Yuanjun Chen

15.3k total citations · 12 hit papers
51 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Yuanjun Chen is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanjun Chen has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuanjun Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (14 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers). Yuanjun Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (14 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers). Yuanjun Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Yuanjun Chen's co-authors include Yadong Li, Shufang Ji, Dingsheng Wang, Chen Chen, Qing Peng, Juncai Dong, Zhi Li, Wenxing Chen, Zedong Zhang and Lirong Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yuanjun Chen

49 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

Single-Atom Catalysts: Synthetic Strategies and Electroch... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2017 2020 2019 2018 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yuanjun Chen China 33 8.8k 6.1k 4.5k 1.8k 1.5k 51 11.6k
Shufang Ji China 34 9.7k 1.1× 6.8k 1.1× 4.9k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.1× 52 13.0k
Xun Hong China 48 8.7k 1.0× 5.7k 0.9× 5.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 118 12.1k
Gongzhen Cheng China 65 7.6k 0.9× 5.2k 0.9× 5.7k 1.3× 2.3k 1.3× 1.4k 1.0× 202 12.5k
S. Karakalos United States 43 7.7k 0.9× 4.1k 0.7× 5.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.0× 724 0.5× 105 10.6k
Zhaoke Zheng China 64 10.5k 1.2× 8.5k 1.4× 4.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 792 0.5× 289 13.3k
Zhen‐Feng Huang China 45 11.5k 1.3× 5.5k 0.9× 7.8k 1.7× 1.4k 0.7× 888 0.6× 91 13.5k
Maoyu Wang United States 54 11.8k 1.3× 4.8k 0.8× 8.0k 1.8× 2.7k 1.5× 740 0.5× 94 14.3k
Pengfei An China 43 7.6k 0.9× 4.6k 0.8× 4.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 522 0.3× 131 10.4k
Guigao Liu China 46 8.0k 0.9× 6.3k 1.0× 3.6k 0.8× 860 0.5× 591 0.4× 97 10.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuanjun Chen

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Yuanjun Chen's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yuanjun Chen with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yuanjun Chen more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Yuanjun Chen

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yuanjun Chen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yuanjun Chen. The network helps show where Yuanjun Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuanjun Chen

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Chen, Yuanjun, Xinyue Wang, Xiaoyan Li, et al.. (2025). Electrified synthesis of n-propanol using a dilute alloy catalyst. Nature Catalysis. 8(3). 239–247. 13 indexed citations
2.
Liu, Hengzhou, Gloria H. Su, Heejong Shin, et al.. (2025). Electrosynthesis of CO from an electrically pH-shifted DAC post-capture liquid using a catalyst:support amide linkage. Joule. 9(5). 101883–101883. 2 indexed citations
3.
Shin, Heejong, Jianan Erick Huang, Hengzhou Liu, et al.. (2025). Electrolysis of ethylene to ethylene glycol paired with acidic CO2-to-CO conversion. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(18). 8600–8607. 1 indexed citations
6.
Chen, Yuanjun, Ruixue Zhang, Zhiwen Chen, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneous Rhodium Single-Atom-Site Catalyst Enables Chemoselective Carbene N–H Bond Insertion. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(15). 10847–10856. 39 indexed citations
7.
Tian, Cong, Jiaqi Yu, Daojin Zhou, et al.. (2024). Reduction of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5‐Bis(hydroxymethyl)Furan at High Current Density using a Ga‐Doped AgCu:Cationomer Hybrid Electrocatalyst. Advanced Materials. 36(24). e2312778–e2312778. 14 indexed citations
8.
Zhao, Yong, Long Hao, Adnan Ozden, et al.. (2023). Conversion of CO2 to multicarbon products in strong acid by controlling the catalyst microenvironment. Nature Synthesis. 205 indexed citations breakdown →
9.
Chen, Yuanjun, Bing Jiang, Haigang Hao, et al.. (2023). Atomic‐Level Regulation of Cobalt Single‐Atom Nanozymes: Engineering High‐Efficiency Catalase Mimics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(19). e202301879–e202301879. 174 indexed citations breakdown →
10.
Xu, Yi, Shijie Liu, Jonathan P. Edwards, et al.. (2023). Regeneration of direct air CO2 capture liquid via alternating electrocatalysis. Joule. 7(9). 2107–2117. 23 indexed citations
11.
Chen, Yuanjun, Peixia Wang, Haigang Hao, et al.. (2021). Thermal Atomization of Platinum Nanoparticles into Single Atoms: An Effective Strategy for Engineering High-Performance Nanozymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(44). 18643–18651. 343 indexed citations breakdown →
12.
Ji, Shufang, Yuanjun Chen, Guofeng Zhao, et al.. (2021). Atomic-level insights into the steric hindrance effect of single-atom Pd catalyst to boost the synthesis of dimethyl carbonate. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 304. 120922–120922. 49 indexed citations
13.
Chen, Yuanjun, Rui Gao, Shufang Ji, et al.. (2020). Atomic‐Level Modulation of Electronic Density at Cobalt Single‐Atom Sites Derived from Metal–Organic Frameworks: Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(6). 3212–3221. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
14.
Ji, Shufang, Yuanjun Chen, Xiaolu Wang, et al.. (2020). Chemical Synthesis of Single Atomic Site Catalysts. Chemical Reviews. 120(21). 11900–11955. 1181 indexed citations breakdown →
15.
Ji, Shufang, Yang Qu, Tao Wang, et al.. (2020). Rare‐Earth Single Erbium Atoms for Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(26). 10651–10657. 427 indexed citations breakdown →
16.
Li, Zhi, Shufang Ji, Yiwei Liu, et al.. (2019). Well-Defined Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Nanoparticles to Isolated Single-Atom Sites. Chemical Reviews. 120(2). 623–682. 1033 indexed citations breakdown →
17.
Shu, Zhenyu, et al.. (2019). A radiomic nomogram based on T2WI for predicting synchronous liver metastasis of rectal cancer. Zhonghua fangshexian yixue zazhi. 53(3). 205–211. 1 indexed citations
18.
Chen, Yuanjun, Shufang Ji, Shu Zhao, et al.. (2018). Enhanced oxygen reduction with single-atomic-site iron catalysts for a zinc-air battery and hydrogen-air fuel cell. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5422–5422. 861 indexed citations breakdown →
19.
Chen, Yuanjun, Shufang Ji, Chen Chen, et al.. (2018). Single-Atom Catalysts: Synthetic Strategies and Electrochemical Applications. Joule. 2(7). 1242–1264. 1953 indexed citations breakdown →
20.
Chen, Yuanjun, Jie Zhu, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2008). Direct Synthesis of a Fluidizable SAPO-34 Catalyst for a Fluidized Dimethyl Ether-to-Olefins Process. Catalysis Letters. 124(3-4). 297–303. 26 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026