Yuan Wang

29.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
714 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

About

Yuan Wang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuan Wang has authored 714 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 275 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 255 papers in Materials Chemistry and 186 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yuan Wang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (107 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (105 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (90 papers). Yuan Wang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (107 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (105 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (90 papers). Yuan Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yuan Wang's co-authors include Hamidreza Arandiyan, Hongxing Dai, Chuan Zhao, Rose Amal, Peng Wang, Jiguang Deng, Dong Shi, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michaël Grätzel and Jason Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Yuan Wang

682 papers receiving 23.9k citations

Hit Papers

Enhance the Optical Absor... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2008 2014 2000 2022 2021 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Enhance the Optical Absorptivity of Nanocrystalline TiO2 Film with High Molar Extinction Coefficient Ruthenium Sensitizers for High Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
    2008 1.2k citations Yuan Wang et al. profile →
  2. Catalytically active Au-O(OH) x - species stabilized by alkali ions on zeolites and mesoporous oxides
    2014 570 citations Yuan Wang et al. profile →
  3. Preparation of Tractable Platinum, Rhodium, and Ruthenium Nanoclusters with Small Particle Size in Organic Media
    2000 512 citations Yuan Wang et al. profile →
  4. Electronic Structure Engineering of Single‐Atom Ru Sites via Co–N4 Sites for Bifunctional pH‐Universal Water Splitting
    2022 405 citations Yuan Wang, Chuan Zhao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Defect engineering of oxide perovskites for catalysis and energy storage: synthesis of chemistry and materials science
    2021 244 citations Hamidreza Arandiyan, Yuan Wang et al. profile →
  6. Building better aqueous Zn-organic batteries
    2023 216 citations Xuanyang Li, Yuan Wang et al. profile →
  7. Breaking the Activity and Stability Bottlenecks of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reactions in Acids
    2023 199 citations Yuan Wang, Chuan Zhao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  8. Transition metal-based electrocatalysts for alkaline overall water splitting: advancements, challenges, and perspectives
    2024 116 citations Yuan Wang, Hongyu Sun et al. profile →
  9. Advances in Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts via Direct Oxygen–Oxygen Radical Coupling Pathway
    2025 81 citations Hamidreza Arandiyan, Zongping Shao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  10. Recent advances in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for solid-state batteries
    2024 71 citations Yuan Wang, Hamidreza Arandiyan et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yuan Wang 11.3k 9.4k 8.8k 3.8k 3.2k 714 24.3k
Jing Li 9.6k 0.8× 9.5k 1.0× 9.7k 1.1× 3.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.6× 719 23.2k
Peng Zhang 12.3k 1.1× 8.5k 0.9× 5.7k 0.6× 3.0k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 416 21.8k
Tao Li 10.8k 1.0× 7.3k 0.8× 10.4k 1.2× 3.6k 0.9× 2.1k 0.7× 850 25.7k
Feng Peng 13.1k 1.2× 13.1k 1.4× 7.4k 0.8× 2.6k 0.7× 2.7k 0.8× 480 22.6k
Yu Zhang 11.7k 1.0× 13.9k 1.5× 17.1k 1.9× 4.8k 1.3× 3.0k 0.9× 775 31.0k
Ying Li 12.7k 1.1× 12.5k 1.3× 9.9k 1.1× 2.9k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 712 27.6k
Hao Zhang 9.3k 0.8× 13.8k 1.5× 10.8k 1.2× 2.2k 0.6× 2.8k 0.9× 580 23.7k
Xue Wang 7.2k 0.6× 10.6k 1.1× 6.8k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 4.1k 1.3× 453 19.6k
Yan Chen 10.1k 0.9× 5.5k 0.6× 7.0k 0.8× 3.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.6× 674 19.3k
Jing Zhang 9.7k 0.9× 8.5k 0.9× 6.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 3.2k 1.0× 433 21.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuan Wang

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All Works

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Wang, Ziqi, Zhongqing Yang, Jiang He, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired Bi2MoO6 Electron Bridge and Carbon Nano‐Island Heterojunctions for Enhanced Photothermal Catalytic CO2 Reduction. Carbon Energy. 7(9). 2 indexed citations
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Tong, Yao, et al.. (2025). Iron-assisted molten salt synthesis of highly graphitized hierarchical porous N-doped carbon for enhanced aqueous energy storage. Journal of Power Sources. 644. 237086–237086. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuan, Qinfeng Zheng, Yuepeng Pang, et al.. (2025). Tailored core-shell PW@PB cathodes for enhanced sodium-ion battery stability and rate capability. Journal of Energy Storage. 111. 115424–115424. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Jucheng, et al.. (2025). Prior knowledge-guided multi-information graph convolutional network for driver drowsiness detection. Expert Systems with Applications. 275. 127028–127028. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Yan, Yuan Wang, Qingxiang Ma, Xinhua Gao, & Tiansheng Zhao. (2024). Cu modified VOx/Silicalite-1 catalysts for propane dehydrogenation in CO2 atmosphere. Fuel. 363. 130819–130819. 13 indexed citations
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Yang, Yuhan, et al.. (2024). Cobalt-ions pre-intercalation MnO2 nanosheet arrays on nickel foam achieving boosted electrochemical pseudocapacitance for supercapacitors. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 972. 118610–118610. 6 indexed citations
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Lü, Jian, Xiaofeng Yang, Jiaxuan Xiao, et al.. (2024). DNA-functionalized cryogel based colorimetric biosensor for sensitive on-site detection of aflatoxin B1 in food samples. Talanta. 275. 126122–126122. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuan, Tian Wang, Hamidreza Arandiyan, et al.. (2024). Advancing Catalysts by Stacking Fault Defects for Enhanced Hydrogen Production: A Review. Advanced Materials. 36(21). e2313378–e2313378. 51 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuan, Qing Xie, Jiale Liu, et al.. (2024). pH-Regulated host-guest architecture in molybdenum Dioxide/Carbon sphere composites for flexible solid-state supercapacitors. Chemical Engineering Journal. 481. 148558–148558. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Xiaohan, Runping Ye, Chunyan Sun, et al.. (2024). Optimizing low-temperature CO2 methanation through frustrated Lewis pairs on Ni/CeO2 catalysts. Chemical Engineering Journal. 484. 149471–149471. 46 indexed citations
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Chen, Zuo, Na Dong, Yuan Wang, et al.. (2024). All in laser-induced graphene to fabricate the electrochemical biosensor for on-site detection of microcystin-LR. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 419. 136437–136437. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhu, Xuanyang Li, Xuanyang Li, et al.. (2023). Stable dendrite-free Zn anode with Janus MXene-Ag interfacial bifunctional protective layer for aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 479. 147412–147412. 35 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuan, Wenjing Ge, Shixin Sun, et al.. (2023). A hydrogel-assisting surface-confined corrosion strategy toward self-supported amorphous NiFe-layered double hydroxides enabling high-performance hybrid solid-state supercapacitors. Journal of Energy Storage. 66. 107473–107473. 6 indexed citations
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Tang, Mingcong, et al.. (2023). Novel two-dimensional C6B4 monolayer as an anode for Li-/Na-ion batteries with high theoretical capacity. Applied Surface Science. 616. 156468–156468. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuan, et al.. (2022). QTLs analysis of oil and three main fatty acid contents in cottonseeds. ACTA AGRONOMICA SINICA. 48(2). 380–395.

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