Yan Yan

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Yan Yan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Yan has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 22 papers in Materials Chemistry and 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yan Yan's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (24 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers). Yan Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (24 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers). Yan Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yan Yan's co-authors include Mingkai Liu, Zehua Qu, Zhiqun Lin, Tianxi Liu, Shuang Zhao, Peng Zhang, Shanqing Zhang, Chao Lai, Mingyue Zhang and Shuang Liang 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 Yan

80 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Conductive carbon nanofiber interpenetrated graphene architecture for ultra-stable sodium ion battery

2019 324 citations Mingkai Liu, Zehua Qu et al. profile →
Isolated Copper Atoms Boost *NO₃ Adsorption and Active Hydrogen Retention over Zinc Oxide for Ammonia Electrosynthesis at Ampere-Level Current Densities

2025 43 citations Zhipeng Chen, Haoran Huang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Yan China	27	1.6k	797	785	542	243	85	2.5k
Yaqiong Wang China	28	1.5k 0.9×	748 0.9×	864 1.1×	748 1.4×	246 1.0×	125	2.8k
Yuanyuan Li China	31	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	1.5k 1.9×	506 0.9×	177 0.7×	147	3.5k
Bing Yuan China	23	1.1k 0.7×	706 0.9×	670 0.9×	248 0.5×	243 1.0×	119	2.4k
Xiaojuan Zhang China	41	3.0k 1.8×	1.0k 1.3×	1.6k 2.0×	507 0.9×	262 1.1×	121	3.9k
Yifan Chen China	27	1.6k 1.0×	2.1k 2.6×	2.0k 2.6×	521 1.0×	201 0.8×	117	3.5k
Xiang Xiong China	36	2.0k 1.3×	1.8k 2.3×	1.9k 2.4×	652 1.2×	224 0.9×	145	4.5k
Huiqi Wang China	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.9×	867 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	151 0.6×	168	3.5k
Xiaoyu Yang China	33	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 2.0×	1.1k 1.4×	347 0.6×	205 0.8×	146	3.5k
Qian Lü China	32	2.5k 1.6×	583 0.7×	1.6k 2.1×	701 1.3×	479 2.0×	86	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Yan 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 Yan. Yan Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wang, Pan, Niu Huang, Guijie Liang, et al.. (2025). Triazine Engineering in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Hydrogen Peroxide Photosynthesis. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(48). 2 indexed citations

Kim, Minju, Mingyue Zhang, You‐Liang Zhu, et al.. (2025). Hierarchical chiral supramolecular assemblies with strong and invertible chiroptical properties. Science. 389(6761). eadu0296–eadu0296. 3 indexed citations

Ke, Qingping, Jun Tang, Chao Wan, et al.. (2025). Plasmonic Double Perovskite LaSrCoMnO₆ Drives Efficient and Selective Photothermal Catalytic Styrene Epoxidation. Nano Letters. 25(41). 14946–14952. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Chenxiao, Fang Chen, Yiwei Gao, et al.. (2025). Polyvinylimidazolium/polyacrylonitrile nanofiber separator with enhanced polysulfide adsorption toward durable lithium–sulfur batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159329–159329. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Zhipeng, Gen Liu, Hongna Zhang, et al.. (2025). Turning the Selectivity of CO Electroreduction from Acetate to Ethanol by Alloying FCC-Phased Cu with Atomically Dispersed Mn Atoms. Nano Letters. 25(16). 6771–6779. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Zhipeng, Haoran Huang, Gen Liu, et al.. (2025). Isolated Copper Atoms Boost *NO₃ Adsorption and Active Hydrogen Retention over Zinc Oxide for Ammonia Electrosynthesis at Ampere-Level Current Densities. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22). 18737–18746. 43 indexed citations breakdown →

Yan, Yan, Xinfeng Shi, Alex Wen, et al.. (2025). Designing wide bandgap halide perovskite materials by introducing dications. Physica Scripta. 100(6). 65945–65945.

Lin, Chenxiao, Xiaoqin Chen, Yiwei Gao, et al.. (2024). Safe, Facile, and Straightforward Fabrication of Poly(N‐vinyl imidazole)/Polyacrylonitrile Nanofiber Modified Separator as Efficient Polysulfide Barrier Toward Durable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(1). 19 indexed citations

Yan, Yan, et al.. (2023). Research on local path planning of intelligent vehicle based on improved dynamic window approach. 31–31. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhipeng, Dongdong Zhang, Hongna Zhang, et al.. (2023). In-situ reconstruction of Bi60In2O93 nanotube for stable electroreduction of CO2 at ampere-current densities. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 341. 123342–123342. 15 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, et al.. (2022). Variety matching and resource use efficiency of the winter wheat-summer maize “double late” cropping system. ACTA AGRONOMICA SINICA. 48(2). 423–436. 1 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, Haoyan Cheng, Zehua Qu, et al.. (2021). Recent progress on the synthesis and oxygen reduction applications of Fe-based single-atom and double-atom catalysts. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(35). 19489–19507. 149 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, Shuang Liang, Xiang Wang, et al.. (2021). Robust wrinkled MoS ₂ /N-C bifunctional electrocatalysts interfaced with single Fe atoms for wearable zinc-air batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 197 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, Peng Zhang, Zehua Qu, et al.. (2020). Carbon/Sulfur Aerogel with Adequate Mesoporous Channels as Robust Polysulfide Confinement Matrix for Highly Stable Lithium–Sulfur Battery. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7662–7669. 145 indexed citations

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Li, Lin, Ben Slater, Yan Yan, et al.. (2019). Necessity of Heteroatoms for Realizing Hypothetical Aluminophosphate Zeolites: A High-Throughput Computational Approach. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(6). 1411–1415. 17 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, Xia-Lin Dai, Xinghua Zhao, et al.. (2019). Crystal Structures, Stability, and Solubility Evaluation of Two Polymorphs of a 2:1 Melatonin–Piperazine Cocrystal. Crystal Growth & Design. 20(2). 1079–1087. 31 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuqing, Yan Yan, Kun Li, et al.. (2018). A high-areal-capacity lithium–sulfur cathode achieved by a boron-doped carbon–sulfur aerogel with consecutive core–shell structures. Chemical Communications. 55(8). 1084–1087. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Yuqing Liu, Yan Yan, et al.. (2018). High Areal Capacitance for Lithium Ion Storage Achieved by a Hierarchical Carbon/MoS₂ Aerogel with Vertically Aligned Pores. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(9). 4814–4823. 22 indexed citations

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Yue, Yue, He, Ya Ya, et al.. (2007). Carbon encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles produced by hydrothermal reaction. 中国化学快报：英文版. 18(4). 487–490. 7 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, et al.. (2001). Characterization of the flagellar biosynthesis regulatory gene flbD in Azospirillum brasilense. 中国科学通报：英文版. 1885–1889. 1 indexed citations

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