Yun Cai

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Yun Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yun Cai has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 25 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yun Cai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (16 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (8 papers). Yun Cai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (16 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (8 papers). Yun Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Yun Cai's co-authors include Alexis T. Bell, Mary W. Louie, Radoslav R. Adžić, Shannon Klaus, Lena Trotochaud, Ryan C. Davis, Jens K. Nørskov, Daniel Friebel, Anna M. Wise and Roberto Alonso‐Mori and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yun Cai

49 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

3 papers align trajectories

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.

Identification of Highly Active Fe Sites in (Ni,Fe)OOH for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

2015 2.3k citations Yun Cai et al. profile →
Effects of Fe Electrolyte Impurities on Ni(OH)₂/NiOOH Structure and Oxygen Evolution Activity

2015 987 citations Yun Cai et al. profile →
Core‐Protected Platinum Monolayer Shell High‐Stability Electrocatalysts for Fuel‐Cell Cathodes

2010 528 citations Kotaro Sasaki, Hideo Naohara et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yun Cai China	22	4.9k	4.1k	1.7k	1.2k	595	55	5.7k
Yanna Guo Australia	25	3.8k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	612 0.5×	550 0.9×	55	4.8k
Xiangwen Zhang China	20	5.0k 1.0×	4.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	880 0.7×	561 0.9×	61	6.0k
Mehtap Oezaslan Germany	33	5.3k 1.1×	4.1k 1.0×	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	801 1.3×	83	6.6k
Junyuan Xu China	37	3.8k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	619 0.5×	652 1.1×	82	4.8k
Zhiqing Zou China	39	3.9k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	485 0.4×	424 0.7×	109	5.0k
Wen‐Feng Lin United Kingdom	37	3.5k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	770 0.6×	536 0.9×	118	5.0k
Juan Herranz Switzerland	32	6.3k 1.3×	5.3k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	922 0.8×	480 0.8×	80	7.3k
Isabela C. Man Romania	17	5.1k 1.0×	3.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	258 0.4×	38	5.8k
Zhenhua Zhou China	36	3.6k 0.7×	3.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	876 0.7×	365 0.6×	72	4.9k
Ningyan Cheng China	33	6.9k 1.4×	6.1k 1.5×	2.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 1.8×	69	8.6k

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Liu, Tingting, et al.. (2025). The development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for the quantitation of ceftobiprole in plasma and urine in older patients. Microchemical Journal. 217. 114886–114886.

Li, Xufeng, Yating Li, Lifen Yang, et al.. (2025). Etiology and clinical characteristics of pathogen co-detection in pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: A multicenter retrospective study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 162. 108230–108230.

Chen, Na, Ziyi Yu, Yun Cai, et al.. (2025). Enhanced cataluminescence sensing of iso-butyraldehyde via phase-specific oxygen vacancies engineering in BaTiO3. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 443. 138308–138308.

Wu, Xinghua, et al.. (2025). Improving the CRCC-DHR Reliability: An Entropy-Based Mimic-Defense-Resource Scheduling Algorithm. Entropy. 27(2). 208–208.

Cai, Yun, et al.. (2023). One-step cladding metal oxide nanowires with a carbon-dots-embedded ZnO amorphous layer toward boosted photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 644. 466–477. 3 indexed citations

Song, Liang, Yun Cai, Yang Liu, et al.. (2022). One-Step Facile Synthesis of High-Activity Nitrogen-Doped PtNiN Oxygen Reduction Catalyst. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(4). 5245–5255. 17 indexed citations

Cai, Yun, et al.. (2021). Image registration analysis of the motion characteristics of sternoclavicular joints in sagittal motion of the upper limbs. Technology and Health Care. 29(5). 1011–1019. 1 indexed citations

Cai, Yun, et al.. (2018). Prediction on the charging demand for electric vehicles in Chengdu. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 324. 12080–12080. 4 indexed citations

Cai, Yun, et al.. (2018). Research on the Value Evaluation of Used Pure Electric Car Based on the Replacement Cost Method. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 324. 12082–12082. 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Xiaoyan, Yun Cai, Yongjun Liu, et al.. (2013). Photocatalytic degradation properties of Ni(OH)2 nanosheets/ZnO nanorods composites for azo dyes under visible-light irradiation. Ceramics International. 40(1). 57–65. 64 indexed citations

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Liu, Shuyang, Yun Cai, Shaojuan Deng, et al.. (2013). La(OH)3:Ln3+ (Ln=Sm, Er, Gd, Dy, and Eu) nanorods synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method and their enhanced photocatalytic degradation of Congo red in the aqueous solution. Ceramics International. 40(3). 5091–5095. 28 indexed citations

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Cai, Yun, Yan Wang, Yan Wang, et al.. (2013). Graphene nanosheets-tungsten oxides composite for supercapacitor electrode. Ceramics International. 40(3). 4109–4116. 116 indexed citations

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Li, Qing, Haifang Ni, Yun Cai, et al.. (2013). Preparation and supercapacitor application of the single crystal nickel hydroxide and oxide nanosheets. Materials Research Bulletin. 48(9). 3518–3526. 31 indexed citations

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Bai, Nan, et al.. (2012). Determination concentration of cefbuperazone in human plasma and urine by HPLC. The Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 28(1). 56–58. 1 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Kotaro, Hideo Naohara, YongMan Choi, et al.. (2012). Highly stable Pt monolayer on PdAu nanoparticle electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Nature Communications. 3(1). 1115–1115. 380 indexed citations

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Cai, Yun, Chao Ma, Yimei Zhu, Jia X. Wang, & Radoslav R. Adžić. (2011). Low-Coordination Sites in Oxygen-Reduction Electrocatalysis: Their Roles and Methods for Removal. Langmuir. 27(13). 8540–8547. 66 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Kotaro, Hideo Naohara, Yun Cai, et al.. (2010). Core‐Protected Platinum Monolayer Shell High‐Stability Electrocatalysts for Fuel‐Cell Cathodes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(46). 8602–8607. 528 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Yun. (2010). Artificial Fish School Algorithm Applied in a Combinatorial Optimization Problem. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications. 2(1). 37–43. 19 indexed citations

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Cai, Yun. (2006). Simulation optimization for berth allocation in container terminals. Chinese journal of construction machinery. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Heyi, Haijian Wang, Jie Wang, et al.. (2003). Multiplex single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Analytical Biochemistry. 314(1). 54–62. 8 indexed citations

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