Xiaoju Cui

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Xiaoju Cui is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoju Cui has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Xiaoju Cui's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (11 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (8 papers). Xiaoju Cui is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (11 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (8 papers). Xiaoju Cui collaborates with scholars based in China and Russia. Xiaoju Cui's co-authors include Dehui Deng, Xinhe Bao, Pengju Ren, Jiao Deng, Liang Yu, N. Pethan Rajan, Xianguang Meng, Jianping Xiao, Haobo Li and Rui Huang 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

Xiaoju Cui

30 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Single layer graphene encapsulating non-precious metals as high-performance electrocatalysts for water oxidation

2015 737 citations Xiaoju Cui, Pengju Ren et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Direct Methane Conversion under Mild Condition by Thermo-, Electro-, or Photocatalysis

2019 470 citations Xiaoju Cui, N. Pethan Rajan et al. Chem profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoju Cui China	19	2.0k	1.5k	1.1k	866	228	31	2.8k
Sihang Liu China	26	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	784 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	264 1.2×	63	3.0k
Zihao Yao China	24	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	567 0.5×	521 0.6×	252 1.1×	77	2.0k
Qiang Wan China	33	1.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.5×	787 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	339 1.5×	119	3.3k
Xiaoran Zhang China	29	1.8k 0.9×	696 0.5×	873 0.8×	846 1.0×	180 0.8×	48	2.2k
Ke Wu China	27	940 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	657 0.6×	597 0.7×	487 2.1×	63	2.2k
Kihyun Shin South Korea	26	1.4k 0.7×	905 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	332 0.4×	233 1.0×	57	2.5k
Sean T. Hunt United States	15	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	257 0.3×	219 1.0×	21	2.6k
Pengfei Yin China	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	227 0.3×	172 0.8×	82	2.5k
G. T. Kasun Kalhara Gunasooriya United States	20	1.2k 0.6×	851 0.6×	792 0.8×	381 0.4×	101 0.4×	30	1.8k
Qiyuan Wu United States	24	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	536 0.5×	973 1.1×	100 0.4×	55	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoju Cui

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Yang, Wenqiang, Huan Liu, Xiaoxia Chang, et al.. (2025). Electrosynthesis of NH3 from NO with ampere-level current density in a pressurized electrolyzer. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1257–1257. 18 indexed citations

Wang, Wenjing, Sheng‐Hong Li, Xiaoju Cui, et al.. (2025). Anti-sulfur poisoning and highly sensitive portable detection instrument for monitoring of hydrogen sulfide on-site. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 492. 138278–138278.

Li, Yanan, Chenguang Liu, Jun Mao, et al.. (2025). MoS2-confined Rh-Zn atomic pair boosts photo-driven methane carbonylation to acetic acid. Nature Communications. 16(1). 487–487. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Mo, et al.. (2025). Highly Effective and Durable Integrated‐Chainmail Electrode for H₂ Production through H₂S Electrolysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(13). e202502032–e202502032. 6 indexed citations

Mao, Jun, Chenguang Liu, Yanan Li, et al.. (2025). Mild-Condition Conversion of Methane to Acetic Acid over MoS₂–Confined Rh–Fe Sites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(17). 14530–14540. 3 indexed citations

Yan, Yaotian, Sheng‐Hong Li, Jiamin Li, et al.. (2024). Anti-sulfur poisoning electrochemical sensor for sulfur ions based on nitrogen-doped graphene-encapsulated cobalt-nickel nanoparticles. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 424. 136868–136868. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Wenqiang, Huan Liu, Yutai Qi, et al.. (2023). Boosting C–C coupling to multicarbon products via high-pressure CO electroreduction. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 85. 102–107. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Mo, et al.. (2023). Direct electrocatalytic conversion of crude syngas to ethylene via a multi-process coupled device. EES Catalysis. 1(3). 250–254. 3 indexed citations

Huang, Rui, Yunlong Zhang, Wei Yao, et al.. (2023). Acetylene hydrogenation to ethylene by water at low temperature on a Au/α-MoC catalyst. Nature Catalysis. 6(11). 1005–1015. 35 indexed citations

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Mao, Jun, Chenguang Liu, Xiaoju Cui, et al.. (2023). Direct conversion of methane with O2 at room temperature over edge-rich MoS2. Nature Catalysis. 6(11). 1052–1061. 80 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhenyu, Xiaoju Cui, & Zhe Song. (2023). Predicting sepsis onset in ICU using machine learning models: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases. 23(1). 635–635. 20 indexed citations

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Fan, Jinchang, Suxia Liang, Mao Jun, et al.. (2022). Boosting room-temperature conversion of methane via confining Cu atoms in ultrathin Ru nanosheets. Chem Catalysis. 2(9). 2253–2261. 27 indexed citations

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Tu, Yunchuan, Wei Tang, Liang Yu, et al.. (2020). Inactivating SARS-CoV-2 by electrochemical oxidation. Science Bulletin. 66(7). 720–726. 26 indexed citations

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Zhu, K. S., Suxia Liang, Xiaoju Cui, et al.. (2020). Highly efficient conversion of methane to formic acid under mild conditions at ZSM-5-confined Fe-sites. Nano Energy. 82. 105718–105718. 73 indexed citations

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Cui, Xiaoju, Pengju Ren, Chao Ma, et al.. (2020). Robust Interface Ru Centers for High‐Performance Acidic Oxygen Evolution. Advanced Materials. 32(25). e1908126–e1908126. 232 indexed citations

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Cui, Xiaoju, Hai‐Yan Su, Ruixue Chen, et al.. (2019). Room-temperature electrochemical water–gas shift reaction for high purity hydrogen production. Nature Communications. 10(1). 86–86. 80 indexed citations

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Wang, Su-Heng, Haobo Li, Mengqi He, et al.. (2019). Room-temperature conversion of ethane and the mechanism understanding over single iron atoms confined in graphene. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 36. 47–50. 16 indexed citations

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Cui, Xiaoju, Haobo Li, Yan Wang, et al.. (2018). Room-Temperature Methane Conversion by Graphene-Confined Single Iron Atoms. Chem. 4(8). 1902–1910. 410 indexed citations

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Tu, Yunchuan, Haobo Li, Dehui Deng, et al.. (2016). Low charge overpotential of lithium-oxygen batteries with metallic Co encapsulated in single-layer graphene shell as the catalyst. Nano Energy. 30. 877–884. 71 indexed citations

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Cui, Xiaoju, Pengju Ren, Dehui Deng, Jiao Deng, & Xinhe Bao. (2015). Single layer graphene encapsulating non-precious metals as high-performance electrocatalysts for water oxidation. Energy & Environmental Science. 9(1). 123–129. 737 indexed citations breakdown →

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