Yang Zhou

9.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
101 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Yang Zhou is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Zhou has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Water Science and Technology, 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 30 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yang Zhou's work include Advanced oxidation water treatment (40 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers) and Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (16 papers). Yang Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced oxidation water treatment (40 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers) and Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (16 papers). Yang Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yang Zhou's co-authors include Jin Jiang, Su–Yan Pang, Yuan Gao, Juan Li, Jun Ma, Zhen Wang, Chaoting Guan, Lipeng Yuan, Yi Yang and Xueting Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yang Zhou

98 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Activation of Peroxymonosulfate by Benzoquinone: A Novel Nonradical Oxidation Process

2015 1.1k citations Yang Zhou, Jin Jiang et al. profile →
Is Sulfate Radical Really Generated from Peroxydisulfate Activated by Iron(II) for Environmental Decontamination?

2018 692 citations Zhen Wang, Jin Jiang et al. profile →
Mechanistic Insights into the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to CO on Nanostructured Ag Surfaces

2015 532 citations Yang Zhou et al. profile →
Insights on forming N,O-coordinated Cu single-atom catalysts for electrochemical reduction CO2 to methane

2021 428 citations Yang Zhou, Yu‐Chung Chang et al. profile →
Relative contribution of ferryl ion species (Fe(IV)) and sulfate radical formed in nanoscale zero valent iron activated peroxydisulfate and peroxymonosulfate processes

2020 289 citations Zhen Wang, Su–Yan Pang et al. Water Research profile →
Site Engineering of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Regulating Peroxymonosulfate Activation to Generate Singlet Oxygen with 100 % Selectivity

2023 168 citations Zonglin Weng, Yuanfang Lin et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Zhou China	43	4.7k	4.5k	2.3k	2.0k	903	101	8.0k
Jinming Luo China	60	3.3k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	3.9k 1.9×	768 0.9×	136	10.0k
Deli Wu China	44	5.4k 1.1×	4.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	525 0.6×	203	7.8k
Fubing Yao China	42	2.9k 0.6×	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	2.4k 1.2×	431 0.5×	71	6.5k
Brian P. Chaplin United States	36	2.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	75	5.6k
Jing Zhang China	46	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	469 0.5×	235	6.8k
Zhaokun Xiong China	51	5.9k 1.2×	5.1k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	382 0.4×	143	8.5k
Peng Zhou China	51	5.3k 1.1×	4.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	379 0.4×	179	8.2k
Haopeng Feng China	52	4.0k 0.8×	5.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.8×	415 0.5×	82	9.0k
Penghui Shao China	49	4.5k 1.0×	3.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.4×	388 0.4×	174	9.1k
Weiqing Han China	55	4.7k 1.0×	2.9k 0.6×	3.0k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	496 0.5×	185	9.3k

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Lu, Xuanzhao, Zhiqiang Wang, Linan Zhu, et al.. (2025). Engineering Active Sites in Single-Atom Catalysts for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Strategies and Outlook. ACS Energy Letters. 10(8). 3763–3774. 3 indexed citations

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Jiang, Long, Nan Li, Xiulin Fan, et al.. (2025). Synergistic effects of precursor reduction and ion migration blocking result in highly sensitive MAPbI ₃ X-ray detectors with a low detection limit. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(10). 5317–5325.

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Cao, Yue, Qiaoliang Bao, Yuewen Sheng, et al.. (2025). Strategic engineering of CoS₂/ZnIn₂S₄ heterostructures incorporating Ar plasma-induced sulfur vacancies for potentiating electrocatalytic activity in furazolidone determination. The Analyst. 150(10). 2137–2145.

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Zhang, Haochen, Peng Su, Ge Zeng, et al.. (2024). Refinement of kinetic model and understanding the role of dichloride radical (Cl2•−) in radical transformation in the UV/NH2Cl process. Water Research. 254. 121440–121440. 10 indexed citations

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Cao, Yue, et al.. (2024). Recent Advances on Integrating Porous Nanomaterials with Chemiluminescence Assays. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 20(5). e202401282–e202401282. 3 indexed citations

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Lu, Xuanzhao, Huanhuan Luo, Yue Cao, et al.. (2024). Anatase/TiO₂(B) homojunction nanosheets with a gold cocatalyst for direct photocatalytic coupling of methane to ethane. Chemical Communications. 60(96). 14276–14279. 2 indexed citations

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Tan, Lu, Xuanzhao Lu, Shuzhen Yue, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dot-intensified tungsten oxide nanosheets as a SERS substrate for antibiotics detection. Chemical Communications. 60(91). 13360–13363. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yang, Jin Zhang, Chang‐Feng Wang, et al.. (2023). Capillary assisted self-assembly and nascent hydrogen reduction of graphene oxide on Al: Formation of C–O–Al bonds under mild condition. Carbon. 215. 118474–118474. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2023). Cold plasma-activated Cu-Co catalysts with CN vacancies for enhancing CO2 electroreduction to low-carbon alcohol. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 85. 108–115. 29 indexed citations

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Weng, Zonglin, Yuanfang Lin, Siyuan Guo, et al.. (2023). Site Engineering of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Regulating Peroxymonosulfate Activation to Generate Singlet Oxygen with 100 % Selectivity. Angewandte Chemie. 135(43). 28 indexed citations

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Weng, Zonglin, Yuanfang Lin, Siyuan Guo, et al.. (2023). Site Engineering of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Regulating Peroxymonosulfate Activation to Generate Singlet Oxygen with 100 % Selectivity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(43). e202310934–e202310934. 168 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jiang, Yujing, et al.. (2023). Cu-based catalyst designs in CO₂electroreduction: precise modulation of reaction intermediates for high-value chemical generation. Chemical Science. 14(47). 13629–13660. 31 indexed citations

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Lyu, Zhaoyuan, Shichao Ding, Lingzhe Fang, et al.. (2023). Two-Dimensional Fe–N–C Single-Atomic-Site Catalysts with Boosted Peroxidase-Like Activity for a Sensitive Immunoassay. Analytical Chemistry. 95(9). 4521–4528. 19 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yujing, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic Conversion of Methane: Current State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Perspectives. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(5). 252–276. 46 indexed citations

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Cao, Yue, et al.. (2023). Advances of Electrochemical and Electrochemiluminescent Sensors Based on Covalent Organic Frameworks. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 37–37. 69 indexed citations

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Yu, Dan, Yanyan Jia, Yang Zhou, et al.. (2021). Solar Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methane to Methanol with Water over RuO_x/ZnO/CeO₂ Nanorods. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(1). 16–22. 42 indexed citations

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Li, Shifeng, Yang Zhou, Mario A. Goméz, et al.. (2021). Complexation of arsenate to humic acid with different molecular weight fractions in aqueous solution. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 56(13). 1428–1434. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Lixia, Yang Zhou, Yu‐Chung Chang, et al.. (2020). Tuning Sn3O4 for CO2 reduction to formate with ultra-high current density. Nano Energy. 77. 105296–105296. 94 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yang, Yuan Gao, Jin Jiang, et al.. (2020). A comparison study of levofloxacin degradation by peroxymonosulfate and permanganate: Kinetics, products and effect of quinone group. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 403. 123834–123834. 47 indexed citations

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Li, Juan, Su–Yan Pang, Yang Zhou, et al.. (2018). Transformation of bisphenol AF and bisphenol S by manganese dioxide and effect of iodide. Water Research. 143. 47–55. 65 indexed citations

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