Yan Xia

12.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
155 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Yan Xia is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Xia has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Organic Chemistry, 45 papers in Molecular Biology and 36 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yan Xia's work include Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (26 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (22 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (16 papers). Yan Xia is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (26 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (22 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (16 papers). Yan Xia collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yan Xia's co-authors include Robert H. Grubbs, Julia A. Kornfield, Nicholas A. D. Burke, Harald D. H. Stöver, Junzhe Lou, Yew Chin Teo, Ovijit Chaudhuri, Sungmin Nam, Ryan S. Stowers and Holden W. H. Lai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yan Xia

149 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Stress relaxing hyaluronic acid-collagen hydrogels promote cell spreading, fiber remodeling, and focal adhesion formation in 3D cell culture

2017 426 citations Junzhe Lou, Yan Xia et al. profile →
Naturally-occurring cholesterol analogues in lipid nanoparticles induce polymorphic shape and enhance intracellular delivery of mRNA

2020 424 citations Yan Xia et al. profile →
A bright organic NIR-II nanofluorophore for three-dimensional imaging into biological tissues

2018 395 citations Jessica K. Su, Yan Xia et al. profile →
Impact of lipid nanoparticle size on mRNA vaccine immunogenicity

2021 256 citations Yan Xia et al. profile →
Hydrocarbon ladder polymers with ultrahigh permselectivity for membrane gas separations

2022 169 citations Holden W. H. Lai, Yan Xia 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 Xia United States	51	4.1k	2.4k	2.3k	1.7k	1.5k	155	10.0k
Bradley D. Olsen United States	50	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.5×	215	8.6k
Rainer Jordan Germany	61	4.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	2.8k 1.8×	182	10.4k
Jeremiah A. Johnson United States	67	8.1k 2.0×	2.0k 0.9×	4.4k 1.9×	2.4k 1.4×	3.0k 1.9×	188	14.8k
You‐Yeon Won United States	31	3.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	93	7.3k
Gregory N. Tew United States	63	6.5k 1.6×	4.2k 1.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	224	12.4k
Curtis W. Frank United States	59	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	3.5k 2.0×	2.4k 1.6×	285	12.6k
Jintao Zhu China	65	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	5.9k 2.5×	3.9k 2.2×	2.3k 1.5×	398	12.7k
Holger Schönherr Germany	51	1.5k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	3.4k 2.0×	1.6k 1.0×	307	9.5k
Stephanie Hoeppener Germany	42	2.3k 0.6×	897 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	222	6.5k
Sergio Moya Spain	47	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	3.1k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	306	8.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Xia

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hansen, Moritz & Yan Xia. (2025). Unidirectional Chain Transfer of Enol Ethers Yields Heterotelechelic Degradable Poly(Enol Ether). ACS Macro Letters. 14(10). 1492–1496.

Xu, Rui, et al.. (2025). Cascade Mechanochemical Transformation of a Benzobarrelane Polymer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(43). 39047–39051.

Luo, Xuyi, Yong Min Kim, Yuran Shi, et al.. (2025). Multi‐Generational Frontal Curing and Chemical Recycling of Polydicyclopentadiene Thermosets. Advanced Materials. 37(30). e2505141–e2505141. 2 indexed citations

Deng, Ji-Yu, et al.. (2024). Natural ventilation potential of teaching building complexes with different block shapes and layout patterns. Journal of Building Engineering. 96. 110420–110420. 13 indexed citations

Lundberg, David, et al.. (2024). Accurate Determination of Reactivity Ratios for Copolymerization Reactions with Reversible Propagation Mechanisms. Macromolecules. 57(14). 6727–6740. 14 indexed citations

Zheng, Ke, Jinghui Yang, Xuyi Luo, & Yan Xia. (2024). High Molecular Weight Semicrystalline Substituted Polycyclohexene From Alternating Copolymerization of Butadiene and Methacrylate and Its Ambient Depolymerization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(36). 25321–25327. 11 indexed citations

Leem, Juyoung, et al.. (2023). Data‐Driven Approach to Tailoring Mechanical Properties of a Soft Material. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(38). 4 indexed citations

Meisner, Jan, Jinghui Yang, Tatiana B. Kouznetsova, et al.. (2023). Mechanochemistry of Pterodactylane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(1). 884–891. 28 indexed citations

Hull, Sarah M., Junzhe Lou, Christopher Lindsay, et al.. (2023). 3D bioprinting of dynamic hydrogel bioinks enabled by small molecule modulators. Science Advances. 9(13). eade7880–eade7880. 56 indexed citations

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Yin, Xianglin, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of Contorted Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbons via Regioselective Activation of Cyclobutadienoids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(28). 12715–12724. 10 indexed citations

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Aw, Jia En, Jacob J. Lessard, Sameh Tawfick, et al.. (2022). Frontal Polymerization of Dihydrofuran Comonomer Facilitates Thermoset Deconstruction. Chemistry of Materials. 34(19). 8790–8797. 50 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yue, et al.. (2021). Enhancing Mechanical and Combustion Performance of Boron/Polymer Composites via Boron Particle Functionalization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(24). 28908–28915. 49 indexed citations

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Elling, Benjamin R., Jessica K. Su, & Yan Xia. (2020). Degradable Polyacetals/Ketals from Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. ACS Macro Letters. 9(2). 180–184. 58 indexed citations

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Cox, Jordan M., Zexin Jin, Joseph A. H. Romaniuk, et al.. (2020). Mechanochemical synthesis of an elusive fluorinated polyacetylene. Nature Chemistry. 13(1). 41–46. 72 indexed citations

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Jin, Zexin, et al.. (2018). Dinaphthobenzo[1,2:4,5]dicyclobutadiene: Antiaromatic and Orthogonally Tunable Electronics and Packing. Angewandte Chemie. 131(7). 2056–2061. 8 indexed citations

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Teo, Yew Chin & Yan Xia. (2018). Facile Synthesis of Macromonomers via ATRP–Nitroxide Radical Coupling and Well-Controlled Brush Block Copolymers. Macromolecules. 52(1). 81–87. 26 indexed citations

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Xia, Yan, Zexin Jin, Yew Chin Teo, & Simon J. Teat. (2018). Iterative Synthesis of Edge-Bent [3]Naphthylene. Synlett. 29(19). 2547–2551. 10 indexed citations

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Jin, Zexin, et al.. (2018). Dinaphthobenzo[1,2:4,5]dicyclobutadiene: Antiaromatic and Orthogonally Tunable Electronics and Packing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(7). 2034–2039. 48 indexed citations

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Teo, Yew Chin, Holden W. H. Lai, & Yan Xia. (2017). Synthesis of Ladder Polymers: Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities. Chemistry - A European Journal. 23(57). 14101–14112. 131 indexed citations

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Jin, Zexin, Yew Chin Teo, Simon J. Teat, & Yan Xia. (2017). Regioselective Synthesis of [3]Naphthylenes and Tuning of Their Antiaromaticity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(44). 15933–15939. 43 indexed citations

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