Yan Geng

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Yan Geng is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Geng has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Materials Chemistry, 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yan Geng's work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications (19 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). Yan Geng is often cited by papers focused on Covalent Organic Framework Applications (19 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). Yan Geng collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and Japan. Yan Geng's co-authors include Chihaya Adachi, Hajime Nakanotani, Lin‐Song Cui, Yu‐Bin Dong, Hiroko Nomura, Ke‐Hui Xie, Guang-Bo Wang, Jong Uk Kim, Jing‐Lan Kan and Fucheng Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yan Geng

64 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

Controlling Singlet–Triplet Energy Splitting for Deep‐Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters

2016 439 citations Yan Geng, Hajime Nakanotani et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Geng China	26	2.0k	1.3k	733	662	343	66	2.7k
Guiling Zhang China	24	1.2k 0.6×	851 0.7×	828 1.1×	421 0.6×	200 0.6×	152	2.2k
Jun Miao China	26	1.7k 0.9×	934 0.7×	395 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	220 0.6×	53	2.7k
Shitong Zhang China	23	2.3k 1.2×	532 0.4×	624 0.9×	298 0.5×	291 0.8×	57	2.6k
Weiming Wu United States	24	1.3k 0.7×	608 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	608 0.9×	440 1.3×	65	2.3k
Neus Vilà France	28	950 0.5×	894 0.7×	334 0.5×	212 0.3×	427 1.2×	73	2.2k
Suci Meng China	32	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.9k 2.6×	301 0.5×	293 0.9×	109	3.4k
Peipei Zhu China	29	956 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	299 0.4×	470 0.7×	257 0.7×	92	2.6k
Tanmay Banerjee India	25	3.2k 1.6×	679 0.5×	2.3k 3.1×	1.8k 2.7×	412 1.2×	46	4.0k
Luka Đorđević∞ Italy	30	3.0k 1.5×	563 0.4×	631 0.9×	298 0.5×	556 1.6×	69	3.8k

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Wu, Chengjuan, et al.. (2025). Tandem reaction to access isoquinolone-linked covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic synthesis of benzimidazoles. Chemical Communications. 61(95). 18866–18869.

Xie, Ke‐Hui, Guang-Bo Wang, Fang Huang, et al.. (2025). Multicomponent one-pot construction of benzo[f]quinoline-linked covalent organic frameworks for H2O2 photosynthesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3493–3493. 22 indexed citations

Guo, Pengfei, Yan Geng, Hongbin Zhou, et al.. (2025). Functionalization of covalent organic frameworks through the Ullmann ether reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 527. 171690–171690.

Wang, Weitao, Yan Geng, Huan Wang, et al.. (2024). Efficiently nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of aldehydes over MgSO4/ZrO2 catalyst. Molecular Catalysis. 556. 113948–113948. 3 indexed citations

Lanza, Arianna, Martin Fisch, Camille Sonneville, et al.. (2023). High pressure behaviour of the organic semiconductor salt (TTF-BTD)₂I₃. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(45). 31410–31417. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Guangbo, Ke‐Hui Xie, Jing‐Lan Kan, et al.. (2023). In situutilization of photogenerated hydrogen for hydrogenation reaction over a covalent organic framework. Chemical Communications. 59(11). 1493–1496. 4 indexed citations

Xie, Ke‐Hui, Guang-Bo Wang, Fei Zhao, et al.. (2023). Covalent organic framework based photocatalysts for efficient visible-light driven hydrogen peroxide production. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(5). 1322–1338. 24 indexed citations

Wu, Chengjuan, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic Oxidative [3+2] Cycloaddition for Pyrrolo[2,1‐a]isoquinoline Synthesis Using a Porphyrin‐Based Covalent Organic Framework. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26(27). 4 indexed citations

Wang, Guangbo, Ke‐Hui Xie, Jing‐Lan Kan, et al.. (2023). A covalent organic framework constructed from a donor–acceptor–donor motif monomer for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(8). 4007–4012. 51 indexed citations

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Wu, Chengjuan, Xinyu Li, Jing‐Lan Kan, et al.. (2022). Porphyrin covalent organic framework for photocatalytic synthesis of tetrahydroquinolines. Chinese Chemical Letters. 33(10). 4559–4562. 41 indexed citations

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Wang, Guang-Bo, Fucheng Zhu, Qianqian Lin, et al.. (2021). Rational design of benzodifuran-functionalized donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water. Chemical Communications. 57(36). 4464–4467. 58 indexed citations

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Li, Congcong, Jing‐Lan Kan, Bing Tian, et al.. (2021). A covalent organic framework as a photocatalyst for window ledge cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions. Chemical Communications. 58(10). 1530–1533. 33 indexed citations

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Lin, Qianqian, Sha Li, Chengjuan Wu, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of fulvene-containing boron complexes with aggregation-induced emission and mechanochromic luminescence. Chemical Communications. 56(92). 14435–14438. 8 indexed citations

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Waltar, Kay, Yan Geng, M. Graus, et al.. (2020). Adsorption geometry and electronic structure of a charge-transfer-complex: TTF-PYZ₂ on Ag(110). New Journal of Physics. 23(1). 13002–13002. 5 indexed citations

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Tsuchiya, Youichi, Ko Inada, Fatima Bencheikh, et al.. (2020). Molecular Design Based on Donor-Weak Donor Scaffold for Blue Thermally-Activated Delayed Fluorescence Designed by Combinatorial DFT Calculations. Frontiers in Chemistry. 8. 403–403. 24 indexed citations

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Liu, Xunshan, Yan Geng, Latévi Max Lawson Daku, et al.. (2018). Dipole Moment and Polarizability of Tunable Intramolecular Charge Transfer States in Heterocyclic π-Conjugated Molecular Dyads Determined by Computational and Stark Spectroscopic Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(17). 9346–9355. 12 indexed citations

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Geng, Yan, Raphael Pfattner, Antonio Campos, et al.. (2014). A Compact Tetrathiafulvalene–Benzothiadiazole Dyad and Its Highly Symmetrical Charge‐Transfer Salt: Ordered Donor π‐Stacks Closely Bound to Their Acceptors. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(23). 7136–7143. 28 indexed citations

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Geng, Yan, Raphael Pfattner, Antonio Campos, et al.. (2014). HOMO Stabilisation in π‐Extended Dibenzotetrathiafulvalene Derivatives for Their Application in Organic Field‐Effect Transistors. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(50). 16672–16679. 14 indexed citations

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Geng, Yan, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Chen, et al.. (2009). Semiconducting Neutral Microstructures Fabricated by Coordinative Self‐Assembly of Intramolecular Charge‐Transfer Tetrathiafulvalene Derivatives. Chemistry - A European Journal. 15(20). 5124–5129. 44 indexed citations

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Tang, Bi‐Yu, Lu Zhang, & Yan Geng. (2004). Determination of the antioxidant capacity of different food natural products with a new developed flow injection spectrofluorimetry detecting hydroxyl radicals. Talanta. 65(3). 769–775. 74 indexed citations

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