Yang Sun

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yang Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Sun has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 32 papers in Organic Chemistry and 18 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yang Sun's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (43 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (40 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (30 papers). Yang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (43 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (40 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (30 papers). Yang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yang Sun's co-authors include Haoshen Zhou, Shaohua Guo, Yi Jin, Xuejie Huang, Lin Gu, Wen‐Hua Sun, Hong Li, Xia Lu, Huilin Pan and Mengdie Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yang Sun

132 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Direct atomic-scale confirmation of three-phase storage mechanism in Li4Ti5O12 anodes for room-temperature sodium-ion batteries

2013 639 citations Yang Sun, Lin Gu et al. profile →
Recent advances in titanium-based electrode materials for stationary sodium-ion batteries

2016 413 citations Yang Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Sun China	43	4.5k	1.3k	1.1k	1.1k	938	141	6.2k
Haixia Li China	40	3.0k 0.7×	793 0.6×	676 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	129	5.4k
Junxian Hou China	32	3.4k 0.8×	852 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	576 0.5×	510 0.5×	102	4.5k
Cong Liu China	52	5.4k 1.2×	965 0.7×	913 0.8×	4.1k 3.8×	1.2k 1.3×	291	11.2k
Zhibin Zhou China	44	7.3k 1.6×	967 0.7×	3.0k 2.7×	1.2k 1.1×	470 0.5×	137	9.0k
Ying Wang China	50	4.5k 1.0×	915 0.7×	685 0.6×	2.0k 1.9×	287 0.3×	183	8.1k
Wenjie Li China	43	3.6k 0.8×	745 0.6×	506 0.5×	2.3k 2.2×	678 0.7×	162	6.1k
Xuelong Wang China	38	3.8k 0.8×	674 0.5×	1.7k 1.5×	960 0.9×	144 0.2×	90	4.9k
Peng Ren China	42	2.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	403 0.4×	2.3k 2.1×	1.1k 1.2×	183	5.9k
Jens S. Hummelshøj United States	26	3.1k 0.7×	340 0.3×	914 0.8×	2.8k 2.6×	278 0.3×	33	6.3k
Yifan Ye China	35	3.6k 0.8×	509 0.4×	668 0.6×	2.5k 2.3×	378 0.4×	102	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Sun

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

All Works

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Zhang, He, et al.. (2025). Dissimilar gas tungsten arc welding of AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high entropy alloy to 316L stainless steel. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 35. 7065–7073. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Yifeng, Qiong Wu, Abdul Hafeez, et al.. (2025). ENSURE: the encyclopedia of suppressor tRNA with an AI assistant. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D111–D119. 1 indexed citations

Tan, Xiaojuan, Mengyin Wu, Rikuan Zheng, et al.. (2025). Effects of the vfm quorum-sensing system on the phenotypic features and virulence of Dickeya zeae WH1. Biofilm. 10. 100295–100295.

Su, Minhui, Xiaoxing Wang, Cai Yang, et al.. (2025). An aptamer-drug conjugate for promising cancer therapy with comprehensive evaluation from rodents to non-human primates. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 10(1). 316–316. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Yang, et al.. (2024). The effects of raw materials particle sizes on the solid-state reaction progress, morphology and magnetic properties of M-type strontium hexaferrites. Ceramics International. 50(22). 46062–46068. 3 indexed citations

Zou, Song, et al.. (2024). On-Purpose Oligomerization by 2-t-Butyl-4-arylimino-2,3-dihydroacridylnickel(II) Bromides. Catalysts. 14(6). 342–342. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhibo, Jingxuan Zhao, Yang Sun, Meidan Ye, & Xiaoru Wen. (2023). Synergetic pseudocapacitive sodium capture for efficient saline water desalination by iron oxide Hydroxide-Decorated palladium nanoparticle anchored 3D flowerlike molybdenum sulfide. Chemical Engineering Journal. 458. 141508–141508. 21 indexed citations

Liu, Hongchen, Xingru Yan, Fan Yang, et al.. (2023). Electronic synergy between CoP/NiCoP heterostructure and Co, Ni single atoms for efficient hydrogen evolution and overall water splitting. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 56. 725–734. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Bin, Zhe‐Ming Wang, Yang Sun, et al.. (2023). Two One-Dimensional Copper-Oxalate Frameworks with the Jahn–Teller Effect: [(CH3)3NH]2[Cu(μ-C2O4)(C2O4)]·2.5H2O (I) and [(C2H5)3NH]2[Cu(μ-C2O4)(C2O4)]·H2O (II). Magnetochemistry. 9(5). 120–120. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Tian, Yanping Ma, Gregory A. Solan, Yang Sun, & Wen‐Hua Sun. (2023). Unimodal polyethylenes of high linearity and narrow dispersity by using ortho-4,4′-dichlorobenzhydryl-modified bis(imino)pyridyl-iron catalysts. New Journal of Chemistry. 47(12). 5786–5795. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongchen, Fan Yang, Sai Che, et al.. (2023). Interface and electronic structure regulation of Mo-doped NiSe2-CoSe2 heterostructure aerogel for efficient overall water splitting. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 640. 1040–1051. 42 indexed citations

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Deng, Zhi, Jin Zhou, Diancheng Chen, et al.. (2022). Bilayer Halide Electrolytes for All-Inorganic Solid-State Lithium-Metal Batteries with Excellent Interfacial Compatibility. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(43). 48619–48626. 25 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jingxuan, Zhibo Zhao, Yang Sun, et al.. (2021). 3D hierarchical porous N-doped carbon quantum dots/vanadium nitride hybrid microflowers as a superior electrode material toward high-performance asymmetric capacitive deionization. Environmental Science Nano. 8(7). 2059–2068. 15 indexed citations

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Huang, Chuanbing, Yanping Ma, Gregory A. Solan, et al.. (2018). Cycloheptyl-fusedN,N,N′-chromium catalysts with selectivity for vinyl-terminated polyethylene waxes: thermal optimization and polymer functionalization. Dalton Transactions. 47(38). 13487–13497. 27 indexed citations

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Rajendran, Natesan Mannangatti, et al.. (2017). Lithium Quinolyl‐Amidinates Efficiently Promoting Ring‐Opening Polymerization of ε‐Caprolactone: Synthesis and ⁷Li NMR Spectroscopic Studies. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2017(20). 2653–2660. 6 indexed citations

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Eichelberger, J. C., Charles R. Carrigan, Yang Sun, & Yan Lavallée. (2017). Why Is There an Abrupt Transition from Solid Rock to Low Crystallinity Magma in Drilled Magma Bodies. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tao, et al.. (2016). Electrochemical Behavior of Pr(Ⅲ) Ions on a Bi-Coated W Electrode in LiCl-KCl Melts. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 32(7). 1708–1714. 10 indexed citations

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Lyu, Yingchun, Liubin Ben, Yang Sun, et al.. (2014). Atomic insight into electrochemical inactivity of lithium chromate (LiCrO2): Irreversible migration of chromium into lithium layers in surface regions. Journal of Power Sources. 273. 1218–1225. 46 indexed citations

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Sun, Yang & Xueping Li. (2011). Optimizing surgery start times for a single operating room via simulation. Winter Simulation Conference. 1330–1337. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Yang, John Fowler, & Dan Shunk. (2010). Policies for allocating product lots to customer orders in semiconductor manufacturing supply chains. Production Planning & Control. 22(1). 69–80. 14 indexed citations

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