Xiaoqing Yan

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
133 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Xiaoqing Yan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoqing Yan has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Materials Chemistry, 65 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaoqing Yan's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (43 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (30 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers). Xiaoqing Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (43 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (30 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers). Xiaoqing Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Singapore. Xiaoqing Yan's co-authors include Guidong Yang, Jinjia Wei, Renhong Li, Bolun Yang, Chao Xue, Bo Lin, Mengyang Xia, Hisayoshi Kobayashi, Jie Fan and He Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoqing Yan

128 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Influence of Russia-Ukraine War on the Global Energy and ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2025 50 100 150
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.

  1. Influence of Russia-Ukraine War on the Global Energy and Food Security
    2022 167 citations Gang Lü, Xiaoqing Yan et al. profile →
  2. Tailoring Activation Intermediates of CO2 Initiates C–N Coupling for Highly Selective Urea Electrosynthesis
    2025 48 citations Jin Yu, Jing Yuan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaoqing Yan China 38 2.5k 2.5k 1.1k 382 358 133 4.0k
Xiaoqian Wei China 43 3.3k 1.3× 3.2k 1.3× 2.3k 2.0× 454 1.2× 386 1.1× 98 5.8k
Yawen Wang China 40 3.0k 1.2× 3.6k 1.4× 1.7k 1.5× 397 1.0× 205 0.6× 143 4.9k
Nobuaki Negishi Japan 36 3.0k 1.2× 3.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 236 0.6× 228 0.6× 92 4.6k
Ge Chen China 39 2.1k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 1.9k 1.6× 264 0.7× 256 0.7× 144 4.6k
Yong Yang China 35 2.5k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.3× 201 0.5× 373 1.0× 140 4.2k
Qiaoqiao Zhang China 29 1.3k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 279 0.7× 343 1.0× 82 3.5k
Jianjun Liu China 31 2.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 702 0.6× 232 0.6× 279 0.8× 99 3.2k
Xuchun Wang China 38 1.8k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 216 0.6× 482 1.3× 152 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoqing Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoqing Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoqing Yan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wei, Tong, Xiaoqing Yan, Fang Zheng, et al.. (2025). CeO 2 -enhanced surface reconstruction of Ni 3 S 2 nanosheets for improved urea-assisted water splitting performance. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 9(5). 1183–1195. 1 indexed citations
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Qian, Kaicheng, Tong Wei, Xiaoqing Yan, et al.. (2025). Oxygen Vacancies Promote Formaldehyde Base-Free Reforming into Hydrogen over Cu Doping-Induced Cu–CuxZn1–xO Heterointerfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(8). 12357–12374. 2 indexed citations
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Shi, Jichao, Tong Wei, Xiaoqing Yan, et al.. (2025). Constructing efficient-active-centers selenide heterointerface for enhanced urea oxidation-driven hydrogen evolution. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 127. 576–585.
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Yu, Jin, He Li, Xiaoqing Yan, et al.. (2025). In-situ ionothermal synthesis of amorphous poly (heptazine imide) for the photoredox conversion of water. Applied Catalysis A General. 700. 120304–120304.
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Yu, Jin, Jing Yuan, He Li, et al.. (2025). Tailoring Activation Intermediates of CO2 Initiates C–N Coupling for Highly Selective Urea Electrosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(10). 8871–8880. 48 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xiao, Hang, Baorong Xu, He Li, et al.. (2024). Dual plasmonic coupling effect in Bi/vacancy-rich Bi2WO6 heterojunction for selective CO2 photoreduction to CH4. Chemical Engineering Science. 292. 120012–120012. 20 indexed citations
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Yan, Xiaoqing, Zihao Chen, Yufei Yue, et al.. (2024). Janus cobalt sites on carbon nitride for efficient photocatalytic overall water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 360. 124527–124527. 8 indexed citations
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Lu, Nan, et al.. (2024). A universal molecular oxygen-mediated photocatalysis strategy to boost visible-light induced hydrogen evolution through partial water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 360. 124536–124536. 11 indexed citations
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Lv, Yang, Wenkai Teng, Yang Li, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical macrokinetics analysis of nitrite electrocatalytic reduction to ammonia. AIChE Journal. 70(12). 7 indexed citations
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Ou, Honghui, Jin Yu, Ben Chong, et al.. (2024). Hydroxyl‐Bonded Co Single Atom Site on Boroncarbonitride Surface Realizes Nonsacrificial H2O2 Synthesis in the Near‐Infrared Region. Advanced Materials. 36(30). e2404851–e2404851. 32 indexed citations
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Lu, Nan, Bin Liu, Xiaofan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Interfacial electronic structure modulation between Pd and N-containing support for efficient formic acid dehydrogenation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 49. 850–861. 7 indexed citations
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Yan, Xiaoqing, Mengyang Xia, Hanxuan Liu, et al.. (2023). An electron-hole rich dual-site nickel catalyst for efficient photocatalytic overall water splitting. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1741–1741. 141 indexed citations
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Xie, Yuan, et al.. (2022). Anthraquinone-Catalyzed TEMPO Reduction to Realize Two-Electron Energy Storage of Poly(TEMPO-methacrylate). ACS Energy Letters. 7(4). 1481–1489. 18 indexed citations
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Yan, Xiaoqing, et al.. (2021). The origin and elimination of separator wrinkles in lithium-ion batteries. Energy Storage Science and Technology. 10(1). 156. 1 indexed citations
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Qian, Kaicheng, Yong Yan, Shibo Xi, et al.. (2021). Elucidating the Strain–Vacancy–Activity Relationship on Structurally Deformed Co@CoO Nanosheets for Aqueous Phase Reforming of Formaldehyde. Small. 17(51). e2102970–e2102970. 66 indexed citations
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Lu, Nan, Xiaoqing Yan, Hisayoshi Kobayashi, et al.. (2020). Oxygen-mediated water splitting on metal-free heterogeneous photocatalyst under visible light. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 279. 119378–119378. 19 indexed citations
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Lin, Bo, Chao Xue, Xiaoqing Yan, et al.. (2015). Facile fabrication of novel SiO2/g-C3N4 core–shell nanosphere photocatalysts with enhanced visible light activity. Applied Surface Science. 357. 346–355. 107 indexed citations
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Wang, Ting, Xiaoqing Yan, Shishun Zhao, et al.. (2014). A facile one-step synthesis of three-dimensionally ordered macroporous N-doped TiO2 with ethanediamine as the nitrogen source. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2(37). 15611–15619. 82 indexed citations
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Zheng, Hairong, Meicen Liu, Zhenglong Zhang, et al.. (2011). Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence of Rhodamine 6G on the Assembled Silver Nanostructures. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 11(11). 9523–9527. 10 indexed citations

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