Xiaokun Pei

4.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
33 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Xiaokun Pei is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaokun Pei has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 19 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Xiaokun Pei's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (22 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (12 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (4 papers). Xiaokun Pei is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (22 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (12 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (4 papers). Xiaokun Pei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Saudi Arabia. Xiaokun Pei's co-authors include Omar M. Yaghi, Nikita Hanikel, Hao Lyu, Bunyarat Rungtaweevoranit, Christian S. Diercks, Sultan A. Alshmimri, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Bing Zhang, Ali M. Abdel‐Mageed and Magdalena Parlińska‐Wojtan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiaokun Pei

32 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Evolution of water structures in metal-organic framewo... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2021 2019 2018 2018 2019 100 200 300 400
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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. Evolution of water structures in metal-organic frameworks for improved atmospheric water harvesting
    2021 492 citations Nikita Hanikel, Xiaokun Pei et al. Science profile →
  2. Highly Active and Stable Single-Atom Cu Catalysts Supported by a Metal–Organic Framework
    2019 445 citations Xiaokun Pei, Omar M. Yaghi et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Crystalline Dioxin-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks from Irreversible Reactions
    2018 389 citations Bing Zhang, Xiaokun Pei et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Bioinspired Metal–Organic Framework Catalysts for Selective Methane Oxidation to Methanol
    2018 348 citations Xiaokun Pei, Roc Matheu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. A Metal–Organic Framework of Organic Vertices and Polyoxometalate Linkers as a Solid-State Electrolyte
    2019 286 citations Wentao Xu, Xiaokun Pei et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Carbon Dioxide Capture Chemistry of Amino Acid Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks in Humid Flue Gas
    2022 258 citations Hao Lyu, Oscar Iu‐Fan Chen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Three-Dimensional Phthalocyanine Metal-Catecholates for High Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction
    2019 198 citations Roc Matheu, Enrique Gutiérrez‐Puebla et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. Large Cages of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks
    2022 120 citations Haoze Wang, Xiaokun Pei et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaokun Pei United States 23 2.6k 2.5k 1.1k 681 538 33 4.1k
Ganggang Chang China 30 2.2k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 831 0.8× 599 0.9× 775 1.4× 86 3.4k
Christopher A. Trickett United States 15 2.7k 1.0× 3.1k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 505 0.7× 715 1.3× 17 4.2k
A. Ken Inge Sweden 30 1.9k 0.7× 2.2k 0.9× 880 0.8× 629 0.9× 299 0.6× 105 3.8k
Xingjie Wang China 41 3.2k 1.3× 3.5k 1.4× 619 0.6× 632 0.9× 837 1.6× 125 5.2k
Zhiyong Lu China 32 2.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 922 0.8× 743 1.1× 528 1.0× 72 3.3k
Keke Wang China 34 1.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 1.4× 947 1.4× 286 0.5× 121 3.6k
Fengyan Li China 39 3.7k 1.5× 2.0k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 176 0.3× 260 5.1k
Tom Willhammar Sweden 32 2.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 427 0.4× 424 0.6× 380 0.7× 80 3.0k
Binit Lukose Germany 17 4.7k 1.8× 3.7k 1.5× 1.5k 1.4× 659 1.0× 686 1.3× 23 5.3k
Hyunchul Oh South Korea 36 2.6k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 374 0.3× 652 1.0× 875 1.6× 108 4.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dan, Yang, Xiaokun Pei, Zhaoxi Liu, et al.. (2025). Association between stroke and fracture and the mediating role of depression: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2017 to 2020. Frontiers in Neurology. 16. 1533565–1533565. 1 indexed citations
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Patterson, Michael G., et al.. (2025). Revisiting nucleotide-dependent allostery in aspartate transcarbamoylase. Structural Dynamics. 12(2_Supplement). A119–A119.
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Pei, Xiaokun, et al.. (2023). Introduction to diffuse scattering and data collection. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 688. 1–42. 3 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Ha L., Xing Han, Chenhui Zhu, et al.. (2022). Entanglement of Square Nets in Covalent Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(4). 1539–1544. 48 indexed citations
