Wei Song

5.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
94 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Wei Song is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Song has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 67 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Song's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (71 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (67 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (36 papers). Wei Song is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (71 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (67 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (36 papers). Wei Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Wei Song's co-authors include Ziyi Ge, Ruixiang Peng, Jinfeng Ge, Jiaming Huang, Lin Xie, Tingting Yan, Like Huang, Ling Hong, Xiaoli Zhang and Kuibao Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wei Song

89 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

16.67% Rigid and 14.06% Flexible Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Ternary Heterojunction Strategy

2019 536 citations Tingting Yan, Wei Song et al. Advanced Materials profile →
20.2% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics Employing a π‐Extension Quinoxaline‐Based Acceptor with Ordered Arrangement

2024 189 citations Zhenyu Chen, Jinfeng Ge et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Isomerization strategy on a non-fullerene guest acceptor for stable organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency

2023 184 citations Zhenyu Chen, Jintao Zhu et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Hydrogel Nanoarchitectonics of a Flexible and Self‐Adhesive Electrode for Long‐Term Wireless Electroencephalogram Recording and High‐Accuracy Sustained Attention Evaluation

2023 128 citations Chao Zhang, Wei Song et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Chemical passivation and grain-boundary manipulation via in situ cross-linking strategy for scalable flexible perovskite solar cells

2025 26 citations Juanjuan Li, Wei Song et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Song China	37	4.0k	3.3k	974	450	183	94	4.7k
Yong Hyun Kim South Korea	25	2.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	612 1.4×	225 1.2×	113	3.3k
Thue T. Larsen‐Olsen Denmark	21	3.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	705 0.7×	874 1.9×	107 0.6×	28	3.6k
Kilho Yu South Korea	20	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	407 0.9×	204 1.1×	26	2.5k
Samuel E. Root United States	24	1.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	422 0.9×	124 0.7×	40	2.8k
Dipti Gupta India	31	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	788 1.8×	224 1.2×	103	2.9k
Jae Won Shim South Korea	38	3.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	1.1k 2.4×	262 1.4×	141	4.2k
Huajun Chen United States	15	3.6k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	814 0.8×	1.9k 4.2×	218 1.2×	26	4.2k
Jin‐Hyuk Bae South Korea	23	3.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	554 0.6×	1.4k 3.1×	200 1.1×	232	3.7k
Tae‐Jun Ha South Korea	29	1.9k 0.5×	884 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 2.6×	196 1.1×	123	3.0k
Hyun Ho Choi South Korea	27	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	820 0.8×	530 1.2×	123 0.7×	69	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Song

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Song

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Juanjuan, Wei Song, Xinyu Tong, et al.. (2025). Chemical passivation and grain-boundary manipulation via in situ cross-linking strategy for scalable flexible perovskite solar cells. Science Advances. 11(5). eadr2290–eadr2290. 26 indexed citations breakdown →

Song, Wei, Xiaodong Ma, Janet S. S. Wong, et al.. (2025). In-situ catalysis of green lubricants into graphitic carbon by iron single atoms to reduce friction and wear. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2919–2919. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2025). New Dawn in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Advanced Insight into Polymer Hydrogel Research. Gels. 11(2). 136–136. 4 indexed citations

Han, Chengcheng, et al.. (2025). Green‐Solvent‐Processed Scalable Semi‐Transparent Organic Solar Modules with 9.4% Efficiency and 42% Visible Transparency for Energy‐Generating Windows. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(31). 1 indexed citations

Jiao, K.L., Wei Song, Di Liu, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric B←N Functionalized Benzothiadiazoles for High‐Performance n‐Type Semiconducting Polymers. Angewandte Chemie. 137(29).

Chen, Zhenyu, Jinfeng Ge, Wei Song, et al.. (2024). 20.2% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics Employing a π‐Extension Quinoxaline‐Based Acceptor with Ordered Arrangement. Advanced Materials. 36(33). e2406690–e2406690. 189 indexed citations breakdown →

Ge, Jinfeng, et al.. (2024). The Asymmetric Strategy of Small‐Molecule Materials for Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(17). 30 indexed citations

Jiang, Zhen, Di Liu, Yang Wang, et al.. (2024). A Tricyclic Framework with Integrated B←N and Cyano Dual Functionalization for Superior n‐Type Organic Electronics. Angewandte Chemie. 137(4).

Ge, Jinfeng, Zhenyu Chen, Qinrui Ye, et al.. (2023). Modulation of Molecular Stacking via Tuning 2-Ethylhexyl Alkyl Chain Enables Improved Efficiency for All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(8). 10803–10811. 8 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuan, et al.. (2023). Wireless Compact Neural Interface for Freely Moving Animal Subjects: A Review on Wireless Neural Interface SoC Designs. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. 15(4). 20–29.

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Ye, Qinrui, Zhenyu Chen, Daobin Yang, et al.. (2023). Ductile Oligomeric Acceptor‐Modified Flexible Organic Solar Cells Show Excellent Mechanical Robustness and Near 18% Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 35(44). e2305562–e2305562. 86 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhenyu, Jintao Zhu, Daobin Yang, et al.. (2023). Isomerization strategy on a non-fullerene guest acceptor for stable organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(7). 3119–3127. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Song, Wei, Kuibao Yu, Jinfeng Ge, et al.. (2022). Entangled structure morphology by polymer guest enabling mechanically robust organic solar cells with efficiencies of over 16.5%. Matter. 5(6). 1877–1889. 73 indexed citations

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Song, Wei, Jinghui Li, Chuying Ma, et al.. (2022). Bioinspired super-strong aqueous synthetic tissue adhesives. Matter. 5(3). 933–956. 37 indexed citations

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Yu, Kuibao, Wei Song, Yafeng Li, et al.. (2021). Achieving 18.14% Efficiency of Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Alloyed Nonfullerene Acceptor. Small Structures. 2(11). 18 indexed citations

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Han, Yufang, Wei Song, Jinsheng Zhang, et al.. (2020). Annealing-free efficient organic solar cells via an alkylbenzene side-chain strategy of small-molecule electron acceptors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(42). 22155–22162. 25 indexed citations

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Song, Wei, Ruixiang Peng, Like Huang, et al.. (2020). Over 14% Efficiency Folding-Flexible ITO-free Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Eco-friendly Acid-Processed Electrodes. iScience. 23(4). 100981–100981. 44 indexed citations

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Ge, Jinfeng, Qiang Wei, Ruixiang Peng, et al.. (2019). Improved Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells with Ternary Blend of Nonfullerene Acceptor and Chlorinated and Nonchlorinated Donors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(47). 44528–44535. 44 indexed citations

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Tang, Ailing, Wei Song, Bo Xiao, et al.. (2019). Benzotriazole-Based Acceptor and Donors, Coupled with Chlorination, Achieve a High V_OC of 1.24 V and an Efficiency of 10.5% in Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells. Chemistry of Materials. 31(11). 3941–3947. 237 indexed citations

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Tian, Hanmin, Ruixiang Peng, Jiaming Huang, et al.. (2019). Efficient ternary organic solar cells based on a twin spiro-type non-fullerene acceptor. Science Bulletin. 64(15). 1087–1094. 11 indexed citations

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