Yan Li

39.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
959 papers, 30.8k citations indexed

About

Yan Li is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Li has authored 959 papers receiving a total of 30.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 460 papers in Materials Chemistry, 334 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 234 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yan Li's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (135 papers), Graphene research and applications (129 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (99 papers). Yan Li is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (135 papers), Graphene research and applications (129 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (99 papers). Yan Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yan Li's co-authors include Jinyong Wang, Haibin Chu, Juan Yang, Jiangfeng Ni, Jie Liu, Feng Yang, Huan Pang, Sheng Zhu, Zhong Jin and Lian‐Mao Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yan Li

932 papers receiving 30.2k 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.

Equilibrium and kinetic studies of methyl orange and methyl violet adsorption on activated carbon derived from Phragmites australis

2009 688 citations Yan Li et al. profile →
Computation of Octanol−Water Partition Coefficients by Guiding an Additive Model with Knowledge

2007 682 citations Yan Li et al. profile →
Chirality-specific growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on solid alloy catalysts

2014 681 citations Feng Yang, Xiao Wang et al. profile →
MOF‐Derived Metal Oxide Composites for Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage

2018 389 citations Yan Li et al. profile →
Chirality Pure Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Sorting, and Characterization

2020 374 citations Feng Yang, Yan Li et al. profile →
Atomically precise electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

2023 173 citations Yan Li et al. profile →
10,000-h-stable intermittent alkaline seawater electrolysis

2025 136 citations Yan 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
Yan Li China	85	15.8k	11.2k	7.3k	5.3k	4.5k	959	30.8k
Ning Wang China	92	22.2k 1.4×	15.5k 1.4×	7.2k 1.0×	5.2k 1.0×	5.6k 1.2×	960	37.0k
Jin Zhang China	99	23.0k 1.5×	14.2k 1.3×	8.2k 1.1×	7.7k 1.5×	8.1k 1.8×	774	37.7k
Hongyu Chen China	91	16.8k 1.1×	8.7k 0.8×	7.4k 1.0×	6.7k 1.3×	4.5k 1.0×	1.1k	38.8k
Yue Li China	74	11.3k 0.7×	8.9k 0.8×	5.3k 0.7×	5.5k 1.0×	6.1k 1.4×	809	25.5k
Yuan Chen China	92	16.9k 1.1×	14.0k 1.3×	10.9k 1.5×	8.0k 1.5×	8.0k 1.8×	920	38.8k
Jung Ho Kim South Korea	90	12.5k 0.8×	15.3k 1.4×	6.1k 0.8×	10.0k 1.9×	6.4k 1.4×	871	34.8k
Hui Ying Yang China	99	13.7k 0.9×	20.8k 1.8×	7.9k 1.1×	9.1k 1.7×	4.7k 1.0×	852	35.5k
Jing Wang China	94	24.5k 1.6×	17.2k 1.5×	4.8k 0.7×	5.0k 1.0×	4.5k 1.0×	1.1k	36.2k
Ying Chen China	98	23.0k 1.5×	16.0k 1.4×	6.4k 0.9×	6.8k 1.3×	8.6k 1.9×	1.1k	43.5k
Kostya Ostrikov Australia	96	16.7k 1.1×	18.7k 1.7×	7.2k 1.0×	5.9k 1.1×	8.4k 1.9×	982	40.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhu, Wei, Jianjun Guo, Xin Li, et al.. (2025). Effects of Gallic Acid on In Vitro Ruminal Fermentation, Methane Emission, Microbial Composition, and Metabolic Functions. Animals. 15(13). 1959–1959. 1 indexed citations

Han, Zhen, et al.. (2024). Millisecond activity modulation of atomically-dispersed Fe–N–C catalysts. Energy storage materials. 69. 103421–103421. 16 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaohui, Tongqing Yang, Yan Li, Rongjiang Wang, & Ningning Sun. (2024). Regulating the switching electric field and energy-storage performance in antiferroelectric ceramics via heterogeneous laminated engineering. Ceramics International. 50(19). 35810–35819. 7 indexed citations

Li, Yan, et al.. (2024). Investigation on corrosion behavior of the atmospheric pressure air cooler tubes caused by multiphase flow. Engineering Failure Analysis. 165. 108800–108800.

Yang, Fengxia, et al.. (2024). Visible light-modulated switching behavior of CZTSSe-based synaptic memristor. Materials Letters. 375. 137234–137234.

Jia, Qiyu, Chuang Ma, Zongliang Wang, et al.. (2024). Zwitterionic polymer functionalized polyetheretherketone biointerfaces enhance osseointegration and antibacterial through in situ inducing biomineralization. Chemical Engineering Journal. 484. 149683–149683. 7 indexed citations

Liang, Peipei, Xuqiang Zhang, Bingjun Yang, et al.. (2024). N-doped three-dimensional carbon nanosheets: Facile synthesis and high-concentration dye adsorption. Separation and Purification Technology. 359. 130621–130621. 4 indexed citations

Li, Yan, Haixin Jiao, Hong‐Xing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Biosafety consideration of nanocellulose in biomedical applications: A review. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 265(Pt 1). 130900–130900. 22 indexed citations

Ma, Fei, et al.. (2024). Computational investigation of hydrogen evolution reaction on transition metal-doped monolayer VSe2: A DFT approach. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 192. 112070–112070. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Nan, Chi Zhang, Jiahui Wu, et al.. (2024). Structure properties of Canna edulis RS3 (double enzyme hydrolysis) and RS4 (OS-starch and cross-linked starch): Influence on fermentation products and human gut microbiota. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 265(Pt 1). 130700–130700. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Junyu, et al.. (2024). Investigations on microstructure and properties of five TiZr-based refractory multi-principal element alloys for clinical metallic biomaterials. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 995. 174823–174823. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Tan, Wenbo Sun, Xianzhong Wang, et al.. (2024). Carbon black and polyetherimide modified ES nonwovens for low-cost and continuous seawater desalination. Separation and Purification Technology. 354. 128939–128939. 15 indexed citations

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Yue, Xiaoyue, et al.. (2023). Lanthanide bimetallic MOF-based fluorescent sensor for sensitive and visual detection of sulfamerazine and malachite. Food Chemistry. 410. 135390–135390. 57 indexed citations

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Wang, Nan, Chi Zhang, Dachuan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Addition of Canna edulis starch and starch nanoparticles to stabilized Pickering emulsions: In vitro digestion and fecal fermentation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 258(Pt 2). 128993–128993. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Yan, et al.. (2023). A popcorn-derived porous carbon optimized by thermal treatment and its outstanding electrochemical performance. Journal of Energy Storage. 60. 106668–106668. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhengjiang, et al.. (2023). Preparation and Performance Study of Self-Cleaning TiO2/Kaolin-Finished Cotton Fabric. Fibers and Polymers. 24(12). 4269–4277. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, Luyao Zhang, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Polyoxometalate steric hindrance driven chirality-selective separation of subnanometer carbon nanotubes. Chemical Science. 13(20). 5920–5928. 17 indexed citations

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Yin, Teng, Yan Li, Renheng Wang, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of Ti3C2Fx MXene with controllable fluorination by electrochemical etching for lithium-ion batteries applications. Ceramics International. 47(20). 28642–28649. 90 indexed citations

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Williams, David M., et al.. (2020). Two new species of Cymbella (Bacillariophyceae) from China, with comments on their valve dimensions. Diatom Research. 35(1). 99–111. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Yitan, Xiao Wang, Shiting Wu, et al.. (2015). Large-scale aligned crystalline CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite array films. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3(37). 18847–18851. 18 indexed citations

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