Yaner Ruan

459 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 334 citations indexed

About

Yaner Ruan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaner Ruan has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 334 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 8 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yaner Ruan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (5 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (3 papers). Yaner Ruan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (5 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (3 papers). Yaner Ruan collaborates with scholars based in China and Australia. Yaner Ruan's co-authors include Yuen Wu, Cunlan Guo, Shengli Chen, Yana Men, Peng Li, Yuzhou Jiao, Xiufang Wang, Shaojie Feng, Shaohua Chen and Lin Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yaner Ruan

10 papers receiving 328 citations

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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.

Revealing the role of double-layer microenvironments in pH-dependent oxygen reduction activity over metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts

2023 148 citations Peng Li, Yuzhou Jiao et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaner Ruan China	8	235	163	147	41	34	13	334
Athira Anil Sweden	8	271 1.2×	193 1.2×	197 1.3×	37 0.9×	22 0.6×	13	390
Erin B. Creel United States	11	304 1.3×	148 0.9×	176 1.2×	33 0.8×	49 1.4×	13	376
Fangbing Shi China	8	326 1.4×	232 1.4×	214 1.5×	41 1.0×	23 0.7×	10	414
Han Xiao China	9	319 1.4×	224 1.4×	218 1.5×	28 0.7×	39 1.1×	28	432
Ruike Guo China	11	244 1.0×	115 0.7×	216 1.5×	65 1.6×	27 0.8×	19	350
Noho Lee South Korea	7	329 1.4×	127 0.8×	253 1.7×	48 1.2×	31 0.9×	9	395
Fanglei Yao China	11	217 0.9×	145 0.9×	193 1.3×	28 0.7×	27 0.8×	21	339
Yuanyuan Liao China	9	285 1.2×	182 1.1×	219 1.5×	46 1.1×	31 0.9×	24	413
Xiangfeng Peng China	12	286 1.2×	229 1.4×	236 1.6×	33 0.8×	43 1.3×	14	413
Jiachang Zeng China	9	292 1.2×	139 0.9×	194 1.3×	54 1.3×	71 2.1×	9	380

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Ruan, Yaner, et al.. (2025). Recent advances in “top-down” synthesis strategies for single-atom catalysts. Science China Chemistry. 68(12). 6248–6271.

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Tian, Lin, Xiaoping Gao, Mengzhao Zhu, et al.. (2025). Double Confinement Design to Access Highly Stable Intermetallic Nanoparticles for Fuel Cells. Advanced Materials. 37(12). e2417095–e2417095. 10 indexed citations

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Tian, Lin, Yuandong Niu, Xingen Lin, et al.. (2025). Constructing a Localized OH Buffer Motif to Improve the Alkaline Hydroxide Reaction over Ru Clusters. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(37).

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Li, Xianglin, Xiuxiu Huang, Congliang Cheng, et al.. (2025). Constructing robust Cu and P Lewis acid-base pair sites on tubular g-C3N4 for promoting photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CH4. Carbon. 245. 120793–120793.

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Cheng, Liming, Dayin He, Xianhui Ma, et al.. (2024). A 2D Porous Cu₃N Catalyst for Efficient CO Electroreduction to Multicarbon Products at an Ampere Level Current Density. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Juan, Zhihua Wang, Xingen Lin, et al.. (2024). Mn−Ce Symbiosis: Nanozymes with Multiple Active Sites Facilitate Scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Based on Electron Transfer and Confinement Anchoring. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(4). e202416686–e202416686. 48 indexed citations

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Zhou, Fangyao, Yaner Ruan, Feng Li, et al.. (2024). Integrating single Ni site and PtNi alloy on two-dimensional porous carbon nanosheet for efficient catalysis in fuel cell. Nano Research. 17(8). 6916–6921. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Juan, Zhihua Wang, Xingen Lin, et al.. (2024). Mn−Ce Symbiosis: Nanozymes with Multiple Active Sites Facilitate Scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Based on Electron Transfer and Confinement Anchoring. Angewandte Chemie. 137(4). 1 indexed citations

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Li, Peng, Yuzhou Jiao, Yaner Ruan, et al.. (2023). Revealing the role of double-layer microenvironments in pH-dependent oxygen reduction activity over metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6936–6936. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tian, Lin, Xiaoping Gao, Sicong Wang, et al.. (2023). Precise arrangement of metal atoms at the interface by a thermal printing strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(52). e2310916120–e2310916120. 21 indexed citations

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Zhou, Fangyao, Yaner Ruan, Mengzhao Zhu, et al.. (2023). Coupling Single‐Atom Sites and Ordered Intermetallic PtM Nanoparticles for Efficient Catalysis in Fuel Cells. Small. 19(45). 15 indexed citations

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Wu, Di, Jianli Chen, Yaner Ruan, et al.. (2018). A novel sensitive and stable surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate based on a MoS₂ quantum dot/reduced graphene oxide hybrid system. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6(46). 12547–12554. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiufang, et al.. (2018). Ag Clusters Anchored Conducting Polyaniline As Highly Efficient Cocatalyst for Cu₂ZnSnS₄ Nanocrystals toward Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(9). 11424–11432. 42 indexed citations

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