Yang Wang

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
174 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Yang Wang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Wang has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 66 papers in Materials Chemistry and 57 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yang Wang's work include Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (39 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers) and Graphene research and applications (25 papers). Yang Wang is often cited by papers focused on Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (39 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers) and Graphene research and applications (25 papers). Yang Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Spain and United States. Yang Wang's co-authors include Manuel Alcamı́, Fernando Martı́n, Oleg Zatsarinny, Klaus Bartschat, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Régis Decker, William Regan and Qiong Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yang Wang

165 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Local Electronic Properties of Graphene on a BN Substrate via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

2011 501 citations Yang Wang et al. Nano Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Wang China	31	2.0k	1.3k	1.2k	796	434	174	3.8k
Jorge Kohanoff United Kingdom	37	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	976 0.8×	482 0.6×	647 1.5×	121	4.8k
Kaoru Ohno Japan	35	3.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.6×	993 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	396 0.9×	272	4.8k
Cristina Dı́az Spain	34	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.6×	655 0.5×	589 0.7×	348 0.8×	117	3.8k
S. J. Sibener United States	40	2.7k 1.4×	2.7k 2.1×	1.0k 0.8×	434 0.5×	694 1.6×	207	5.4k
P. Ballone Italy	35	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	571 0.5×	489 0.6×	515 1.2×	148	4.4k
W. K. Chu United States	37	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	738 0.9×	464 1.1×	247	5.2k
Mei‐Shan Wang China	27	2.0k 1.0×	817 0.6×	957 0.8×	334 0.4×	222 0.5×	277	3.1k
Felix Hanke United Kingdom	24	2.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	328 0.4×	1.3k 2.9×	52	4.7k
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli Italy	33	2.3k 1.1×	2.6k 2.1×	926 0.8×	254 0.3×	567 1.3×	123	4.9k
Éamonn Murray Ireland	18	2.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	190 0.2×	540 1.2×	29	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Wang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Qianyou, Yaohua Li, Hamed Sanei, et al.. (2025). Restoration of buried organic carbon for catagenesis-affected rocks using Rock-Eval thermal analysis: Assumptions, performance, and uncertainty analysis. Earth-Science Reviews. 267. 105155–105155. 2 indexed citations

Gao, Yaru, Yang Wang, Cheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Perovskite film passivation with amino and fluorine containing small molecule for enhanced solar cell performance. Solar Energy. 305. 114228–114228.

Wang, Yang, et al.. (2024). Deep learning-driven prediction of chemical addition patterns for carboncones and fullerenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(3). 1672–1690.

Wang, Yang, et al.. (2024). Generalized kekulenes and clarenes as novel families of cycloarenes: structures, stability, and spectroscopic properties. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(9). 7877–7889. 4 indexed citations

Zhou, Yi, et al.. (2024). Improving stability, mechanical and electronic properties of pentadiamond by doping with alkali or alkaline-earth metals: A first-principles investigation. Diamond and Related Materials. 144. 110958–110958. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Jun, Zheng Xi, Yang Wang, et al.. (2024). Crystal Facet Controlled Metal–Support Interaction in Uricase Mimics for Highly Efficient Hyperuricemia Treatment. Nano Letters. 24(22). 6634–6643. 10 indexed citations

Gallagher, Neal B., Ah‐Young Song, Jie‐Yu Wang, et al.. (2024). Multivariate Machine Learning Models of Nanoscale Porosity from Ultrafast NMR Relaxometry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(13). e202316664–e202316664. 5 indexed citations

Mu, Yu, James Nyakuchena, Yang Wang, et al.. (2024). Sulfurized Two‐Dimensional Conductive Metal–Organic Framework as a High‐Performance Cathode Material for Rechargeable Mg Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(41). e202409286–e202409286. 24 indexed citations

Wang, Yang, et al.. (2024). Computational insights into Diels–Alder reactions of paramagnetic endohedral metallofullerenes: M@C₈₂ (M = Sc, Y, La) and La@C₇₂. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(40). 25788–25797.

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Ma, Chunyu, et al.. (2022). Effect of fully functionalization on carrier mobility of two-dimensional BN. Solid State Communications. 346. 114698–114698. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Rusong, et al.. (2022). Temperature‐dependent electronic properties for 4f states in cerium mononitride. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 122(11). 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, Yang Li, Ailun Wang, et al.. (2021). Molecular-Level Insights into Selective Transport of Mg²⁺ in Metal–Organic Frameworks. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(44). 51974–51987. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2021). Relativistic B-Spline R-Matrix Calculations for Electron Scattering from Thallium Atoms. Atoms. 9(4). 94–94. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2020). Isomers of Hydrogenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Explain the Presence of Infrared Bands in the 3 μm Region. The Astrophysical Journal. 899(1). 18–18. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2020). Hydrogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: isomerism and aromaticity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(38). 21968–21976. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunlu, Xiaocheng Zhou, Xuewei Zhang, et al.. (2019). Strain-dependent Raman analysis of the G* band in graphene. Physical review. B.. 100(24). 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, Zhong-Ming Niu, W. Shi, & Jian-You Guo. (2019). Probing the resonance of Dirac particle in the relativistic point-coupling model by complex-momentum-representation method. Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics. 46(12). 125103–125103. 9 indexed citations

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Lan, Jinggang, Yang Wang, Manuel Alcamı́, & Fernando Martı́n. (2019). Theoretical Study of NO Dissociation on an Open Flat Ru(1011) Surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(9). 5488–5494. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, Sergio Díaz‐Tendero, Manuel Alcamı́, & Fernando Martı́n. (2018). Topology-Based Approach to Predict Relative Stabilities of Charged and Functionalized Fullerenes. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 14(3). 1791–1810. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2008). Reversible Carriers Tunnelling in Asymmetric Coupled InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells. 中国物理快报：英文版. 25(9). 3470–3473. 1 indexed citations

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