Yu Yan

818 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 552 citations indexed

About

Yu Yan is a scholar working on Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Yan has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 552 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Catalysis, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yu Yan's work include Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (5 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (3 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (3 papers). Yu Yan is often cited by papers focused on Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (5 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (3 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (3 papers). Yu Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Yu Yan's co-authors include Ning Wang, Edward H. Sargent, Sung‐Fu Hung, Bin Wang, Fengwang Li, Shao‐Hui Hsu, Tao Peng, Aoni Xu, Mingchuan Luo and Xue Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yu Yan

24 papers receiving 545 citations

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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.

Strong‐Proton‐Adsorption Co‐Based Electrocatalysts Achieve Active and Stable Neutral Seawater Splitting

2023 158 citations Ning Wang, Sung‐Fu Hung et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Yan China	10	369	170	165	136	51	24	552
Richuan Rao China	13	228 0.6×	210 1.2×	257 1.6×	92 0.7×	57 1.1×	29	464
Jayaraman Theerthagiri South Korea	12	240 0.7×	170 1.0×	163 1.0×	88 0.6×	39 0.8×	31	430
Rajubhai K. Mewada India	11	364 1.0×	110 0.6×	398 2.4×	134 1.0×	123 2.4×	19	728
Thi Hong Chuong Nguyen Vietnam	12	400 1.1×	133 0.8×	369 2.2×	52 0.4×	33 0.6×	24	603
Hang Xiang China	12	407 1.1×	193 1.1×	111 0.7×	214 1.6×	9 0.2×	17	591
Muhammad Sheraz Ahmad Malaysia	9	171 0.5×	55 0.3×	103 0.6×	67 0.5×	33 0.6×	23	321
Wenxuan Liu China	8	311 0.8×	78 0.5×	312 1.9×	80 0.6×	15 0.3×	14	485
Eduardus Budi Nursanto Indonesia	8	211 0.6×	121 0.7×	133 0.8×	98 0.7×	16 0.3×	17	424
Xian Wu China	14	95 0.3×	221 1.3×	205 1.2×	139 1.0×	22 0.4×	24	533

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Yan

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Yu, Daniel J. Rivera, Weiyi Pan, et al.. (2025). Tuning nitrate reduction reaction selectivity via selective adsorption in electrified membranes. 2(6). 379–390. 7 indexed citations

Han, Ning, Wei Guo, Lizhou Fan, et al.. (2025). Tuning Spin Polarization of Iron in Oxides to Boost Electrocatalytic Ammonia Production. Advanced Materials. 37(41). e00900–e00900. 3 indexed citations

Huang, Pengcheng, et al.. (2024). Water Confinement on Polymer Coatings Dictates Proton–Electron Transfer on Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Nitrite. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). 2656–2665. 2 indexed citations

Wijk, Eduard van, Yu Yan, Gabriella Cirvilleri, et al.. (2024). Delayed Luminescence in Monitoring the Postharvest Ripening of Tomato Fruit and Classifying According to Their Maturity Stage at Harvest. Food and Bioprocess Technology. 17(12). 5119–5133. 5 indexed citations

Qin, Huang, et al.. (2024). Removal of V(V) from a Mixed Solution Containing Vanadium and Chromium Using a Micropocrous Resin in a Column: Migration Regularity of the Mass Transfer Zone and Analysis of Dynamic Properties. ACS Omega. 9(22). 23688–23702. 1 indexed citations

He, Min, Nan Wang, Yu Yan, et al.. (2023). Quality-grade analysis of velvet antler materials using ultra-weak delayed luminescence combined with chemometrics. Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods. 15(4). 1–10. 6 indexed citations

Wijk, Eduard van, Yu Yan, Gabriella Cirvilleri, et al.. (2023). Applications of Delayed Luminescence for tomato fruit quality assessment across varied Sicilian cultivation zones. PLoS ONE. 18(6). e0286383–e0286383. 3 indexed citations

Yan, Yu, et al.. (2023). Lanthanum-Doped Graphene for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Monoxide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(27). 12967–12975. 4 indexed citations

Hung, Sung‐Fu, Aoni Xu, Xue Wang, et al.. (2022). A metal-supported single-atom catalytic site enables carbon dioxide hydrogenation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 819–819. 161 indexed citations

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Luo, Zhicheng, Zhouyang Yin, Jiaqi Yu, et al.. (2022). General Synthetic Strategy to Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts with Single‐Atom Metal Sites for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction (Small 16/2022). Small. 18(16). 4 indexed citations

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Luo, Zhicheng, Zhouyang Yin, Jiaqi Yu, et al.. (2022). General Synthetic Strategy to Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts with Single‐Atom Metal Sites for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Small. 18(16). e2107799–e2107799. 30 indexed citations

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Huang, Pengcheng, Yu Yan, Aayan Banerjee, et al.. (2022). Proton shuttling flattens the energy landscape of nitrite catalytic reduction. Journal of Catalysis. 413. 252–263. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Minda, Yu Yan, Fudong Liu, et al.. (2021). Thermal Unequilibrium of PdSn Intermetallic Nanocatalysts: From In Situ Tailored Synthesis to Unexpected Hydrogenation Selectivity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(33). 18309–18317. 50 indexed citations

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Li, Gengnan, et al.. (2020). Factors Determining Selectivity of Acid- and Base-Catalyzed Self- and Cross-Condensation of Acetone and Cyclopentanone. ACS Catalysis. 10(21). 12790–12800. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Mengmeng, Min He, Henrie Korthout, et al.. (2019). Characterization of ginsenoside extracts by delayed luminescence, high-performance liquid chromatography, and bioactivity tests. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 18(5). 1138–1146. 17 indexed citations

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Huang, Jing, Yongcheng Long, Yu Yan, & Lin Hu. (2018). Development and Validation of an Age-Specific Lower Extremity Finite Element Model for Simulating Pedestrian Accidents. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics. 2018. 1–12. 9 indexed citations

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Yan, Yu, Jing Huang, Fan Li, & Lin Hu. (2018). Investigation of the Effect of Neck Muscle Active Force on Whiplash Injury of the Cervical Spine. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics. 2018. 1–10. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Hao, et al.. (2016). Uncertainty Analysis of Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor Fuel Assembly. 37(3). 180. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Yu. (2012). Determination of Paeoniflorin in Different Parts of Paeonia delavayi var. lutea by HPLC. Zhongguo shiyan fangjixue zazhi. 3 indexed citations

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Yan, Yu. (2003). Optimization of Experiment Conditions and PrimerScreening with ISSR Markers. Redai yaredai zhiwu xuebao. 2 indexed citations

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