Zefu Zhang

79 total papers · 844 total citations
57 papers, 697 citations indexed

About

Zefu Zhang is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zefu Zhang has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 697 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 12 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 11 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zefu Zhang's work include Lubricants and Their Additives (13 papers), Tribology and Wear Analysis (10 papers) and Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and Characterization (7 papers). Zefu Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Lubricants and Their Additives (13 papers), Tribology and Wear Analysis (10 papers) and Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and Characterization (7 papers). Zefu Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Türkiye. Zefu Zhang's co-authors include Weimin Liu, Qunji Xue, Rahmi Öklü, Hassan Albadawi, Jingjie Hu, Joseph L. Mayer, Cheng‐Yong Su, Marcela Salomao, Laigui Yu and Chengfeng Ye and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zefu Zhang

55 papers receiving 689 citations

Hit Papers

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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Zefu Zhang	221	189	150	96	91	57	697
Yigang Fu	59 0.3×	59 0.3×	175 1.2×	78 0.8×	123 1.4×	23	571
Dong Sheng Li	83 0.4×	81 0.4×	326 2.2×	80 0.8×	25 0.3×	74	791
Makoto Miyajima	50 0.2×	32 0.2×	64 0.4×	112 1.2×	69 0.8×	27	675
Hiromasa Sato	99 0.4×	51 0.3×	340 2.3×	50 0.5×	25 0.3×	56	646
Lingfeng Zhang	108 0.5×	77 0.4×	144 1.0×	66 0.7×	18 0.2×	66	606
Chun Yang	78 0.4×	42 0.2×	269 1.8×	122 1.3×	53 0.6×	48	598
Noriyuki Uchida	40 0.2×	23 0.1×	143 1.0×	54 0.6×	94 1.0×	40	584
Chia-Cheng Lin	57 0.3×	38 0.2×	154 1.0×	77 0.8×	34 0.4×	34	645
Jingsi Wang	34 0.2×	47 0.2×	200 1.3×	32 0.3×	271 3.0×	32	595
Naoya Satoh	270 1.2×	65 0.3×	296 2.0×	23 0.2×	89 1.0×	37	788

Countries citing papers authored by Zefu Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zefu Zhang

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zefu Zhang. 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 Zefu Zhang. The network helps show where Zefu Zhang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zefu Zhang

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

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