Wei Shi

19.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
328 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Wei Shi is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Shi has authored 328 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 224 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 200 papers in Materials Chemistry and 174 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Wei Shi's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (211 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (158 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (109 papers). Wei Shi is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (211 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (158 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (109 papers). Wei Shi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Wei Shi's co-authors include Peng Cheng, Bin Zhao, Dai‐Zheng Liao, Shi‐Ping Yan, Shuangyan Wu, Jing-Min Zhou, Hui Min, Zongsu Han, Ke Liu and Na Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Wei Shi

320 papers receiving 17.6k 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.

Multicenter Metal–Organic Framework‐Based Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensors

2019 635 citations Hui Min, Wei Shi et al. profile →
Design and Synthesis of 3d−4f Metal-Based Zeolite-type Materials with a 3D Nanotubular Structure Encapsulated “Water” Pipe

2004 550 citations Peng Cheng, Wei Shi et al. profile →
Rapid Detection of the Biomarkers for Carcinoid Tumors by a Water Stable Luminescent Lanthanide Metal–Organic Framework Sensor

2018 485 citations Wei Shi, Peng Cheng et al. profile →
Toward heterometallic single-molecule magnets: Synthetic strategy, structures and properties of 3d–4f discrete complexes

2014 474 citations Wei Shi, Peng Cheng et al. Coordination Chemistry Reviews profile →
Bioinspired Framework Catalysts: From Enzyme Immobilization to Biomimetic Catalysis

2023 264 citations Kunyu Wang, Zongsu Han et al. profile →
Modular Construction of Multivariate Metal–Organic Frameworks for Luminescent Sensing

2025 38 citations Zongsu Han, Kunyu Wang 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 Shi China	70	11.7k	11.6k	8.0k	2.7k	2.3k	328	17.7k
Bin Zhao China	79	12.4k 1.1×	12.0k 1.0×	7.4k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	360	18.4k
Chunying Duan China	81	11.1k 1.0×	13.0k 1.1×	5.7k 0.7×	4.8k 1.8×	2.0k 0.9×	594	23.8k
José Ramón Galán‐Mascarós Spain	65	5.3k 0.4×	7.5k 0.7×	7.0k 0.9×	645 0.2×	3.1k 1.3×	246	14.1k
Jianzhuang Jiang China	73	7.8k 0.7×	17.7k 1.5×	6.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	4.9k 2.1×	659	22.4k
Sujit K. Ghosh India	66	13.2k 1.1×	10.8k 0.9×	3.4k 0.4×	4.4k 1.6×	1.9k 0.8×	191	16.6k
Carlos J. Gómez‐García Spain	68	10.5k 0.9×	10.6k 0.9×	10.4k 1.3×	574 0.2×	2.1k 0.9×	523	19.0k
Chang Seop Hong South Korea	53	6.2k 0.5×	6.2k 0.5×	3.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	251	11.0k
Tapas Kumar Maji India	66	9.7k 0.8×	9.1k 0.8×	4.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	315	14.3k
Ryotaro Matsuda Japan	64	14.0k 1.2×	10.9k 0.9×	4.8k 0.6×	966 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	165	16.6k
Xiao‐Zeng You China	78	12.4k 1.1×	12.4k 1.1×	11.0k 1.4×	1.7k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	707	24.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Shi

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All Works

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Han, Zongsu, et al.. (2025). Indirect Construction of Chiral Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enantioselective Luminescence Sensing. Accounts of Chemical Research. 58(4). 625–634. 19 indexed citations

Han, Zongsu, Tiankai Sun, Peng Cheng, & Wei Shi. (2025). Cation-induced enhanced enantioselective recognition by a chiral covalent-organic framework. Communications Chemistry. 8(1). 206–206. 1 indexed citations

Han, Zongsu, Kunyu Wang, Yuewei Wu, et al.. (2025). Systematic Coordination Symmetry Engineering in Eu-Metal–Organic Frameworks for Luminescence Recognition of Perfluorooctanoic Acid. CCS Chemistry. 8(1). 219–225.

