Yan Shen

16.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
397 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Yan Shen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Shen has authored 397 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 220 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 164 papers in Materials Chemistry and 123 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yan Shen's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (118 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (78 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (63 papers). Yan Shen is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (118 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (78 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (63 papers). Yan Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yan Shen's co-authors include Mingkui Wang, Dekang Huang, Hao Li, Xingxing Jiang, Bingyan Zhang, Xin Xiao, Qiang Sun, Shaojun Dong, Shaohui Li and Kun Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yan Shen

380 papers receiving 14.2k 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.

Hole Selective NiO Contact for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells with Carbon Electrode

2015 398 citations Zonghao Liu, Yan Shen et al. profile →
Yttrium-doped NiMo-MoO2 heterostructure electrocatalysts for hydrogen production from alkaline seawater

2025 48 citations Shujie Liu, Yan Shen 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 Shen China	67	9.7k	6.4k	4.2k	4.1k	1.5k	397	14.4k
Yueming Li China	45	5.9k 0.6×	5.5k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.3×	2.5k 1.7×	189	11.8k
Jing Zhang China	58	6.7k 0.7×	4.7k 0.7×	3.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	332	11.5k
Qing Wang Singapore	60	6.6k 0.7×	7.0k 1.1×	8.2k 2.0×	1.5k 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	243	14.5k
Yun Zhang China	51	7.3k 0.7×	3.9k 0.6×	5.4k 1.3×	3.0k 0.7×	665 0.4×	155	11.8k
Jun Liu China	49	6.3k 0.6×	4.7k 0.7×	4.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	1.6k 1.1×	194	11.2k
Ting Zhang China	59	5.5k 0.6×	5.4k 0.8×	4.2k 1.0×	797 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	419	12.3k
Shaoqin Liu China	57	5.6k 0.6×	5.7k 0.9×	4.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.3×	2.0k 1.3×	207	13.5k
Yu Zhao China	60	9.5k 1.0×	4.9k 0.8×	4.6k 1.1×	1.5k 0.4×	3.3k 2.2×	232	14.1k
Jeonghun Kim South Korea	68	8.3k 0.8×	7.0k 1.1×	6.0k 1.4×	2.6k 0.6×	5.1k 3.4×	255	18.3k
Xuan Zhang China	57	5.0k 0.5×	4.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	2.9k 0.7×	877 0.6×	451	14.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

He, Jun, Yan Shen, Xiuli Lu, et al.. (2025). Modulation of Amomum tsao-ko on lipid metabolism and gut microbiota in high-fat diet-fed mice with NAFLD. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 24. 102379–102379.

Hu, Yongxiang, Letian Dai, Tianyu Sun, et al.. (2025). Moisture-resistant perovskite solar cells: the role of 1,1′-methylenebispyridinium dichloride in enhancing stability and performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(6). 4167–4175. 3 indexed citations

Shen, Yan, et al.. (2025). Work Function-Induced Electronic Modulation in NiCo Alloy for Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(14). 7052–7063. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhirong, Zhiguo Zhang, Rong‐Hua Luo, et al.. (2025). Boosting Carrier Mobility in 2D Layered Perovskites for High‐Performance UV Photodetector. Small Methods. 9(3). e2400887–e2400887. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Junyi, Xiongjie Li, Zhiguo Zhang, et al.. (2025). Oriented Crystallization of Perovskite Film via Fluorine‐Containing Hyperbranched Polymer for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 38(2). e11684–e11684.

Liu, Zhirong, Xiongjie Li, Xiaoting Ma, et al.. (2025). Preparation of AgBiS2 thin films with vapor-assisted solution method for flexible near-infrared photodetectors. Next Energy. 7. 100235–100235. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Yanbin, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen-doped carbon-coating enables high-rate capability and long-cycle stability of NaCrO2 cathode for sodium-ion battery. Applied Surface Science. 683. 161804–161804. 5 indexed citations

Yao, Zhonghua, Shuai Lv, Yue Xu, et al.. (2024). Crystal structures, dielectric properties, and lattice vibrational characteristics of Zn1-Ca WO4 (x = 0–0.25) composite ceramics. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1004. 175597–175597. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Minghui, Muthu Murugananthan, Zhiming Zhou, et al.. (2024). Hydrophobic covalent organic frameworks utilized Fluorocarbon/Water system for efficient hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 486. 150245–150245. 2 indexed citations

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Yao, Zhonghua, Lingcui Zhang, Yue Xu, et al.. (2024). Crystal structures, lattice vibrational characteristics, and dielectric responses of ZnWO4 microwave dielectric ceramics sintered at different temperatures. Materials Science and Engineering B. 309. 117647–117647. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Shujie, Wei Yan, Mingkui Wang, & Yan Shen. (2024). The future of alkaline water splitting from the perspective of electrocatalysts-seizing today's opportunities. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 522. 216190–216190. 55 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiaoting, Xiongjie Li, Haixuan Yu, et al.. (2024). Migration and evolution of iodine in perovskite solar cells. Materials Today Physics. 50. 101616–101616. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhirong, Zhiguo Zhang, Junyi Huang, et al.. (2024). A sensitive self-powered perovskite photodetector via noise suppression with poly(vinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene) doping for defect passivation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(27). 9944–9949. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tian, Ke‐Gang Linghu, Jia Tan, et al.. (2024). TIGAR exacerbates obesity by triggering LRRK2-mediated defects in macroautophagy and chaperone-mediated autophagy in adipocytes. Autophagy. 20(8). 1741–1761. 7 indexed citations

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Fu, Lijuan, Dekang Huang, Jiahe Peng, et al.. (2023). Charge redistribution in covalent organic frameworks via linkage conversion enables enhanced selective reduction of oxygen to H₂O₂. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(35). 18945–18952. 7 indexed citations

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Pan, Jie, Peize Li, Xingxing Jiang, Yan Shen, & Mingkui Wang. (2023). Electrochemical CO2 reduction on few-atomic-layer bismuth nanosheets. Materials Today Physics. 35. 101096–101096. 9 indexed citations

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Feng, Yao, Shujie Liu, Yan Shen, et al.. (2023). Outstanding oxygen evolution reaction properties released at the interface of NiMoO4 and FeNi layer double hydroxide heterostructures. Electrochimica Acta. 474. 143511–143511. 5 indexed citations

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Qin, Ying, Rong Tan, Jing Wen, et al.. (2023). Engineering the microenvironment of electron transport layers with nickle single-atom sites for boosting photoelectrochemical performance. Chemical Science. 14(26). 7346–7354. 16 indexed citations

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Xiong, Wentao, Guoqiang Tang, & Yan Shen. (2022). Cross-Evaluation of Soil Moisture Based on the Triple Collocation Method and a Preliminary Application of Quality Control for Station Observations in China. Water. 14(7). 1054–1054. 1 indexed citations

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Qu, Jianying, Yan Shen, Xiaohu Qu, & Shaojun Dong. (2004). Electrocatalytic Reduction of Oxygen at Multi‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Cobalt Porphyrin Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode. Electroanalysis. 16(17). 1444–1450. 70 indexed citations

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