Yongfeng Wang

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
219 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Yongfeng Wang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongfeng Wang has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 81 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 80 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yongfeng Wang's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (79 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (63 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (28 papers). Yongfeng Wang is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (79 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (63 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (28 papers). Yongfeng Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and France. Yongfeng Wang's co-authors include Kai Wu, Richard Berndt, J. Kröger, Mark D. Watson, Werner A. Hofer, Shimin Hou, Xiang Shao, Yingchun Ye, Yajie Zhang and Na Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yongfeng Wang

205 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yongfeng Wang China	35	1.9k	1.8k	1.5k	1.5k	371	219	4.2k
Chao Li China	39	2.5k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	789 0.5×	448 1.2×	179	5.3k
Yuyang Zhang China	38	2.1k 1.1×	820 0.5×	3.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	242 0.7×	262	5.4k
Yongchun Zhong China	34	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	3.1k 2.1×	805 0.6×	336 0.9×	140	5.3k
Woo Youn Kim South Korea	32	1.7k 0.9×	964 0.5×	2.4k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	760 2.0×	83	4.9k
Alexandre Reily Rocha Brazil	34	2.9k 1.5×	676 0.4×	2.4k 1.6×	2.0k 1.3×	346 0.9×	115	4.4k
Wei Xu China	42	2.2k 1.2×	2.9k 1.6×	2.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.2×	710 1.9×	217	6.0k
Felix R. Fischer United States	39	2.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	3.8k 2.5×	1.9k 1.3×	607 1.6×	104	6.2k
Ying Zhou China	38	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.6×	519 0.4×	817 2.2×	164	4.9k
Xue Zhang China	40	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.5×	418 0.3×	688 1.9×	225	5.0k
Ke Deng China	35	1.6k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	3.0k 2.0×	1.1k 0.7×	625 1.7×	169	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongfeng Wang

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Zhang, Ke, Kang Wang, Siang‐Piao Chai, et al.. (2025). Engineering Ru-based electrocatalysts for efficient electrocatalytic water splitting. Nano Research. 18(11). 94907369–94907369. 1 indexed citations

Mehdi, Sehrish, Shuling Liu, Yanyan Liu, et al.. (2025). Co‐Based Dual‐Metal Phosphides on P‐Activated Nickel Foam for Enhanced Hydrogen Generation from Ammonia Borane. Small. 21(31). e2500188–e2500188.

Yang, Xueqing, Andrey A. Berezin, Georgia A. Zissimou, et al.. (2025). Exploiting Structural Flexibility for Reversible Kondo-State Switching in a Pure Organic Radical on Au(111)─Submolecular Imaging and Manipulation. ACS Nano. 19(39). 34981–34989.

Song, Kai, Hongxiang Xu, Chengjun Jing, et al.. (2025). Curvature-Directed Selective C–C Bond Cleavage Driven by Electric Fields. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(44). 40825–40832.

Gao, Qing, Shuai Han, Zhao Li, et al.. (2025). Laser-Induced Synthesis of ZnO/Graphene Composites with a Porous Structure for Supercapacitors. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 8(23). 11906–11918. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Zhongyi, Yuxuan Lin, Ting Hu, et al.. (2025). Using Achiral Monomers to Synthesize Organometallic Chiral Copolymers on an Achiral Surface. ACS Nano. 19(11). 11111–11119. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Zhenwei, Lijun Wang, Wen Wang, et al.. (2024). Core-bishell NiFe@NC@MoS2 for boosting electrocatalytic activity towards ultra-efficient oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 674. 823–833. 12 indexed citations

Liu, Yanyan, Huanhuan Zhang, Jingjing Zhou, et al.. (2024). Spin-cross interface-inducing ultra-high catalytic activity in Co(OH)xPy-MXene toward alkali-free liquid hydrogen generation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 354. 124143–124143. 8 indexed citations

Li, Shi, Yuxuan Jiang, Yudi Wang, et al.. (2024). Oxazine: an anchoring group serving as functional kernels to construct single-molecule switches. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(6). 2194–2202. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Xingbin, Xuhui Li, Yongfeng Wang, et al.. (2024). Preparation of a functional monomer containing polymerisable double bonds and chain transfer sulfhydryl groups. Materials Research Innovations. 28(7). 521–527. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Yuxuan, Jie Li, Xiaoyang Liang, et al.. (2024). Steering Electron-Induced Surface Reaction via a Molecular Assembly Approach. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(14). 10150–10158. 2 indexed citations

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Feng, Wenshuai, et al.. (2024). Combining Bragg reflector and Fabry–Pérot cavity into a solid-state electrochromic device for dynamic modulation. 4(3). 2 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yuxuan, Shi Li, Yongfeng Wang, Stefano Sanvito, & Shimin Hou. (2024). Au-Thiolate Interfacial Coordination: The Key to Determining the Spin State of a Blatter Radical When Incorporated into Gold–Molecule–Gold Junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(12). 5288–5299. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Mengyuan, Shuqi Wang, Zuoping Xiong, et al.. (2023). Perspiration permeable, textile embeddable microfluidic sweat sensor. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 237. 115504–115504. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Zhao, et al.. (2023). Preparation and Performance of SrWO4:RE3+ (RE = Eu, Sm, Pr) Fluorescent Powders for White Leds. Journal of Applied Spectroscopy. 90(3). 723–729. 2 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yuxuan, Shi Li, Yudi Wang, et al.. (2023). Does a Blatter Radical Retain Its Open-Shell Character When Incorporated into Gold–Molecule–Gold Junctions?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(19). 9268–9277. 8 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yuxuan, Yongfeng Wang, Stefano Sanvito, & Shimin Hou. (2022). Density Functional Study on the Deprotonation and Binding Mechanism of Imidazole on Gold Electrodes in an Aqueous Environment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(30). 12424–12434. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Yuxuan, Zhen Xu, Xiong Zhou, et al.. (2022). Self-Assemblies and Properties of Side-On Picene Strips on a Monolayered CuO Film. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(41). 17753–17758. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Shi, Yudi Wang, Yongfeng Wang, Stefano Sanvito, & Shimin Hou. (2021). High-Performance Spin Filters Based on 1,2,4,5-Tetrahydroxybenzene Molecules Attached to Bulk Nickel Electrodes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(12). 6945–6953. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Chao, Xiuru Xu, Ming Liu, et al.. (2017). Thermal and Optical Modulation of the Carrier Mobility in OTFTs Based on an Azo-anthracene Liquid Crystal Organic Semiconductor. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(8). 7305–7314. 34 indexed citations

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