Yong Yan

8.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
84 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Yong Yan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong Yan has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 35 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 32 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yong Yan's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (26 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Yong Yan is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (26 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Yong Yan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Yong Yan's co-authors include Jing Gu, Matthew C. Beard, Yixiong Lin, Xiaolin Zhu, Andrew B. Bocarsly, Ye Yang, Kai Zhu, Yue Sun, Jovan San Martin and Mengjin Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yong Yan

80 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Light-Driven Heterogeneous Reduction of Carbon Dioxide: Photocatalysts and Photoelectrodes

2015 1.5k citations Jing Gu, Yong Yan et al. profile →
Low surface recombination velocity in solution-grown CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskite single crystal

2015 448 citations Yong Yan, Matthew C. Beard et al. profile →
Top and bottom surfaces limit carrier lifetime in lead iodide perovskite films

2017 423 citations Yong Yan, Matthew C. Beard et al. profile →
Lead halide perovskites for photocatalytic organic synthesis

2019 380 citations Yixiong Lin, Jovan San Martin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yong Yan United States	32	3.7k	3.6k	3.1k	654	547	84	6.3k
Zhihua Zhang China	41	4.1k 1.1×	3.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	616 0.9×	478 0.9×	207	7.4k
Chiara Maccato Italy	46	5.4k 1.4×	3.6k 1.0×	3.1k 1.0×	580 0.9×	816 1.5×	240	8.0k
Scott C. Warren United States	33	4.9k 1.3×	3.3k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	665 1.0×	669 1.2×	58	6.9k
Harun Tüysüz Germany	50	4.5k 1.2×	5.4k 1.5×	4.1k 1.3×	864 1.3×	933 1.7×	154	8.9k
Yuxiang Weng China	46	6.2k 1.7×	5.7k 1.6×	2.6k 0.8×	440 0.7×	528 1.0×	198	9.0k
Alexander J. Cowan United Kingdom	46	4.0k 1.1×	6.4k 1.8×	2.2k 0.7×	458 0.7×	240 0.4×	102	8.0k
Juying Lei China	52	4.8k 1.3×	4.8k 1.4×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	742 1.4×	150	7.7k
Jacek K. Stolarczyk Germany	24	5.4k 1.5×	4.1k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	235 0.4×	417 0.8×	47	6.8k
Nada M. Dimitrijević United States	49	5.2k 1.4×	3.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	653 1.0×	946 1.7×	95	7.5k
Peilin Liao United States	27	3.5k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	242 0.4×	353 0.6×	48	5.6k

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Amarasinghe, D.A.S., Mo Li, Stella Chariton, et al.. (2025). Interplay Between Metastability and Mechanically Induced Structural Instability in CsPbBr₃ Photovoltaic Perovskite. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(11). 6889–6896.

Mishra, Kanchan, et al.. (2025). Merging of Two Photoredox Cycles with One Perovskite Catalyst Achieving Dual Functionalization: N-Heterocyclization and Site-Selective Bromination of N-Arylamines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 90(12). 4244–4253. 2 indexed citations

Yan, Yong, et al.. (2025). Highly enantioselective synthesis controlled by spin-exchange interaction. Science Advances. 11(25). eadw5850–eadw5850.

Chen, Lan, et al.. (2024). Atroposelective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Diaryl Ethers by Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkyne–Azide Cycloaddition. ACS Catalysis. 14(5). 3475–3481. 18 indexed citations

Yan, Yong, et al.. (2024). Halide Perovskite Induces Halogen/Hydrogen Atom Transfer (XAT/HAT) for Allylic C−H Amination. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 1 indexed citations

Gao, Jie, et al.. (2023). Prognostic Value of Transglutaminase 2 in Patients with Solid Tumors: A Meta-analysis. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 27(2). 36–43. 2 indexed citations

Shao, Wenyan, Zepeng Zhang, Qingyu Guan, Yong Yan, & Jun Zhang. (2023). Comprehensive assessment of land degradation in the arid and semiarid area based on the optimal land degradation index model. CATENA. 234. 107563–107563. 27 indexed citations

Yang, Xinyue, Zepeng Zhang, Qingyu Guan, et al.. (2023). Coupling mechanism between vegetation and multi-depth soil moisture in arid–semiarid area: Shift of dominant role from vegetation to soil moisture. Forest Ecology and Management. 546. 121323–121323. 12 indexed citations

Mishra, Kanchan, et al.. (2023). Chiral Perovskite Nanocrystals for Asymmetric Reactions: A Highly Enantioselective Strategy for Photocatalytic Synthesis of N–C Axially Chiral Heterocycles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(31). 17242–17252. 33 indexed citations

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Ji, Yongfei, Yuanyuan Geng, Yong Yan, et al.. (2021). Surface State Passivation Ignited Photoelectrochemical Sensing of Thallium(I) with Ultrathin In₂S₃ Nanosheets. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 3(6). 2490–2496. 4 indexed citations

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Balasubramanian, Mahalingam, Zhenxian Liu, SuYin Grass Wang, et al.. (2021). High‐Resolution In‐Situ Synchrotron X‐Ray Studies of Inorganic Perovskite CsPbBr₃: New Symmetry Assignments and Structural Phase Transitions (Adv. Sci. 18/2021). Advanced Science. 8(18). 6 indexed citations

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Li, Muhong, Shanyong Chen, Qike Jiang, et al.. (2021). Origin of the Activity of Co–N–C Catalysts for Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes. ACS Catalysis. 11(5). 3026–3039. 161 indexed citations

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Tang, Yanqun, Xiaoyu Fang, Xin Zhang, et al.. (2017). Space-Confined Earth-Abundant Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for High-Efficiency Water Splitting. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(42). 36762–36771. 121 indexed citations

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Wang, Le, Haomin Wang, Martin Wagner, et al.. (2017). Nanoscale simultaneous chemical and mechanical imaging via peak force infrared microscopy. Science Advances. 3(6). e1700255–e1700255. 118 indexed citations

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Tyson, Trevor A., et al.. (2017). Large Thermal Motion in Halide Perovskites. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9401–9401. 25 indexed citations

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Yan, Yong, et al.. (2015). Structure–Function Relationships for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Molecular [Mn₁₂O₁₂] Clusters. Inorganic Chemistry. 54(9). 4550–4555. 24 indexed citations

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Zhang, Can, et al.. (2013). Selective Adsorption and Pre-Concentration of Morin by Molecularly Imprinted Polymers with Chitosan Beads as Functional Matrix. Advanced materials research. 781-784. 756–759. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Yong, P. Chandrasekaran, Upul Jayarathne, et al.. (2013). Ancillary Ligand Effects upon Dithiolene Redox Noninnocence in Tungsten Bis(dithiolene) Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 52(11). 6743–6751. 20 indexed citations

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Dai, Ruiwu, Guangyu Chen, Hong-tao Yan, et al.. (2012). Establishment and characteristics of an animal model for isolated pancreatic trauma. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 73(3). 648–653. 9 indexed citations

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Yan, Yong, Joel T. Mague, & James P. Donahue. (2009). A polymorph of tetraethylammonium chloride. Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online. 65(7). o1491–o1491. 5 indexed citations

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