Yanfu Ma

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Yanfu Ma is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanfu Ma has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 14 papers in Organic Chemistry and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yanfu Ma's work include Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (14 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers). Yanfu Ma is often cited by papers focused on Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (14 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers). Yanfu Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Australia. Yanfu Ma's co-authors include Jian Liu, Guangyue Xu, Xiaohao Liu, Ying Zhang, Junling Lu, Panpan Su, Chuang Li, Ying Zhang, Qike Jiang and Gao Qing Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yanfu Ma

31 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Exceptional Electrochemical HER Performance with Enhanced Electron Transfer between Ru Nanoparticles and Single Atoms Dispersed on a Carbon Substrate

2021 339 citations Panpan Su, Xiaowei Wang et al. profile →
A Ce-CuZn catalyst with abundant Cu/Zn-OV-Ce active sites for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

2024 107 citations Runping Ye, Lixuan Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rigorous recognition mode analysis of molecularly imprinted polymers—Rational design, challenges, and opportunities

2024 105 citations Yanxia Liu, Lulu Wang et al. Progress in Polymer Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanfu Ma China	23	864	817	658	538	478	34	2.1k
Mohd Izham Saiman Malaysia	25	1.1k 1.3×	405 0.5×	920 1.4×	733 1.4×	218 0.5×	46	2.2k
Ruyi Zhong China	20	786 0.9×	779 1.0×	875 1.3×	452 0.8×	419 0.9×	35	1.9k
Jingyu Pang China	24	973 1.1×	377 0.5×	199 0.3×	509 0.9×	276 0.6×	54	1.5k
Hongyan Song China	24	956 1.1×	370 0.5×	402 0.6×	507 0.9×	226 0.5×	72	1.7k
Yunquan Yang China	30	883 1.0×	431 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	1.3k 2.4×	187 0.4×	83	2.1k
Ruiqi Fang China	22	1.4k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	652 1.0×	445 0.8×	436 0.9×	57	2.5k
Qingqing Gu China	28	1.4k 1.6×	593 0.7×	261 0.4×	804 1.5×	413 0.9×	61	2.1k
Honglei Fan China	28	840 1.0×	336 0.4×	1.6k 2.4×	520 1.0×	163 0.3×	57	2.6k
Zhuoran Xu United States	15	684 0.8×	890 1.1×	500 0.8×	303 0.6×	539 1.1×	28	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanfu Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Yanfu, Shuhui Liu, Jianing Mao, et al.. (2025). Ligand-restricted synthesis of highly paired dual-atom catalysts. Nature Materials. 25(1). 80–90. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zheng-gang, Rui Lu, Yanfu Ma, et al.. (2025). Carbon emission reduction in cement production catalyzed by steel solid waste. National Science Review. 12(5). nwaf109–nwaf109.

Zhang, Chunguang, Jinfang Wu, Fang Guo, et al.. (2025). Ce Single‐Atoms Modulation of Cu Atomic Clusters for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction and Durable Zn‐Air Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(11).

Liu, Jian, Mingyuan Zhang, Zhengyi Pan, et al.. (2025). Seed-mediated engineering of dual-atom Ag-Pd synergy on CeO2 for selective transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 382. 126019–126019.

Ye, Runping, Lixuan Ma, Jianing Mao, et al.. (2024). A Ce-CuZn catalyst with abundant Cu/Zn-OV-Ce active sites for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2159–2159. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Yanxia, Lulu Wang, Haitao Li, et al.. (2024). Rigorous recognition mode analysis of molecularly imprinted polymers—Rational design, challenges, and opportunities. Progress in Polymer Science. 150. 101790–101790. 105 indexed citations breakdown →

Ma, Yanfu, Liwei Wang, Wantong Zhao, et al.. (2023). Reactant enrichment in hollow void of Pt NPs@MnOx nanoreactors for boosting hydrogenation performance. National Science Review. 10(10). nwad201–nwad201. 37 indexed citations

Meng, Xiangyu, Yuzhao Liu, Yanfu Ma, et al.. (2023). Diagnosing and Correcting the Failure of the Solid‐State Polymer Electrolyte for Enhancing Solid‐State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Materials. 35(22). e2212039–e2212039. 63 indexed citations

Ma, Yanfu, Xinyao Wang, Cameron Alexander Hurd Price, et al.. (2022). Multilevel Hollow Phenolic Resin Nanoreactors with Precise Metal Nanoparticles Spatial Location toward Promising Heterogeneous Hydrogenations (Adv. Mater. 43/2022). Advanced Materials. 34(43). 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Yanfu, Liwei Wang, & Jian Liu. (2022). Single Atom Catalysts in Liquid Phase Selective Hydrogenations. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities. 38(5). 1163–1171. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaowei, Yanyan Zhao, Liqun Wang, et al.. (2022). Regulating the Electronic Configuration of Supported Iron Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(21). 29 indexed citations

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Su, Panpan, Xinyao Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, et al.. (2022). The structure–activity correlation of single-site Ni catalysts dispersed onto porous carbon spheres toward electrochemical CO2 reduction. Fuel. 321. 124043–124043. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Liwei, Rongrong Han, Yanfu Ma, et al.. (2021). Spatial Location and Microenvironment Engineering of Pt-CeO₂ Nanoreactors for Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde to Cinnamyl Alcohol. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(41). 22603–22610. 18 indexed citations

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Tian, Fuping, Jun Zhang, Xinyi Li, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen-doped porous carbon-encapsulated copper composite for efficient reduction of 4-nitrophenol. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 594. 254–264. 82 indexed citations

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Yin, Peng, Xiao Luo, Yanfu Ma, et al.. (2021). Sulfur stabilizing metal nanoclusters on carbon at high temperatures. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3135–3135. 172 indexed citations

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Ma, Yanfu, Xiaohui Zhang, Lina Cao, & Junling Lu. (2021). Effects of the morphology and heteroatom doping of CeO₂ support on the hydrogenation activity of Pt single-atoms. Catalysis Science & Technology. 11(8). 2844–2851. 29 indexed citations

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Ma, Yanfu, Wei Liu, Lina Cao, et al.. (2019). Tailoring of the Proximity of Platinum Single Atoms on CeO₂ Using Phosphorus Boosts the Hydrogenation Activity. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 8404–8412. 118 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiaohui, Huan Yan, Huang Li, et al.. (2018). Toward Understanding of the Support Effect on Pd₁ Single-Atom-Catalyzed Hydrogenation Reactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(13). 7922–7930. 76 indexed citations

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Ma, Yanfu, Guangyue Xu, Hao Wang, et al.. (2018). Cobalt Nanocluster Supported on ZrRE_nO_x for the Selective Hydrogenation of Biomass Derived Aromatic Aldehydes and Ketones in Water. ACS Catalysis. 8(2). 1268–1277. 82 indexed citations

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Ma, Yanfu, et al.. (2017). Selective conversion of furfural to cyclopentanol over cobalt catalysts in one step. Chinese Chemical Letters. 28(6). 1153–1158. 43 indexed citations

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