Yu Yan

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Yu Yan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Yan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 2 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yu Yan's work include Advanced battery technologies research (7 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (5 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (4 papers). Yu Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (7 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (5 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (4 papers). Yu Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yu Yan's co-authors include Kyung Eun Kate Sun, The Nam Long Doan, Tuan K.A. Hoang, Xiao Zhu, Ye Tian, Pu Chen, Xingqi Li, Zhenmeng Peng, Shiming Zhou and Xu Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Energy & Environmental Science and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

In The Last Decade

Yu Yan

11 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Suppression of Dendrite Formation and Corrosion on Zinc Anode of Secondary Aqueous Batteries

2017 489 citations Kyung Eun Kate Sun, Tuan K.A. Hoang et al. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces profile →
Unraveling the structure–performance relationship in hard carbon for sodium-ion battery by coupling key structural parameters

2025 43 citations Chun Wu, Yunrui Yang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Yan China	9	1.0k	481	270	166	133	11	1.1k
Mengyi Zhang China	6	908 0.9×	483 1.0×	275 1.0×	140 0.8×	110 0.8×	11	982
Zhiqun Ran China	21	935 0.9×	360 0.7×	225 0.8×	128 0.8×	222 1.7×	26	1.1k
Yanchen Ma China	8	720 0.7×	357 0.7×	266 1.0×	90 0.5×	208 1.6×	8	853
Jiandong Wan China	8	1.3k 1.2×	244 0.5×	303 1.1×	255 1.5×	116 0.9×	11	1.3k
Pavithra Murugavel Shanthi United States	14	669 0.6×	447 0.9×	112 0.4×	117 0.7×	173 1.3×	24	835
Liangmin Bu China	9	694 0.7×	534 1.1×	262 1.0×	67 0.4×	355 2.7×	11	927
Chunlin Xie China	19	1.4k 1.4×	235 0.5×	380 1.4×	338 2.0×	136 1.0×	34	1.5k
Zefang Yang China	18	1.2k 1.1×	193 0.4×	326 1.2×	261 1.6×	151 1.1×	32	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Yan

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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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11 of 11 papers shown

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Yang, Hai, Jialong Shen, Xianhong Rui, et al.. (2025). Incorporating a lithium-deficient layer and interfacial-confined catalysis enables the reversible redox of surface oxygen species in lithium-rich manganese-based oxides. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(9). 4335–4347. 2 indexed citations

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Song, Lili, Quan Yang, Yu Yao, et al.. (2025). Surface Work Function‐Induced High‐Entropy Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation for Highly Stable Potassium Metal Anodes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(29). e202509252–e202509252. 15 indexed citations

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Wu, Chun, Yunrui Yang, Yifan Li, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the structure–performance relationship in hard carbon for sodium-ion battery by coupling key structural parameters. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(12). 6019–6031. 43 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jiang, He, Xinkai Li, Yijun Zhang, et al.. (2024). Anchoring atomic Pd on molybdenum disulfide with state-of-the-art specific activity in the electrochemical dehalogenation of florfenicol. Chemical Engineering Journal. 499. 156481–156481. 7 indexed citations

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Jin, Xinyi, Jinqiao Xue, Dong Hee Kang, et al.. (2020). Incorporation of fluorescent microgels inside calcite single crystals. Giant. 3. 100023–100023. 8 indexed citations

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Yan, Yu, Yamin Zhang, Yutong Wu, et al.. (2018). A Lasagna-Inspired Nanoscale ZnO Anode Design for High-Energy Rechargeable Aqueous Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(11). 6345–6351. 50 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yamin, Yutong Wu, Haoran Ding, et al.. (2018). Sealing ZnO nanorods for deeply rechargeable high-energy aqueous battery anodes. Nano Energy. 53. 666–674. 128 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xu, Xingqi Li, Yu Yan, et al.. (2018). Electrical and structural engineering of cobalt selenide nanosheets by Mn modulation for efficient oxygen evolution. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 236. 569–575. 146 indexed citations

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Sun, Kyung Eun Kate, Tuan K.A. Hoang, The Nam Long Doan, et al.. (2017). Suppression of Dendrite Formation and Corrosion on Zinc Anode of Secondary Aqueous Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(11). 9681–9687. 489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Xu, Hantao Zhang, Yu Yan, et al.. (2016). Engineering the Electrical Conductivity of Lamellar Silver‐Doped Cobalt(II) Selenide Nanobelts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(1). 328–332. 195 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xu, Hantao Zhang, Yu Yan, et al.. (2016). Engineering the Electrical Conductivity of Lamellar Silver‐Doped Cobalt(II) Selenide Nanobelts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 129(1). 334–338. 45 indexed citations

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