Yan Yang

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Yan Yang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Yang has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 65 papers in Materials Chemistry and 40 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yan Yang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (19 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (19 papers). Yan Yang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (19 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (19 papers). Yan Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yan Yang's co-authors include Jian Liu, Qihua Yang, Dunming Zhu, Ling Hua, Xiao Liu, Xiaobo Li, Jong‐Beom Baek, Michael F. Durstock, Dingshan Yu and Liming Dai and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Yan Yang

150 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Strategies towards the challenges of zinc metal anode in rechargeable aqueous zinc ion batteries

2020 303 citations Jiawei Wang, Yan Yang et al. Energy storage materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Yang China	44	2.6k	2.2k	1.3k	866	789	152	5.7k
R. Geetha Balakrishna India	41	2.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	568 0.7×	229	6.7k
Jin‐Gang Yu China	46	1.8k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	664 0.8×	238	7.0k
Shiyun Ai China	39	1.8k 0.7×	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	628 0.7×	964 1.2×	110	4.3k
Wenxin Zhu China	46	2.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.8k 2.1×	888 1.0×	901 1.1×	115	6.1k
Seied Mahdi Pourmortazavi Iran	50	1.5k 0.6×	3.4k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	430 0.5×	157	7.1k
Haiyan Liu China	36	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	886 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	490 0.6×	244	5.2k
Mohsen Behpour Iran	43	1.9k 0.7×	3.6k 1.6×	977 0.7×	613 0.7×	466 0.6×	159	6.2k
Wei Gao China	49	2.8k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	531 0.6×	391 0.5×	201	7.4k
Kelong Huang China	50	3.6k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	908 1.0×	811 1.0×	261	8.1k
Yong Qin China	38	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	589 0.7×	431 0.5×	124	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Yang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Xiaodi, Yu Zhang, Yan Yang, et al.. (2025). Spinel CuCo₂O₄ Microflowers with Highly Exposed High-Index (112) Facets for Electrocatalytic Glucose Oxidation. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(11). 5606–5618. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaodi, Yu Zhang, Qiang Zhao, et al.. (2025). Grain boundary/doping/architecture engineering in hierarchical N-doped CuO microflowers derived from Cu-based metal–organic framework architectures for highly efficient nonenzymatic glucose detection. Talanta. 289. 127775–127775. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Bao, Xiao Hu, Yi Ji, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Li-ion diffusivity of Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 through liquid-electrolytes-induced secondary crystallization. Energy storage materials. 72. 103748–103748. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Yan, Yuhao Zhang, Guiyin Wang, et al.. (2021). Adsorption and reduction of Cr(VI) by a novel nanoscale FeS/chitosan/biochar composite from aqueous solution. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 9(4). 105407–105407. 110 indexed citations

Liang, Feng, et al.. (2021). The study of volatile products formation from the self-degradation of l-ascorbic acid in hot compressed water. Food Chemistry. 371. 131155–131155. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Jiawei, Yan Yang, Yuxian Zhang, et al.. (2020). Strategies towards the challenges of zinc metal anode in rechargeable aqueous zinc ion batteries. Energy storage materials. 35. 19–46. 303 indexed citations breakdown →

Qin, Yanli, et al.. (2020). 两步水热法制备 BiOCl-RGO 纳米复合材料及其光催化性能. Cailiao yanjiu xuebao. 34(2). 92–100. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yan, Ya Li, Feng Liang, et al.. (2020). The effects of reaction parameters on the non-enzymatic browning reaction between l-ascorbic acid and glycine. International Journal of Food Engineering. 17(1). 49–56. 9 indexed citations

Xu, Xuelu, Jiao Zhao, Qi Jin, et al.. (2019). Effect of multi-walled carbon nanotubes addition on MnOx/Ti electrode prepared by spraying–calcination method for electro-catalytic oxidation of Acid Red B. Journal of Materials Science. 54(19). 12509–12521. 8 indexed citations

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Qiao, Mo, Guillermo A. Ferrero, Leticia F. Velasco, et al.. (2019). Boosting the Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalytic Performance of Nonprecious Metal Nanocarbons via Triple Boundary Engineering Using Protic Ionic Liquids. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(12). 11298–11305. 38 indexed citations

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Yang, Yan, Fang Tan, Xiaoxue Xie, et al.. (2019). Enhanced Mimetic Enzyme Activity of Phosphorylated Porphyrin Nanocomposite Induced by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance for Colorimetric Assay. Analytical Sciences. 35(6). 691–699. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Qin, Junbiao Zhang, Yan Yang, et al.. (2018). Preparation of a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-4-hydroxybutyrate)/polyvinyl alcohol composite scaffold by coaxial electrospinning and its biocompatibility. Zhongguo zuzhi gongcheng yanjiu yu linchuang kangfu. 22(2). 234. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Qiuhua, Jinjin Zhang, Min Tang, et al.. (2018). Geometric deconstruction of core and electron activation of a π-system in a series of deformed porphyrins: mimics of heme. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(41). 7725–7736. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanying, Yan Yang, Wei Liu, et al.. (2018). Colorimetric and fluorometric determination of uric acid based on the use of nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots and silver triangular nanoprisms. Microchimica Acta. 185(6). 281–281. 44 indexed citations

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Rao, Hanbing, Yao Gao, Hongwei Ge, et al.. (2017). An “on-off-on” fluorescent probe for ascorbic acid based on Cu-ZnCdS quantum dots and α-MnO2 nanorods. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 409(19). 4517–4528. 11 indexed citations

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Zhu, Gangbing, Pengbo Gai, Yan Yang, Xiaohua Zhang, & Jinhua Chen. (2012). Electrochemical sensor for naphthols based on gold nanoparticles/hollow nitrogen-doped carbon microsphere hybrids functionalized with SH-β-cyclodextrin. Analytica Chimica Acta. 723. 33–38. 58 indexed citations

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Yu, Yanyan, Yan Yang, Hui Gu, Tianshu Zhou, & Guoyue Shi. (2012). Size-tunable Pt nanoparticles assembled on functionalized ordered mesoporous carbon for the simultaneous and on-line detection of glucose and L-lactate in brain microdialysate. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 41. 511–518. 38 indexed citations

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Yang, Yan, et al.. (2011). Effects of Folic Acid Coupling Rate on Targeted Resistance to Cancer Cells of Folic Acid-Chitosan Nanoparticles. Zhongliu fangzhi yanjiu. 38(7). 740–744. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiao, Xiaobo Li, Zaihong Guan, et al.. (2011). Organosilica nanotubes: large-scale synthesis and encapsulation of metal nanoparticles. Chemical Communications. 47(28). 8073–8073. 54 indexed citations

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Yang, Yan. (2007). Negative Thermal Expansion Property of Cr_2(WO_4)_3 and Cr_2(MoO_4)_3. Wuji huaxue xuebao. 2 indexed citations

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