Wei Yan

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Yan is a scholar working on Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Yan has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Biophysics, 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Yan's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (46 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (18 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (18 papers). Wei Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (46 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (18 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (18 papers). Wei Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Russia. Wei Yan's co-authors include Junle Qu, Zhigang Yang, Jun Song, Shuai Ye, Liwei Liu, Xiao Peng, Hui Zheng, Jiujun Zhang, Luwei Wang and Wenhui Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wei Yan

111 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Interfacial Water Regulation for Nitrate Electroreduction... 2025 2026 2025 2025 20 40 60
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.

  1. Interfacial Water Regulation for Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia at Ultralow Overpotentials
    2025 60 citations Yuchi Wan, Maojun Pei et al. profile →
  2. Porous Organic Framework-Based Materials (MOFs, COFs and HOFs) for Lithium-/Sodium-/Potassium-/Zinc-/Aluminum-/Calcium-Ion Batteries: A Review
    2025 26 citations Hui Zheng, Wei Yan et al. Electrochemical Energy Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Yan China 27 927 596 557 389 363 122 2.0k
Vasilis G. Gregoriou Greece 32 1.1k 1.1× 1.6k 2.6× 490 0.9× 195 0.5× 203 0.6× 101 3.4k
Shaowei Wang China 29 1.1k 1.2× 259 0.4× 1.4k 2.5× 156 0.4× 555 1.5× 85 2.5k
Jin Hee Hong South Korea 23 653 0.7× 308 0.5× 491 0.9× 174 0.4× 499 1.4× 58 1.9k
Yang Zhang China 26 982 1.1× 237 0.4× 534 1.0× 321 0.8× 382 1.1× 124 2.0k
Stavros Stavrakis Switzerland 30 678 0.7× 888 1.5× 1.3k 2.3× 176 0.5× 710 2.0× 80 2.5k
Xiaoming Yu China 15 1.0k 1.1× 321 0.5× 1.1k 1.9× 127 0.3× 244 0.7× 23 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wei Yan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wei Yan. The network helps show where Wei Yan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Yan 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 Yan. Wei Yan 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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Zhou, Zhaofeng, Tongde Wang, Abdul Mateen, et al.. (2025). Medium-entropy Li1.2Ni0.13Co0.13Mn0.54O2 cathode with enhanced electrochemical performance by microstructural stabilization and surface modification. Journal of Energy Storage. 115. 115997–115997. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Qiqi, Antonio Virgilio Failla, Ana Mateos‐Maroto, et al.. (2025). Reactivatable stimulated emission depletion microscopy using fluorescence-recoverable nanographene. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1341–1341. 1 indexed citations
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Bai, Bing, Yuchi Wan, Wei Yan, & Jiujun Zhang. (2025). 2D materials design and property modulation for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia. 2D Materials. 12(2). 22006–22006. 3 indexed citations
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Yan, Wei, et al.. (2025). A parameter-free and effective automatic augmentation method for improved crack segmentation. Digital Signal Processing. 161. 105069–105069.
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Li, Lingyun, Siyi Xu, Changjiang Li, et al.. (2025). Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy approach reveals quantitative signatures for hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis. Frontiers in Oncology. 15. 1598334–1598334.
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Zheng, Hui, Wei Yan, & Jiujun Zhang. (2025). Porous Organic Framework-Based Materials (MOFs, COFs and HOFs) for Lithium-/Sodium-/Potassium-/Zinc-/Aluminum-/Calcium-Ion Batteries: A Review. Electrochemical Energy Reviews. 8(1). 26 indexed citations breakdown →
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Weng, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2025). Phasor-FSTM: a new paradigm for multicolor super-resolution imaging of living cells based on fluorescence modulation and lifetime multiplexing. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 32–32. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Chenshuang Zhang, He Wang, et al.. (2024). Research of Pulmonary Fibrosis Lesions Based on FLIM and SHG Imaging Microscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Songtao, Yong Guo, Liwei Liu, et al.. (2024). Rhodamine-based fluorescent probe for dynamic STED imaging of mitochondria. Biomedical Optics Express. 15(3). 1595–1595. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Zhenghao, Tianyou Zhang, Wei Yan, et al.. (2024). Structure Optimization for Cellulose‐Based Separator through Fiber Size Regulation for High Performance Lithium Metal Batteries. Batteries & Supercaps. 7(12). 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Lei, Meiting Wang, Luwei Wang, et al.. (2024). Stimulated emission–depletion-based point-scanning structured illumination microscopy. Chinese Optics Letters. 22(3). 31701–31701. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Hao, Jiaqing Guo, Jinlei Li, et al.. (2023). Long-wavelength excitation of carbon dots with dual-organelle targeting capability for live-cell imaging via STED nanoscopy. Dyes and Pigments. 216. 111383–111383. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yanfeng, Roman Ziniuk, Songtao Cai, et al.. (2022). Halogen-doped phosphorescent carbon dots for grayscale patterning. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 163–163. 52 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhiming, Wei Yan, Dongfeng Dang, et al.. (2022). The role of amide (n,π∗) transitions in polypeptide clusteroluminescence. Cell Reports Physical Science. 3(2). 100716–100716. 54 indexed citations
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Lu, Yuan, Wenhui Pan, Zhigang Yang, et al.. (2019). Support Vector Machine Classification of Nonmelanoma Skin Lesions Based on Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 91(16). 10640–10647. 30 indexed citations
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Samanta, Soham, Fangrui Lin, Pintu Das, et al.. (2019). Solo Smart Fluorogenic Probe for Potential Cancer Diagnosis and Tracking in Vivo Tumorous Lymphatic Systems via Distinct Emission Signals. Analytical Chemistry. 92(1). 1541–1548. 60 indexed citations
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Yan, Wei, Yanlong Yang, Xun Chen, et al.. (2017). Coherent optical adaptive technique improves the spatial resolution of STED microscopy in thick samples. Photonics Research. 5(3). 176–176. 34 indexed citations
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Yan, Wei, Xiao Peng, Danying Lin, et al.. (2015). Fluorescence microendoscopy imaging based on GRIN lenses with one- and two-photon excitation modes. Frontiers of Optoelectronics. 8(2). 177–182. 9 indexed citations

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