Xiaowen Ruan

2.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaowen Ruan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowen Ruan has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 34 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaowen Ruan's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (14 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (10 papers). Xiaowen Ruan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (14 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (10 papers). Xiaowen Ruan collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Xiaowen Ruan's co-authors include Xiaoqiang Cui, Sai Kishore Ravi, Weitao Zheng, Haiyan Zhang, Tengfeng Xie, Kaikai Ba, Jing Leng, Shengye Jin, Jiandong Wu and Depeng Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowen Ruan

40 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

A Twin S‐Scheme Artificial Photosynthetic System with Self‐Assembled Heterojunctions Yields Superior Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Rate

2022 337 citations Xiaowen Ruan, Chengxiang Huang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Transition Metal‐Based Catalysts for Urea Oxidation Reaction (UOR): Catalyst Design Strategies, Applications, and Future Perspectives

2024 154 citations Xiaowen Ruan, Sai Kishore Ravi et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Modulation of Sulfur Vacancies in ZnIn₂S₄/MXene Schottky Heterojunction Photocatalyst Promotes Hydrogen Evolution

2024 94 citations Minghua Xu, Xiaowen Ruan et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaowen Ruan China	21	1.5k	1.1k	682	108	101	48	1.7k
Minghua Zhou China	6	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	730 1.1×	105 1.0×	128 1.3×	10	1.8k
Youzi Zhang China	19	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	728 1.1×	90 0.8×	90 0.9×	34	1.6k
Zaiyong Jiang China	24	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	681 1.0×	101 0.9×	137 1.4×	46	1.7k
Wenchao Wang China	13	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	606 0.9×	80 0.7×	87 0.9×	29	1.4k
Jinman Yang China	24	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	805 1.2×	104 1.0×	135 1.3×	60	2.1k
Benjamin Moss United Kingdom	20	1.3k 0.9×	989 0.9×	737 1.1×	95 0.9×	136 1.3×	36	1.6k
Zhongjie Guan China	23	1.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.7×	905 1.3×	105 1.0×	92 0.9×	44	2.3k
Hui Ling Tan Australia	16	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	921 1.4×	100 0.9×	136 1.3×	30	2.0k
Ujwal Kumar Thakur Canada	18	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	867 1.3×	63 0.6×	119 1.2×	28	1.8k

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Ruan, Xiaowen, Depeng Meng, Ming‐Hua Xu, et al.. (2025). BiVO4/Bi4V2O10 isometallic heterojunction coupled with FeOOH/NiOOH cocatalysts for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 688. 766–774. 2 indexed citations

Li, Shijie, et al.. (2025). Plasmonic Nanomaterials in Photothermal Catalysis and Artificial Photosynthesis: Hot Electron Dynamics, Design Challenges, and Future Prospects. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(6). 9 indexed citations

Ding, Chunsheng, Zhao Shengli, Xiaowen Ruan, et al.. (2025). Reverse Charge Transfer Drives d–p Orbital Hybridization in Ruthenium–Oxygen Modified Zn ₃ In ₂ S ₆ for Hydrogen Peroxide Photosynthesis. Advanced Materials. 37(43). e09867–e09867.

Ruan, Xiaowen, Chunsheng Ding, Jing Leng, et al.. (2025). Decoupling of Carrier Pathways in Au/Cu‐Zn ₃ In ₂ S ₆ Through Bulk Hole Trapping and Surface Hot Electron Accumulation Enhances Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e11422–e11422. 7 indexed citations

Ruan, Xiaowen, Depeng Meng, Minghua Xu, et al.. (2025). Semi‐Organic Artificial Photosynthetic System with Engineered Phenoxazinone Derivatives for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production with Broadened Near‐Infrared Light Harvesting. Advanced Science. 12(15). e2501037–e2501037. 2 indexed citations

Meng, Depeng, et al.. (2025). Iso-elemental redox sites over oxygen vacancies mediated Pd/TiO2 achieves high-rate hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 386. 126363–126363.

Zhang, Dantong, Minghua Xu, Depeng Meng, et al.. (2025). Balanced Spin‐State Energy Level Splitting Boosts Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation on Amorphous NiFeAl‐LDH Engineered BiVO ₄. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(17).

Ding, Chunsheng, Xiaowen Ruan, Dongxu Jiao, et al.. (2025). Polydopamine‐Modified BiOX with Interfacial p‐Orbital Coupling Enhances Superoxide Conversion for Efficient Piezocatalytic H ₂ O ₂ Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(45).

Ruan, Xiaowen, et al.. (2025). Dual-guided multi-modal bias removal strategy for temporal sentence grounding in video. Multimedia Systems. 31(2).

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Xu, Minghua, Xiaowen Ruan, Depeng Meng, et al.. (2025). Alkali Induction Strategy for Artificial Photosynthesis of Hydrogen by TiO₂ Heterophase Homojunctions. Advanced Science. 12(12). e2413069–e2413069. 8 indexed citations

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Rasheed, Hifza, et al.. (2024). A review on modified ZnO to address environmental challenges through photocatalysis: Photodegradation of organic pollutants. Materials Today Energy. 48. 101774–101774. 19 indexed citations

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He, Dongpo, Ziyao Zhou, Qinyuan Hu, et al.. (2024). Recent Progress for Designing of Catalysts for Photothermal Conversion of Plastic Wastes. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(6). 20 indexed citations

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Ruan, Xiaowen, et al.. (2024). Bias-Conflict Sample Synthesis and Adversarial Removal Debias Strategy for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Video. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(5). 4533–4541. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Minghua, Xiaowen Ruan, Depeng Meng, et al.. (2024). Modulation of Sulfur Vacancies in ZnIn₂S₄/MXene Schottky Heterojunction Photocatalyst Promotes Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(37). 94 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruan, Xiaowen, et al.. (2024). Collaborative Debias Strategy for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Video. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(11). 10972–10986. 6 indexed citations

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Ding, Chunsheng, Xiaowen Ruan, Minghua Xu, et al.. (2024). Step‐Scheme SnO₂/Zn₃In₂S₆ Catalysts for Solar Production of Hydrogen Peroxide From Seawater. Small. 20(50). e2406959–e2406959. 13 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dongxu, Xiaowen Ruan, Zhaoyong Jin, et al.. (2024). Synergistic modulation of the d-band center in Ni3S2 by selenium and iron for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and urea oxidation reaction (UOR). Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 671. 46–55. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Shan, Dongxu Jiao, Xiaowen Ruan, et al.. (2024). O‐2p Hybridization Enhanced Transformation of Active γ‐NiOOH by Chromium Doping for Efficient Urea Oxidation Reaction. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(36). 56 indexed citations

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Ruan, Xiaowen, Depeng Meng, Chengxiang Huang, et al.. (2023). Enhancing Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Synergistic Benefits of MXene Cocatalysis and Homo‐Interface Engineering. Small Methods. 7(11). e2300627–e2300627. 21 indexed citations

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Ruan, Xiaowen, Hao Hu, Huinan Che, et al.. (2019). A visible-light-driven Z-scheme CdS/Bi12GeO20 heterostructure with enhanced photocatalytic degradation of various organics and the reduction of aqueous Cr(VI). Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 543. 317–327. 76 indexed citations

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