Wenting Sun

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
160 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Wenting Sun is a scholar working on Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenting Sun has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, 54 papers in Computational Mechanics and 41 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Wenting Sun's work include Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (59 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (52 papers) and Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (34 papers). Wenting Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (59 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (52 papers) and Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (34 papers). Wenting Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Wenting Sun's co-authors include Yiguang Ju, Xiaolong Gou, Zheng Chen, Timothy Ombrello, Sang Hee Won, Li Wang, Xiangming He, Campbell Carter, Suo Yang and Xiang Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wenting Sun

150 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Plasma assisted combustio... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2015 2010 250 500 750
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. Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry
    2015 924 citations Wenting Sun et al. profile →
  2. A path flux analysis method for the reduction of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms
    2010 353 citations Wenting Sun et al. Combustion and Flame profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Wenting Sun 1.9k 1.9k 1.8k 1.7k 1.3k 160 5.5k
Lawrence A. Kennedy 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 648 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 464 0.4× 82 3.7k
Zhiwei Sun 1.7k 0.9× 346 0.2× 1.5k 0.8× 250 0.2× 472 0.4× 168 4.3k
Noriyuki Kobayashi 873 0.5× 733 0.4× 926 0.5× 59 0.0× 907 0.7× 291 4.7k
Sarit K. Das 3.2k 1.7× 1.3k 0.7× 460 0.2× 119 0.1× 139 0.1× 122 12.9k
Zhen‐Yu Tian 1.3k 0.7× 407 0.2× 1.9k 1.0× 52 0.0× 382 0.3× 195 4.6k
Alessandro Gomez 2.7k 1.4× 2.4k 1.3× 1.7k 0.9× 54 0.0× 445 0.4× 122 5.1k
Feng Zhang 776 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 59 0.0× 197 0.2× 133 3.8k
Xiangyuan Li 1.4k 0.7× 477 0.3× 1.2k 0.6× 32 0.0× 522 0.4× 334 5.4k
John W. Daily 1.7k 0.9× 514 0.3× 717 0.4× 46 0.0× 740 0.6× 154 4.3k
Baolu Shi 858 0.5× 149 0.1× 590 0.3× 86 0.1× 786 0.6× 128 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenting Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenting Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wenting Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wenting 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 Wenting Sun. Wenting Sun 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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Emerson, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Investigation of minimum NOx emissions for cracked ammonia combustion. Combustion and Flame. 274. 114005–114005. 2 indexed citations
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Tang, Hao, et al.. (2025). Simultaneous NH/NO PLIF measurements in plasma-assisted ammonia and ammonia/hydrogen swirling flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 41. 105789–105789. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Z., Wenting Sun, Wenhan Wang, Yongbing Lou, & Jinxi Chen. (2025). S-doped Fe-MOF-74-derived catalysts for efficient oxygen evolution reaction and seawater electrolysis. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 182. 115382–115382.
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Sun, Wenting, et al.. (2024). Impacts of e-commerce platform and consumers’ supporting preferences for poor areas in a supply chain. RAIRO. Operations research. 58(6). 5255–5274.
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Tang, Hao, et al.. (2024). Experimental study of nitric oxide distributions in non-premixed and premixed ammonia/hydrogen-air counterflow flames. Combustion and Flame. 267. 113556–113556. 10 indexed citations
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Sun, Wenting, et al.. (2024). Diode Laser Absorption Sensor for Ammonia Detection in a Shock Tube. AIAA Journal. 63(3). 1131–1139. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Wenting, et al.. (2024). Multicolor phase-correlation interferometer for shock wave refractive index measurements. Optics Letters. 49(12). 3480–3480.
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Sun, Wenting, Xun Jiao, Lichuan Chen, et al.. (2024). Boron‐Doped Single‐Molecule van der Waals Diode. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(4). e202415940–e202415940. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, David Sichen, Benjamin Emerson, David R. Noble, et al.. (2024). Rich Ammonia Flame Shapes and No Relaxation: Facility Development and Characterization. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Zeyi, Huimin Zhao, Yujia Liu, et al.. (2024). Dicyclohepta[cd,ij]-s-indacene-Based Nonbenzenoid Polycyclic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties. Organic Letters. 26(48). 10345–10350. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yujia, et al.. (2023). Photonic Modulation Enabled by Controlling the Edge Structures of Boron‐Doped Molecular Carbons. Angewandte Chemie. 135(32). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jingyi, Ziran Zhang, Wenting Sun, et al.. (2023). Facile fabrication of Fe3O4-Biochar hybrid nanomaterials as catalysts for Photo-Fenton degradation of tetracycline. Optical Materials. 143. 114156–114156. 18 indexed citations
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Guildenbecher, Daniel R., et al.. (2022). Hybrid interferometric diagnostic for the refractive index measurement across nearly discrete shock waves. Optics Letters. 47(16). 4159–4159. 3 indexed citations
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Gao, Xiang, et al.. (2018). Ozonolysis activated autoignition in non-premixed coflow. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(10). 105201–105201. 6 indexed citations
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Li, He‐Ping, Kostya Ostrikov, & Wenting Sun. (2018). The energy tree: Non-equilibrium energy transfer in collision-dominated plasmas. Physics Reports. 770-772. 1–45. 52 indexed citations
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Sun, Wenting. (2013). Non-equilibrium Plasma-Assisted Combustion. PhDT. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Wenting, et al.. (2013). シンポジウム 法律系データベース利用の現状と展望 : どう使われ、そしてどう使われていないか. Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research. 89(4). 208–219. 22 indexed citations
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