (2017). Boosting Hot-Electron Generation: Exciton Dissociation at the Order–Disorder Interfaces in Polymeric Photocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(6). 2468–2473. 367 indexed citations

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Chen, Shichuan, Xiaodong Zhang, Junfeng Xie, et al.. (2017). Highly Active Fe Sites in Ultrathin Pyrrhotite Fe₇S₈Nanosheets Realizing Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. ACS Central Science. 3(11). 1221–1227. 146 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Shichuan Chen, Dingyu Yong, et al.. (2017). Giant Electron–Hole Interactions in Confined Layered Structures for Molecular Oxygen Activation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(13). 4737–4742. 302 indexed citations

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