Xiaowei Li

16.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
318 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

Xiaowei Li is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowei Li has authored 318 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 138 papers in Materials Chemistry and 98 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xiaowei Li's work include Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (74 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (70 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (37 papers). Xiaowei Li is often cited by papers focused on Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (74 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (70 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (37 papers). Xiaowei Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xiaowei Li's co-authors include Hongwei Huang, Peng Sun, Geyu Lu, Yichun Liu, Tierui Zhang, Fan Dong, Xin Zhou, Xinghua Li, Yihe Zhang and Chen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowei Li

301 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Anionic Group Self-Doping as a Promising Strategy: Band-Gap Engineering and Multi-Functional Applications of High-Performance CO₃^2–-Doped Bi₂O₂CO₃

2015 708 citations Xiaowei Li et al. profile →
Precursor-reforming protocol to 3D mesoporous g-C3N4 established by ultrathin self-doped nanosheets for superior hydrogen evolution

2017 652 citations Xiaowei Li et al. Nano Energy profile →
A facile route to synthesize multiporous MnCo2O4 and CoMn2O4 spinel quasi-hollow spheres with improved lithium storage properties

2013 458 citations Xiaowei Li et al. profile →
Design of Superior Ethanol Gas Sensor Based on Al-Doped NiO Nanorod-Flowers

2015 393 citations Xiaowei Li et al. profile →
Synergy of ferroelectric polarization and oxygen vacancy to promote CO2 photoreduction

2021 335 citations Xiaowei Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaowei Li China	59	8.1k	6.6k	5.4k	2.6k	2.2k	318	13.5k
Minghui Yang China	58	7.3k 0.9×	5.3k 0.8×	5.5k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	330	12.1k
Tata N. Rao India	51	5.3k 0.7×	6.9k 1.0×	7.2k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	196	14.8k
Xing‐Jiu Huang China	73	8.3k 1.0×	5.4k 0.8×	2.3k 0.4×	3.9k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	328	16.8k
Hui Huang China	68	12.0k 1.5×	9.2k 1.4×	3.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	4.9k 2.2×	350	19.0k
Andreu Cabot Spain	76	12.4k 1.5×	11.6k 1.7×	5.8k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	381	19.4k
S. Trasatti Italy	56	9.4k 1.2×	5.5k 0.8×	7.5k 1.4×	1.2k 0.4×	2.7k 1.2×	278	16.9k
Gang Xu China	65	7.1k 0.9×	8.8k 1.3×	2.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.5×	397	17.3k
Jing Sun China	73	7.4k 0.9×	9.4k 1.4×	3.0k 0.6×	4.8k 1.8×	4.1k 1.9×	324	16.7k
Long Chen China	54	9.1k 1.1×	4.8k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	434	14.5k
Maggie Paulose United States	57	5.8k 0.7×	12.8k 1.9×	14.3k 2.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	106	20.9k

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Li, Xiaowei, et al.. (2025). Mitigating the effect of inevitable Cu2+ by PHGMS for improving chalcopyrite-molybdenite flotation separation performance. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 196. 106920–106920. 1 indexed citations

Lv, Chaonan, et al.. (2025). Membrane-free two-step water splitting enabled by heterostructured Ni(OH)2-CoMoO4·0.75H2O charge-buffering electrode. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 716. 136718–136718. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Luzheng, et al.. (2024). Effect of bleaching powder (ClO−) on pulsating HGMS of chalcopyrite from arsenopyrite. Minerals Engineering. 220. 109102–109102. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Xi, Xinghua Li, Fang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Hollow TiO2/Bi2MoO6 Janus-nanofibers for photo-reforming of antibiotics into carbon monoxide. Nano Energy. 130. 110185–110185. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Qiaoling, et al.. (2024). Engineering of active site coupling to facilitate interatomic charge transfer for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 701. 134986–134986. 4 indexed citations

Zhou, Jie, Jinbin Xu, Haozheng Wang, et al.. (2024). Automated droplet manipulation enabled by a machine-vision-assisted acoustic tweezer. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 418. 136352–136352. 4 indexed citations

Wen, Shuming, et al.. (2024). Mn-SS as a novel depressant of the flotation process of scheelite and calcite: Role and mechanism. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 686. 133443–133443. 9 indexed citations

Tang, Rongnian, et al.. (2023). Modeling to Correct the Effect of Soil Moisture for Predicting Soil Total Nitrogen by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Electronics. 12(6). 1271–1271. 7 indexed citations

Li, Xiaowei, et al.. (2023). Effect of lime (CaOH+) on chalcopyrite-arsenopyrite separation in high gradient magnetic separation: Experiment and molecular simulation. Separation and Purification Technology. 333. 125831–125831. 7 indexed citations

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Xin, Jiayu, Jie Liu, Yu Liu, et al.. (2023). Highly dispersed g-C3N4 on well-designed three-dimensional porous nanostructured ZrO2 for high-performance photocatalytic degradation and H2 production. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 638. 324–338. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Liang, Xinran Wang, Jinxin Li, et al.. (2021). One-pot synthesis of ultrafine Pt-decorated MoS2/N-doped carbon composite with sponge-like morphology for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 872. 159562–159562. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Xu, Yinglin Wang, Xiaowei Li, et al.. (2020). Hydrothermal synthesis of Au@SnO2 hierarchical hollow microspheres for ethanol detection. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 319. 128299–128299. 67 indexed citations

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Tao, Ran, Shuhua Yang, Changlu Shao, et al.. (2019). Reusable and Flexible g-C₃N₄/Ag₃PO₄/Polyacrylonitrile Heterojunction Nanofibers for Photocatalytic Dye Degradation and Oxygen Evolution. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2(5). 3081–3090. 65 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jian, Jiayu Xin, Changlu Shao, et al.. (2019). Direct Z-scheme heterostructure of p-CuAl2O4/n-Bi2WO6 composite nanofibers for efficient overall water splitting and photodegradation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 550. 170–179. 85 indexed citations

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Liu, Haiyang, Chaohan Han, Changlu Shao, et al.. (2019). ZnO/ZnFe₂O₄ Janus Hollow Nanofibers with Magnetic Separability for Photocatalytic Degradation of Water-Soluble Organic Dyes. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2(8). 4879–4890. 48 indexed citations

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Li, Bing, Xiaowei Li, Changlu Shao, et al.. (2019). Hierarchically Porous In₂O₃/In₂S₃ Heterostructures as Micronano Photocatalytic Reactors Prepared by a Novel Polymer-Assisted Sol–Gel Freeze-Drying Method. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 58(31). 14106–14114. 28 indexed citations

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Fu, Guangsheng, Xingkun Ning, Mingjing Chen, et al.. (2018). Bandwidth controlled metal‐insulator transition in Au– VO ₂ nanocomposite thin films. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 102(5). 2761–2769. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Ling, Junying Xiao, Xichuan Yang, et al.. (2016). Highly effective Co3S4/electrospun-carbon-nanofibers composite counter electrode synthesized with electrospun technique for cobalt redox electrolyte based on dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Power Sources. 326. 6–13. 35 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yunfeng, et al.. (2011). [Improvement of the method for methylmercury determination in aquatic products using liquid chromatography online coupled with atomic fluorescence spectrometry].. PubMed. 29(7). 667–72. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaowei. (2010). Analysis of Five Arsenic Speciations by High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Instrumental Analysis. 2 indexed citations

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