Chen, Jialei, Xuelong Liao, Shan Chen, et al.. (2025). Nutrient diffusion-inspired catalysts with self-reinforced concentration gradient for sustainable electroreduction of dilute CO2. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7598–7598.

He, Yitao, Xinyue Zhao, Ge Zhang, et al.. (2024). Lithium-Ion battery silicon Anodes: Surface engineering with novel additives for enhanced ion and electron transport. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 153846–153846. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Yue, et al.. (2024). Luminescent coordination polymers with mixed carboxylate and triazole ligands for rapid detection of chloroprene metabolite. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry. 43(9). 100353–100353. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Tiankai, Hui Min, Zongsu Han, et al.. (2023). Rapid detection of nanoplastic particles by a luminescent Tb-based coordination polymer. Chinese Chemical Letters. 35(5). 108718–108718. 13 indexed citations

Min, Hui, Zongsu Han, Tiankai Sun, et al.. (2023). Dynamic-static coupled sensing of trace biomarkers by molecularly imprinted metal-organic frameworks. Science China Chemistry. 66(12). 3511–3517. 18 indexed citations

Wang, Yongchen, Yihan Li, Lin Zhu, et al.. (2022). Unprecedented Ferromagnetic Exchange Coupling of a Square-Planar Cu₄O unit in a scu-Type Porous Metal–Organic Framework and Its Reticular Chemistry. Crystal Growth & Design. 22(7). 4005–4011. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Guangdong, Hanwen Pei, Xuefei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Liquid-crystalline behavior on dumbbell-shaped colloids and the observation of chiral blue phases. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5549–5549. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenjing, Jin Li, Wei Shi, et al.. (2022). A Wearable and Flexible Photoplethysmogram Sensor Patch for Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation With High Accuracy. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(20). 19818–19825. 12 indexed citations

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Min, Hui, Zhonghang Chen, Zongsu Han, et al.. (2022). Detection of the UV-vis silent biomarker trimethylamine-N-oxide via outer-sphere interactions in a lanthanide metal-organic framework. Communications Chemistry. 5(1). 74–74. 56 indexed citations

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Chai, Yuchao, Xue Han, Weiyao Li, et al.. (2020). Control of zeolite pore interior for chemoselective alkyne/olefin separations. Science. 368(6494). 1002–1006. 294 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shi‐Yuan, Zhongyan Wang, Jie Gao, et al.. (2019). A Gadolinium(III) Zeolite-like Metal-Organic-Framework-Based Magnetic Resonance Thermometer. Chem. 5(6). 1609–1618. 47 indexed citations

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Lin, Han, Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, et al.. (2019). Molecular Sieving and Direct Visualization of CO₂ in Binding Pockets of an Ultramicroporous Lanthanide Metal–Organic Framework Platform. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(26). 23192–23197. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunzheng, Pu Bai, Yan Li, et al.. (2019). Stellerite-seeded facile synthesis of zeolite heulandite with exceptional aqueous Cd²⁺ capture performance. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 6(7). 1785–1792. 19 indexed citations

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Meng, Xixi, Wei Shi, & Peng Cheng. (2018). Magnetism in one-dimensional metal–nitronyl nitroxide radical system. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 378. 134–150. 105 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuejing, Na Xu, Wei Shi, Bing‐Wu Wang, & Peng Cheng. (2017). The influence of an external magnetic field and magnetic-site dilution on the magnetization dynamics of a coordination network based on ferromagnetic coupled dinuclear dysprosium(iii) units. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 5(2). 432–437. 45 indexed citations

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Shi, Wei. (2012). ADSORPTION OF COPPER (II) ON MODIFIED PEANUT SHELLS. 1 indexed citations

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Hou, Chao, et al.. (2008). The magnetic study of a binuclear Cu(ii) complex with π–π stacking interactions. Dalton Transactions. 5970–5970. 34 indexed citations

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