Xiang‐Jing Kong

2.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
54 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Xiang‐Jing Kong is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiang‐Jing Kong has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 28 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xiang‐Jing Kong's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (42 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (19 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (9 papers). Xiang‐Jing Kong is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (42 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (19 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (9 papers). Xiang‐Jing Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, Ireland and United States. Xiang‐Jing Kong's co-authors include Jian‐Rong Li, Tao He, Yong‐Zheng Zhang, Xue‐Qian Wu, Xiu‐Liang Lv, Lin‐Hua Xie, Guang-Rui Si, Jiamei Yu, Xian‐He Bu and Jian Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xiang‐Jing Kong

50 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit 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.

Chemically Stable Metal–Organic Frameworks: Rational Construction and Application Expansion

2021 337 citations Tao He, Xiang‐Jing Kong et al. profile →
Trace removal of benzene vapour using double-walled metal–dipyrazolate frameworks

2022 221 citations Tao He, Xiang‐Jing Kong et al. Nature Materials profile →
Metalation of metal–organic frameworks: fundamentals and applications

2024 115 citations Haiyu Li, Xiang‐Jing Kong et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiang‐Jing Kong China	22	1.7k	1.3k	416	400	241	54	2.2k
Yingli Hu China	13	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	472 1.1×	552 1.4×	211 0.9×	14	2.4k
Mathivathani Kandiah United Kingdom	8	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	293 0.7×	283 0.7×	170 0.7×	15	2.3k
Wei Xie China	26	1.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	408 1.0×	195 0.5×	419 1.7×	92	2.6k
Mohammad Rasel Mian United States	23	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	291 0.7×	230 0.6×	97 0.4×	45	2.1k
Cheng‐Xia Chen China	25	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	203 0.5×	350 0.9×	165 0.7×	61	2.1k
Cherif Larabi France	10	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	255 0.6×	243 0.6×	128 0.5×	23	2.0k
Karam B. Idrees United States	34	2.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	333 0.8×	295 0.7×	118 0.5×	61	2.9k
William Rutledge United States	4	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	294 0.7×	266 0.7×	179 0.7×	6	2.5k
Mark Kalaj United States	23	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	295 0.7×	193 0.5×	113 0.5×	40	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiang‐Jing Kong

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Xiang‐Jing Kong's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Xiang‐Jing Kong with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Xiang‐Jing Kong more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Xiang‐Jing Kong

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xiang‐Jing Kong. 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 Xiang‐Jing Kong. The network helps show where Xiang‐Jing Kong may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiang‐Jing Kong

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kong, Xiang‐Jing, et al.. (2026). Torsional Flexibility Tuning of Hexa-Carboxylate Ligands to Unlock Distinct Topological Access to Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 148(3). 3562–3569.

Kong, Xiang‐Jing, Guang-Rui Si, Tao He, & Jian‐Rong Li. (2025). Metal pyrazolate frameworks: crystal engineering access to stable functional materials. Chemical Society Reviews. 54(8). 3647–3680. 14 indexed citations

Si, Guang-Rui, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Tao He, et al.. (2025). Trace SO2 capture and conversion by a zirconium MOF. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 166. 101074–101074. 3 indexed citations

Tang, Xianhui, Yongwei Chen, Xiang‐Jing Kong, et al.. (2025). The Last Piece of the Puzzle: Access to 7‐Connected Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks for Hexane Separation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(16). e202424859–e202424859. 10 indexed citations

Li, Xia, Debobroto Sensharma, Volodymyr Bon, et al.. (2025). A Diazo Linker Ligand Promotes Flexibility and Induced Fit Binding in a Microporous Copper Coordination Network. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(31). e202507757–e202507757. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yingjie, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Guang-Rui Si, et al.. (2025). A Co(III)-dipyrazolate framework for atmospheric CO2 photoreduction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 519. 165365–165365. 1 indexed citations

Li, Xia, Andrey A. Bezrukov, Debobroto Sensharma, et al.. (2024). Modulation of Water Vapor Sorption by Pore Engineering in Isostructural Square Lattice Topology Coordination Networks. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(26). 34402–34408. 4 indexed citations

Li, Muzi, Xin Zhang, Tao He, et al.. (2024). Modulation of pore chemistry through fluorinated anions exchange in a metal–organic framework for C2H4 purification. Separation and Purification Technology. 355. 129620–129620. 6 indexed citations

Kong, Xiang‐Jing, Tao He, Andrey A. Bezrukov, et al.. (2024). Reversible Co(II)–Co(III) Transformation in a Family of Metal–Dipyrazolate Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 8 indexed citations

10.

Si, Guang-Rui, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Tao He, Zhengqing Zhang, & Jian‐Rong Li. (2024). Simultaneous capture of trace benzene and SO2 in a robust Ni(II)-pyrazolate framework. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7220–7220. 22 indexed citations

11.

Li, Haiyu, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Song‐De Han, et al.. (2024). Metalation of metal–organic frameworks: fundamentals and applications. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(11). 5626–5676. 115 indexed citations breakdown →

12.

Kong, Xiang‐Jing, et al.. (2023). Family functioning and patients’ depressive symptoms: comparison in perceived family function between patients who had an acute ischaemic stroke and their primary family caregivers – a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 13(11). e068794–e068794. 6 indexed citations

13.

Zhang, Qing, Zhaomin Feng, Xingang Li, et al.. (2023). Dynamic Changes of ORF1ab and N Gene Ct Values in COVID-19 Omicron Inpatients of Different Age Groups — Beijing Municipality, China, November–December 2022. China CDC Weekly. 5(8). 180–183. 6 indexed citations

14.

Li, Xia, Debobroto Sensharma, Varvara I. Nikolayenko, et al.. (2023). Structural Phase Transformations Induced by Guest Molecules in a Nickel-Based 2D Square Lattice Coordination Network. Chemistry of Materials. 35(2). 783–791. 15 indexed citations

15.

Zhang, Yong‐Zheng, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Wenfeng Zhou, et al.. (2023). Pore Environment Optimization of Microporous Metal–Organic Frameworks with Huddled Pyrazine Pillars for C₂H₂/CO₂ Separation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(3). 4208–4215. 21 indexed citations

16.

Li, Xia, et al.. (2023). The Effect of Pendent Groups upon Flexibility in Coordination Networks with Square Lattice Topology. ACS Materials Letters. 5(9). 2567–2575. 2 indexed citations

17.

He, Tao, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Yong‐Zheng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Trace removal of benzene vapour using double-walled metal–dipyrazolate frameworks. Nature Materials. 21(6). 689–695. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

18.

Kong, Xiang‐Jing, Xiaoting Ji, Tao He, et al.. (2020). A Green-Emission Metal–Organic Framework-Based Nanoprobe for Imaging Dual Tumor Biomarkers in Living Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(31). 35375–35384. 49 indexed citations

19.

Si, Guang-Rui, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Tao He, et al.. (2020). A stable Co(II)-based metal-organic framework with dual-functional pyrazolate-carboxylate ligand: Construction and CO2 selective adsorption and fixation. Chinese Chemical Letters. 32(2). 918–922. 33 indexed citations

20.

Zhang, Yong‐Zheng, et al.. (2019). Single-Crystal Synthesis and Structures of Highly Stable Ni₈-Pyrazolate-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks. ACS Materials Letters. 1(1). 20–24. 38 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact