Xianjun Cao

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Xianjun Cao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xianjun Cao has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 8 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xianjun Cao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (11 papers). Xianjun Cao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (11 papers). Xianjun Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Canada. Xianjun Cao's co-authors include Hao Liu, Yufei Zhao, Guoxiu Wang, Juanjuan Huo, Junpeng Qu, Weihua Chen, Chuntai Liu, Qiang Zhao, Lu Li and Jinshu Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xianjun Cao

30 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

High valence metals engineering strategies of Fe/Co/Ni-based catalysts for boosted OER electrocatalysis

2022 293 citations Lu Li, Xianjun Cao et al. Journal of Energy Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xianjun Cao China	16	881	749	402	260	134	31	1.2k
Yumao Kang China	21	995 1.1×	853 1.1×	310 0.8×	202 0.8×	147 1.1×	38	1.2k
Weizhao Hong China	12	1.2k 1.3×	964 1.3×	579 1.4×	291 1.1×	156 1.2×	13	1.5k
Dengfeng Cao China	18	1.0k 1.2×	886 1.2×	529 1.3×	142 0.5×	146 1.1×	35	1.4k
Jinmei Qian China	16	1.1k 1.2×	901 1.2×	357 0.9×	204 0.8×	172 1.3×	22	1.3k
Shipeng Gong China	13	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	380 0.9×	204 0.8×	209 1.6×	14	1.5k
Jianghai Deng China	18	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	453 1.1×	200 0.8×	102 0.8×	20	1.5k
Shuaihao Tang China	17	1.0k 1.2×	839 1.1×	596 1.5×	223 0.9×	66 0.5×	22	1.4k
Hongguan Li China	14	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	611 1.5×	230 0.9×	85 0.6×	17	1.6k
Jiefeng Diao United States	15	726 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	300 0.7×	174 0.7×	147 1.1×	21	1.3k
Chengang Pei China	19	784 0.9×	841 1.1×	338 0.8×	222 0.9×	113 0.8×	45	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xianjun Cao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cao, Xianjun, Dongfang Li, Xinming Nie, et al.. (2025). Revealing the roles of oxidation states and constituents of the alloy in alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 375. 125415–125415. 4 indexed citations

Cao, Xianjun, Li Gao, Jiayi Li, et al.. (2025). Immobilizing Zwitterionic Molecular Brush in Functional Organic Interfacial Layers for Ultra-Stable Zn-Ion Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 262–262. 4 indexed citations

Gong, Cheng, Yiwen Sun, Dongfang Li, et al.. (2025). Constructing Ru-P/O-transition metal bridge enabling high-performance oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 107. 872–880. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Yufei, Jinhu Wu, Xianjun Cao, et al.. (2025). High‐Entropy Materials for Water Splitting: An Atomic Nanoengineering Approach to Sustainable Hydrogen Production. Advanced Materials. 37(36). e2506117–e2506117. 9 indexed citations

Shen, Ziyan, Xianjun Cao, Yiming Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ordered mesoporous carbon with binary CoFe atomic species for highly efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysis. Nanoscale. 16(18). 8960–8967. 4 indexed citations

Qu, Junpeng, Xianjun Cao, Gao Li, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Ethylene: From Mechanistic Understanding to Catalyst Surface Engineering. Nano-Micro Letters. 15(1). 178–178. 75 indexed citations

Zhao, Yufei, Ziyan Shen, Juanjuan Huo, et al.. (2023). Epoxy‐rich Fe Single Atom Sites Boost Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 135(36). 2 indexed citations

Huo, Juanjuan, Xianjun Cao, Yaping Tian, et al.. (2023). Atomically dispersed Mn atoms coordinated with N and O within an N-doped porous carbon framework for boosted oxygen reduction catalysis. Nanoscale. 15(11). 5448–5457. 51 indexed citations

Zhao, Yufei, Ziyan Shen, Juanjuan Huo, et al.. (2023). Epoxy‐rich Fe Single Atom Sites Boost Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(36). e202308349–e202308349. 78 indexed citations

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Cao, Xianjun, Gao Li, Junpeng Qu, et al.. (2023). Modulating Electronic Structure of PtCo‐Pt_rich Nanowires with Ru atoms for Boosted Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis. Small. 19(41). e2302639–e2302639. 17 indexed citations

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Cao, Xianjun, et al.. (2023). First Report of Orobanche cumana on Coleus in Xinjiang, China. Plant Disease. 107(10). 3322–3322.

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Ye, Beirong, et al.. (2021). Scalable CNTs/NiCoSe₂ Hybrid Films for Flexible All-Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(45). 53868–53876. 37 indexed citations

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Cao, Xianjun, et al.. (2021). First Report of Cirsium arvense (Canada Thistle) as a New Host of Orobanche cumana in Xinjiang, China. Plant Disease. 106(6). 1765–1765. 1 indexed citations

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Ye, Beirong, Xianjun Cao, Qiang Zhao, & Jinshu Wang. (2020). Electrodeposited NiFe₂Se₄ on Nickel Foam as a Binder-Free Electrode for High-Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitors. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 59(31). 14163–14171. 38 indexed citations

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Ye, Beirong, Xianjun Cao, Qiang Zhao, & Jinshu Wang. (2020). Coelectrodeposition of NiSe/ZnSe Hybrid Nanostructures as a Battery-Type Electrode for an Asymmetric Supercapacitor. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(39). 21242–21249. 56 indexed citations

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Ye, Beirong, Xianjun Cao, Qiang Zhao, Aijun Zhou, & Jinshu Wang. (2020). Free-standing NiCoSe₂ nanostructure on Ni foam via electrodeposition as high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor electrode. Nanotechnology. 31(33). 335706–335706. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Lu, Xianjun Cao, Ziyan Shen, et al.. (2020). Electrospun nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers for electrocatalysis. Sustainable materials and technologies. 26. e00221–e00221. 46 indexed citations

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Jiang, Liming, et al.. (2019). A Novel Inversion Combining NMR Log and Conventional Logs. Applied Magnetic Resonance. 51(1). 85–101. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhiheng, et al.. (2015). Successful surgical treatment of descending aorta interruption in a 29-year-old woman with acute paraplegia and subarachnoid hemorrhage: a case report. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 10(1). 80–80. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Ying, et al.. (1996). Transport of anti-sperm monoclonal IgA and IgG into murine male and female genital tracts from blood. Effect of sex hormones. The Journal of Immunology. 156(3). 1014–1019. 7 indexed citations

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