Yuan Chen

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Yuan Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuan Chen has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Materials Chemistry, 30 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 14 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yuan Chen's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (28 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (26 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (15 papers). Yuan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (28 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (26 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (15 papers). Yuan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yuan Chen's co-authors include Yong Cui, Yan Liu, Xing Han, Jinjing Huang, Xiaowei Wu, Bang Hou, Xing Kang, Yang Shi, Jianwen Jiang and Yuhao Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yuan Chen

72 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Chiral 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks for High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Enantioseparation

2018 454 citations Xing Han, Jinjing Huang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Chiral covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis and property

2020 368 citations Xing Han, Yuan Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuan Chen China	33	2.7k	2.1k	963	788	696	74	4.5k
Wei‐Guang Zhang China	38	3.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.4×	646 0.7×	534 0.7×	514 0.7×	279	5.5k
Yuxin Li China	40	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	759 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	550 0.8×	286	5.5k
Qing‐Feng Yang China	35	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	354 0.4×	707 0.9×	632 0.9×	144	4.8k
Bin Sun China	35	3.0k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	1.7k 1.8×	960 1.2×	566 0.8×	132	5.6k
Luís Mafra Portugal	36	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	404 0.4×	286 0.4×	669 1.0×	110	3.7k
Ligong Chen China	33	1.9k 0.7×	779 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	434 0.6×	1.4k 2.0×	257	4.6k
Lin Cheng China	36	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	863 0.9×	973 1.2×	574 0.8×	165	4.2k
Yong‐Zheng Zhang China	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	545 0.6×	898 1.1×	235 0.3×	126	3.6k
Hao Guo China	45	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.7k 2.9×	639 0.8×	834 1.2×	287	7.4k
Ning Li China	42	3.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	435 0.5×	2.0k 2.5×	1.3k 1.9×	203	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuan Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuan Chen

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All Works

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Hou, Bang, Xing Han, Haomiao Xie, et al.. (2025). Single-Crystal X-ray Structures of Homochiral Brønsted Acidic Covalent Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(14). 12127–12137. 12 indexed citations

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Cao, Xu, Yuan Chen, Qian Yu, Jie Wu, & Huangxian Ju. (2025). Highly Sensitive and Diversified Electrochemiluminescence DNA Methylation Biosensing Platform Based on Self-Assembly of Nanotags. Analytical Chemistry. 97(18). 9920–9926. 3 indexed citations

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Peng, Qianqian, et al.. (2024). Regulating the local electron density and adsorption energy of COF-based single copper sites for highly efficient Fenton-like photo-oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(42). 29033–29043. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuan, Shiguo Fu, Xing Kang, et al.. (2023). Mixed-Linker Chiral 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks with Controlled Layer Stacking for Electrochemical Asymmetric Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(1). 635–645. 58 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuan, et al.. (2023). Construction of Monophosphine–Metal Complexes in Privileged Diphosphine-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(11). 6100–6111. 58 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xiaoduo, Bo Deng, Silin Liu, et al.. (2023). Piezo1 specific deletion in macrophage protects the progression of liver fibrosis in mice. Theranostics. 13(15). 5418–5434. 30 indexed citations

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Dai, Xiaohan, Yuan Chen, Jinjin Jiang, et al.. (2023). Jiangqi Pingxiao formula regulates dendritic cell apoptosis in an autophagy-dependent manner through the AMPK/mTOR pathway in a murine model of OVA-induced asthma. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 321. 117405–117405. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuhao, Wei Li, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Two‐Dimensional Fluorinated Covalent Organic Frameworks with Tunable Hydrophobicity for Ultrafast Oil–Water Separation. Angewandte Chemie. 134(2). 38 indexed citations

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Wang, Kaixuan, Xing Kang, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Porous 2D and 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks with Dimensionality‐Dependent Photocatalytic Activity in Promoting Radical Ring‐Opening Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie. 133(35). 19615–19625. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Kaixuan, Xing Kang, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Porous 2D and 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks with Dimensionality‐Dependent Photocatalytic Activity in Promoting Radical Ring‐Opening Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(35). 19466–19476. 72 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuhao, Wei Li, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Two‐Dimensional Fluorinated Covalent Organic Frameworks with Tunable Hydrophobicity for Ultrafast Oil–Water Separation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(2). e202113348–e202113348. 96 indexed citations

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Kang, Xing, Xing Han, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2020). Reticular Synthesis of tbo Topology Covalent Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(38). 16346–16356. 161 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuan, Shiguo Fu, Kuiwei Yang, et al.. (2020). Crystalline C—C and C═C Bond-Linked Chiral Covalent Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(1). 369–381. 169 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaowei, Xing Han, Qisong Xu, et al.. (2019). Chiral BINOL-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enantioselective Sensing. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(17). 7081–7089. 333 indexed citations

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Huang, Jinjing, Xing Han, Yang Shi, et al.. (2019). Microporous 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks for Liquid Chromatographic Separation of Xylene Isomers and Ethylbenzene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(22). 8996–9003. 212 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuan, Xiaowei Wu, Rui Gao, et al.. (2019). Nanochannels of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Chiral Selective Transmembrane Transport of Amino Acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(51). 20187–20197. 248 indexed citations

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Liu, Teng, et al.. (2019). Switchable luminescent properties in two photochromic naphthalene diimide coordination networks. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 277. 216–220. 12 indexed citations

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Han, Xing, Jinjing Huang, Yuan Chen, Yan Liu, & Yong Cui. (2018). Chiral 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks for High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Enantioseparation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(3). 892–895. 454 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guan, Qingqing, Yi Li, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2017). Sulfonated multi-walled carbon nanotubes for biodiesel production through triglycerides transesterification. RSC Advances. 7(12). 7250–7258. 110 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuan, et al.. (2014). Isotherm adsorption of picric acid and 2,4-dinitrophenol on weak basic resin. 42(3). 24–28. 1 indexed citations

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