Yong Fan

944 total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 742 citations indexed

About

Yong Fan is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong Fan has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 742 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. Recurrent topics in Yong Fan's work include Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics (12 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (11 papers) and Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes (10 papers). Yong Fan is often cited by papers focused on Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics (12 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (11 papers) and Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes (10 papers). Yong Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Germany. Yong Fan's co-authors include Atsushi Iizuka, Etsuro Shibata, Zhiyun Ji, Xuling Chen, Min Gan, Jianxun Song, Xiaoxian Huang, Zengqing Sun, Jilin He and T. Nakamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Journal of Cleaner Production and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Yong Fan

46 papers receiving 724 citations

Hit Papers

Recent progress on the thermal treatment and resource uti... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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 progress on the thermal treatment and resource utilization technologies of municipal waste incineration fly ash: A review
    2022 120 citations Min Gan, Zhiyun Ji et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yong Fan China 16 335 249 176 168 98 49 742
Takehito Hiraki Japan 14 579 1.7× 361 1.4× 77 0.4× 99 0.6× 102 1.0× 22 917
Elena Yazhenskikh Germany 20 627 1.9× 346 1.4× 79 0.4× 381 2.3× 92 0.9× 54 988
Minmin Sun China 21 718 2.1× 328 1.3× 87 0.5× 428 2.5× 115 1.2× 60 1.1k
Zhancheng Guo China 19 633 1.9× 284 1.1× 88 0.5× 359 2.1× 83 0.8× 65 998
Dirk Penner Switzerland 12 146 0.4× 156 0.6× 65 0.4× 140 0.8× 59 0.6× 25 698
Wangxing Li China 13 393 1.2× 91 0.4× 144 0.8× 60 0.4× 193 2.0× 31 635
Wenzhou Yu China 16 418 1.2× 165 0.7× 103 0.6× 175 1.0× 146 1.5× 42 621
Zuotai Zhang China 16 442 1.3× 204 0.8× 166 0.9× 210 1.3× 59 0.6× 31 758
Liping Ma China 17 292 0.9× 268 1.1× 100 0.6× 253 1.5× 25 0.3× 33 707
Zhaohui Xie China 19 312 0.9× 469 1.9× 116 0.7× 255 1.5× 96 1.0× 39 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yong Fan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yong Fan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yong Fan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yong Fan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yong Fan 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 Yong Fan. Yong Fan 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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Fan, Yong, et al.. (2025). Rational methodology of V–Al alloy-electrorefining protocols promotes high purity vanadium metal. RSC Advances. 15(41). 34768–34780. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Yong, et al.. (2025). Sophisticated distillation methodology of molten salt system on the vanadium chlorination. Chemical Engineering Journal. 512. 162639–162639. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Ye, Zepeng Lv, Shaolong Li, et al.. (2025). Controlled preparation and phase evolution of vanadium oxycarbide ceramics for application in molten salt systems. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 109(1).
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Chen, Yuzhen, Zepeng Lv, Shaolong Li, et al.. (2025). Controlled multivalent‐state vanadium electrolysis via a nitrogen‐doped consumable anode. Rare Metals. 44(12). 10967–10980.
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Lv, Zepeng, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical behavior of molybdenum ions and their coordination structures in NaCl-KCl melt containing fluoride ions. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 426. 127375–127375. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zheng, et al.. (2024). Innovated application of melamine for high-purity V2O5 preparation. Separation and Purification Technology. 359. 130534–130534. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Wanting, et al.. (2024). A Reactive Deep Learning-Based Model for Quality Assessment in Airport Video Surveillance Systems. Electronics. 13(4). 749–749. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Jingjing, Shaolong Li, Zepeng Lv, et al.. (2023). Electro-desulfurization of metal sulfides in molten salts. Separation and Purification Technology. 310. 123109–123109. 11 indexed citations
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Lv, Zepeng, Shaolong Li, Yong Fan, et al.. (2023). The Coordination of Titanium Ions and the Electrocrystallization Mechanism in Molten Chloride-Fluoride Salts. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 170(8). 82502–82502. 4 indexed citations
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Huang, Jing, et al.. (2023). Short-Process Preparation of High-Purity V2O5 from Shale Acid Leaching Solution via Chlorination. Processes. 11(4). 1270–1270. 7 indexed citations
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Lv, Zepeng, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical behavior and cathodic nucleation mechanism of molybdenum ions in NaCl-KCl. Separation and Purification Technology. 329. 125121–125121. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Xing, et al.. (2023). Fabrication of nanocrystalline and ultra-hard tungsten alloy by dual-particle dispersion strengthening. Materials Letters. 349. 134714–134714. 2 indexed citations
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Song, Xin, et al.. (2023). Coordination states of metal ions in molten salts and their characterization methods. International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials. 30(7). 1261–1277. 16 indexed citations
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Song, Jianxun, Shaolong Li, Yusi Che, et al.. (2020). Synthesis and characterization of neodymium oxychloride. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 9(6). 16378–16386. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Zhanjun, et al.. (2019). Cracking and segregation in high-alloy steel 0.4C1.5Mn2Cr0.35Mo1.5Ni produced by thick continuous casting. Heliyon. 5(3). e01329–e01329. 7 indexed citations
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Gan, Min, Zhiyun Ji, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2019). Insight into the high proportion application of biomass fuel in iron ore sintering through CO-containing flue gas recirculation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 232. 1335–1347. 37 indexed citations
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Fan, Yong, Bo Zhang, Jianxun Song, et al.. (2018). An Innovated Application of Reutilize Copper Smelter Slag for Cement-based Electromagnetic Interference Composites. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16155–16155. 25 indexed citations
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Wang, Bin, et al.. (2017). 三重共鳴共振器で給電される広帯域二重円偏波全企業導波管アレイアンテナ【Powered by NICT】. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 65(4). 2139. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Yong, Etsuro Shibata, Atsushi Iizuka, & Takashi Nakamura. (2013). Review of Iron Recovery and Cleaning of Copper Slag. Journal of MMIJ. 129(5). 177–184. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Mingyan, et al.. (2004). Preparation and characterization of the nano-doped polyimide film. 2. 840–843. 4 indexed citations

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