Wei Xu

7.2k total citations
217 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Xu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Xu has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 98 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 86 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Wei Xu's work include Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (119 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (83 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (38 papers). Wei Xu is often cited by papers focused on Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (119 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (83 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (38 papers). Wei Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and United States. Wei Xu's co-authors include Qiang Sun, Flemming Besenbacher, I. Stensgaard, Erik Lægsgaard, Chi Zhang, Liangliang Cai, Roberto Otero, Qinggang Tan, Chunxue Yuan and Huihui Kong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Wei Xu

207 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Xu China 42 2.9k 2.6k 2.2k 1.8k 1.3k 217 6.0k
Diego Peña Spain 49 2.0k 0.7× 2.7k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 4.1k 3.2× 174 8.4k
David M. Huang Australia 33 1.2k 0.4× 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 875 0.5× 498 0.4× 108 4.4k
Marcella Iannuzzi Switzerland 42 881 0.3× 3.6k 1.4× 2.0k 0.9× 2.2k 1.2× 625 0.5× 148 7.5k
Jorge M. Seminario United States 48 1.0k 0.4× 3.2k 1.2× 4.5k 2.0× 1.9k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 231 8.5k
Felix Hanke United Kingdom 24 1.3k 0.4× 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 328 0.3× 52 4.7k
Gagik G. Gurzadyan China 40 1.1k 0.4× 4.1k 1.6× 2.7k 1.2× 1.6k 0.9× 475 0.4× 136 7.4k
Francesco Buda Netherlands 37 693 0.2× 1.7k 0.7× 831 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 682 0.5× 144 4.7k
Roger Rousseau United States 62 1.9k 0.7× 6.4k 2.5× 2.4k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 253 12.0k
Vladimir A. Basiuk Mexico 38 1.1k 0.4× 2.8k 1.1× 838 0.4× 455 0.2× 976 0.8× 323 5.1k
Fawzi Mohamed Switzerland 18 707 0.2× 2.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 2.4k 1.3× 562 0.4× 23 6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Xu 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 Xu. Wei Xu 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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Xu, Lei, et al.. (2025). Construction of metal–organic nanostructures and their structural transformations on metal surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(17). 8635–8655. 3 indexed citations
2.
Li, Xuechao, Yixuan Gao, Fangyu Yang, et al.. (2024). Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Investigation of Au-bis-acetylide Networks on Au(111): The Influence of Metal–Organic Hybridization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(17). 4593–4601. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chi, et al.. (2024). Separation of Halogen Atoms by Sodium from Dehalogenative Reactions on a Au(111) Surface. ACS Nano. 18(12). 9082–9091. 13 indexed citations
4.
Xu, Wei, et al.. (2023). Revealing the Orientation Selectivity of Tetrapyridyl-Substituted Porphyrins Constrained in Molecular “Klotski Puzzles”. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(41). 22366–22373. 11 indexed citations
5.
Xu, Wei, et al.. (2023). Construction and Structural Transformation of Metal–Organic Nanostructures Induced by Alkali Metals and Alkali Metal Salts. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(15). 3636–3642. 10 indexed citations
6.
Yu, Xin, Qiang Sun, Mengxi Liu, et al.. (2022). Lattice-Directed Selective Synthesis of Acetylenic and Diacetylenic Organometallic Polyynes. Chemistry of Materials. 34(4). 1770–1777. 12 indexed citations
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Xie, Lei, Yuanqi Ding, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2022). Local Chiral Inversion of Thymine Dimers by Manipulating Single Water Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(11). 5023–5028. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chi, et al.. (2022). Scanning probe microscopy in probing low-dimensional carbon-based nanostructures and nanomaterials. 1(3). 32301–32301. 29 indexed citations
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Ding, Yuanqi, et al.. (2021). Hydration of iodine adsorbed on the Au(111) surface. Fundamental Research. 2(4). 546–549. 5 indexed citations
10.
Shang, Lina, et al.. (2021). On-Surface Synthesis of sp-Carbon Nanostructures. Nanomaterials. 12(1). 137–137. 10 indexed citations
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Kong, Huihui, Likun Wang, & Wei Xu. (2020). On-Surface Fabrication of Complex Hybrid Nanostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(1). 354–357. 2 indexed citations
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Ding, Yuanqi, et al.. (2020). Real-Space Evidence of Trimeric, Tetrameric, and Pentameric Uracil Clusters Induced by Alkali Metals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(9). 5257–5262. 6 indexed citations
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Milani, Alberto, Valeria Russo, Andrea Li Bassi, et al.. (2019). Scanning tunneling microscopy and Raman spectroscopy of polymeric sp–sp2 carbon atomic wires synthesized on the Au(111) surface. Nanoscale. 11(39). 18191–18200. 21 indexed citations
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Ding, Yuanqi, et al.. (2019). Dissolution of Sodium Halides by Confined Water on Au(111) via Langmuir–Hinshelwood Process. ACS Nano. 13(5). 6025–6032. 12 indexed citations
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Yu, Xin, et al.. (2019). On-Surface Intramolecular Dehalogenation of Vicinal Dibromides for the Direct Formation of C–C Double Bonds. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(50). 30467–30472. 1 indexed citations
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Xie, Lei, Yuanqi Ding, Xinyi Wang, & Wei Xu. (2019). Chlorine-assisted fabrication of hybrid supramolecular structures via electrostatic interactions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(18). 9357–9361. 9 indexed citations
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Xu, Wei, et al.. (2019). On‐Surface Synthesis of One‐Dimensional Carbon‐Based Nanostructures via C−X and C−H Activation Reactions. ChemPhysChem. 20(18). 2251–2261. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinyi, et al.. (2019). Linear array of cesium atoms assisted by uracil molecules on Au(111). Chemical Communications. 55(80). 12064–12067. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Qiang, Xin Yu, Mengxi Liu, et al.. (2018). Direct Formation of C−C Triple‐Bonded Structural Motifs by On‐Surface Dehalogenative Homocouplings of Tribromomethyl‐Substituted Arenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(15). 4035–4038. 56 indexed citations
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Ding, Yuanqi, Lei Xie, Chi Zhang, & Wei Xu. (2017). Real-space evidence of the formation of the GCGC tetrad and its competition with the G-quartet on the Au(111) surface. Chemical Communications. 53(71). 9846–9849. 4 indexed citations

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