Xiaowang Zhou

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
153 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Xiaowang Zhou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowang Zhou has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Materials Chemistry, 55 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 37 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Xiaowang Zhou's work include Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (33 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (24 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (23 papers). Xiaowang Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (33 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (24 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (23 papers). Xiaowang Zhou collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Xiaowang Zhou's co-authors include H.N.G. Wadley, R. A. Johnson, Michael E. Foster, Matthew Neurock, Jonathan A. Zimmerman, Ryan B. Sills, D. K. Ward, Reese E. Jones, Bryan M. Wong and Dewey Murdick and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowang Zhou

149 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Misfit-energy-increasing dislocations in vapor-deposited CoFe/NiFe multilayers

2004 1.1k citations Xiaowang Zhou, H.N.G. Wadley et al. Physical Review B profile →
Atomic scale structure of sputtered metal multilayers

2001 628 citations Xiaowang Zhou, H.N.G. Wadley et al. profile →

Peers

Xiaowang Zhou

MC

ME

EEE

MM

AMPO

Jakob Schiøtz Denmark

D. C. Chrzan United States

W. Miller Germany

U. Dahmen United States

Flyura Djurabekova Finland

Hiroyuki Fukuyama Japan

Jonathan A. Zimmerman United States

W. Gust Germany

D. Nguyen-Manh United Kingdom

Bryan W. Reed United States

Jakob Schiøtz Denmark

Xiaowang Zhou

4.6k ×1.3

MC

2.4k ×1.8

ME

1.4k ×1.1

EEE

1.4k ×1.3

MM

806 ×0.8

AMPO

Citations per year, relative to Xiaowang Zhou Xiaowang Zhou (= 1×) peers Jakob Schiøtz

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaowang Zhou

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Xiaowang Zhou's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Xiaowang Zhou with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Xiaowang Zhou more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaowang Zhou

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xiaowang Zhou. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xiaowang Zhou. The network helps show where Xiaowang Zhou may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaowang Zhou

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Zhou, Xiaowang, et al.. (2025). Dislocation nano-hydrides in nickel: Nucleation, evolution and effects on dislocation behaviors. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 205. 106310–106310.

2.

Zhou, Xiaowang, et al.. (2024). Accelerated kinetic Monte Carlo method for simulations of helium bubble formation in metals. Journal of Computational Physics. 523. 113666–113666. 1 indexed citations

3.

Foster, Michael E. & Xiaowang Zhou. (2024). Hydrogen isotope population near dislocations in zirconium from molecular dynamics. Heliyon. 10(11). e32365–e32365. 2 indexed citations

4.

Zhou, Xiaowang, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen effects on the deformation and slip localization in a single crystal austenitic stainless steel. International Journal of Plasticity. 180. 104074–104074. 13 indexed citations

5.

Nowak, Christian, Catalin D. Spataru, Kevin Y. Chu, Xiaowang Zhou, & Ryan B. Sills. (2024). Molecular dynamics study of hydrogen Cottrell atmosphere in aluminum: Influence of solute-solute interactions in the dislocation core. Physical Review Materials. 8(5). 6 indexed citations

6.

Nowak, Christian, et al.. (2024). Molecular dynamics examination of hydrogen effects on relative fracture properties of interfaces between ferrite, martensite, and cementite in Fe–C steels. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 136. 864–870. 3 indexed citations

7.

Zhou, Xiaowang. (2023). Molecular dynamics exploration of helium bubble nucleation and growth mechanisms in Fe₇₀Ni₁₁Cr₁₉ austenitic stainless steel. RSC Advances. 13(33). 23236–23243. 1 indexed citations

8.

Foster, Michael E. & Xiaowang Zhou. (2023). Molecular dynamics study of grain boundary and radiation effects on tritium population and diffusion in zirconium. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 578. 154376–154376. 5 indexed citations

9.

Zhou, Xiaowang, Michael E. Foster, & Ryan B. Sills. (2023). Enabling molecular dynamics simulations of helium bubble formation in tritium-containing austenitic stainless steels: An Fe-Ni-Cr-H-He potential. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 575. 154232–154232. 6 indexed citations

10.

Zhou, Xiaowang. (2023). Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics studies of thermal diffusion of hydrogen isotopes in low concentration zirconium hydrides. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 587. 154750–154750. 1 indexed citations

11.

Goel, Saurav, et al.. (2022). A critical review of the developments in molecular dynamics simulations to study femtosecond laser ablation. Materials Today Proceedings. 64. 1339–1348. 11 indexed citations

12.

Fan, Pengfei, Nirmal Kumar Katiyar, Xiaowang Zhou, & Saurav Goel. (2022). Uniaxial pulling and nano-scratching of a newly synthesized high entropy alloy. APL Materials. 10(11). 15 indexed citations

13.

Zhou, Xiaowang, et al.. (2021). Molecular dynamics studies of lattice defect effects on tritium diffusion in zirconium. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 555. 153099–153099. 8 indexed citations

14.

Stavila, Vitalie, Sichi Li, Chaochao Dun, et al.. (2021). Defying Thermodynamics: Stabilization of Alane Within Covalent Triazine Frameworks for Reversible Hydrogen Storage. Angewandte Chemie. 133(49). 26019–26028. 2 indexed citations

15.

Stavila, Vitalie, Sichi Li, Chaochao Dun, et al.. (2021). Defying Thermodynamics: Stabilization of Alane Within Covalent Triazine Frameworks for Reversible Hydrogen Storage. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(49). 25815–25824. 20 indexed citations

16.

Chu, Kevin Y., Michael E. Foster, Ryan B. Sills, et al.. (2020). Temperature and composition dependent screw dislocation mobility in austenitic stainless steels from large-scale molecular dynamics. npj Computational Materials. 6(1). 30 indexed citations

17.

Goel, Saurav, Michael H. Knaggs, Gaurav Goel, et al.. (2020). Horizons of modern molecular dynamics simulation in digitalized solid freeform fabrication with advanced materials. Materials Today Chemistry. 18. 100356–100356. 22 indexed citations

18.

Zhou, Xiaowang, et al.. (2020). Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of structural evolution during anneal of additively manufactured materials. Computational Materials Science. 179. 109605–109605. 5 indexed citations

19.

Zhou, Xiaowang, Reese E. Jones, & Kevin Y. Chu. (2017). Polymorphic improvement of Stillinger-Weber potential for InGaN. Journal of Applied Physics. 122(23). 8 indexed citations

20.

Murdick, Dewey, Xiaowang Zhou, H.N.G. Wadley, et al.. (2006). Analytic bond-order potential for the gallium arsenide system. Physical Review B. 73(4). 53 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact