Yilin Zhao

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Yilin Zhao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yilin Zhao has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 26 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yilin Zhao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Yilin Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Yilin Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Yilin Zhao's co-authors include Haijia Su, Gang Xiao, Chao Yu, Junlin He, Yazhen Niu, Jun Chen, Yuan Pan, Yuchan Zhang, S.L. BeMent and Yunqi Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yilin Zhao

87 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Inter-site structural heterogeneity induction of single atom Fe catalysts for robust oxygen reduction

2024 153 citations Peng Zhang, Hsiao‐Chien Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
Decade Milestone Advancement of Defect-Engineered g-C3N4 for Solar Catalytic Applications

2024 101 citations Yilin Zhao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yilin Zhao China	29	1.3k	1.0k	982	415	321	93	2.7k
Ping Li China	33	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	215 0.5×	405 1.3×	181	3.4k
Huimin Wu China	30	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	879 0.9×	404 1.0×	298 0.9×	130	3.1k
Zisheng Zhang Canada	35	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	302 0.7×	479 1.5×	94	3.5k
Weiwei Lu China	26	922 0.7×	594 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	268 0.6×	374 1.2×	146	2.9k
Shiming Zhang China	34	1.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.4×	390 0.9×	311 1.0×	123	3.5k
Wei Pei China	27	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	142 0.3×	154 0.5×	118	2.9k
Min Jiang China	25	879 0.7×	834 0.8×	652 0.7×	170 0.4×	174 0.5×	76	1.9k
Ting Huang China	32	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	2.2k 2.2×	365 0.9×	830 2.6×	97	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yilin Zhao

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Yilin Zhao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yilin Zhao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yilin Zhao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Yilin Zhao

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yilin Zhao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yilin Zhao. The network helps show where Yilin Zhao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yilin Zhao

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Zhao, Yilin, Yifan Li, Jun Ma, et al.. (2025). Tailoring Oxygen Vacancies with Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites for Stable and Efficient Photothermal CO ₂ Conversion. Angewandte Chemie. 137(30). 1 indexed citations

2.

Wang, Haibin, Yi Wei, Teng Wang, et al.. (2025). Arraying faceted manganese oxides for selective ethylene electro-oxidation to ethylene glycol in aqueous electrolytes. Nature Communications. 17(1). 290–290.

3.

Wang, Yanhua, Chen Zhang, Yilin Zhao, et al.. (2025). Ultrasound-assisted optimization extraction and biological activities analysis of flavonoids from Sanghuangporus sanghuang. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry. 117. 107326–107326. 4 indexed citations

4.

Wang, Yuxiang, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired Bi-amino Acid Ce-MOFs Boosting Oxidase-like Activity: Dual-mode Aflatoxin Detection and Antimicrobial Activity Platform. Chemical Engineering Journal. 512. 161977–161977. 5 indexed citations

5.

Wu, Ting, Rui Yang, Yilin Zhao, et al.. (2025). Biochar derived from soybean residue as an efficient cathode applied in heterogeneous electro-Fenton. Electrochimica Acta. 528. 146335–146335. 3 indexed citations

6.

Zhao, Yilin, Yifan Li, Jun Ma, et al.. (2025). Tailoring Oxygen Vacancies with Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites for Stable and Efficient Photothermal CO ₂ Conversion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(30). e202505244–e202505244. 12 indexed citations

7.

Chen, Jingyi, Lei Fan, Yilin Zhao, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Cu–ligand interaction for efficient CO₂ reduction towards multi-carbon products. Chemical Communications. 60(23). 3178–3181. 3 indexed citations

8.

Zhang, Wenhao, Mingyu Zhang, Jiao Ma, et al.. (2024). MicroRNA-15b promotes cardiac ischemia injury by the inhibition of Mitofusin 2/PERK pathway. Biochemical Pharmacology. 226. 116372–116372. 3 indexed citations

9.

Zhao, Yilin, Zishuai Wang, Yizhi Liu, et al.. (2024). Cobalt catalyzed carbonyl functionalization to boost the biodegradation of polyethylene by Bacillus velezensis C5. Chemical Engineering Journal. 495. 153226–153226. 3 indexed citations

10.

Zhang, Peng, Hsiao‐Chien Chen, Houyu Zhu, et al.. (2024). Inter-site structural heterogeneity induction of single atom Fe catalysts for robust oxygen reduction. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2062–2062. 153 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

Zhao, Yilin, Xiaoqing Liu, Jingyi Chen, et al.. (2023). Promote electroreduction of CO ₂ via catalyst valence state manipulation by surface-capping ligand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2218040120–e2218040120. 30 indexed citations

12.

Chen, Jiayi, Fernando Buendía, Tianyu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Diversity of platinum-sites at platinum/fullerene interface accelerates alkaline hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1711–1711. 116 indexed citations

13.

Zhao, Yilin, Hsiao‐Chien Chen, Xuelu Ma, et al.. (2023). Vacancy Defects Inductive Effect of Asymmetrically Coordinated Single‐Atom Fe─N₃S₁ Active Sites for Robust Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction with High Turnover Frequency and Mass Activity. Advanced Materials. 36(11). e2308243–e2308243. 131 indexed citations

14.

Zhao, Yilin, Yong Yao, Wanting Li, et al.. (2023). Copper-catalyzed functionalization/transformation of styrenes with polyhaloalkanes and arenes enables the synthesis of heteroarene-containing gem-dihaloalkenes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(19). 4809–4815. 6 indexed citations

15.

Fan, Lei, Yilin Zhao, Lei Chen, et al.. (2023). Selective production of ethylene glycol at high rate via cascade catalysis. Nature Catalysis. 6(7). 585–595. 101 indexed citations

16.

Zhao, Yilin, Tingting Hou, Liming Zhang, et al.. (2023). Iron‐Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Indole‐Tethered Alkene Enables Synthesis of CF₃‐Containing Spiroindolenines and Tetrahydrocarbazoles. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26(18). 7 indexed citations

17.

Li, Min, Houyu Zhu, Qing Yuan, et al.. (2022). Proximity Electronic Effect of Ni/Co Diatomic Sites for Synergistic Promotion of Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(4). 193 indexed citations

18.

Wang, Minmin, Min Li, Yilin Zhao, et al.. (2021). Construction of N-doped carbon frames anchored with Co single atoms and Co nanoparticles as robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution in the entire pH range. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 67. 147–156. 41 indexed citations

19.

Huang, Xiaoli, et al.. (2017). Isolation, identification and pathological lesions of Pseudomonas putida from hybrid catfish.. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica. 41(2). 371–378. 2 indexed citations

20.

Li, Jiwei, Xinxin Cao, Anqiang Pan, et al.. (2017). Nanoflake-assembled three-dimensional Na3V2(PO4)3/C cathode for high performance sodium ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 335. 301–308. 72 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ping Li Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Huimin Wu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Zisheng Zhang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Weiwei Lu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shiming Zhang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Wei Pei Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Min Jiang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ting Huang