Yibo Yan

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
64 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Yibo Yan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yibo Yan has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yibo Yan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (7 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Yibo Yan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (7 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Yibo Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Hong Kong. Yibo Yan's co-authors include Peng Chen, Zhiping Zeng, Yanhui Yang, Jiyang Liu, Jie Chen, Jun Gong, Bin Liu, Hong Bin Yang, Wei Huang and Qinghua Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yibo Yan

62 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Recent Advances on Graphene Quantum Dots: From Chemistr... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2019 2015 2021 200 400 600
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.

  1. Recent Advances on Graphene Quantum Dots: From Chemistry and Physics to Applications
    2019 721 citations Yibo Yan, Jun Gong et al. profile →
  2. Carbon nanotube catalysts: recent advances in synthesis, characterization and applications
    2015 618 citations Yibo Yan, Hong Bin Yang et al. profile →
  3. Orbital coupling of hetero-diatomic nickel-iron site for bifunctional electrocatalysis of CO2 reduction and oxygen evolution
    2021 441 citations Zhiping Zeng, Li Gan et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yibo Yan China 28 2.7k 1.6k 1.1k 858 448 64 4.2k
Ting Huang China 32 2.2k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 830 1.0× 484 1.1× 97 3.9k
Yuan Yao China 42 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.3× 600 0.7× 993 2.2× 190 4.7k
Xinyuan Li China 32 1.8k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 399 0.5× 242 0.5× 138 3.5k
Yanfeng Tang China 32 2.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 546 0.6× 300 0.7× 151 3.8k
Qiuju Li China 32 1.8k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 1.7k 1.6× 554 0.6× 218 0.5× 108 3.8k
Weiwei Yang China 43 2.2k 0.8× 2.2k 1.4× 1.6k 1.5× 690 0.8× 522 1.2× 113 5.2k
Jiawei Zhang China 36 1.6k 0.6× 2.5k 1.6× 1.4k 1.2× 525 0.6× 597 1.3× 143 4.1k
Shiyu Liu China 33 3.7k 1.4× 1.6k 1.0× 2.1k 1.9× 1.1k 1.3× 348 0.8× 103 5.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yibo Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yibo Yan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Tingting, et al.. (2025). Study on the evaporation characteristics of self-rewetting droplets on different wettability surfaces. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 211. 109698–109698. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, Jianxiang He, Freddie H. Fu, et al.. (2025). A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Model: Benchmark, Method & Challenges. 11798–11827. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, Peng Wang, Aihua Wang, et al.. (2025). Modulating the electrocatalytic semihydrogenation selectivity of alkynes from water electrolysis using Pd-based sulfide and phosphide cathodes. Chemical Communications. 61(30). 5661–5664.
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Wu, Tong, Jinhao Zhang, Lin Song, et al.. (2025). Tethering Transition Metals of Li‐Rich Manganese Oxides via Anion Coordination for High‐Voltage Lithium‐Metal Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(3). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuo, Jiaheng Liang, Rui Ding, et al.. (2025). Hierarchical ROS-scavenging platform breaks vicious cycle of stem cell senescence, angiogenesis arrest, and immune dysregulation in diabetic wounds. Journal of Controlled Release. 387. 114247–114247. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, et al.. (2024). Boiling enhancement on the thermally induced deformation surfaces. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 236. 126358–126358.
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Yan, Yibo, et al.. (2024). Boiling heat transfer characteristics of self-rewetting fluid based on the bi-porous sintered surface. Applied Thermal Engineering. 245. 122811–122811. 9 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, et al.. (2024). Esterified styrene-maleic acid copolymer modified silica as mixed-mode polymer-brush stationary phases for chromatographic separation. Journal of Chromatography A. 1732. 465227–465227. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhang, et al.. (2024). Quantum Dots Mediated Heterojunction Coupling MoSe2 Photoanode for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Molecules. 29(5). 1070–1070. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Jinxiu, Fangfang Wang, Xiaozhong Fan, et al.. (2024). Disassociating Lithium Salts in Deep Eutectic Solvents and Inhibiting Aluminum Corrosion for Low-Temperature Lithium–Metal Batteries. Energy & Fuels. 38(15). 14696–14703. 5 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, et al.. (2023). Efficient flat membrane based liquid phase microextraction of cathinones from environmental water and biological samples. Talanta Open. 7. 100232–100232. 8 indexed citations
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Nie, Zhentao, Feng Xu, Haodong Liu, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical heterostructure of vacant carbon-box erected MoSe2-x nanosheets as a functional mediator for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 481. 148433–148433. 13 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, Long Jiang, Song Zhang, Xiantao Shen, & Chuixiu Huang. (2022). Specific “light-up” sensor made easy: An aggregation induced emission monomer for molecular imprinting. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 205. 114113–114113. 16 indexed citations
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Hu, Rong, Yibo Yan, Long Jiang, Chuixiu Huang, & Xiantao Shen. (2022). Determination of total cathinones with a single molecularly imprinted fluorescent sensor assisted by electromembrane microextraction. Microchimica Acta. 189(9). 324–324. 8 indexed citations
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Zeng, Zhiping, Li Gan, Hong Bin Yang, et al.. (2021). Orbital coupling of hetero-diatomic nickel-iron site for bifunctional electrocatalysis of CO2 reduction and oxygen evolution. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4088–4088. 441 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yan, Yibo, et al.. (2020). Lighting up forensic science by aggregation-induced emission: A review. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1155. 238119–238119. 29 indexed citations
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Zeng, Zhiping, Gengtao Fu, Hong Bin Yang, et al.. (2019). Bifunctional N-CoSe2/3D-MXene as Highly Efficient and Durable Cathode for Rechargeable Zn–Air Battery. ACS Materials Letters. 1(4). 432–439. 103 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, Chuixiu Huang, & Xiantao Shen. (2019). Electromembrane extraction of aristolochic acids: New insights in separation of bioactive ingredients of traditional Chinese medicines. Journal of Chromatography A. 1608. 460424–460424. 19 indexed citations
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Yan, Yibo, Kaixin Li, Jun Zhao, et al.. (2017). Nanobelt-arrayed vanadium oxide hierarchical microspheres as catalysts for selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural toward 2,5-diformylfuran. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 207. 358–365. 73 indexed citations

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