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Lyu, Hao, Oscar Iu‐Fan Chen, Nikita Hanikel, et al.. (2022). Carbon Dioxide Capture Chemistry of Amino Acid Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks in Humid Flue Gas. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(5). 2387–2396. 258 indexed citations breakdown →
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Byer, Amanda S., Xiaokun Pei, Michael G. Patterson, & Nozomi Ando. (2022). Small-angle X-ray scattering studies of enzymes. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 72. 102232–102232. 17 indexed citations
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Hua, Jiai, et al.. (2022). A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CADMIUM MIXED LIGANDS COORDINATION POLYMER WITH CO2 ADSORPTION ABILITY. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 63(12). 2045–2053. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Haoze, Xiaokun Pei, Markus J. Kalmutzki, Jingjing Yang, & Omar M. Yaghi. (2022). Large Cages of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks. Accounts of Chemical Research. 55(5). 707–721. 120 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hanikel, Nikita, Xiaokun Pei, Saumil Chheda, et al.. (2021). Evolution of water structures in metal-organic frameworks for improved atmospheric water harvesting. Science. 374(6566). 454–459. 492 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Wentao, Xiaokun Pei, Christian S. Diercks, et al.. (2019). A Metal–Organic Framework of Organic Vertices and Polyoxometalate Linkers as a Solid-State Electrolyte. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(44). 17522–17526. 286 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kapustin, Eugene A., et al.. (2019). Architectural Stabilization of a Gold(III) Catalyst in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Chem. 6(1). 142–152. 50 indexed citations
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Matheu, Roc, Enrique Gutiérrez‐Puebla, Ángeles Monge, et al.. (2019). Three-Dimensional Phthalocyanine Metal-Catecholates for High Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(43). 17081–17085. 198 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pei, Xiaokun, Hans‐Beat Bürgi, Eugene A. Kapustin, Yuzhong Liu, & Omar M. Yaghi. (2019). Coordinative Alignment in the Pores of MOFs for the Structural Determination of N-, S-, and P-Containing Organic Compounds Including Complex Chiral Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(47). 18862–18869. 70 indexed citations
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Ji, Zhe, Christopher A. Trickett, Xiaokun Pei, & Omar M. Yaghi. (2018). Linking Molybdenum–Sulfur Clusters for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(42). 13618–13622. 90 indexed citations
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Li, Siqing, Yifa Chen, Xiaokun Pei, et al.. (2016). Water Purification: Adsorption over Metal‐Organic Frameworks. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 34(2). 175–185. 115 indexed citations
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Chen, Yifa, Xianqiang Huang, Shenghan Zhang, et al.. (2016). Shaping of Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Fluid to Shaped Bodies and Robust Foams. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(34). 10810–10813. 199 indexed citations
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Pei, Xiaokun, Yifa Chen, Siqing Li, et al.. (2016). Metal‐Organic Frameworks Derived Porous Carbons: Syntheses, Porosity and Gas Sorption Properties. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 34(2). 157–174. 47 indexed citations
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Chen, Yifa, Xiao Feng, Xianqiang Huang, et al.. (2015). A Tale of Copper Coordination Frameworks: Controlled Single‐Crystal‐to‐Single‐Crystal Transformations and Their Catalytic CH Bond Activation Properties. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(40). 13894–13899. 21 indexed citations
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Tong, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2013). What are the determinants of post-traumatic stress disorder: age, gender, ethnicity or other? Evidence from 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Public Health. 127(7). 644–652. 112 indexed citations
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Pei, Xiaokun, et al.. (2006). Provincial income inequality and self-reported health status in China during 1991–7. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 60(12). 1065–1069. 43 indexed citations

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