Xiaogang Li

6.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Xiaogang Li is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaogang Li has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xiaogang Li's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (15 papers). Xiaogang Li is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (15 papers). Xiaogang Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Xiaogang Li's co-authors include Wentuan Bi, Changzheng Wu, Yi Xie, Xin Wang, Shuo Dou, Wangsheng Chu, Qun Zhang, Yi Luo, Lei Zhang and Xiaojun Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xiaogang Li

66 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Single‐Atom Pt as Co‐Catalyst for Enhanced Photocatalytic H₂ Evolution

2016 1.3k citations Xiaogang Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Exclusive Ni–N₄ Sites Realize Near-Unity CO Selectivity for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction

2017 843 citations Xiaogang Li et al. profile →
Strategies to Break the Scaling Relation toward Enhanced Oxygen Electrocatalysis

2019 465 citations Zhen‐Feng Huang, Jiajia Song et al. Matter profile →
Tuning of lattice oxygen reactivity and scaling relation to construct better oxygen evolution electrocatalyst

2021 365 citations Zhen‐Feng Huang, Shibo Xi et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaogang Li China	28	4.5k	2.8k	2.6k	948	632	75	6.0k
Yongfei Ji China	36	4.8k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	499 0.8×	86	6.6k
Falong Jia China	39	4.7k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	3.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	552 0.9×	80	7.1k
Huimin Liu China	32	4.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	866 0.9×	409 0.6×	50	5.6k
Jun Ma China	36	3.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	927 1.0×	271 0.4×	112	4.6k
Mohsen Shakouri Canada	33	3.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.9k 2.0×	342 0.5×	122	5.1k
Yu Yu China	42	2.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	406 0.4×	455 0.7×	104	4.5k
Qiang Zhao China	37	2.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	575 0.6×	378 0.6×	156	4.4k
Yunxiang Li China	40	3.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	651 0.7×	307 0.5×	94	4.8k
Fulin Yang China	36	3.7k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	419 0.4×	254 0.4×	103	4.4k
Dong‐Hee Lim South Korea	29	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	415 0.4×	315 0.5×	87	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaogang Li

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Lei, Shitou Wu, Xiaogang Li, et al.. (2025). Late Oligocene formation of the Qaidam Basin revealed by calcite U-Pb dating: Insights into the northward growth of Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 653. 119208–119208. 3 indexed citations

Song, Ning, Yazhan Liang, Shenglin Xiong, et al.. (2025). Origin of Synergy in Bicomponent Metal Nitride–Metal Single Atom Catalysts for Advanced Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e08903–e08903.

Li, Fengli, Yuting Yang, Xiaogang Li, et al.. (2025). Intercalation Chemistry Awakens Transition Metal Hydroxide for Boosted and Sustained Electrocatalytic Sulfion Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(37). e202511402–e202511402. 1 indexed citations

Li, Fengli, Wun Jern Ng, Wei Qiao, et al.. (2025). Intercalation Chemistry Awakens Transition Metal Hydroxide for Boosted and Sustained Electrocatalytic Sulfion Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie. 137(37).

Yang, Xiangdong, Lei Wu, Bo Wang, et al.. (2025). Lateral growth, linkage and driving force of anticlines in the western Qaidam Basin, Northern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Structural Geology. 193. 105370–105370.

Guo, Jingjing, Chun‐Sheng Jia, Liehui Zhang, et al.. (2024). A novel molecular-structure-based formulation representation for the H2S decomposition reaction equilibrium constant. Energy. 314. 134108–134108. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Peng, Ning Song, Yu Wang, et al.. (2024). Alloying Strategy Regulating Size and Electronic Structure of Mo_0.25Nb_0.75Se₂ to Achieve High‐Performance Lithium−Sulfur Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(9).

Reddu, Vikas, Libo Sun, Xiaogang Li, et al.. (2022). Highly selective and efficient electroreduction of CO₂ in water by quaterpyridine derivative‐based molecular catalyst noncovalently tethered to carbon nanotubes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 151–162. 19 indexed citations

Li, Xiaogang, Shasha Tang, Shuo Dou, et al.. (2021). Molecule Confined Isolated Metal Sites Enable the Electrocatalytic Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide. Advanced Materials. 34(25). e2104891–e2104891. 80 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhen‐Feng, Shibo Xi, Jiajia Song, et al.. (2021). Tuning of lattice oxygen reactivity and scaling relation to construct better oxygen evolution electrocatalyst. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3992–3992. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Yuyu, Shaoqing Xiao, Xiaogang Li, et al.. (2021). A robust metal-free electrocatalyst for nitrate reduction reaction to synthesize ammonia. Materials Today Physics. 19. 100431–100431. 91 indexed citations

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Li, Jiaqi, Ying Dai, Xiaogang Li, et al.. (2021). Co3O4@carbon with high Co2+/Co3+ ratios derived from ZIF-67 supported on N-doped carbon nanospheres as stable bifunctional oxygen catalysts. Materials Today Energy. 21. 100737–100737. 67 indexed citations

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Dou, Shuo, Libo Sun, Shibo Xi, et al.. (2021). Enlarging the π‐Conjugation of Cobalt Porphyrin for Highly Active and Selective CO₂ Electroreduction. ChemSusChem. 14(9). 2126–2132. 35 indexed citations

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Wei, Peng, Xueping Sun, Min Hui Wang, et al.. (2021). Construction of an N-Decorated Carbon-Encapsulated W₂C/WP Heterostructure as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution in Both Alkaline and Acidic Media. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(45). 53955–53964. 26 indexed citations

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Han, Peiwei, Xiaogang Li, Zhao Mu, et al.. (2021). Electrocatalytic Degradation of Levofloxacin, a Typical Antibiotic in Hospital Wastewater. Materials. 14(22). 6814–6814. 23 indexed citations

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Dou, Shuo, Xiaogang Li, & Xin Wang. (2020). Rational Design of Metal–Organic Frameworks towards Efficient Electrocatalysis. ACS Materials Letters. 2(9). 1251–1267. 84 indexed citations

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Wei, Peng, Xueping Sun, Qirui Liang, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity by Encapsulating NiFe Alloy Nanoparticles in Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanofibers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(28). 31503–31513. 100 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaogang, Shuo Dou, Jiong Wang, & Xin Wang. (2020). Investigation of Structural Evolution of SnO₂ Nanosheets towards Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 15(10). 1558–1561. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaogang, Shibo Xi, Libo Sun, et al.. (2020). Isolated FeN₄ Sites for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. Advanced Science. 7(17). 2001545–2001545. 107 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhen‐Feng, Jiajia Song, Shuo Dou, et al.. (2019). Strategies to Break the Scaling Relation toward Enhanced Oxygen Electrocatalysis. Matter. 1(6). 1494–1518. 465 indexed citations breakdown →

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