Yan Kou

18.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
78 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Yan Kou is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Kou has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 17 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yan Kou's work include Phase Change Materials Research (22 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (9 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (8 papers). Yan Kou is often cited by papers focused on Phase Change Materials Research (22 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (9 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (8 papers). Yan Kou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yan Kou's co-authors include Avi Ma’ayan, Qiaonan Duan, Neil R. Clark, Edward Y. Chen, Zichen Wang, Christopher M. Tan, Gabriela Vaz Meirelles, Quan Shi, Keyan Sun and Donglin Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yan Kou

72 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Enrichr: interactive and collaborative HTML5 gene list enrichment analysis tool

2013 4.6k citations Edward Y. Chen, Christopher M. Tan et al. BMC Bioinformatics profile →
Supercapacitive Energy Storage and Electric Power Supply Using an Aza‐Fused π‐Conjugated Microporous Framework

2011 510 citations Yan Kou et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
An intrinsically flexible phase change film for wearable thermal managements

2020 245 citations Yan Kou, Keyan Sun et al. profile →
A Thermoregulatory Flexible Phase Change Nonwoven for All-Season High-Efficiency Wearable Thermal Management

2023 92 citations Hanqing Liu, Feng Zhou et al. profile →
Flexible insulating phase change composite film with improved thermal conductivity for wearable thermal management

2024 79 citations Xinyu Zhang, Keyan Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Kou China	31	3.5k	1.4k	1.1k	856	822	78	8.5k
Jin Zhang China	63	3.5k 1.0×	493 0.3×	2.0k 1.9×	644 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	423	14.0k
Zhihui Xie China	54	2.0k 0.6×	727 0.5×	2.7k 2.5×	360 0.4×	391 0.5×	233	7.8k
Abhay Pandit Ireland	69	3.6k 1.0×	745 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	353 0.4×	598 0.7×	387	17.9k
Cao Li China	50	3.3k 0.9×	369 0.3×	2.2k 2.0×	664 0.8×	529 0.6×	389	9.8k
Wei Wei China	56	2.4k 0.7×	635 0.4×	2.0k 1.9×	612 0.7×	536 0.7×	480	11.6k
Linhong Deng China	50	3.2k 0.9×	357 0.3×	834 0.8×	670 0.8×	277 0.3×	356	9.5k
Xiaolong Liu China	66	6.7k 1.9×	476 0.3×	3.3k 3.1×	2.0k 2.3×	460 0.6×	580	16.5k
Yan Li China	49	2.6k 0.7×	338 0.2×	774 0.7×	708 0.8×	214 0.3×	276	7.7k
Yang Liu China	57	3.5k 1.0×	522 0.4×	2.7k 2.5×	346 0.4×	367 0.4×	357	12.8k
Wenxin Wang China	63	3.6k 1.0×	419 0.3×	1.9k 1.8×	269 0.3×	1.9k 2.3×	530	14.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Lin, et al.. (2025). Preparation of Epoxy Vitrimer Potting Materials Based on Dynamic Disulfide Bonds: Recyclability, Hydrophobicity, Temperature Shock Resistance, and Shape Memory. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 142(44).

Kou, Yan, et al.. (2025). Facile scalable fabrication of triazine-based flexible covalent organic framework fiber film with multifunction at room temperature. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 108. 410–416. 5 indexed citations

Xing, Yun, et al.. (2025). Effect of curing temperature of phthalonitrile resin on the properties of resultant hierarchical porous carbon. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering. 79. 45–52. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinyu, Hanqing Liu, Yan Kou, et al.. (2024). Thermally enhanced flexible phase change materials for thermal energy conversion and management of wearable electronics. Materials Today Sustainability. 28. 100960–100960. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Hanqing, Xinyu Zhang, Shihui Zhang, et al.. (2024). Intrinsically Flexible Phase Change Fibers for Intelligent Thermal Regulation. Angewandte Chemie. 136(40). 1 indexed citations

Cao, Qi, Jiahui Li, Qianqian Fan, et al.. (2024). Flame retardant behavior of bio-based epoxy resin bearing pyridazinone and dynamic ester bond via self-blow-out and vesicular carbon formation. Polymer Degradation and Stability. 222. 110707–110707. 14 indexed citations

Yan, Huimin, et al.. (2024). Heat capacity study of fatty acids as phase change materials for thermal energy storage. The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. 197. 107338–107338. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Hanqing, Shihui Zhang, Yan Kou, et al.. (2024). Intrinsically Flexible Phase Change Fibers for Intelligent Thermal Regulation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(40). e202408857–e202408857. 24 indexed citations

Kou, Yan, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal phase change materials for thermal energy long-term storage and controllable release. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 80. 228–236. 30 indexed citations

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Du, Pengcheng, et al.. (2023). Bi-Level Coordinated Operation Strategy of Multiple Microgrids in Multi-Time Scale. Electric Power Components and Systems. 51(3). 254–263. 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Siyuan, Die Dai, Yan Kou, et al.. (2023). The gut microbiome affects response of treatments in HER2‐negative advanced gastric cancer. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 13(7). e1312–e1312. 37 indexed citations

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Dong, Hongsheng, et al.. (2023). Flexible self-healing phase change film with high transition enthalpy for thermal management. Journal of Energy Storage. 62. 106873–106873. 16 indexed citations

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Kou, Yan, Guangwu Li, Yi Han, et al.. (2022). Angularly fused diaza-dinaphthopyrenes: regio-selective synthesis, crystal structures and isomer-dependent mechanochromic fluorescent properties. Chemical Science. 14(3). 668–674. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Qi, Zhihuan Weng, Yan Kou, et al.. (2021). Facile synthesis of bio-based tetra-functional epoxy resin and its potential application as high-performance composite resin matrix. Composites Part B Engineering. 214. 108749–108749. 99 indexed citations

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Kou, Yan, Siyu Wang, Jipeng Luo, et al.. (2018). Thermal analysis and heat capacity study of polyethylene glycol (PEG) phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications. The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. 128. 259–274. 214 indexed citations

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Scheckel, Claudia, Elodie Drapeau, María A. Frías, et al.. (2016). Regulatory consequences of neuronal ELAV-like protein binding to coding and non-coding RNAs in human brain. eLife. 5. 104 indexed citations

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Mendelson, Avital, Yuya Kunisaki, Alexander Birbrair, et al.. (2015). Fetal liver hematopoietic stem cell niches associate with portal vessels. Science. 351(6269). 176–180. 176 indexed citations

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Liu, Li, Jing Lei, Stephan Sanders, et al.. (2014). DAWN: a framework to identify autism genes and subnetworks using gene expression and genetics. Molecular Autism. 5(1). 22–22. 89 indexed citations

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Clark, Neil R., Kevin Hu, Yan Kou, et al.. (2014). The characteristic direction: a geometrical approach to identify differentially expressed genes. BMC Bioinformatics. 15(1). 79–79. 123 indexed citations

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Chen, Edward Y., Christopher M. Tan, Yan Kou, et al.. (2013). Enrichr: interactive and collaborative HTML5 gene list enrichment analysis tool. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 128–128. 4574 indexed citations breakdown →

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