Wenhao Sun

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Wenhao Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenhao Sun has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Materials Chemistry, 13 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wenhao Sun's work include Machine Learning in Materials Science (24 papers), Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (13 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (9 papers). Wenhao Sun is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Materials Science (24 papers), Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (13 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (9 papers). Wenhao Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Wenhao Sun's co-authors include Gerbrand Ceder, Kristin A. Persson, Shyue Ping Ong, Stephen Dacek, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, Richard Tran, Zihan Xu, Donny Winston, Daniil A. Kitchaev and Geoffroy Hautier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wenhao Sun

75 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Surface energies of elemental crystals

2016 763 citations Wenhao Sun, Kristin A. Persson et al. Scientific Data profile →
The thermodynamic scale of inorganic crystalline metastability

2016 671 citations Wenhao Sun, Geoffroy Hautier et al. Science Advances profile →
A map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides

2019 345 citations Wenhao Sun, Christopher J. Bartel et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenhao Sun United States	30	3.1k	1.5k	653	531	522	84	4.8k
Jianfeng Gao China	53	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	888 1.4×	554 1.0×	215 0.4×	264	8.4k
Lan Li China	32	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	375 0.6×	438 0.8×	265 0.5×	191	3.5k
Peng Sun China	41	3.7k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	848 1.3×	671 1.3×	418 0.8×	200	6.5k
Hongyan Wang China	38	2.7k 0.9×	2.7k 1.8×	602 0.9×	670 1.3×	327 0.6×	452	6.8k
Apurva Mehta United States	44	3.4k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	1.7k 2.6×	1.2k 2.2×	490 0.9×	205	7.4k
Song Wang China	35	2.3k 0.7×	613 0.4×	580 0.9×	293 0.6×	258 0.5×	157	3.6k
Junhui Li China	40	3.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	678 1.0×	374 0.7×	402 0.8×	288	6.2k
T. Yong-Jin Han United States	34	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	567 0.9×	1.4k 2.6×	407 0.8×	77	6.2k
Feng Luo China	39	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 2.6×	1.3k 2.5×	338 0.6×	275	6.5k
Gus L. W. Hart United States	35	6.0k 1.9×	1.7k 1.1×	497 0.8×	734 1.4×	440 0.8×	114	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenhao Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenhao Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenhao Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Wenhao, et al.. (2025). A New Collision Risk Assessment Algorithm Based on Ship’s Finite-Time Reachable Set. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 13(11). 2174–2174.

Chen, Xudong, Wenhao Sun, Xiangqian Fan, et al.. (2024). Considering integrated information on environmental features and neighborhood deformation: A missing value filling framework for arch dam deformation sequence. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 63. 102959–102959. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Wenhao, et al.. (2024). IESFSIOgram: A novel adaptive method for optimal demodulation band determination in bearing fault diagnosis. Measurement. 246. 116554–116554. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Jiadong, et al.. (2024). Memory Effect on the Synthesis of Perovskite-Type Li-Ion Conductor Li_xLa_2/3–x/3TiO₃ (LLTO). Chemistry of Materials. 36(3). 1197–1213. 12 indexed citations

Nagao, Masanori, Chul‐Ho Lee, Yosuke Goto, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen-Rich Molybdenum Nitride Synthesized in a Crucible under Air. Inorganic Chemistry. 63(11). 4989–4996. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Xudong, et al.. (2023). Health diagnosis of concrete dams with continuous missing data for assessing structural deformation based on tSNE–AHC algorithm and deep transfer learning. Structures. 57. 105134–105134. 12 indexed citations

Kimura, Yuki, et al.. (2023). Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions. Science. 382(6673). 915–920. 62 indexed citations

Sun, Wenhao, et al.. (2023). The promise and pitfalls of AI for molecular and materials synthesis. Nature Computational Science. 3(5). 362–364. 16 indexed citations

Sun, Wenhao & Michael F. Toney. (2021). AI tool makes phase identification crystal clear. Nature Computational Science. 1(5). 311–312. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Bor‐Rong, Wenhao Sun, Daniil A. Kitchaev, et al.. (2021). Kinetic origins of the metastable zone width in the manganese oxide Pourbaix diagram. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(12). 7857–7867. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiadong, et al.. (2021). Visualizing temperature-dependent phase stability in high entropy alloys. npj Computational Materials. 7(1). 28 indexed citations

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Bianchini, Matteo, Jingyang Wang, Raphaële J. Clément, et al.. (2020). The interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics in the solid-state synthesis of layered oxides. Nature Materials. 19(10). 1088–1095. 197 indexed citations

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Bai, Jianming, Wenhao Sun, Jianqing Zhao, et al.. (2020). Kinetic Pathways Templated by Low-Temperature Intermediates during Solid-State Synthesis of Layered Oxides. Chemistry of Materials. 32(23). 9906–9913. 47 indexed citations

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He, Tanjin, Wenhao Sun, Haoyan Huo, et al.. (2020). Similarity of Precursors in Solid-State Synthesis as Text-Mined from Scientific Literature. Chemistry of Materials. 32(18). 7861–7873. 63 indexed citations

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Kononova, Olga, Haoyan Huo, Tanjin He, et al.. (2019). Text-mined dataset of inorganic materials synthesis recipes. Scientific Data. 6(1). 203–203. 179 indexed citations

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Huo, Haoyan, Ziqin Rong, Olga Kononova, et al.. (2019). Semi-supervised machine-learning classification of materials synthesis procedures. npj Computational Materials. 5(1). 118 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenhao, Christopher J. Bartel, Elisabetta Arca, et al.. (2019). A map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides. Nature Materials. 18(7). 732–739. 345 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aykol, Muratahan, Shyam Dwaraknath, Wenhao Sun, & Kristin A. Persson. (2018). Thermodynamic limit for synthesis of metastable inorganic materials. Science Advances. 4(4). eaaq0148–eaaq0148. 297 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenhao & Gerbrand Ceder. (2017). A topological screening heuristic for low-energy, high-index surfaces. Surface Science. 669. 50–56. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenhao, Saivenkataraman Jayaraman, Wei Chen, Kristin A. Persson, & Gerbrand Ceder. (2015). Nucleation of metastable aragonite CaCO ₃ in seawater. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(11). 3199–3204. 222 indexed citations

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