Yan Wei

2.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Yan Wei is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Wei has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Yan Wei's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (14 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (5 papers). Yan Wei is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (14 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (5 papers). Yan Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yan Wei's co-authors include Mingce Long, Songmei Wu, Wenyu Gao, Kejian Ding, Xiaofang Wang, Yu Yu, Li Pei, Wei Geng, Jie Miao and Pedro J. J. Alvarez and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Yan Wei

33 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Surface Engineering for Extremely Enhanced Charge Separat... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 2023 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Surface Engineering for Extremely Enhanced Charge Separation and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution on g‐C3N4
    2018 466 citations Yu Yu, Yan Wei et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Ultrahigh Peroxymonosulfate Utilization Efficiency over CuO Nanosheets via Heterogeneous Cu(III) Formation and Preferential Electron Transfer during Degradation of Phenols
    2022 223 citations Yan Wei, Jie Miao et al. profile →
  3. Single-Atom MnN5 Catalytic Sites Enable Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Forming Highly Reactive Mn(IV)–Oxo Species
    2023 177 citations Jie Miao, Junyu Lang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yan Wei China 19 1.5k 1.0k 709 594 321 34 2.1k
Xiuqin Huo China 21 1.7k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 648 0.9× 788 1.3× 271 0.8× 42 2.4k
Yixuan Wang China 31 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 919 1.3× 416 0.7× 306 1.0× 92 2.5k
Ai-Yong Zhang China 28 1.5k 1.0× 999 1.0× 534 0.8× 782 1.3× 321 1.0× 65 2.4k
Rongdi Tang China 26 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.4× 671 0.9× 634 1.1× 297 0.9× 50 2.5k
Chenhui Zhao China 21 1.4k 0.9× 997 1.0× 509 0.7× 696 1.2× 318 1.0× 33 2.0k
Yongfang Rao China 25 1.5k 1.0× 898 0.9× 460 0.6× 1.0k 1.7× 412 1.3× 52 2.2k
Kah Hon Leong Malaysia 26 1.5k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 435 0.6× 558 0.9× 299 0.9× 53 2.4k
Hanrui Su China 16 1.2k 0.8× 879 0.8× 533 0.8× 884 1.5× 433 1.3× 26 2.1k
Xueyue Mi China 19 1.4k 0.9× 777 0.7× 362 0.5× 1.2k 2.0× 414 1.3× 26 2.0k
Yunqing Pi China 18 1.4k 0.9× 997 1.0× 557 0.8× 477 0.8× 274 0.9× 27 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Wei based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yan Wei. Yan Wei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Qianwei, et al.. (2025). Manganese oxide activation of peroxydisulfate: Evaluation via redox potential difference (ΔE) index. Water Research. 289(Pt B). 124913–124913.
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Zhu, Xiurong, Lu Xu, Chengzhi Wang, et al.. (2024). Insights into the enhanced simultaneous adsorption and catalytic removal of antibiotics by a novel Fe/B co-doped biochar. Separation and Purification Technology. 360. 130888–130888. 12 indexed citations
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Wei, Yan, Jie Miao, Jiahao Cui, et al.. (2024). Heteroatom substitution enhances generation and reactivity of surface-activated peroxydisulfate complexes for catalytic fenton-like reactions. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 467. 133753–133753. 12 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiurong, Zhenxin Wang, Wenjing Xie, et al.. (2024). Overturned doping inert Ce into mesoporous CuO for enhanced peroxydisulfate activation and bisphenols degradation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(6). 114493–114493. 3 indexed citations
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Miao, Jie, Yuan Zhu, Yan Wei, et al.. (2023). Plastic wastes-derived N-doped carbon nanotubes for efficient removal of sulfamethoxazole in high salinity wastewater via nonradical peroxymonosulfate activation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133344–133344. 13 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yanbin, Peize Li, Xiaoju Yang, et al.. (2023). Confinement of SnCuxO2+x Nanoclusters in Zeolites for High‐Efficient Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(24). 28 indexed citations
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Geng, Wei, Yan Wei, Jiaolong Qin, et al.. (2023). Unveiling Molecular Transformations of Soil Organic Matter after Remediation by Chemical Oxidation Based on ESI-FT-ICR-MS analysis. ACS ES&T Engineering. 3(6). 831–840. 18 indexed citations
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Gao, Ya, Yan Wei, Weidong Sun, et al.. (2022). Insight into deactivation of the carbon-/sintering-resistant Ni@Silicalite-1 for catalytic partial oxidation of methane to syngas. Fuel. 320. 123892–123892. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuqi, Yan Wei, Jordin Metz, et al.. (2021). Persistent free radicals in biochar enhance superoxide-mediated Fe(III)/Fe(II) cycling and the efficacy of CaO2 Fenton-like treatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 421. 126805–126805. 94 indexed citations
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Molamahmood, Hamed Vafaei, Wei Geng, Yan Wei, et al.. (2021). Catalyzed H2O2 decomposition over iron oxides and oxyhydroxides: Insights from oxygen production and organic degradation. Chemosphere. 291(Pt 1). 133037–133037. 41 indexed citations
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Sun, Yufeng, Jingjing Li, Feng Xie, Yan Wei, & Meng Yang. (2020). Ruthenium-loaded cerium dioxide nanocomposites with rich oxygen vacancies promoted the highly sensitive electrochemical detection of Hg(II). Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 320. 128355–128355. 51 indexed citations
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Wei, Yan, Yiwen Zhang, Jie Miao, Wei Geng, & Mingce Long. (2020). In-situ utilization of piezo-generated hydrogen peroxide for efficient p-chlorophenol degradation by Fe loading bismuth vanadate. Applied Surface Science. 543. 148791–148791. 52 indexed citations
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Pei, Li, Xiaofang Wang, Wenyu Gao, et al.. (2018). Electrochemical method for the quantitative determination of Escherichia coli based on gold functionalized FTO substrate. The Analyst. 143(6). 1462–1467. 12 indexed citations
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Yu, Yu, Yan Wei, Xiaofang Wang, et al.. (2018). Surface Engineering for Extremely Enhanced Charge Separation and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution on g‐C3N4. Advanced Materials. 30(9). 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yu, Yu, Xiaofang Wang, Wenyu Gao, et al.. (2017). Trivalent cerium-preponderant CeO2/graphene sandwich-structured nanocomposite with greatly enhanced catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(14). 6656–6663. 69 indexed citations
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Yu, Yu, Yan Wei, Wenyu Gao, et al.. (2017). Aromatic ring substituted g-C3N4for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(33). 17199–17203. 112 indexed citations
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Li, Nong, et al.. (2011). [The effect of oral alpha-lipoic acid in overweight/obese individuals on brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity and supine blood pressure: a randomized, crossover, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial].. PubMed. 32(3). 290–6. 6 indexed citations

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